@article{Munger_Guess_Hargittai_2021, title={Quantitative Description of Digital Media: A Modest Proposal to Disrupt Academic Publishing}, volume={1}, url={https://journalqd.org/article/view/2713}, DOI={10.51685/jqd.2021.000}, abstractNote={<p>We introduce the rationale for a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the<br><em>Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media</em>. The journal is intended<br>to create a new venue for research on digital media and address several<br>deficiencies in the current social science publishing landscape. First,<br>descriptive research is undersupplied and undervalued. Second, research<br>questions too often only reflect dominant theories and received wisdom.<br>Third, journals are constrained by unnecessary boundaries defined by<br>discipline, geography, and length. Fourth, peer review is inefficient and<br>unnecessarily burdensome for both referees and authors. We outline the<br>journal’s scope and structure, which is open access, fee-free and relies on a<br>Letter of Inquiry (LOI) model. Quantitative description can appeal to social<br>scientists of all stripes and is a crucial methodology for understanding the<br>continuing evolution of digital media and its relationship to important<br>questions of interest to social scientists.</p>}, journal={Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media }, author={Munger, Kevin and Guess, Andrew M. and Hargittai, Eszter}, year={2021}, month={Apr.} }