About the Journal

2i | JOURNAL OF IDENTITY AND INTERMEDIALITY STUDIES

2i Journal is a biannual scientific publication published by the Research Team on Identity(ies) and Intermediality(ies) of the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (Portugal). It is a result of the activity developed by the Team, over several years, within the scope of two domains of knowledge — individual and socio-cultural human Identity Studies, and Intermediality Studies — whose interaction has proved to be particularly fruitful. In addition to disseminating the work developed by the Team, the journal also welcomes the collaboration of specialists, doctoral researchers and postgraduate students, both national and international, in the main fields of study of the publication.

 

DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE

The profound reformulation of aesthetic paradigms, artistic forms and processes to which the historical avant-garde and, after them, post-modern thought gave rise, driving systematic gestures of parody, contamination and hybridity, put an end to an idea of 'purity' in the light of which artistic objects would be describable from endogenous perspectives, within reasonably rigid and closed cartographies of genres. Contemporary creative practices, in fact, increasingly fit into a convergence culture (Jenkins, 2008), marked by permanent dialogues between genres, languages and media, associated with the erudite or popular sphere, the urban or digital space, science or entertainment. If it is true that, intrinsically, "[a]ll media are mixed media", as W.J.T. Mitchell (2002) argued, the proliferation of autonomous and institutionalized different media ensured by technological evolution and the types of reciprocal interference that are associated with it (from simple reference, to co-presence or transposition) require new conceptual and methodological matrices for their analysis. On the other hand, by demanding to be thought in articulation with the agents, the receivers and the historical contexts, such dialogues determine a permanent displacement and instability of territories, borders and artistic canons, making the intermedial perspective a particularly adequate approach to today's cultural products and narratives.

It is also according to intermediate and transversal perspectives to various spheres of human action and thought that the very reflection on the identity of Man — whose presence permeates all artistic and creative experiences — has been drawing, gradually moving it from the traditional individualistic and essentialist paradigms towards theoretical and hermeneutic models of an eminently relational and procedural character. Notions such as intersubjectivity, metamorphosis, turbulence, strength, threshold have become increasingly common in philosophical essayism and in artistic and literary criticism focused on the ontological and identity dilemma, putting into play a new hermeneutic of the 'self' — and, necessarily, a new idea for its image and its representation — in which the fundamental is not what we are, Deleuze would say, but "what we are becoming" (Deleuze, 1996).

These emerging aesthetics of the performative are not unconnected with a genre such as that of the portrait whose historical evolution has led to new representative — if not at the limit of representation — formats and media that allow us to figure humanity's thresholds (the animal, the monster, the machine, the post-human), or that place it under the challenge of shadow and invisuality, or even inscribe it in the flow of time and of the transitory, thus questioning some of the presuppositions of portraiture, secularly associated with the obligations of recognition and the characteristic immobility of the 'arts of space'.

In the epistemological and methodological framework of Comparative Media Studies, the aim of this publication is to promote scientific dialogue and critical debate on human identity — including reflection on the theory and practice of portraiture and other modes of representation the human subject — and on intermediality, considering the possible interactions between literature and other media, according to the following thematic axes:

• intermediality theory (paradigms, methodologies, nomenclatures...);
• intermediality practices (involving traditional arts and/or creative practices emerging in new media, such as television series, video games, intermedial and transmedial narratives...);
• creative industries and intermedial artistic production;
• conceptualizations, axiologies and identity policies;
• forms, styles and processes of representating human identity;
• humanity and its thresholds (animality, monstrosity, post-human);
• studies on portraiture (portrait theories; portrait as a genre; portrait and visual culture; portrait practices and social networks; literary portrait... ).

The Journal is composed of the following sections: Articles; Varia; Reviews; Interviews. Each issue of the Journal presents a thematic proposal for the Articles Section.

2i Journal publishes two six-monthly issues, in June and December, respectively.

The Editors responsible for each issue of the 2i Journal will be responsible for the production and final editing of each of the published issues. External personalities may be invited by the Editors responsible to (co)edit a thematic issue of the publication as Guest Editors.

 

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

2i Journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle of free availability of scientific knowledge.

The Journal's access to authors who wish to publish their work is also free of charge. No fees are charged for sending, processing and/or publishing the submitted texts.

  

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT   

The authors who publish in 2i Journal agree with the following terms:

• The authors maintain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. The articles are simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License that allows the sharing of the work with recognition of authorship and the initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are authorized to make available the version of the text published in 2i Journal in institutional repositories or other platforms for distribution of academic works.

 

PEER REVIEW POLICY

1. Articles

The publication of articles in 2i Journal, whether in the thematic section or in the Varia section, follows a policy of prior evaluation, under a double anonymity regime, by two reviewers (double blind peer review). Reviewers will be chosen by the Editors according to the main theme of the article; If one opinion is favorable and the other negative, the text will be sent to a third reviewer.

In order to ensure the anonymity of the review process, authors must ensure, when submitting their articles, that the authorship identification has been removed in the document and in the ‘properties’ option in Word. Any other information that refers to the authorship of the article must also be removed, namely references to previous works by the same author(s). In this case, the name(s) of the author(s) cited in the body of the article must be replaced by AUTHOR and the respective reference removed.

In any case, the Journal's internal editorial process eliminates all data on the identity of the authors from the body of the original texts.

The process of selecting submitted articles begins with a pre-review of the formal aspects of the proposal and the adequacy of its content to the investigative scope of the publication and/or the specific theme of the issue to be published. This pre-review is the responsibility of the Journal's Editor in Charge and the Guest Editors.

