Keynote Speaker: Dan Cohen, Associate Professor, Department
of History and Art History and Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and
New Media at George Mason University
Scholarship and scholarly discussion is increasing
occurring outside of the normal channels of scholarly communication, and in new
shapes and sizes. Moreover, through social media scholars are able to more
rapidly disseminate their work and engage their colleagues and a broader
audience. Yet much of this scholarship languishes in these more informal venues.
Might it be possible to aggregate, curate, and highlight this content, currently
in circulation on blogs and personal, institutional, and conference websites?
The PressForward project is exploring methods for filtering and building
audiences for this new scholarship that may not fit into the form of an article
or monograph. For instance, Digital Humanities Now, one of the PressForward
publications, highlights work that has come to the attention of the digital
humanities community through distribution via social media and open peer review.
Dan Cohen will elaborate on the nature of this new "grey literature," its
circulation, and the possible platforms for organizing and distributing it to
scholarly communities.
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