July 29, 2009
Resonance launches online journal for Emory
Site provides easy experience for visitors and editors alike
The various dimensions of family life in America are explored in a new online academic journal launched by Emory University this summer.
Journal of Family Life, designed and developed by Resonance, offers academic articles, photo essays, audio and video recordings and other content for visitors seeking insights into middle-class family life. It is open-access, only available online, and free to anyone on the Internet.
Journal content includes collapsible abstracts, a navigable Table of Contents, and interactive footnotes and references. Visitors to the site can easily cite, print, email or post content to social media applications like Facebook and Twitter.
“Nearly all of the online academic journals we researched had an either-or proposition,” says Beth Kurylo, Journal of Family Life managing editor. “Either they were attractive but were able to do very little, or they had good interactivity but lacked good design. This journal is highly functional and easy to navigate, and it also has an appealing aesthetic.”
In developing the site, Resonance created a content management system that allows Journal editors to quickly and easily create any kind of page, whether for a photo essay, video with written content, or research article with navigable footnotes. Editors can also quickly process comments posted by site visitors as well as review proposed content ideas submitted for consideration.
“The content management system allows me to quickly update the journal, so I can spend more time developing new content,” Kurylo says. “I don’t know how the technology works, I just know that it does.”
Journal of Family Life is published by the Emory academic center Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL), which researches the function and significance of ritual and myth in southern families with dual wage earners. MARIAL is one of five such centers in the U.S supported by the Sloan Foundation.
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