October 21, 2005
Digital Humanities Quarterly: Call for Scholarly and Creative Work
Matt Kirschenbaum just sent out an exciting announcement about a new journal that will serve as a forum for scholarly and creative work in electronic media. Digital Humanities Quarterly will publish scholarly articles, editorials, experiments in interactive media, and reviews of books, web sites, new media art, and digital humanities systems. Importantly, this will be a free, open-access journal, and both critical and creative work will go through a peer review process.
Call for Submissions
Digital Humanities Quarterly
Submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions@digitalhumanities.org. A web submission form will also be available soon.
We welcome material on all aspects of digital media in the humanities, including humanities computing, new media, digital libraries, game studies, digital editing, pedagogy, hypertext and hypermedia, computational linguistics, markup theory, and related fields. In particular, we are interested in submissions in the following categories:
- Articles representing original research in digital humanities
- Editorials and opinion pieces on any aspect of digital humanities
- Reviews of web resources, books, software tools, digital publications, and other relevant materials
- Interactive media works including digital art, hypertext literature, criticism, and interactive experiments. A separate call
for submissions is also being issued for this area.
Submissions in all categories may be in traditional formats, or may be formally experimental. We welcome submissions that experiment with the rhetoric of the digital medium. We encourage the use of standards-based formats, but over time we will work to accommodate a wider range of media types and experimental functions.
Submissions may be of any length. All submissions will be peer reviewed.
For submission guidelines, please visit
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/guidelines/index.shtml. In particular, please note the new DHQauthor schema, a TEI-based schema for authoring, available for download together with stylesheets and documentation at
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/DownloadCentral.
For further information, and to contact our editors, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.
2. The interactive media call:
Call for Submissions (Interactive Media)
Digital Humanities Quarterly
Interactive Media submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed online journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions@digitalhumanities.org. A web submission form will also be available soon.
We welcome material on all aspects of digital media in the humanities, and we encourage research creators to submit original interactive works for review. These works should be an original use of interactivity and design in educational, research, or creative communication. Suitable works could include (but are not limited to) original hypertext fiction, online educational applications or games, text analysis tools, interactive visualizations, streaming media work, and original interactive digital artwork.
We are also seeking articles representing original research in digital humanities, editorials, and reviews regarding any aspect of digital humanities (including humanities computing, new media, digital libraries, game studies, digital editing, pedagogy, hypertext and hypermedia, computational linguistics, markup theory, and related fields). A separate call for submissions will be posted for this area.
Submissions in all categories may be in traditional formats, or may be formally experimental. We welcome submissions that experiment with the rhetoric of the digital medium. We encourage the use of standards-based formats, but over time we will work to accommodate a wider range of media types and experimental functions.
All submissions will be peer reviewed.
For submission guidelines, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/guidelines/index.shtml. In particular, please note the requirements for the submissions of interactive media http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/guidelines/mediaGuidelines.shtml. For articles, please note the new DHQauthor schema, a TEI-based schema for authoring, available for download together with stylesheets and documentation at
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/DownloadCentral.
For further information, and to contact our editors, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.
November 6th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
this is a good initiative, no doubt – but it reminds one of the early web, when new “journals” were founded everywhere, by any newly minted phd who became an instant Editor in Chief… not to rain on a newly minted doctoral degree, but that’s hardly the kind of person who has the kind of stature and overview that comes with seniority and experience. then again, that seems to be the problem with most “digital humanities” initiatives: they are left to the inexperienced (yes, they used to be called “young turks”).
November 6th, 2005 at 8:59 pm
Leo, I can see how it might look that way from some perspectives. But people can get PhDs at any stage of their career, and I’m happy to report that this journal’s Editor in Chief is, as far as I know, one of the few people with the stature and broad view of the field necessary for the job. She runs a major project in the field (Brown’s Women Writers Project, where she’s worked for well over a decade), is one of the central figures in the Association for Computers in the Humanities, and also is also deeply involved in the Text Encoding Initiative.
November 6th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
I’m not sure why I would agree with the general sentiment that newly-minted PhDs can’t run journals, but I certainly do agree with Noah that Julia, in particular, is very qualified to run this one.
November 12th, 2005 at 3:41 am
“Leo” — they should have given you the job, right?