Dear Gimena, we are well aware of the issue, and are trying to find ways out. My university, for one, is actively engaging in strategic litigation to change the system. Of the special issue, two of the articles are open access, the others have been open-access for about a month when first published. This is what the editor of the journal, the amazing Jonathan Ong (who invited us to put the special issue together following a free-of-charge event in Cartagena, Colombia), negotiated precisely in consideration of the problems you highlight (which, by the way, are spread well beyond the global south). We are also continuing the conversation in other formats—including a blog and a mailing-list, where the single articles have been advertised to provide open access. We hosted a workshop in December where we spent 90% of the funding in grants for low-income countries and precarious scholars. That said, there is a lot more work to do and we, like many others, are acutely aware of the problem—and actively disrupting the system, too. PM me. Best, Stefania ________________________________ Da: gimena del rio riande <gdelrio.riande@gmail.com> Inviato: martedì 7 maggio 2019 00:21:53 A: Milan, Stefania Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Oggetto: Re: [Air-L] Special Issue 'Big Data from the South' Thanks. The issue looks excellent. It's a pity that it has been published by Sage, a paywall to which many scholars from the South, like me, do not have access from our institutions. Best regards Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar<http://aahd.net.ar/> Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: https://hdcaicyt.github.io/ Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 [Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack<https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&> 06/05/19 19:20:12 On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 6:49 PM Milan, Stefania <S.Milan@uva.nl<mailto:S.Milan@uva.nl>> wrote: Dear AoiR colleagues and friends We are happy to announce the publication of a Special Issue of Television & New Media exploring ‘Big Data from the South’. Edited by Stefania Milan (DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam) and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University), it features six articles and a commentary: Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré: 'Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism’ (Milan/Treré) (>> open access at https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419837739) Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias: Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject Paola Ricaurte: Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance Payal Arora: Decolonizing Privacy Studies Monique Mann and Angela Daly: (Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism Jean-Marie Chenou and Carolina Cepeda-Másmela: #NiUnaMenos: Data Activism From the Global South María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord: Between Data Capitalism and Data Citizenship (commentary) You can explore the Special Issue at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/current To continue the conversation about Southern and resistant epistemologies of datafication (well beyond the 'Global South'!), visit the webpage of the Big Data from the South Initiative [1], check out the multilingual blog (and consider to contribute to it!), and join the dedicated mailing-list. Enjoy! Stefania Milan y Emiliano Treré [1] https://data-activism.net/publications/big-data-from-the-south/ ------------------- Stefania Milan Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE (ERC Starting Grant 639379) | https://data-activism.net Principal Investigator, ALEX (ERC Proof of Concept 825974) | https://algorithms.exposed (coming soon!) @annliffey | @data_ctive +31627875425 | +31(0)205252416 Fingerprint: 5A7B 6330 5684 FC39 3DC0 67D7 08B3 50AE 6AF5 1B63 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/