Public: A Journal of Imagining America

Posted by Imagining America on February 19, 2018

New issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America

PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America is pleased to announce the publication of its latest issue: Digital Engagements; Or, the Virtual Gets Real, guest edited by Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. You can view it online now at http://public.imaginingamerica.org.

How do knowledge makers in the digital world and IRL (‘in the real world’) make their work both visible to and engaged with a variety of publics? How can work that is often seen as placeless or ‘not real’ effect real transformations in and with these publics? And what can we do when kinds and forms of work demanded by 21st-century challenges do not pass muster as real work by people and institutions positioned as gatekeepers?

This issue of PUBLIC introduces and documents a range of imaginative digital and publicly engaged pedagogies and practices, and reflects on how digital platforms and technologies specifically have been transformative.

From digital narratives to mapping projects to gaming to online exhibits, our publicly engaged digital activists, artists, designers, and scholars offer exhilarating answers through their theories, practices, and our new gallery. We hope you’ll join the conversation!

PUBLIC is a peer-reviewed, multimedia e-journal focused on humanities, arts, and design in public life. It presents projects, pedagogies, resources, and ideas that reflect rich engagements among diverse participants, organizations, disciplines, and sectors.

PUBLIC is part of the national consortium Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. PUBLIC is published by Syracuse Unbound, a joint imprint of Syracuse University Libraries and Syracuse University Press.