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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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**********ANNOUNCING A NEW FRONTIER IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING:**********
The Department of History at the State University of New York at
Albany is pleased to present the first issue of The Journal for
MultiMedia History. We are the first peer-reviewed electronic journal
that presents,evaluates, and disseminates multimedia scholarship. This
free online journal can be found at the following Web site:
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh
This exciting journal offers a new vision for presenting historical
research. Adhering to the highest research standards and utilizing the
most innovative multimedia technologies, The Journal for MultiMedia
History (JMMH) combines audio, visual, and hyperlinked materials with
thoughtful historical analysis. By exploiting the almost magical
potential of digital code, authors can explore and present a range of
scholarly source materials impossible to incorporate into traditional
texts. The journal also provides in-depth reviews, including audio and
visual clips and links, of multimedia resources such as CD-ROMs,
videos, and Web sites.
The first issue includes exciting pieces by accomplished scholars.
One item centers on a radio interview conducted in 1960 with the Nation
of Islam's Elijah Muhammad, accompanied by an analysis by his
biographer, Claude A. Clegg III. This issue also contains the audio and
text of a lecture by Professor Kathy Peiss that focused on her new book
about American women and the making of the modern consumer culture. Tom
Kriger explores a labor strike in New York that took place during the
Great Depression. He uses a dazzling array of photographs and oral
history interviews. Adrienne Hood and Jacqueline Spafford make
judicious use of hypertext to demonstrate the promise and perils of
integrating Web construction projects, and Corrine Blake offers a
comprehensive hypertext review of Web-based resources for students and
scholars of Islam and Islamic Civilization.
We are privileged to have a distinguished editorial board that
includes Steven Brier, co-founder of the American Social History
Project (ASHP),City University of New York (CUNY), currently assistant
provost for Technology and Instructional Media at the Graduate School
and University Center, CUNY; Joshua Brown, creative director of the
ASHP and acting director of the ASHP/Center for Media and Learning,
City University of New York; Mark Kornbluh, director of H-NET, Michigan
State University; Carolyn Lougee, chair, Stanford University History
Department; Roy Rosenzweig, head of the Center for New Media at George
Mason University; and Richard Hamm, University at Albany, State
University of New York; and the founding editors,Gerald Zahavi and
Julian Zelizer of the University at Albany. Susan McCormick, a
doctoral student in our department, has offered her expert guidance
throughout this process as the managing editor of the JMMH.
Please forward this announcement to other Internet discussion
groups and post it on the bulletin boards of your institution. We hope
you enjoy The Journal for MultiMedia History and we look forward to
receiving your comments and scholarly contributions at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerald Zahavi and Julian Zelizer
Founding Editors, the Journal for Multimedia History
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh
Department of History, University at Albany (SUNY)
http://www.albany.edu/history
Phone: (518)442-4488
Fax: (518)442-3477
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Division of Environmental Management & Design
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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