Academic journals, B2B Publishing, cross language and social media, interruptions

Quite soon the Lancaster University LinkedIn group that is open to non graduates will close so I'm moving a topic out and it will probably continue for a while as part of Cross Media Live.

What to think about academic publishing and piracy etc. ?

this started with a Critical Management  link to Al Jazeera, see previous post

Recently I had an email from Sage about a free offer of access to Organisational Studies for five articles relating to the EGOS Conference in Helsinki July 5 -7, 2012.

This one is about interruptions

Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work 
By J. Wajcman and E. Rose

So here is one example where the barrier of cost, library access etc is got round till the end of July. But for an audience beyond academics there is still the problem of language. The content could be explained in some other form. I think there is a lot of content in Business to Business magazines that might relate to a conference about Design. But there is a current gap between forms of publishing. 

Helsinki is currently a city of Design. I will try to find some magazine links for a future post. 

Social media seems to work mostly with fairly short bits of text, and an open approach. I don't know what the befefits are of a closed LinkedIn group. The #mtw3 idea is to have at least an occasional exchange of theory and practice.

(I am planning to read the complete paper but I may be interrupted)