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Functionality, Materiality, Commodification

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Plenary presented by Dr. Cheryl E. Ball at the Thomas R. Watson conference on Rhetoric and Composition, October 2008.

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Functionality, Materiality, Commodification — Presentation Transcript

Function, Commodity, Materiality Narrating the Intellectual Labor of The New Work of Scholarship

Digital Tenure Portfolio

Which software to use?

How to design it?

Why to design it?

Which identities should I perform?

How can I make it useful to others?

How do I help readers read/value born-digital work?

Connecting Discussions N. Katherine Hayles: Size of texts --> reading time --> heft/scope of project

Connecting Discussions Matthew Kirschenbaum: Writers’ material artifacts are increasingly digital, and so our ways of studying them will change.

Connecting Discussions (my read of) Janet Murray: Why read kaleidoscopic texts when we can read the criticism?

Connecting Discussions Richard Miller & Paul Hammond: What value does the university bring to digital communication?

Connecting Discussions Anne Wysocki: How do we recognize materiality and bodies so that we can value craft and labor?

Connecting Discussions Lev Manovich: Texts are no longer fixed/static, but are performances experienced through software.

Relational Issues

Reading Times

Scope

Value-Added

Materiality

Craft

Labor

Performance

Digital Scholarship A Possible 3D Axis to Map, Describe, and Value Digital Scholarship

A Short Example

Narrating Our Labor How do we make the work we do visible to (tenure) readers?

Size of Digital Works Electronic Literature Collection uses S, M, L, XL “ The designations reflect both the length of a work and the difficulties it offers for reading and comprehension.”

Size of Digital Works

Count project from start to finish

What’s considered labor?

What’s left out of your count?

Digital Scholarship A Possible 3D Axis to Map, Describe, and Value Digital Scholarship

Thank you

Dr. Cheryl E. Ball

Illinois State University

www.ceball.com

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