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November 02, 2006, 03:28 PM ET
New Kind of Online Journal Opens Planning Web Site
It is fitting that the creators of a new kind of online journal — meant to feature bloglike mini-articles and try an open system of peer review — would do much of the planning for their endeavor on a public Web site.
For those eager to read about, and participate in discussion of, the planning of MediaCommons, as the new e-journal is called, its planning Web site went live today. The electronic publication will focus on media studies, and its founders hope it will help spark a revolution in scholarly publishing, as described in a recent Chronicle feature.
Ben Vershbow, a researcher at the Institute for the Future of the Book, says the site isn’t really a journal, but will be “a wide-ranging social network of scholars with an editorial layer operating above/alongside it. That editorial layer will develop a variety of scholarly works, from papers to monographs to journals, all of them blurring the boundaries between traditional textual modes and multimediated, networked ones.”
The Institute for the Future of the Book is an unusual academic center run by the University of Southern California but based in Brooklyn.—Jeffrey R. Young
Categories: Research
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