Kind regards,

Craig

Your commentary, especially the well-made point about DH being fairly traditional when it comes to its modes of scholarly communication reminded me of a presentation I gave earlier this year on intersections of DH and Internet Studies (apologies for shameless self-advertising: http://blog.ynada.com/130).

Keep it up!

The question really is what makes a journal article important and how can we highlight those things while shedding the imposed constraints of the journal article generated during the era of print media. I think that there is something to be said about changing the expectations of the journal article so that it focuses on multiple media and even multiple paths of narrativity in such a way that it aligns with the concepts of digital humanities. This way we can abandon old models of publication and scholarship without eschewing those aspects of the journal that make it important to academic processes.

Key to this is probably helping authors cross the gap of digital production more easily because most scholars spend their time more on researching and writing than necessarily master digital media. How publishers and institutions enable that process will be a really important factor in all of this and one that we are currently interrogating at the Bard Graduate Center.

Aside from that however, the Digital Humanities Now project will certainly help follow these types of conversations and at least help us all gather the discussion more centrally. Thanks.