It’s interesting to condider how ideas of ‘community’ – really, what I think the focus of DEMiC has been for me this year – can take on both formal and informal aspects. A journal can begin as a place to offer more sustained working out of ideas, or a series of stages in an idea.

On a less utopic and more SSHRC-esque note, a journal also offers a recognizable target and way of citing process. Bear with me here – a thing that may have started as a conversation manifested in a bit of test code and grown into a blog post is already valuable, but hard to note on a report or application. A journal might provide a good venue for an early-stage idea that could be noted in a measurable way that makes sense to our organizing and funding bodies. That is until SSHRC has a box that corresponds to mad blogging skillz…