• Humane Metrics/Metrics Noir

    Author(s):
    Martina Franzen, Eileen Joy, Christopher P. Long (see profile)
    Editor(s):
    Post Office Press (see profile) , meson press
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Scholarly publishing
    Item Type:
    Other
    Tag(s):
    adoration, humetricshss, metrification, values, Academic publishing, Altmetrics, Humanities metrics
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6WP9T61M
    Abstract:
    That Elsevier/RELX group has now rebranded itself as a “global provider of information and analytics,” seems indicative of the way academic publishing is increasingly moving into the highly pro table data analytics market. Here the linking of journals and scholarly social networks to the data underlying them through article level metrics, citation and download gures, usage statistics, ratings and altmetrics, serves as an opportunity to further extract value from the relationalities of scholarly publishing. Connect this to the demand of neoliberal governments for bibliometrics to index and rank scholars and their universities in order to measure impact and excellence, and enable accountability and transparency as part of national research assessment exercises, and it is clear that the logic of calculation and its accompanying mechanisms of surveillance and control is now omnipresent in scholarly publishing—and this includes requirements towards researchers to measure and monitor themselves as “brands.” The texts in this pamphlet will ask, what are the implications of this state of a airs for scholarship and for the value of expertise and democratic judgement? Is it indeed the case that, as Chris Newfield argues “with indicators ascendant over judgment itself, and tied to complicated, obscure, or proprietary procedures, metrics can pacify the interpretive powers of the public and professionals alike”? Yet the authors of this pamphlet will also explore strategies for pushing back against the metrification of scholarship and publishing.
    Notes:
    This pamphlet is published in a series of 7 as part of the Radical Open Access II conference, which took place June 26-27 at Coventry University. More information about this conference and about the contributors to this pamphlet can be found at: http://radicaloa.co.uk/conferences/ ROA2. This pamphlet was made possible due to generous funding from The Post Office, a project of Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures and the combined efforts of authors, editors, designers & printers.
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    Publisher:
    Post Office Press, Rope Press and meson press
    Pub. Date:
    25-06-2018
    Version:
    Pamphlet
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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