It is well understood that "the digital turn" has transformed the
contemporary cultural, political and economic environment. Less
appreciated perhaps is its crucial importance and transformative
potential for those of us who study the past. Whether through
newly—and differently—accessible data and methods (e.g. "distant
reading"), new questions being asked of that new data, or recognizing
how digital reading changes our access to the materiality of the past,
the digital humanities engenders a particularized set of questions and
concerns for those of us who study the early modern, broadly defined
(mid-15th to mid-19th centuries).
For this special issue of JEMCS, we seek essays that describe the
challenges and debates arising from issues in the early modern
digital, as well as work that shows through its methods, questions,
and conclusions the kinds of scholarship that ought best be done—or
perhaps can only be done— in its wake. We look for contributions that
go beyond describing the advantages and shortcomings of (or problems
of inequity of access to) EEBO, ECCO, and the ESTC to contemplate how
new forms of information produce new ways of thinking.
We invite contributors to consider the broader implications and uses
of existing and emerging early modern digital projects, including data
mining, data visualization, corpus linguistics, GIS, and/or potential
obsolescence, especially in comparison to insights possible through
traditional archival research methods. Essays of 3000-8000 words are
sought in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format by January 15, 2013
to
jemcsfsu@gmail.com. All manuscripts must
include a 100-200 word abstract. JEMCS adheres to MLA format, and
submissions should be prepared accordingly.
In addition, we would welcome brief reports (500-1500 words) that
describe digital projects in progress in early modern studies (defined
here as spanning from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth
centuries), whether or not these projects have yet reached completion.
These reports, too, should be submitted in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format,
using MLA style, by 15 January 2013 to jemcsfsu@gmail.com. For more information, visit http://www.johnmilton.org/
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