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Call for
submissions for a special number of Victorian Periodicals Review: "Digital
Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals"Deadline: July 1, 2014
Essays of
6,000-7,000 words are sought for a special number of Victorian Periodicals
Review inspired by the range of research and good practice that has been
developed in recent years by scholars of the nineteenth century periodical
press.
Since Patrick
Leary's seminal essay "Googling the Victorians", first published in 2005,
significant advancements have been made in the field of periodical research,
largely as a result of the rise in digital projects. In almost ten years of
scholarship, researchers have been examining and developing new digital methods
for analysing and extrapolating data. Scholars have been considering not
only the construction of digital resources but how they can be used in many
different ways; to enhance research, to identify neglected texts, to inspire and
engage students. This special number of VPR gives us the opportunity to
bring together these ideas and debates, to reflect on how the field of
periodicals research has changed as a result of the digital revolution and
to consider where it may be in the next ten years.
Possible topics
might include:
- The role of the digital archive in uniting disparate periodicals and newspapers
- Building, constructing, maintaining digital projects on periodicals
- Rise of the collaborative digital project
- New methods for research and data analysis of circulation figures, distribution and 'popularity' of publications
- Advances in the visualisation of data for identifying patterns of consumption
- Contribution of genealogy studies to identifying periodical authors
- New software packages for the presentation of periodical research and analysis
- Models of good practice in teaching and learning with periodicals and newspapers
- Student publishing - selection, editing and curation of periodicals projects
- Building learning communities for staff and students to enhance knowledge of the nineteenth century press
- Debates about the emergence of an alternative 'digital' canon of periodicals and newspapers
- Digital literacy/digital competency in accessing periodicals online
Please submit
completed manuscripts by July, 1 2014 (for publication in 2015) in Word (no
PDFs please) to C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk
In the
meantime, informal queries or expressions of interest are welcome.
