Explorable Explanations: Interactive Essays

A workshop at the Winter Institute in Digital Humanities on explorable explanations: essays and articles that readers can play with, where adjusting a number, running a simulation, or playing a small game is part of the argument itself. I look at what the form does well, how these pieces invite readers to discover an idea rather than be told it, and how scholars in the humanities and beyond might use interactive essays to share their own work.