Shaping the Digital Dissertation : Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities.

Kuhn, Virginia.

Shaping the Digital Dissertation : Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (292 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: -- 1. Dissertating in Public -- 2. Publication Models and Open Access -- 3. The Digital Monograph? -- 4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving -- 5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor's Perspective -- 6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing -- 7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation -- 8. MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History -- 9. Publish Less, Communicate More! -- 10. #SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into Networked Knowledge Production -- 11. Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing Humanities Scholarship -- 12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools -- 13. Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and Movements: Cinematic Bricolage -- 14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation -- 15. Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths -- List of illustrations -- Index.

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.

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