"We invite you to explore the projects in this issue, each of which stages its own articulation of the meaning, nature and significance of evidence as a central element of scholarly practice."

"The dead in the city of New Orleans were those unable to leave, primarily those without the financial or physical resources to evacuate in advance of the hurricane."

"Indeed, those of us who study the artifacts and stories of cultural and artistic production may be in the midst of a new dark age, inundated with such a profusion of information that we can never hope to organize or digest it, much less sensibly preserve it for the future."

"Throughout this same period, an array of scholars from a number of fields has tracked the many ways that the machines we interact with co-produce what we can perceive and know."

"She asks probing questions about each video, designed to focus our attention on the larger political and social webs of meaning that engender each excerpt's production and circulation."

"In the mean time, history has continued to move forward, with new historical narratives and new firsts yet to be recorded; memories will continue to be conjured, contested, scripted and contained."

"We look forward to continuing to publish and promote scholarly work that challenges, inspires, disrupts or expands scholarly discourse in new and unexpected directions."