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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476753903321

Autore

Kuhn Virginia

Titolo

Shaping the Digital Dissertation / / Virginia Kuhn and Anke K. Finger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, United Kingdom : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations some color

Disciplina

025.3

Soggetti

Dissertations, Academic

Electronic dissertations

Education, Higher

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Shedding Light on the Process of Digital Knowledge Production / Anke Finger and Virginia Kuhn -- 1. Dissertating in Public / Kathleen Fitzpatrick -- 2. Publication Models and Open Access / Cheryl E. Ball -- 3. The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in Evaluation / Virginia Kuhn -- 4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving / Kathie Gossett and Liza Potts -- 5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor's Perspective / Anke Finger -- 6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing / Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan, Monica McCormick and Joshua Neds-Fox -- 7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation / Katherine Walden and Thomas Oates -- 8. MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History / Cécile Armand -- 9. Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project / Sarah-Mai Dang -- 10. #SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into Networked Knowledge Production / Erin Rose Glass -- 11. Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing Humanities Scholarship / Lisa Tagliaferri -- 12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools / Anthony Masure -- 13. Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and Movements:



Cinematic Bricolage / Lena Redman -- 14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation / Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe -- 15. Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths / Christopher Williams -- List of illustrations -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.