Jefferson Pooley Research Associate & Lecturer Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Commons username: @jpooley Mastodon handle: @jpooley@scholar.social ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3674-1930 http://www.jeffpooley.com Following 9 members View ProfileActivitySites 7Following 9Followers 15Groups 8ForumsDocs 0 Academic InterestsConsumer cultureDigital mediaHistory of media studiesHistory of scienceHistory of social scienceMedia studiesNew mediaScholarly communicationScholarly publishingSocial media Commons GroupsHCCultural StudiesDigital BooksLinked Open DataOpen Access Books NetworkScholarly CommunicationScience Studies and the History of ScienceSocial History of ArchivesHASTACTeaching and Learning Recent Commons Activity edited the post The Case for PubPub in the group Open Access Books Network deposited Exclusions/Exclusiones: The R… in the group Science Studies and the Histo… deposited Exclusions/Exclusiones: The R… in the group Cultural Studies joined the group Scholarly Communication AboutJeff Pooley is research associate and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He writes on the history of media research, the history of social science, scholarly communications, and consumer culture and social media. Mastodon FeedNot sure how I missed this excellent, taxonomically satisfying overview of OA business models, published last year in @UKSGofficial Insights https://www.jeffpooley.com/2025/05/classifying-open-access-business-models/ (2025-05-28 ↗)Susanne Langer’s luminous theory of metaphor—a new essay by Sue Curry Jansen and me, in @aeonmagazine https://psyche.co/ideas/for-this-neglected-philosopher-metaphors-make-life-an-adventure (2025-03-29 ↗)“If you need a cause […] that will do the most to produce the world you want, it is this: Class war. […] Taking wealth away from the rich and giving that wealth to the less rich. Our democracy, such as it is, will never, ever be stabilized until that happens.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underlying-problem (2025-03-22 ↗)Populism https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/googles-32-billion-deal-wiz-accelerated-under-trump-sources-say-2025-03-19/ (2025-03-20 ↗)A follow-up on the Charleston/Annual Reviews laundering of Digital Science/Springer Nature in its Against the Grain podcast https://www.jeffpooley.com/2025/03/against-the-charleston-mission/ (2025-03-11 ↗) Blog Posts The Case for PubPub (Open Access Books Network, 2023-06-08) KCWorksJournal articleWriting onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media (2022)Exclusions/Exclusiones: The Role for History in the Field’s Reckoning (2022)The Library Solution: How Academic Libraries Could End the APC Scourge (2019)Wilbur Schramm and the ‘Four Founders’ History of U.S. Communication Research (2018)The Impact Platform (2017)“Facebook for Academics”: The Convergence of Self-Branding and Social Media Logic on Academia.edu (2017)Facebook for Professors: Academia.edu and the Converging Logics of Social Media and Academic Self-Branding (2016)Book sectionJames Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition (2020)The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research (2020)Online publicationMetrics Mania: The Case Against Academia.edu (2018)Blog postThe Trials of Media Research (2018)AbstractA Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel (2017)Interview transcriptWilbur Schramm: ‘Evangelist of Communication Research’ (2017)EssayScholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too (2017)
