James Mussell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Mussell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mussell |
| SIGNATURE | MUSSELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5697-1557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Revolution in the Making’
In her 'On Print Culture: The State We're In', published in this journal in 2001, Laurel surveyed the field as it was about to be transformed by the digital resources then in development. At this point microfilm was still the most common way nineteenth-century periodicals were disseminated beyond those institutions that held hard copy, but there were digital versions of bibliographical tools such as the Wellesley Index and Waterloo Directory, bot…
A Pioneer of Connection
Moving on by Staying the Same
The contributors to this forum each reflect on a particular aspect of the future of academic publishing. James Mussell outlines how the form of the online academic journal, and in particular ongoing use of pdf, remains resistant to the potential that the digital environment can offer. Lucinda Matthews-Jones continues the conversation by explaining how journal blogs, such as JVC Online, act as digital spaces that facilitate more creative engagemen…
The Future of Academic Journals
Conservative attitudes to old-established organs
In 1921 Oliver Lodge defended Philosophical Magazine against charges of mismanagement from the National Union of Scientific Workers. They alleged that its editors performed little editorial work, the bulk being done by the publishers, Taylor & Francis. Lodge reassured Nature's readers that the journal did consult its editors, and suggested ‘a conservative attitude towards old-established organs is wise; and that it is possible to over-organise th…
Raw Data is an Oxymoron
The rise of the digital humanities has made data particularly visible of late. While there has been plenty of discussion about what data might be used for in the humanities and the methodological p
Comparative Textual Media
The ongoing digital moment has made scholars see print differently. Just as the decline in the circulation of the printed newspaper has asked hard questions as to what a newspaper is, so too digita
The Postcolonial Archive
Elemental Forms
This paper considers the way the nineteenth-century newspaper was oriented towards information. Despite their political differences, nineteenth-century newspapers were often discussed as if they were universal, with a paper for every segment of society. My argument is that this apparent universality, where the newspaper was figured as a print genre potentially open to all, laid the foundations for the emergence of the popular press. The paper is …
Open Access
Open access is not new: there is a thriving culture of open access in the sciences and scholars in the digital humanities have been advocating open publication of research for some time to share methods, results and data.However, the British Government's recent endorsement of the Finch Report (officially titled 'Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Acces…
Digital Spaces – Introduction
The contributions to this Digital Forum derive from a panel at the 2012 annual conference of the British Association for Victorians Studies (BAVS). The panel was a direct response to an apparent lack of interest in digital culture at the previous BAVS conference, held in Birmingham in 2011. I was one of the organizers of the Birmingham conference and had resisted suggestions that we organize a special panel on digital humanities and nineteenth-ce…
Social Media
Nineteenth-Century Newspapers in the Digital Age
The Dynamics of Genre
The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain DALLAS LIDDLE Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2009 xiv + 234 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8139-2783-1, $
The Passing of Print
This paper argues that ephemera is a key instrument of cultural memory, marking the things intended to be forgotten. This important role means that when ephemera survives, whether accidentally or deliberately, it does so despite itself. These survivals, because they evoke all those other objects that have necessarily been forgotten, can be described as uncanny. The paper is divided into three main sections. The first situates ephemera within an u…
Using Digital Resources in Class
On Pedagogy Using Digital Resources in ClassDigital resources transform the terms on which we can teach the various disciplines that constitute nineteenth-century studies.No longer restricted to the teaching edition or to brief visits to Special Collections, students can engage with a far richer repertoire of nineteenth-century artefacts.It has never been easier to teach from primary material or to devise projects in which students can carry out …
Processing the Past
Readers and Users
Cohering Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
As our encounters with nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers are increasingly digital, the emphasis is often on what is lost: the feeling of paper, colour, the smell and, often most importantly, the ease of navigating around a format that we know well.Digitization addresses many of the methodological problems presented by the nineteenth-century press by bringing disparate sources together, archiving them in a fairly stable format, and mak…
Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge and the reproduction of astronomical photographs in the late nineteenth-century periodical press
The development of photographic reproduction in the late nineteenth century permitted images in a range of visual media to be published in the press. Focusing on the popular scientific monthly Knowledge , this paper explores the evidentiary status of reproductions of astronomical photographs. After succeeding its founder Richard Anthony Proctor in 1889, the new editor of Knowledge , Arthur Cowper Ranyard, introduced high-quality collotype reprodu…
Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines
In his Some Reminiscences of a Lecturer, Andrew Wilson emphasizes the importance of narrative to popular science lecturing. Although Wilson promotes the teaching of science as useful knowledge in its own right, he also recognizes that the way science is taught can encourage audiences to take the subject up and read further on their own. Form, according to Wilson, should not be divorced from scientific content and lecturers should ensure that not …
The Passing of Print
This paper argues that ephemera is a key instrument of cultural memory, marking the things intended to be forgotten. This important role means that when ephemera survives, whether accidentally or deliberately, it does so despite itself. These survivals, because they evoke all those other objects that have necessarily been forgotten, can be described as uncanny. The paper is divided into three main sections. The first situates ephemera within an u…
Elemental Forms
This paper considers the way the nineteenth-century newspaper was oriented towards information. Despite their political differences, nineteenth-century newspapers were often discussed as if they were universal, with a paper for every segment of society. My argument is that this apparent universality, where the newspaper was figured as a print genre potentially open to all, laid the foundations for the emergence of the popular press. The paper is …
Nineteenth-Century Newspapers in the Digital Age
Cohering Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
As our encounters with nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers are increasingly digital, the emphasis is often on what is lost: the feeling of paper, colour, the smell and, often most importantly, the ease of navigating around a format that we know well.Digitization addresses many of the methodological problems presented by the nineteenth-century press by bringing disparate sources together, archiving them in a fairly stable format, and mak…
Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge and the reproduction of astronomical photographs in the late nineteenth-century periodical press
The development of photographic reproduction in the late nineteenth century permitted images in a range of visual media to be published in the press. Focusing on the popular scientific monthly Knowledge , this paper explores the evidentiary status of reproductions of astronomical photographs. After succeeding its founder Richard Anthony Proctor in 1889, the new editor of Knowledge , Arthur Cowper Ranyard, introduced high-quality collotype reprodu…
Open Access
Open access is not new: there is a thriving culture of open access in the sciences and scholars in the digital humanities have been advocating open publication of research for some time to share methods, results and data.However, the British Government's recent endorsement of the Finch Report (officially titled 'Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Acces…
Social Media
Using Digital Resources in Class
On Pedagogy Using Digital Resources in ClassDigital resources transform the terms on which we can teach the various disciplines that constitute nineteenth-century studies.No longer restricted to the teaching edition or to brief visits to Special Collections, students can engage with a far richer repertoire of nineteenth-century artefacts.It has never been easier to teach from primary material or to devise projects in which students can carry out …
Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines
In his Some Reminiscences of a Lecturer, Andrew Wilson emphasizes the importance of narrative to popular science lecturing. Although Wilson promotes the teaching of science as useful knowledge in its own right, he also recognizes that the way science is taught can encourage audiences to take the subject up and read further on their own. Form, according to Wilson, should not be divorced from scientific content and lecturers should ensure that not …
Cohering Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
As our encounters with nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers are increasingly digital, the emphasis is often on what is lost: the feeling of paper, colour, the smell and, often most importantly, the ease of navigating around a format that we know well.Digitization addresses many of the methodological problems presented by the nineteenth-century press by bringing disparate sources together, archiving them in a fairly stable format, and mak…
Arthur Cowper Ranyard, Knowledge and the reproduction of astronomical photographs in the late nineteenth-century periodical press
The development of photographic reproduction in the late nineteenth century permitted images in a range of visual media to be published in the press. Focusing on the popular scientific monthly Knowledge , this paper explores the evidentiary status of reproductions of astronomical photographs. After succeeding its founder Richard Anthony Proctor in 1889, the new editor of Knowledge , Arthur Cowper Ranyard, introduced high-quality collotype reprodu…
Processing the Past
Readers and Users
The Passing of Print
This paper argues that ephemera is a key instrument of cultural memory, marking the things intended to be forgotten. This important role means that when ephemera survives, whether accidentally or deliberately, it does so despite itself. These survivals, because they evoke all those other objects that have necessarily been forgotten, can be described as uncanny. The paper is divided into three main sections. The first situates ephemera within an u…
Using Digital Resources in Class
On Pedagogy Using Digital Resources in ClassDigital resources transform the terms on which we can teach the various disciplines that constitute nineteenth-century studies.No longer restricted to the teaching edition or to brief visits to Special Collections, students can engage with a far richer repertoire of nineteenth-century artefacts.It has never been easier to teach from primary material or to devise projects in which students can carry out …
Social Media
Nineteenth-Century Newspapers in the Digital Age
The Dynamics of Genre
The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain DALLAS LIDDLE Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2009 xiv + 234 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8139-2783-1, $
Open Access
Open access is not new: there is a thriving culture of open access in the sciences and scholars in the digital humanities have been advocating open publication of research for some time to share methods, results and data.However, the British Government's recent endorsement of the Finch Report (officially titled 'Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Acces…
Digital Spaces – Introduction
The contributions to this Digital Forum derive from a panel at the 2012 annual conference of the British Association for Victorians Studies (BAVS). The panel was a direct response to an apparent lack of interest in digital culture at the previous BAVS conference, held in Birmingham in 2011. I was one of the organizers of the Birmingham conference and had resisted suggestions that we organize a special panel on digital humanities and nineteenth-ce…
Raw Data is an Oxymoron
The rise of the digital humanities has made data particularly visible of late. While there has been plenty of discussion about what data might be used for in the humanities and the methodological p
Comparative Textual Media
The ongoing digital moment has made scholars see print differently. Just as the decline in the circulation of the printed newspaper has asked hard questions as to what a newspaper is, so too digita
The Postcolonial Archive
Elemental Forms
This paper considers the way the nineteenth-century newspaper was oriented towards information. Despite their political differences, nineteenth-century newspapers were often discussed as if they were universal, with a paper for every segment of society. My argument is that this apparent universality, where the newspaper was figured as a print genre potentially open to all, laid the foundations for the emergence of the popular press. The paper is …
Conservative attitudes to old-established organs
In 1921 Oliver Lodge defended Philosophical Magazine against charges of mismanagement from the National Union of Scientific Workers. They alleged that its editors performed little editorial work, the bulk being done by the publishers, Taylor & Francis. Lodge reassured Nature's readers that the journal did consult its editors, and suggested ‘a conservative attitude towards old-established organs is wise; and that it is possible to over-organise th…
Moving on by Staying the Same
The contributors to this forum each reflect on a particular aspect of the future of academic publishing. James Mussell outlines how the form of the online academic journal, and in particular ongoing use of pdf, remains resistant to the potential that the digital environment can offer. Lucinda Matthews-Jones continues the conversation by explaining how journal blogs, such as JVC Online, act as digital spaces that facilitate more creative engagemen…
The Future of Academic Journals
A Pioneer of Connection
A Revolution in the Making’
In her 'On Print Culture: The State We're In', published in this journal in 2001, Laurel surveyed the field as it was about to be transformed by the digital resources then in development. At this point microfilm was still the most common way nineteenth-century periodicals were disseminated beyond those institutions that held hard copy, but there were digital versions of bibliographical tools such as the Wellesley Index and Waterloo Directory, bot…
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