meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media. In the hybrid environment of today’s scholarly publishing, form follows function in a new manner, meson press books take pride in the haptic elegance of print and are designed to transfer this to a digital set-up. To ensure this, our print and digital editions have been developed in collaboration with the Berlin based book and web designers Torsten Köchlin and Silke Krieg.

Mission and Values

Our publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities today. We combine high quality publications ensured by a thorough peer-review with the exploration of new forms and formats of Open Access books. Even though the scholarly book is changing in the age of digital media, we strongly believe in the many virtues of its format for academic communication.

Governance

Founded with the aim of promoting Open Access, meson press has the form of a registered cooperative under German law. meson press is a cooperative that publishes experimental, innovative, multi-format open access books. It was initiated and currently run by Mercedes Bunz, Marcus Burkhardt and Andreas Kirchner, and grew out of the Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Organised as a cooperative, meson press is open for everybody to take part and contribute to the realisation of our mission.