| dc.description | followthethings.com is an open access research output designed to resemble an online store. It is the result of a collaborative online scholar-activist project whose principal investigator, designer and co-ordinator is Ian Cook. Begun in August 2008 and opened in October 2011, it defines, curates and publishes research on the 'follow the thing' genre of scholar-activist work created by academics, filmmakers, artists, journalists, NGOs, activists and others. To date, the site has published research on 57 examples of this work (plus 18 original examples of scholar-activist work, and 5 republished newspaper articles). Each of its example pages is - in terms of word length, research quality and referencing - equivalent to an academic research article or book chapter. Its pages are ‘crowd-researched’ by undergraduate students and interns at Exeter and Brown Universities, but each one is ‘edited’ by Ian Cook - i.e. re-researched, re-organised and re-formatted, often considerably - to bring it up to publication standard. | en_GB |
