Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Dec 2023)

The born-digital in future digital scholarly editing and publishing

  • James O’Sullivan,
  • Michael Pidd

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02454-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Abstract Editorial scholarship is once again in a state of upheaval. Digital scholarly editing, for all it has achieved, has not accommodated the increasingly digital nature of cultural production and consumption. The theories and practices of digital scholarly editing need to better account for born-digital cultural materials like social media content, digital fiction, and video games. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in digital scholarly editing, and advocates for future forms of digital scholarly editing and publishing suited to the born-digital.