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I am pleased to announce a new release in IA47

Day of Archaeology 2011–2017: Global Community, Public Engagement, and Digital Practice by Lorna-Jane Richardson, Matt Law, J. Andrew Dufton, Kate Ellenberger, Stuart Eve, Tom Goskar, Jessica Ogden, Daniel Pett and Andrew Reinhard

https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.47.10

The Day of Archaeology (http://www.dayofarchaeology.com) was a volunteer-led international archaeological blogging event that ran from 2011 to 2017. The project asked people who define themselves as archaeologists to submit one or more blog posts about their working day on a chosen day in June or July. This article explores the history of the Day of Archaeology project and the practicalities of running a large-scale collaborative blogging project, before examining some of the topics covered in the posts. An assessment of the impact of the project follows. Overall, we hope in this work to answer some of the basic questions regarding this type of collaborative, online, global engagement – what we did, who we reached, what they talked about – and also to provide some insights for any other similar initiatives that may follow us in the future.


Also just released in this issue

Review by Krijn Boom of Archaeogaming: An introduction to archaeology in and of video games by Andrew Reinhard (published by Berghahn Books)

https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.47.11


Happy reading!

Judith