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Call for Submissions: Issue 29, Deadline: June 5, 2026
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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Issue 29: Rethinking Making in the Digital Humanities: Critiques and Pedagogies That Transform

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) call for Themed Issue 29 invites consideration of how critical discourses on making with digital and computing technology can serve as both an approach to and a form of scholarship. Within and beyond digital humanities (DH) cultures of makerspaces, pedagogy pop-ups, gamification, and experiential learning, we are interested in how making can be rooted in the ethics and politics of collaboration and transformative critiques; how maker-based pedagogies offer a lens for historical and theoretical reflection involving bodies, lands, and infrastructures both implicated in and impacted by making practices; how research through making shows up in the classroom, communities, and/or the world; and how making discourses are also discourses on labor, power, and colonial oppression. Together, these modes constitute a rethinking of how making scholarship bears upon contemporary social and disciplinary debates.

Specifically, for issue 29 JITP is seeking contributions that consider any one or more of the following questions—and those that may respond to this framing more broadly as well:

• How do making epistemologies shape our use of and approaches to digital tools and techniques?
• How have we come to understand the form, constitution, genealogies, and politics of digital tools and techniques through making practices?
• What transformations and shifts in thinking about bodies, technologies, practices, and spaces become possible with pedagogies of making—and unmaking?
• What new vocabularies of partnership, praxes of anti-oppression, and approaches to making labor visible emerge in and through making practices in the digital humanities?

Possible topics might include:

• Making that studies the relationship we have with our tools, research and practice fields, and communities.
• Feminist, Queer, and Trans making practices in and beyond the classroom.
• Local and culturally situated knowledge practices, including Indigenous practices and practices outside the commonplace Global North reference.
• Labor practices as explicit components of the work of community; efforts of creativity; and critical engines of remaking worlds.
• Critiques of and interventions within colonialist-capitalist infrastructures of making, especially against the exploitation of peoples, material resources, and knowledges in the Global South and Indigenous lands everywhere.
• Making as embodying humanistic questions at the core and constituting a frame for addressing, expressing, and mediating community histories and engaged pedagogies.
• Making not as a pivot to the so-called age of AI but one as modeling an epistemic view and critique of “the machine.”

Submission and Review Process

All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed by the issue editors and independently by two scholars in the field who provide formative feedback to the author(s) during the review process. We practice signed, as opposed to anonymous or so-called blind, peer review. We intend that the journal itself—both in our process and in our digital product—serves as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practices.

As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within three months of the submission deadline. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words or an equivalent length or scope for timed or other forms of media (e.g. roughly 20–25 minutes of dialogue, 45 minutes of a spoken presentation, etc.). Both text-based and multimedia should be prepared to undergo review for their relationship to scholarly and related conversations, as well as undergo revision. All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at [email protected].

Sections of the Journal

JITP runs on two overlapping timescales, to accommodate both traditional and evolving models of peer review:

Issues

Issues operate on a measured pace, with block releases timed to allow for extensive peer review and revision before publication. Submissions to this section receive formative feedback from two scholars in the field, and Issue Editors work with authors to bring accepted pieces to their fullest potential. The best submissions to this section will demonstrate sustained engagement with the relevant scholarship of teaching, learning, and technology, as well as a critical awareness of their own strengths and limitations. We currently plan to release two issues per year, with some themed issues and others drawn from the general submissions pool. For information on submitting to issues, please see our submission guidelines. Our Issue Editors can be contacted at [email protected] and our Managing Editor can be contacted at [email protected].

Short Form Sections

Released continuously throughout the year, JITP’s Short Form sections (described below) operate on a publish-first-then-peer-review model, with corresponding editors curating submissions on a rolling basis. Please note that our Short Form sections are published independently of our Issues. Submissions that do not conform to short forms prescriptions will not be reviewed.

• Assignments publishes syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments that highlight interactive technology and pedagogy, along with a short narrative reflection (suggested length of 800–1,200 words) on how well the assignment worked in practice. Links to a class website or online responses to the assignment would be ideal. Before submitting, please review our published Assignments pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Questions about this section should be sent to [email protected] with “Assignment query” in the subject line.
• Blueprints features short recipes for digital teaching and research – series of replicable steps that can be shared among instructors and researchers. JITP invites digital scholars to submit innovative recipes or innovative applications of a standard recipe, and/or reflections about using such recipes (see The Programming Historian for reference). Before submitting, please review our published Blueprints pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Please click here to read more about our Blueprints requirements.
• We invite Reviews of new and important texts in the field, as well as reports from noteworthy conferences and workshops relevant to the subjects of technology and pedagogy. Please click here to read more about work sought for the Reviews section.
• Teaching Fails publishes ideas that fell flat—assignments that didn’t work out, readings, projects, or digital tools that none of your students understood. Tell us your story as a way of thinking through what went wrong. Fail better by helping others learn from your mistakes. The suggested length for a Teaching Fails submission is 800-1,200 words. Before submitting, please review our published Teaching Fails pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Questions about this section should be sent to [email protected] with “Teaching Fail query” in the subject line.
• Tool Tips calls for examinations of a digital tool or a set of comparable tools that you have used in a class. We are most interested in pedagogical uses of tools for instruction, or tools used by students to accomplish academic work. The best submissions will address how smoothly the tool worked and detail its strengths and drawbacks. Links to online examples of the tool being utilized would be ideal. The suggested length for a Tool Tips submission is 800–1,200 words. Before submitting, please review our published Tool Tips pieces and include a brief statement (1-2 sentences) that explains why your submission is appropriate for this section. Submissions that do not adhere to our Short Forms section will be rejected. We do not accept product advertisements. Questions about this section should be sent to [email protected] with “Tool Tips query” in the subject line.

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