If accepted in this first phase, the submitted article will be evaluated by at least two independent reviewers, appointed by the Editors of 2i Journal. This process is supervised by the Editors themselves, scrupulously respecting the adopted policy of blind peer review (in double anonymity). All reviewers must declare no conflict of interest and a commitment to anonymously evaluate the article.

All reviewers who participate in the review process of an issue of 2i Journal are mentioned in the Technical Sheet of the respective publication.

Reviewers may recommend that collaboration proposals be accepted or rejected, or suggest changes to make publication possible. Only texts accepted at the end of the review process meet the conditions for publication.

Once accepted, submissions may also undergo final selection by the Journal's Board of Directors, when the number of approved articles is significantly greater than the average number of essays published per journal.

A blind peer review support form is provided to reviewers. The evaluation of submitted articles will consider the following criteria, as set out in the evaluation form adopted by the journal:

• adequacy to the journal’s norms of publication;
• adequacy of the theme of the article to the theme of the journal’s issue or, in the case of a free theme, to the journal’s scope of studies;
• originality and interest of the study;
• scientific accuracy and theoretical framework;
• relevance of the critical methodology;
• relevance and up-to-dateness of the bibliographic support;
• clarity and quality of writing (including the abstract in a foreign language);
• argumentative consistency and relationship between starting hypotheses and results.

Reviewers' opinions should include a recommendation regarding possible publication, among the following: publish without any modifications; publish with minor modifications; publish with significant modifications; the article is not suitable for publication. You will be asked to indicate any reformulations and their justification, to improve the scientific quality of the article submitted for review.

The authors will be informed of the reviewers' opinions, anonymously, when and if the reformulation of the article is requested. Authors must await the editorial decision before altering any submitted data or documents.

After receiving the editorial decision resulting from the reviewers' opinions, the author has 30 days to submit the revised version of the article in accordance with the evaluation recommendations, otherwise the text will not be published. The author must always indicate the changes made in the article and/or attach a report of all the changes made in accordance with the reviewers' recommendations.

A final review of the texts is carried out by the Editors to check formal aspects and eliminate any grammatical and/or spelling errors, in order to maintain the quality of the presentation and writing.

 

2. Interviews and Reviews

Interviews and reviews submitted to the 2i Journal will be subject to review by the Editors of the respective issue, who may recommend changes to the text and decide on their acceptance.

The list of interviewees may include writers, artists, critics, researchers or other personalities whose sphere of professional intervention is related to the thematic scope of the publication.

Reviews must refer to literary, artistic or theoretical-critical works within the thematic scope of the publication, published, at most, in the last twelve months, based on the edition of the Journal to which the text is submitted.

 

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

This journal is preserved digitally through the Public Knowledge Project's PKP PN service.

 

RESEARCH DATA POLICY

1. Definition of research data

The policy applies to research data needed to verify research findings reported in papers submitted to 2i Journal. Research data includes data produced by the authors (“primary data”) and data from other sources that are analyzed by the authors (“secondary data”). Research data includes any material used to produce the results in digital form and non-digital, such as tabular data, code, images, audio, documents, video, maps, raw and/or processed data.

2. Exceptions to the policy

This policy covers only research data that is necessary to verify published results. The policy does not require the public sharing of quantitative or qualitative data that can identify a research participant (“personal data”) unless participants have consented. The policy also does not require the public sharing of other sensitive data. Alternatives to publicly sharing sensitive or personal data include:

- Deposit of research data in controlled access repositories;

- Anonymization or de-identification of data before sharing it publicly;

- Only sharing metadata about research data;

- Indication of procedures for accessing research data in the submitted work and management of requests for access to data from other researchers.

3. Embargo periods

Embargoes on data sharing are permitted.

4. Additional materials

Sharing data as supplementary information files is discouraged.

5. Data repositories

It is recommended that data be deposited in a data repository with a preservation plan and with the registration of persistent identifiers. It is recommended to use the institutional data repository of the University of Minho RepositoriUM or use a generalist repository such as Zenodo.

6. Citation of research data

2i Journal encourages authors to cite any publicly available research data in their manuscripts. Information must be provided on where the data associated with the article is located and on the conditions under which it can be accessed. The DOI, other persistent identifier, or URL must also be provided, where applicable.

7. Research Data License

2i Journal encourages the provision of research data under open licenses (example: Creative Commons Licenses) that allow their free reuse. The Journal does not claim copyright over the research data.

8. Support for authors, researchers

Questions about compliance with this policy should be sent to geral@dmpublish.com.

9. Data availability statement

2i Journal encourages authors to include, in articles reporting results derived from research data, a Data Availability Statement.

The Data Availability Statement, present in the template for articles provided by the Journal, should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to the datasets analyzed or generated during the study.

When research data are not publicly available, this should be stated on the cover page of the manuscript, together with the conditions for accessing the data. The research Data Availability Statement should take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if necessary for multiple types of research data):

- The datasets generated and/or analyzed in the article are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT LINK].

- The datasets generated and/or analyzed in the article are not publicly available due to [REASON WHY THE DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC], but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

- The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the article are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

- All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].

- The data supporting the findings of this study are available from [THIRD PARTY NAME], but restrictions apply to their availability as they were used under license for the ongoing study and are therefore not publicly available. However, the data are made available by the authors upon reasonable request and with permission from [THIRD PARTY NAME].

Note: This policy follows the guidance of the Data Policy Toolkit for Publishers and Scientific Journals, from the PUB IN project.