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

• Author: Kuhn, Virginia.
• TeilnehmendeR: Finger, Anke.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.