INTO THE WILD? FILM STUDIES AND TRANSITIONS INTO “OPENNESS” (PART 2) — Open Publication II: Politics and Practices in Transition – Open Media Studies

This is Part 2 of a three-part blog entry that 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. The presentations and discussions in focus further delve into the politics and practices that are in transition for film and media studies due to the goal setting and digital developments of open-access publishing: Franziska Heller critically and broadly discussed the requirements authors are confronted with when publishing a monograph. And Eileen Rositzka offered insights especially into requirements and challenges for OA publishing regarding the interrelation between written text and clips, images or diagrams of audiovisual images. Both contributions reflect on how traditional publication methods have continuously been adapting to the rapid technological developments in recent years.