Shaping the digital dissertation : knowledge production in the Arts and Humanities / edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.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.

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