A Decade of [in]Transition: Reflecting on Past Challenges and Future Possibilities

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“A Decade of [in]Transition: Reflecting on Past Challenges and Future Possibilities” describes the editorial experience of the award-winning, peer-reviewed journal [in]Transition on the occasion of its ten-year anniversary. After an introduction on the journal’s initial theoretical framing, the first part considers the production of new knowledge historically by engaging with select pieces published throughout the past decade while also reflecting on challenges the journal faced in the first decade of publication. It also considers early challenges faced by the editorial team such as the problem of establishing scholarly legitimacy for a new methodology and making the videographic method accessible to both junior and senior scholars. The second part considers the production of new knowledge via newer provocations, such as vidding, the embrace of YouTube, and other videographic modes that push against traditionally-defined boundaries of the “essayistic.” Our reflections occur on the eve of in[Transition] migrating—after a decade as a joint venture with MediaCommons—to the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), joining a roster of other open access scholarly journals.