James A Hodges

Biographic Data

ID1082671
NAMEJames A Hodges
GIVEN NAMESJames A
FAMILY NAMEHodges
SIGNATUREHODGES J A
AFFILIATIONSCollege of Wooster
ORCID0000-0003-3236-8486
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Historicising web-based environmental data dashboards: Surfrider.org, 1997-2025

    James A HodgesARTICLEInternet Histories2026

  • Coastal water information orders: Reverse-engineering New York City’s data dashboards

    Open AccessJames A Hodges, Rachel PaprockiARTICLESocial Studies of Science2025References: 3

    This article examines the information systems governing individual relationships to urban coastal waterways, drawing from two data publication initiatives in New York City. In these two cases, data structure and web design features cultivate specific forms of knowledge about water quality, pollution, and the health risks represented by recreational activities such as swimming and fishing. Analysis of the data structure and web source code shows t…

  • Algorithmic futures: The intersection of algorithms and evidentiary work

    Ciaran B Trace, James A HodgesARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2024

    The role of algorithms in decision-making is now so consequential that we agree that algorithmic systems must be designed, implemented, and managed in ways that are understandable to interested parties. Anchored in a tradition of capturing, contextualizing, and preserving evidence of analog and digital technologies, this article draws out the roles adopted or tried on by the recordkeeping professions to account for algorithmic systems as they com…

  • Taxonomizing Information Practices in a Large Conspiracy Movement: Using Early QAnon as a Case Study

    James A HodgesARTICLEInformation & Culture2023

    This article presents a taxonomy of the information practices apparent in an imageboard discussion thread that was influential in jump-starting the worldwide QAnon movement. After introducing QAnon with a review of literature, the author examines 4Chan /pol/ thread #147547939 (key in introducing multiple key elements of the QAnon narrative) to enumerate and classify the information practices deployed by discussion participants. In conclusion, the…

  • Forensic approaches to evaluating primary sources in internet history research: Reconstructing early Web-based archival work (1989–1996)

    James A HodgesARTICLEInternet Histories2020Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article examines early digital archival practices, especially those related to historical sources digitised and published to the World Wide Web in the 1990s. Without well-documented professional standards for the digitisation and publication of archival materials online during this period, many archival workers developed innovative, yet idiosyncratic methods of arranging and presenting archival material. Using historical methods informed by …

  • How do I hold this thing? Controlling reconstructed Q*berts

    Open AccessJames A HodgesARTICLENew Media & Society2017Cited by: 3References: 2

    Preserving a historically significant video game frequently requires either preserving or adapting a touchable interface for contemporary use. While control techniques are often evaluated in terms of fidelity between in- and out-of-game actions, this essay emphasizes several ways that fidelity must be actively constructed. Bringing a haptic perspective on video gaming into conversation with game history and preservation, this essay examines ways …

  • Changes in Returning Home in the United States, 1925-1985

    Frances Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1999Cited by: 10

    Journal Article Changes in Returning Home in the United States, 1925–1985 Get access Frances Goldscheider, Frances Goldscheider Brown University Direct correspondence to Frances Goldscheider, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Calvin Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider Brown University Search for other works by this author…

  • The South and the New Deal

    James A Hodges, Roger BilesARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The South and the New Deal. By Roger Biles. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. x, 205 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-8131-1836-0.) Get access James A. Hodges James A. Hodges College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082106 Published: 01 June 1995

  • Strike

    James A Hodges, Mary Heaton VorseARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1993

  • United States

    Open AccessJames A HodgesARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1990

  • Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880-1915

    James A Hodges, I A NewbyARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880–1915. By I. A. Newby. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. xvi + 588 pp. $35.00.) Get access James A. Hodges James A. Hodges College of Wooster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078723 Published: 01 June …

  • United States

    Open AccessJames A HodgesARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1988

  • New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933-1941

    Robert H Zieger, James A HodgesARTICLEThe American Historical Review1987

  • The Lower Right Hand Corner: The American South

    Thomas E Terrill, Pete Daniel et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1987

  • New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933-1941

    Billy H Wyche, James A HodgesARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1987

  • New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933-1941

    Nancy Maclean, James A HodgesARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933–1941. By James A. Hodges. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xii + 252 pp. $24.95.) Get access Nancy MacLean Nancy MacLean University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1069–1070, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904141 Published: 0…

  • Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites

    James A Hodges, J Wayne FlyntARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1980

  • The New Deal in Georgia: An Administrative History

    James A Hodges, Michael S HolmesARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1975

  • Negroes and the Great Depression: The Problem of Economic Recovery

    James A Hodges, Raymond WoltersARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1971

  • FDR and the Origins of the Welfare State

    James A Hodges, Paul K ConkinARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1968