Andy Guess, Kevin Munger, and Eszter Hargittai write:
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the new Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.
We have 18 great papers in the inaugural batch.
We explain our rationale for a new journal in this piece.
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Please send us your best quantitative descriptive work about digital media! And please share this new publishing opportunity with your colleagues.
The “manifesto” article laying out our goals is here: “Quantitative Description of Digital Media: A Modest Proposal to Disrupt Academic Publishing.”
Soundz good. I’m a big fan of quantitative description.
I agree with their claim that there has been a regrettable trend in social sciences toward causal analysis — and only causal analysis. But, in any case, to do causal analysis, you have to do the “quantitative descriptions” first, and it is nice to have a venue for publishing these descriptions. The context (i.e., digital media) is interesting too. And community-based OA (HOPE) is always good.