The 2014 Theorizing the Web (#TtW14) committee is excited to announce that we will  partner with Interface,  an open access  journal, to publish a special issue based on papers form the TtW14 conference program. The special issue will include peer-reviewed articles and non-peer-reviewed essays, as well as invited panel reviews. All TtW14 presenters are welcome to submit. Look below the jump to learn why we selected Interface as our platform. 

Theorizing the Web, as a conference, stands by a set of key principles. First, TtW is committed to social justice. Second, TtW is committed to public scholarship. Finally, TtW  insists on blurring intellectual lines between academic scholarship, creative story telling, journalism, and art. We looked for a journal venue that stood in line with these principles. As it turns out, that journal venue is Interface, and we didn’t have to find them, they found us.

Upon receiving an invitation from Interface to host a special issue based on conference papers, we found that their philosophy and practices aligned closely with our own. They publish both peer-reviewed articles and non-peer-reviewed essays. They give monetary compensation for the latter. All of their content is open access, and authors maintain all rights. This is a venue which respects authors’ labor, recognizes scholarship as a public good, and acknowledges that intellectual contributions can come in a multitude of forms, all while maintaining rigorous standards.

We very much look forward to this partnership, and to developing a fantastic and theoretically rich special issue. We will pass on details about timelines and submission procedures as they become available.