https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/mla/Recent content in Mla on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USSat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/guidelines-for-evaluating-work-in-digital-humanities-and-digital-media-from-the-mla/Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/guidelines-for-evaluating-work-in-digital-humanities-and-digital-media-from-the-mla/<h3 id="introduction">Introduction</h3> <p>The following guidelines are designed to help departments and faculty members implement effective evaluation procedures for hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion. They apply to scholars working with digital media as their subject matter and to those who use digital methods or whose work takes digital form.</p> <p>Digital media are transforming literacy, scholarship, teaching, and service, as well as providing new venues for research, communication, and the creation of networked academic communities. Information technology is an integral part of the intellectual environment for all humanities faculty members, but for those working closely in new media it creates special challenges and opportunities. Digital media have expanded the objects and forms of inquiry of modern language departments to include images, sounds, data, kinetic attributes like animation, and new kinds of engagement with textual representation and analysis. These innovations have considerably broadened notions of language, language teaching, text, textual studies, and literary and media objects, the traditional purview of modern language departments.</p>