“Digital Pedagogies:
Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals”
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 1st
July 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.
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