Dear NY History list folks:
The University at Albany has
published an article "The 1939 Dairy Farmers Union Milk Strike in Heuvelton
and Canton, New York: The Story in Words and Pictures" in their new web
site,
The Journal for MultiMedia
History.
Edward Knoblauch, Webmaster
New York History
Net The following is the announcement introducing the
journal:
**********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:
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
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