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Call for Submissions: Issue 27, Deadline: June 15
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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Issue 27: Themed Issue

Issue Editors:

Patricia Belen, Fordham University

Stefano Morello, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Gregory Palermo, Emory University

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work for a special issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy. Scholars have defined minimal computing as "computing done under significant constraints of hardware, software, education, network capacity, power, or other factors." Drawing inspiration from this work, this special issue explores minimalist digital humanities pedagogy, a broad approach to teaching and learning in DH that works within significant technological, infrastructural, resource, or pedagogical restrictions, whether undertaken intentionally or as a response to circumstance.

At the broadest level, we are interested in what it might mean to work with what we have while at the same time advocating for what we need. We ask:

• What does it mean to teach DH with minimal infrastructure?
• How can we teach DH and digital literacy in ways that address the often inadequate material working and learning conditions of faculty, staff, and students?
• How can we take tactical approaches to teaching amidst unjust and often woefully underfunded institutions, while also advocating for structural change, and a world in which everyone has the resources and support to undertake every DH project they dream of?
• Might we sometimes need to use proprietary technologies (for example, using existing tools like Google Docs rather than building our own more ethical alternatives) to enact liberatory and transformative learning?
• How might we use minimalist approaches for maximal pedagogical ends?

We encourage multiple approaches to the topic and pieces in a variety of formats. Submissions should make an argument, be situated as part of a larger conversation, and be legible to multiple audiences across disciplines. We are especially interested in submissions that use these tactical pedagogical approaches to challenge and question the educational status quo rather than accepting restrictions as a given.

Possible topics might include:

• Low-cost, low-tech, low barriers of access and entry approaches to teaching and learning in DH
• Strategies for embracing limitations, constraints, or scarcity as opportunities for intentional, student-centered pedagogy
• Situated DH pedagogies: intersectional and embodied teaching methods that account for differences in race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability, and practices that consider local contexts and needs, particularities of a situation, and material conditions of teaching and learning
• Approaches to DH in particular settings such as community colleges, HBCUs, HSIs, high schools, and community organizations
• Minimalist DH as a mode of resistance to austerity, censorship, or other attacks on education and academic freedom
• Adaptive strategies for operating with limited human infrastructure and accessing funding schemes that typically prioritize large-scale digital humanities projects over minimalist approaches
• Resource costs of the pressures to incorporate artificial intelligence in the classroom
• The limitations of minimalist work

Submission and Review Process

All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed by the issue editors and independently by two scholars in the field who provide formative feedback to the author(s) during the review process. We practice signed, as opposed to anonymous or so-called blind, peer review. We intend that the journal itself—both in our process and in our digital product—serves as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practices.

As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within three months of the submission deadline. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words or an equivalent length or scope for timed or other forms of media (e.g. roughly 20–25 minutes of dialogue, 45 minutes of a spoken presentation, etc.). Both text-based and multimedia should be prepared to undergo review for their relationship to scholarly and related conversations, as well as undergo revision. All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at admin@jitpedagogy.org.

Sections of the Journal

JITP runs on two overlapping timescales, to accommodate both traditional and evolving models of peer review:

Issues

Issues operate on a measured pace, with block releases timed to allow for extensive peer review and revision before publication. Submissions to this section receive formative feedback from two scholars in the field, and Issue Editors work with authors to bring accepted pieces to their fullest potential. The best submissions to this section will demonstrate sustained engagement with the relevant scholarship of teaching, learning, and technology, as well as a critical awareness of their own strengths and limitations. We currently plan to release two issues per year, with some themed issues and others drawn from the general submissions pool. For information on submitting to issues, please see our submission guidelines. Our Issue Editors can be contacted at editors@jitpedagogy.org and our Managing Editor can be contacted at admin@jitpedagogy.org.

Short Form Sections

Released continuously throughout the year, JITP’s Short Form sections (described below) operate on a publish-first-then-peer-review model, with corresponding editors curating submissions on a rolling basis. Please note that our Short Form sections are published independently of our Issues. Submissions that do not conform to short forms prescriptions will not be reviewed.

• Assignments publishes syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments that highlight interactive technology and pedagogy, along with a short narrative reflection (suggested length of 800–1,200 words) on how well the assignment worked in practice. Links to a class website or online responses to the assignment would be ideal. Before submitting, please review our published Assignments pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Questions about this section should be sent to admin@jitpedagogy.org with “Assignment query” in the subject line.
• Blueprints features short recipes for digital teaching and research – series of replicable steps that can be shared among instructors and researchers. JITP invites digital scholars to submit innovative recipes or innovative applications of a standard recipe, and/or reflections about using such recipes (see The Programming Historian for reference). Before submitting, please review our published Blueprints pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Please click here to read more about our Blueprints requirements.
• We invite Reviews of new and important texts in the field, as well as reports from noteworthy conferences and workshops relevant to the subjects of technology and pedagogy. Please click here to read more about work sought for the Reviews section.
• Teaching Fails publishes ideas that fell flat—assignments that didn’t work out, readings, projects, or digital tools that none of your students understood. Tell us your story as a way of thinking through what went wrong. Fail better by helping others learn from your mistakes. The suggested length for a Teaching Fails submission is 800-1,200 words. Before submitting, please review our published Teaching Fails pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Questions about this section should be sent to admin@jitpedagogy.org with “Teaching Fail query” in the subject line.
• Tool Tips calls for examinations of a digital tool or a set of comparable tools that you have used in a class. We are most interested in pedagogical uses of tools for instruction, or tools used by students to accomplish academic work. The best submissions will address how smoothly the tool worked and detail its strengths and drawbacks. Links to online examples of the tool being utilized would be ideal. The suggested length for a Tool Tips submission is 800–1,200 words. Before submitting, please review our published Tool Tips pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Submissions that do not adhere to our Short Forms section will be rejected. We do not accept product advertisements. Questions about this section should be sent to admin@jitpedagogy.org with “Tool Tips query” in the subject line.

Please view our submission guidelines for information about submitting to the Journal. There are no article processing charges (APC) or submission charges for any section of the Journal.

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