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Editorial (intro): Welcome to the very first fully Open Access issue of the Media Education Research Journal. Articles are now available for anyone to read, free of charge, and in perpetuity with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs) either, so authors (or their institutions) do not need to pay to publish. This pivot to Open Access (OA) came at a time when there were lots of other ‘pivots’ occurring – not least the one to online learning during the pandemic. The pandemic was not a direct contributory factor to MERJ’s change in status, but (without ignoring the crisis and misery it precipitated) it did create a sense of possibility – it forced us to explore the affordances of the online world and, subsequently, has encouraged us to address the function and purpose of particular activities, acknowledging that some are not worse, and may even be better, online. |
