2024/1 - #Open

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The environmental footprint of animated realism: An ecomaterialist exploration of contemporary digital animated documentaries
Formenti, Cristina (2024) , S. 221-241
Despite animation techniques being highly material, the environmental impact of animation is understudied. This essay starts bridging the gap by investigating the making of digital animated documentaries through the lens of ecomaterialism. In particular, it brings to light how the quest for realism that prompts the production choices of creators of such works often comes at a significant cost to the environment. Indeed, many present-day digital animated documentaries prove unsustainable, because multi-layered, wasteful, and excess-informed modes of production that foresee a squandering of resources tend to be adopted when making them. In so doing, the need for animation-focused green protocols is made apparent, especially since, paradoxically, due to animation being a craft-oriented medium, such non-environmentally friendly approaches tend to be encouraged within the industry.
Liquid Spaces: Politics of the Screen, an interview with Doreen A. Ríos
Dekker, Annet (2024) , S. 340-348
The exhibition Liquid Spaces: Politics of the Screen, curated by Doreen A. Ríos for the Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial (BUAM) in Ecuador, delves into the dynamic nature of environments shaped by digital technologies. Underscoring the complexities of screen interfaces and their societal implications, Ríos explores the concept of ‘liquid spaces’, where boundaries blur and definitions remain elusive, reflecting perpetual change. Set within the Latin American context, the artworks address themes such as extractivism, surveillance, and technocapitalism. The exhibition features a diverse range of artworks, including painting and virtual reality, through which the relationship between the body and the screen is discussed, while highlighting audience engagement and interaction as integral components of the viewing experience. Drawing from her previous curatorial endeavors, in an interview with Annet Dekker, Ríos reflects on the transformative influence of screens on perceptions and realities, suggesting that screens serve as modern oracles and their users as potential shamans navigating the digital landscape.
Navigating new horizons: Openness, blogs, and media studies
Diecke, Josephine; Matuszkiewicz, Kai (2024) , S. 33-50
The transformation of established academic publishing systems is reshaping the landscape of media studies and emerging publication formats are challenging traditional habits. This article examines open access publication practices through the prism of the Open Media Studies Blog (OMS Blog). With a praxeological lens, the study delves into the sociotechnical dimensions of this shifting media studies publication environment. Central to our inquiry is the concept of ‘lived’ open science. Our open science philosophy guides content curation, format selection, and engagement strategies, shaping the very essence of our scholarly endeavors. By placing our own editorial practices under the microscope, we engage in a form of self-reflection that elucidates the challenges and triumphs of embracing openness. We probe the boundaries of openness, recognising the intricate interplay of financial, technical, social, political, and strategic factors that shape our scholarly endeavors. This study also examines the evolving roles of authors, editors, publishers, and readers in response to evolving scholarly demands. We question whether we are prepared, supported, and empowered to challenge prevailing structures that uphold inequality.
Open Scholarship: A Portfolio on Funding, Globalising and Enhancing
Pooley, Jefferson; Hoyt, Eric; Conway, Kelley (2024) , S. 13-32
#Open: An Introduction
Lameris, Bregt; de Rosa, Miriam; Pastor-González, Victoria; Sondervan, Jeroen (2024) , S. 4-12
Open science represents a paradigm shift in research, aiming for accessibility, inclusivi- ty, and sustainability. Articles in this special section #Open examine a wide range of projects, practices, and research approaches that embrace these principles in multiple ways. Some delve into open practices in publishing and how they challenge traditional academic structures; others explore how digital platforms have the potential to both enable and curb the progress of open science. Several focus on the more or less implicit impact of researchers in the wider community through open education, public en- gagement, and citizen science. The selected contributions not only provide insight on the challenges and opportunities of openness in media studies, but also gather a dia- mond open collection of articles and essays, with no financial burden for readers as well as authors. In this sense, this issue concretely puts into practice the ethos that it embraces, and acts as a call to action for the larger academic community to engage in collective efforts towards sustainable open scholarship practices and models.
Opening up science as a work: An international comparison of openness to society and openness of publication
Ottolini, Lucile; Noel, Marianne (2024) , S. 135-156
The last twenty years of open science advocacy and the more recent proliferation of programs and funding have shown that open science has become a veritable mantra. The term relates to a variety of initiatives and dimensions, from opening up the institutional governance of institutions to opening up access to scientific articles, research fields, data production, and so on. As mentioned in the call for proposals in this special issue, the diversity of these initiatives makes it difficult to carry out a comparative analysis.
Queer bare lives: Melodramatic form and biopolitics in Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark
Wan, Mingyuan (2024) , S. 202-220
This paper considers how the melodramatic form of Out in the Dark is employed to subvert the biopolitical discourses concerning queer migration across the Israel-Palestine border. In the diegesis, the queer Palestinian refugee is gradually stripped of his human rights, security, and legitimacy during border crossing, gradually being reduced into a state of ‘bare life’. I contend that the film Out in the Dark represents queer bare lives to subvert the homonationalist discourses employed by Israeli state power. The melodramatic form of Out in the Dark alters the recognition of the victim/hero/villain and cultivates novel spectatorial sensibilities via aesthetics. Ultimately, I show how the film associates queerness with the confluence of nationalism, militarism, and heteropatriarchy on both sides of the Israel-Palestine border, which offers a critique of biopolitical governance over the lives of queer migrants.
The Sensorium of The Drone and Communities
Gaeta, Amy (2024) , S. 323-328

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