Can we escape the textocalypse?: Academic publishing as community building [Language on the Move]

• Ingrid Piller ^[1]
  1. [1] Macquarie University

     Macquarie University

     Australia

     
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 289-290, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Politics of Academic Reading: 50th Anniversary Issue of IJSL), págs. 123-127
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Rapid developments in digital technologies have fundamentally changed writing practices leading to an explosion in the number of textual products. The result is a “textocalypse” – a deep crisis in knowledge production and dissemination. Instead of pushing back, academics fuel these degenerations because their careers have become subject to the capitalist imperative to produce and consume – measured in the form of research outputs and citation metrics. Against this background, this commentary argues for a reframing of academic publishing as community building and introduces Language on the Move, an alternative sociolinguistics portal that is both a publication platform and a research community. Motivated by a feminist ethics of care, we decenter the textual product and recenter the lived experience of researchers, particularly those writing from the margins.