Copyright
Virginia Kuhn; Anke Finger; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.Published On
2021-05-04ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
290 pages (xiv+276)Dimensions
Weight
Media
Funding
OCLC Number
1251445745LCCN
2020447498BIC
- 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
- Anke Finger
- Virginia Kuhn
1. Dissertating in Public
(pp. 19–24)- Kathleen Fitzpatrick
2. Publication Models and Open Access
(pp. 25–34)- Cheryl E. Ball
3. The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in Evaluation
(pp. 35–48)- Virginia Kuhn
4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving
(pp. 49–64)- Kathie Gossett
- Liza Potts
5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor’s Perspective
(pp. 65–82)- Anke Finger
6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing
(pp. 83–104)- Nicky Agate
- Cheryl E. Ball
- Allison Belan
- Monica McCormick
- Joshua Neds-Fox
7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation
(pp. 107–118)- Katherine Walden
- Thomas Oates
8. MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History
(pp. 119–128)- Cécile Armand
9. Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project
(pp. 129–150)- Sarah-Mai Dang
- Erin Rose Glass
- Lisa Tagliaferri
12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools
(pp. 187–204)- Anthony Masure
- Lena Redman
14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation
(pp. 237–246)- Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe
15. Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths
(pp. 247–260)- Christopher Williams
Contributors
Virginia Kuhn
(editor)Virginia Kuhn is Professor of Cinema and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the Division of Media Arts + Practice at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. In 2005, she successfully defended one of the first born-digital dissertations in the United States, challenging archiving and copyright conventions. Kuhn has published (with Vicki Callahan) an anthology titled Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies (Parlor Press, 2016) and has edited several digital anthologies including: 'The Video Essay: An Emergent Taxonomy of Cinematic Writing' (The Cine-Files, 2017) with Vicki Callahan; MoMLA: From Panel to Gallery (Kairos, 2013) with Victor Vitanza; and From Gallery to Webtext: A Multimodal Anthology (Kairos, 2008) with Victor Vitanza.
Anke Finger
(editor)Anke Finger is Professor of German and Media Studies and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has published widely in Modernism, Media Studies, and Intercultural Communication. She is the co-founder and co-editor (2005–2015) of the multilingual, peer reviewed, open access journal Flusser Studies. From 2016 to 2019 Anke Finger served as the inaugural director of the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative at the Humanities Institute; she also co-founded the German Studies Association's Network on Digital Humanities and served as co-director from 2017–19. She founded the NEHC-DH network, affiliated with the New England Humanities Consortium; and she co-founded the CTDH network.