Gary Hall

Background

About Gary Hall

As the director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and a professor of media at Coventry University, I have over 20 years of academic and professional experience in digital culture, media theory, open education, and cultural industries. I lead a public-facing and highly collaborative research centre that explores pluralistic and innovative ways of being, thinking and making in the postdigital era, drawing on inter- and transdisciplinary ideas and practices. I am also a pioneer and a leader in open access and experimental publishing, having co-founded and co-edited several influential journals, presses and book series, such as Culture Machine, Open Humanities Press, Liquid Books, and Living Books About Life. I am a founder member of the Radical Open Access Collective and was a co-PI on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, which builds community-led and sustainable infrastructures for open access monographs. My research and publications address the challenges and opportunities of digital media, collaboration and the commons, as well as the issues of class, elitism and digital capitalism, in various academic and public outlets. My latest book is A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works In Elitist Britain (2021). For more about what I'm up to, including details of my publications and teaching experience, go to: Website: Mastodon:@garyhall@hcommons.social