Form small groups, select a digital publishing project, explore it together, and discuss the questions below. Then each group will summarize their critique for the larger group of all workshop participants.
38 North: DPRK Digital Atlas
http://38northdigitalatlas.org/
African Diaspora Online
http://africandiasporaphd.tumblr.com/
Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/1/000276/000276.html
Lysistrata
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0035
Making News at The New York Times
https://www.press.umich.edu/7137512/making_news_at_the_new_york_times
Native Life in South Africa
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1452/pg1452-images.html
Who is the primary audience of this publication?
What is the medium of this publication? Does its design effectively express relationships between visual and textual components?
Does this publication have a discernible editorial or curatorial structure? Can you identify how that review occurs?
Would you consider this project to be a digital scholarly publication? Why or why not?
Adapted from Shannon Christine Mattern, Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited, Journal of Digital Humanities, 1, no. 4 (2012).