MLA Commons | Timothy W. Elfenbein | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/timelf/activity/ Activity feed for Timothy W. Elfenbein. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 32204efd312e7a32419d51b1012b3805 Timothy W. Elfenbein's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1920403/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:44:49 -0400 0 32d464e8e1070e40cc901e2a1eb3ac0b Timothy W. Elfenbein's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909497/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:10:16 -0500 0 768a97d982e8b7b7652a760ba6aec07c Timothy W. Elfenbein's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899752/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:37:53 -0400 0 dc949df53b1e669053b60d316591dc74 Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited The American Anthropological Association Publishing Program at a Crossroads (introductory comments) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899728/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:43:18 -0400 Introductory comments to a rouge session at the AAA Annual Meeting, which met to open up a discussion amongst current and former editors of journals in the AAA portfolio. My remarks aimed to provide an overview of the shifts in the scholarly publishing environment over the past several decades and how they are reflected in the ongoing challenges…[Read more]

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]]> 0 23eedfc33c2cbf6d4e383a6f223308c0 Timothy W. Elfenbein's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828492/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 03:37:42 -0500 0 4b4a5d6d28696f4d7f6f7775d3c1fe33 Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited Publishing's Media in Media Res in the group Scholarly Communication https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819108/ Sat, 29 Oct 2022 02:23:40 -0400 A brief retrospective ethnography of my work as a production editor at a university press, focused on the social and material organization of work on book manuscripts.

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]]> 0 31398e74b99ac4b6afd38d5017dfaa88 Timothy W. Elfenbein's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818692/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:17:32 -0400 0 9a322d0985db701ec0abd48ab8ac5871 Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited “Putting the Papers Online”: Recognizing Labor on Documents in Scholarly Publishing in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1698913/ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 02:24:20 -0400 In this presentation, I investigate claims that publishers add little value to scholarly communication by asking about those parts of publishing overlooked when the focus is exclusively on content. Evaluating a study by Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone, I not only point to problems with its assumptions about value,…[Read more]

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]]> 0 0a7c671001d822540be5632155d4b9bd Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited Debating Academia.edu's Place in the Scholarly Communication Ecology in the group Scholarly Communication https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1698909/ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 02:23:45 -0400 As start-up companies reimagine components of the scholarly communication system, are observers too quick to assimilate the new into the known? This presentation discusses the case of the social-network and document-sharing platform Academia.edu and the debates it has stirred. Academia.edu has been subsumed into discussions about scholarly…[Read more]

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