Type of site | interview |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Laureano Ralón |
| Editor | Laureano Ralón, Judie Cross, Julia Schwartz |
| URL | figureground |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Current status | Online |
Content license |
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| ISSN | 2292-0811 |
Figure/Ground is an open-source, para-academic, inter-disciplinary website that publishes in-depth interviews with scholars, researchers, and university professors. Artists, filmmakers, and creators of every stripe are also interviewed. Figure/Ground was a finalist in 2012 Canadian Online Publishing Awards and the 2013 Edublog Awards, and received the 2012 New Canadian Weblog Award (education category) as well as the 2013 John Culkin Award for outstanding praxis by the Media Ecology Association.[1]
History
Figure/Ground began as a personal blog, founded by Laureano Ralón in 2009. It claims to contain one of the largest collections of scholarly interviews on the web, with numerous volunteer collaborators ranging from senior undergraduates to PhD candidates.