Introduction
What is Digital Memory Dialogues?
…a dynamic, transdisciplinary, participatory, and networked publishing space critically addressing the challenges and opportunities Holocaust memory faces in the digital age through cross-sector and transdisciplinary dialogue.
Digital Memory Dialogues seeks to challenge traditional ideas of disciplinary silos and disrupt distinctions between ‘academic research’ and ‘research and development’ within and across the heritage, and creative and technical media industries, and higher education.
Digital Memory Dialogues is influenced by the academic tradition of dialectics - to introduce a difference (dia) into a discourse (logos) - seeking truth from the inbetween spaces that emerge when putting different voices, expertise, disciplines and perspectives into conversation with one another. We believe that this flow of speaking and listening is lost in the commercial structures that dominate academic publishing today.
What do we Publish?
We publish up to three dialogues per year – each on a specific theme.
Each dialogue consists of a provocation written by an editor and four curated responses, each representing expertise from a different sector or discipline. The responses will be peer-reviewed by the other respondents, before all of the contributors participate in a public online event, where the audience are welcomed to enter into the discussion.
‘Provocation’ from the Latin for ‘calling forth’.
‘Dialogues’ from the Greek Dialogos, ‘dia’ – through or inter, ‘logos’ – words: ‘a conversation between two or more person’.
Editor and Author Guidelines
Submissions
We do not take unsolicited submissions. If you are interested in proposing a theme and acting as guest editor, please contact us via LandeckerDigitalMemoryLab@sussex.ac.uk
Guidelines
Please download the following documents to see guidelines for the different roles and parts of the contribution process, from being a Dialogue Editor through contributing a response piece, peer-review and the format of the live discussion.
- Guidelines for Dialogue Editors
- Guidelines for Writing Responses
- Guidelines for Submission and Peer-Review
- Peer-Review Template
- Guidelines for Live Discussion Participation
What Are Our Editorial Processes?
Our editorial board meet at least once a year to plan the schedule of themes and propose editorial responsible of each dialogue (from either within the board or guest editors).
For each dialogue, the editor of that series is responsible for sourcing an appropriate mix of contributors, which should cover a diverse range of expertise both practice and research. The editor writes the dialogue provocation, which is approved by the Editor-in-Chief (Prof Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden) or Co-Editors (Dr Kate Marrison and Dr Ben Pelling) before circulation.
Contributors submit their responses directly to the Dialogue Editor, who converses with the Editor-in-Chief and/or one of the Co-Editor on the suitability of the responses for the Dialogue.
Each contributor follows our peer-review guidelines to review each other’s submission, completing the template above. The Dialogue Editor then collates all peer-review comments and returns a summary to each contributor, who edits their work accordingly.
After final review by the Dialogue Editor checking that each contributor follows our style guide and has appropriately responded to review comments, the core Editorial team have final sign off then each piece is published in sequence, followed by the online discussion over a 6-week period.
The final discussion will be an public event, presented live online, at which we invite you to also contribute to the dialogue, expanding the number of voices and with that the potential for knowledge co-production across disciplines and sectors.