The Living Books about Life (LiviBL) http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org is a project funded by JISC as part of the eContent programme 2011. The aim of the project is to develop a sustainable series of co-edited, electronic open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Those collaboratively-produced books repackage existing open access…

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The liquid books project is an approach to academic publishing that utilises free content, open learning and research resources available on the web. This video introduces the liquid theory reader. Created with Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Pete Woodbridge and Paul Allender.

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The viral education project (vir-ed) is a media research project looking at how we can adopt creative dissemination strategies from web 2.0 philosophy to engage people in higher education and learning on the social web. It is looking into the way that we can leverage fragmented, liquid and ambient web viewing narratives to engage students, teachers and researchers in innovative ways of thinking about academic publishing. My blog can be found at…

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this is a really rough first cut of an essay film about technology and control, it uses google as its reference, but a lot of it refers to the internet itself and how it has become alligned with potentially making us think in the last few years. it has some concerns in it about digital imperialism/the networked/dispersive nature of power relations and stuff like that. its not meant as a direct criticism more as a thought piece. The book in the middle…

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The government in the UK is spending millions on trying to open up education opportunities to more people. The labour party have both put education at the heart of their political agendas. The result, it seems, is a bigger gap between the rich and poor and a Britain with decreased opportunities and less choice for those on lower incomes. Do the people who run the education system really care about its inherent inequality? Or is the education system…

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