Relationship between content and design? The Digital Culturist does a much better job of creatively connecting the design of the content with the content itself. Images of various styles clutter its articles, helping visual readers to understand the primary concepts discussed in the text. Slate includes photographs, screenshots, and images of data. This design is less appealing, but it is informative, and it fits with the traditional, professional style of a newspaper.
Digitality? Multimodality? Both websites are easy to navigate. The creators clearly know what they’re doing. The Digital Culturist has a lot more fun exploring different styles of text and presentation, perhaps utilizing different modes of communication. The Slate isn’t particularly boring, but as mentioned before, it follows a formatted style.
Anything notable? The Digital Culturist explores some controversial topics for an academic journal, such as in “Issue 6: Digital Romance” and “Should Software Engineers Care About Ethics?” Slate explores a happy mix of current topics such as COVID-19, an advice column known as Dear Prudence, and an entertainment pieces on the next best show, one suggestion being Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
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