Each month, the MediaCommons Field Guide hosts a different conversation in Media Studies, Digital Humanities, and Culture Studies asking contributors to connect their interests or research to a core conceptual question. The editors are seeking contributors to shape new and intriguing conversations for the October issue on net neutrality and digital publishing/access, asking: What effects will shifting net neutrality laws have on digital media and digital scholarship?
Many scholars elect to submit semi-informal essay-form responses (400-600 words), however, the editors also welcome multimedia/interactive and alternate forms of digital submissions.
This Field Guide will go live October 15th. While the question is live, MediaCommons publishes daily content (Monday-Friday) from scholars who submit responses through the site. The Field Guide is an open-access hub for scholarly conversation about born-digital research, pedagogy, evaluation, publication, and community-building; a forum for touchstone issues in the digital humanities and media studies. This year, the cycle has included conversations surrounding issues of erasure, the future of archives, religion and digitality, and intellectual property.
If you would like to contribute, please contact MediaCommons by September 28th in order to be scheduled for a response date.
For more information on the MediaCommons scholarly network and its history and goals, feel free to visit the MediaCommons website. Should you have any additional questions or concerns, contact coordinating editor D’An Knowles Ball (tknowles@odu.edu), or Avi Santo, MediaCommons’ managing editor (asanto@odu.edu).
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