Hi Cassidy, I really appreciate the points you bring up here. It seems like sometimes public-facing scholarship takes a kind of if-you-build-it-they-will-come approach, without attending to the complexities of dissemination. In my opinion, providing a comment feature does not make a project participatory, and building beyond a paywall does not…[Read more]

Aylin, I couldn’t agree more with the points you raise here. (I also laughed out loud at your line about the ghostly librarians constantly calling.) I really like the way you connect these ideas and examples about collaboration and hidden labor to the notion of hospitable scholarship in ways I hadn’t thought of before.