To pay or not to pay, that is the question. Whether it is nobler for universities to pay through the nose for access to articles that their academics write for 'free', or to take arms against a sea of publishers and, by opposing, end their stranglehold on academic publishing.

In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Zadie Smith expressed her discomfort with social media, most particularly Facebook, and the harm she believes it has caused to a generation’s worth of communication: When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. […]

Announcing a very exciting Meanland event – and the last for 2010 – Reading Without Privacy. Today, we’re all reading and writing more than ever, on text messages, on Twitter and on Facebook. But has social networking broken down the distinction between our public and our private lives? What are the rules for writing in […]