- The profession of English can retain its traditional value on scholarship that is original, innovative, intellectual, and sustained, peer-reviewed and published, while acknowledging that scholarly fields, forms, and values change.
- Scholarly models of production and form are not fixed. Rather, they are fluid—socially and technologically shaped and contingent. Contemporary scholarship, increasingly, is created, maintained, and circulated in a range of electronic environments that extend the intellectual reach of ideas and the development of academic fields and subfields.
- Given electronic contexts, current scholarship can increasingly employ multiple semiotic modalities (words, still and moving images, video, audio) to convey meaning in increasingly effective and robust ways.
- Social networks and collaborative scholarship, especially when they are informed by feminist values on sharing and connection, can multiply and leverage the innovative contributions of new scholarly projects. They can also help increase the sustainability of such projects” (2).
The authors write, “Our goal is to identify a small set of principles that describe what we consider to be a productive middle ground between the historically informed values of the humanities and the changes currently informing emerging information ecologies in digital environments…In short form, these are as follows:
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