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Five Lessons,On a Gradient of DIY-ness

Shannon MatternSchool of Media Studies

The New School

wordsinspace.net

@shannonmattern

Cory Arcangel, Photoshop CS


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1.Do-It-

Yourself -With-

Periodic-Input-From-Peers-

And-Experts-And-With-

Thorough-Iterative-

Feedback-From-Me


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http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/08/11/how-to-evaluate-multimodal-work/


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DIY

INJY(Its Never Just You)


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2.Post-It-Yourself-After-Light-

Editing-And-Reliable (orExcessive)-Help-From-the-

Tech-Support-Team-and-the-

Expectation-of-Fruitful-Post-

Publication-Discussion


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INJYDIY necessitates in-house maintenance of all

publication infrastructurestechnical, contentediting, distribution, etc.


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INJYDIY implies all kinds of precarityparticularly

when faced with the temptation to sell out (or

start up)


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3.Give-Up-On-Institutionalized-Peer-Review-and-Find-a-

Publishing-Home-That-Feels-

Like-Home-And-Offers-All-the-

Support-You-Need (Particularly-A-

Close-&-Rewarding-Relationship-

With-A-Fantastic-Peer-Editorial-

Team)


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Getty Images


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Redesign to be launched early October


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INJYThe challenge is finding a team that (1) is committed

to sound scholarship and advancing knowledge inyour field of study and/or practice; (2) provides a

robust and reliable publishing infrastructure; and

(3) shares your own publication values


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4.Post Work-In-Progress-and-Published-Work;-Pedagogical-Ruminations-and-

Teaching-Documentation;-&-Thought-Experiments-on-Your-Own-Self-

Maintained-Site,-Which,-While-

Involving-a-Great-Deal-of-Self-Directed-

Labor,-Wouldnt-Exist-If-It- Werent-for-Global-Developer,-Designer-and-

Intellectual-Communities


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INJYWhile Im ultimately responsible for my sites content

and technical maintenance, I rely on a tech supportteam at my web hosting company; turn to the

WordPress developer community and rely on their

theme designers; and need an (often invisible and

sometimes silent) community of readers.


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5.Work-With-a-Team-to-Give-

Your-Ideas-Form-and-Make-Them-Material-&-Memorable,-

In-the-Form-of-a-Print-

Publication


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