Notes
1 I use the term essay here somewhat uneasily. I am not sure there is a good term yet for the kinds of multi-textual documents we will produce in place of the traditional scholarly essay as academic publishing evolves within the digital realm.
2 The Digital Humanities is a key area of research and experimentation at the intersection of traditional humanities research and computing/technology. It is not a unified field but it does offer a range of interesting modes of scholarship as well as critical writing on how synergies are evolving in this area. Key journals include: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Southern Spaces, and Journal of Digital Humanities.
3 Mark Poster, What’s the Matter with the Internet? (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), p. 91.
4 As well as those mentioned in footnote two, journals that are leading the way in providing models for more interactive modes of scholarship are Vectors Journal <http://vectors.usc.edu/journal/index.php?page=Introduction> [accessed 1 March 2014], Ctrl-z <http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/journal/> [accessed 3 April 2014], and –empyre– <http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/phpBB2/index.php> [accessed 25 March 2014].
5 N. Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), p. 79.
6 Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presner, ‘The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0’ (2009), <http://www.humanitiesblast.com/manifesto/Manifesto_V2.pdf> [accessed 20 March 2014]; emphasis in original.
7 Lisa Klarr, ‘Planned Obsolescence: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick’, HASTAC (2011) <https://www.hastac.org/blogs/lisa-klarr/planned-obsolescence-interview-kathleen-fitzpatrick> [accessed 2 April 2014].
8 See, for example, Gary Hall and ‘The Open Humanities Press Culture Machine Liquid Books Series’, <http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/11135951/FrontPage> [accessed 30 March 2014]. For an interesting overview of the digital humanities more broadly see Patrik Svensson, ‘The Landscape of Digital Humanities’ <http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000080/000080.html> [accessed 23 March 2014].
9 See ‘Editor’s Introduction’, Vectors Journal (Fall 2013) <http://www.vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=7> [accessed 6 April 2014].
10 Thanks to Anne Surma and Trish Harris for lively discussions about this topic.