Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities - cover image

Copyright

Virginia Kuhn; Anke Finger; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.

Published On

2021-05-04

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80064-098-6
Hardback978-1-80064-099-3
PDF978-1-80064-100-6
HTML978-1-80064-640-7
XML978-1-80064-103-7
EPUB978-1-80064-101-3
MOBI978-1-80064-102-0

Language

  • English

Print Length

290 pages (xiv+276)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 20 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.79" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 24 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.94" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1223g (43.14oz)
Hardback1613g (56.90oz)

Media

Illustrations33

OCLC Number

1251445745

LCCN

2020447498

BIC

  • JNT
  • H
  • JNV
  • CAL
  • U

BISAC

  • EDU037000
  • TEC000000

LCC

  • Z692.E42

Keywords

  • digital dissertation
  • academic research
  • interactive dissertation
  • paper dissertation
  • digital projects

Shaping the Digital Dissertation

Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities

Digital dissertations have been a part of academic research for years now, yet there are still many questions surrounding their processes. Are interactive dissertations significantly different from their paper-based counterparts? What are the effects of digital projects on doctoral education? How does one choose and defend a digital dissertation? This book explores the wider implications of digital scholarship across institutional, geographic, and disciplinary divides.

The volume is arranged in two sections: the first, written by senior scholars, addresses conceptual concerns regarding the direction and assessment of digital dissertations in the broader context of doctoral education. The second section consists of case studies by PhD students whose research resulted in a natively digital dissertation that they have successfully defended. These early-career researchers have been selected to represent a range of disciplines and institutions.

Despite the profound effect of incorporated digital tools on dissertations, the literature concerning them is limited. This volume aims to provide a fresh, up-to-date view on the digital dissertation, considering the newest technological advances. It is especially relevant in the European context where digital dissertations, mostly in arts-based research, are more popular.

Shaping the Digital Dissertation aims to provide insights, precedents and best practices to graduate students, doctoral advisors, institutional agents, and dissertation committees. As digital dissertations have a potential impact on the state of research as a whole, this edited collection will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone interested in the future of doctoral studies.

Endorsements

This volume is a timely intervention that not only helps demystify the idea of a digital dissertation for students and their advisors, but will be broadly applicable to the work of librarians, administrators, and anyone else concerned with the future of graduate study in the humanities and digital scholarly publishing.

Roxanne Shirazi

The City University of New York

Reviews

For those working in academic and professional publication, this book offers a glimpse at the struggles that are happening with the world of doctoral education as researchers begin to use the digital tools at hand to rethink research. While most of these issues are not new, the authors of these chapters note how they continue to be problematic. As much as these chapters focus on the problems as they pertain to the tenuring process, they also raise issues of publication and archiving that directly affect the academic publishers who have been struggling with these issues from a commercial standpoint. For any academic publisher who is rethinking the academic monograph to make it more current, this book offers insight from the practitioners and authors who are creating the next generation of interactive research.

John Rodzvilla

Publishing Research Quarterly, vol. 38, 2022.

Contents

  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick
  • Cheryl E. Ball
  • Nicky Agate
  • Cheryl E. Ball
  • Allison Belan
  • Monica McCormick
  • Joshua Neds-Fox

Contributors

Virginia Kuhn

(editor)
Professor of Cinema and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the Division of Media Arts + Practice at University of Southern California

Anke Finger

(editor)
Professor of German and Media Studies and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at University of Connecticut