INTO THE WILD? FILM STUDIES AND TRANSITIONS INTO «OPENNESS» (PART 1) — An Introduction & Open Publication I: First Movers – Workshop Report by Cinepoetics and the AG Open Media Studies (GfM) – Open Media Studies

This three-part blog entry recapitulates the conceptual background as well as the six presentations and respective discussions of the online workshop «Into the Wild? Film Studies and Transitions into ‹Openness›»; a workshop which was held as a collaboration between the Center for Advanced Film Studies, Cinepoetics, and the Scholarly Interest Group Open Media Studies in early February 2021. With the present entry, Part 1, we give an account on first movers in the field of open publication in film and media studies, which has developed in the wake of increasing digitalization in and outside of academia. After an introduction to the workshop’s overall background and aims, the emphasis will be on the importance of developing new modes of publication, as it was thematized by Catherine Grant in her talk about the history of Open Access Journals. And it also resonated with Sarah-Mai Dang’s plea for a plurality of publishing methods with a stronger emphasis on preprints (see also Sarah-Mai Dang’s and Alena Strohmaier’s OMS blog entry «Offenheit» in der (Medien-)Wissenschaft for further information on this subject).