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Tuesday 18th December 2007 6:00 am

Tara McPherson: Researching Multimedia Using Multimedia

A co-editor of the new International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) discusses using the digital forms they study in presenting research.

At the heart of the MacArthur Foundation’s work in digital media and learning is a belief that emerging technologies have the potential to scaffold rich forms of thinking, doing, and being. In virtual worlds, social networks and video games, users are exploring new modes of collaborating, authoring and sharing. They edit video, post podcasts, and share reworked photographs. They comment on one another’s work. These practices exceed the terrain of traditional print formats, incorporating a variety of media such as still and moving images, sound, simulations and more.

Scholarly research has not really followed suit. During the past decade, many journals have gone online, but relatively few have explored the affordances of electronic media for livelier, more interactive modes of publishing.

The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) will feature scholarship that investigates media and learning while also encouraging work that takes full advantage of the new forms of interactive publishing that the users of digital media now deploy and enjoy. IJLM will give scholars the opportunity to move beyond the borders of the print page in imagining multimedia authorship for the networked era. These explorations in the very contours of scholarly practice will engage several questions, including “How do changes in the forms of scholarship also shift our understanding of content?”, “Can scholarship show as well as tell?”, and “Will representing data differently change the ways we analyze, collect, or interpret it?”

You’ll notice that our Call for Papers actually requests much more than “papers.” Contributors are encouraged to incorporate data sets, video clips, non-linear writing, simulations, and other interactive elements into their submissions. We also welcome graphic, video or photo essays. Our online format can support a rich array of media artifacts, and we welcome your creativity.

Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-part series from the journal’s co-editors. See here and here for additional posts.

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