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Announcing Open Access Now

Contact: Micah Vandegrift and the Open Access Now Editorial Board Editors [at] oanow.org Open Access Now launched today, a resource for news and information about open access and scholarly publishing. The goal of OANow is to provide a centralized, regularly updated, curated news feed, accomplished through active monitoring of scholarly, popular and niche sources. Built on the PressForward platform, which aims to […]

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Editors’ Choice: Coded Curriculum: The New Architectures of Learning

How should we understand the part played by code in digital media and learning? We are accustomed to arguments that digital media are affecting our existing practices of reading, looking, seeing and hearing, yet relatively little is said of how the underlying code and algorithmic architectures of software actually exert those effects. The work done […]

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Announcing American History Now, a US History Research Community

*Editors’ Note: American History Now is the newest journal to be launched as part of the Pressforward Project. Have you got some research, a small con­clu­sion, an idea or pos­si­bil­ity; some piece of work which isn’t really suit­able for the stan­dard jour­nal for­mat? Maybe a piece which doesn’t fit eas­ily in any sin­gle dis­ci­pline? Would you […]

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Editors’ Choice: Recovering the Recovered Text: Diversity, Canon Building, and Digital Studies

This paper examines the state of the current digital humanities canon, provides a historical overview of the decline of early digitally recovered texts, literature designed to expand the literary canon, and offers suggestions for ways that the field might work toward expansion of the digital canon. My research shows that a subfield of early literary […]

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Editors’ Choice: What They Preach

A few weeks ago, I posed the idea of global prayer metrics. I compared the function of prayer notices to journalism and reflected on the theology of quantifying prayer. Today’s post is a thought experiment and dataviz on measuring global religious activity across cultures. During a brainstorm with Andy Moore and James Doc at the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students a few […]

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Editors’ Choice: Digital Writing Uprising: Third-order Thinking in the Digital Humanities

“The intellectual is still only an incompletely transformed writer” — Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero There could be many epigraphs hailing a discussion of digital writing, many pithy observations about its nature, becoming, qualities, mysteries, dilemmas. From Oscar Wilde: “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.” Virginia Woolf: “We are nauseated by […]