Looking Back, Thinking Forward: A Digital Humanities Assessment of Equity, Diversity, and Representation in Twenty Years of Publishing in Cinema Journal and JCMS

This article shares the result of a digital humanities analysis of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies' (JCMS) last twenty years of publication regarding possible historic inequities. The project was a collaborative effort of two external researchers, the editorial team, and nine caucus vol...

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Published in:JCMS : Journal of cinema and media studies 2022-08, Vol.61 (5), p.1-30
Main Authors: Sims, Yelana, Lorenz, Nina, Cartier, Nina, Phruksachart, Melissa, Tran, Tony, James, Aju Basil, Camargo, Crystal, Rossi, Nathan, Ginsberg, Terri, Reinhard, Michael M., Baron, Cynthia, Russworm, TreaAndrea M., Sheppard, Samantha N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Film criticism
Humanities
Media coverage
Multiculturalism
Social aspects
Technology application
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Summary:This article shares the result of a digital humanities analysis of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies' (JCMS) last twenty years of publication regarding possible historic inequities. The project was a collaborative effort of two external researchers, the editorial team, and nine caucus volunteers. The basis for the analysis was the author biographies, in which information on pronouns and academic rank were computationally extracted. Racial information was not provided at publication, so a research process was formed to get the most viable results. In addition to the analysis regarding the authors, the project also analyzed published content. Here, the caucus volunteers analyzed the contents of each article with a focus on the relevancy to their caucus's interests. They provided further analysis by identifying subtopics of the articles. From this information, the authors performed a variety of intersectional analyses based on the authors' information, topical subsets, and representation.
ISSN:2578-4900
2578-4919
2578-4919
DOI:10.1353/cj.2021.0085