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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818196203321

Autore

Braun Catherine C

Titolo

Cultivating ecologies for digital media work : the case of English studies / / Catherine C Braun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8093-3297-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Classificazione

LAN005000LAN015000EDU015000EDU039000

Disciplina

808/.0420785

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Computer-assisted instruction

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Computer network resources

Report writing - Study and teaching

Electronic portfolios in education

Scholarly electronic publishing

Hypertext systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cultivating Digital Media Work in English Studies: Negotiating Disciplinary Questions -- Situating Digital Media Teaching: Challenging the Hierarchy of Signs -- Scholarship through a New Lens: Digital Production and New Models of Evaluation -- Professional Development in/with Digital Media: Sustaining a Technological Ecology -- Conclusion: The Future of Digital Media and/in English Studies: Models of Practice.

Sommario/riassunto

The onslaught of the digital age has rapidly redefined the parameters of virtually every aspect of daily life, and the world of academic scholarship is no exception. In English departments across American institutions of higher education, faculty members face an uphill battle in the struggle for professional recognition of their digital works. In Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work, author Catherine C. Braun calls for a shift in thinking about the professional methods and digital goals of the English studies discipline and its central texts. Braun's in-depth study docu