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.
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Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 16 septembre 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-7423-8
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-80064-098-6
Nombre de pages : xiv-271
Anke Finger et Virginia Kuhn
IntroductionShedding Light on the Process of Digital Knowledge Production
Section I. Issues in digital scholarship and doctoral education
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
1. Dissertating in PublicCheryl E. Ball
2. Publication Models and Open AccessVirginia Kuhn
3. The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in EvaluationKathie Gossett et Liza Potts
4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and ArchivingAnke Finger
5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The PresentAn Advisor’s Perspective
Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan et al.
6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital PublishingSection II. Shaping the digital dissertation in action
Katherine Walden et Thomas Oates
7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital DissertationSarah-Mai Dang
9. Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing ProjectAnthony Masure
12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online ToolsCeleste Tường Vy Sharpe
14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History DissertationDigital 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.
Virginia Kuhn (dir.)
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 recently published (with Vicki Callahan) an anthology titled Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies (Parlor Press, 2016) and has edited three peer-reviewed digital anthologies: ‘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 (dir.)
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.

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