Amid calls by environmental advocates to move academic engagement, including conferences, online, the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically sped up the shift to digital platforms in March 2020. Many of us are continuing to present and publish our research and creative work, as well as teach, online. The difficulties of this moment notwithstanding, particularly for essential workers and other vulnerable populations, the timing of this change presents some potential opportunities.

This shift that has taken place over the last two years has prompted us to question how collective platforms, digital humanities initiatives, and technological developments are changing the ways scholars and artists communicate their ideas in the classroom and through their research and creative activity. What new tools and platforms are being developed to present scholarly research or creative works by visual culture professionals? What future developments lie ahead? Can, and should, these various tools be leveraged to reach a broader public...

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