About : Digital Humanities Now

About

Digital Humanities Now aggregates and selects material from our Compendium of the Digital Humanities, drawing from hundreds of venues where high-quality digital humanities scholarship is likely to appear, including the personal websites of scholars, institutional sites, blogs, and other feeds. It also seeks to discover new material by monitoring Twitter and other social media for stories discussed by the community, and by continuously scanning the broader web through generalized and specialized search engines. Scholarship—in whatever form—that drives the field of digital humanities field forward is highlighted in the Editors’ Choice column. Digital Humanities Now also lists news items of interest to the field—jobs, calls for papers, conference and funding announcements, reports, and recently-released resources.

Layers of Evaluation

Digital Humanities Now is also an experiment in how we evaluate new scholarship. There are several layers of review that a scholarly work can rise through. Out of the sea of scholarly production, this site curates work that has gotten the attention of the digital humanities community or is worthy of such attention, based on critical editorial review. Those selections appear in the Editors’ Choice column and are disseminated widely to the community via social media and other means.

The best of these selections receive further attention, as the editorial committee assesses how much each work resonates and makes important intellectual contributions to the field. Readers participate in this additional layer of open peer review, implicitly or explicitly promoting articles for inclusion in the quarterly peer-reviewed publication. The editors will take into account various qualitative and quantitative measures, including how much a selection generates additional conversation and debate through comments and responses in other locations; how frequently Editors’ Choice selections are shared with others through links and retweets; how readers rate the articles on this site using the star system below each post; and more “traditional” measures such as analysis by a dedicated editorial board.

Ways to Read Digital Humanities Now

If you have limited time and only want to see the material selected by our editors, read the curated Editors’ Choice or news items on the site, or subscribe to both.
If you have more time and want to see all the material considered for our news and featured items, you can choose to subscribe to “Digital Humanities Now Unfiltered.”