@article {mcgann_text_2006,
	title = {From Text to Work: Digital Tools and the Emergence of the Social Text},
	journal = {Text},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2006},
	note = {00015},
	pages = {49{\textendash}62},
	abstract = {McGann{\textquoteright}s primary inquiry is, "where is information technology driving literary and cultural studies and - not least of all - scholarly editing, the foundational discipline of those broad fields of work?" McGann argues that there are two main branches of scholarly editing: facsimile/diplomatic and electric. These are then supplemented with a "third variant, social-text editing, proposed by the late D.F. McKenzie." McGann takes up May{\textquoteright}s edition of Coleridge as a case study. Despite his praise of Mays{\textquoteright} edition, McGann argues that what this publication doesn{\textquoteright}t do is engage with the social text. Developing a digital component to Mays{\textquoteright} work would present users with more critical options and would increase analytic speed. McGann argues that while not many digital projects have successfully realized their full potential, the options facilitated by the digital are immense. While Mays{\textquoteright} edition of Coleridge is superb, it only reaches a small and specific community. On the other hand, "[a] well-designed digital user{\textquoteright}s environment can - and should - expose the dynamic relations that operate in - indeed, that define - such an educational research community."},
	issn = {0736-3974},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/30227956},
	author = {McGann, Jerome}
}