History

MediaCommons was first launched in a WordPress-based environment in 2007, and was relaunched in Drupal in 2009. More information about the genesis of the project may be found in the following essays:

• Introducing MediaCommons

• MediaCommons 2: Renewed Publics, Revised Pedagogies

• MediaCommons 3: Continuing the discussion

• Initial Responses to MediaCommons

Related essays:

• On the Future of Peer Review in Electronic Scholarly Publishing

• Toward the Establishment of an Electronic Press

• Teaching in a "collaborative, interactive, multimediated, networked, nonlinear, and multi-accented" Environment

MediaCommons is supported by The Institute for the Future of the Book (Part of the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities.