Scholarship, Art, or Fun?!

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Identities: MFA in poetry, interest in e-lit Rhet/comp, emphasis in new media studies Untenured prof in English studies program, where trying to do first digital tenure portfolio Editor of Kairos, justify journal’s work to others Presentation/Performance like digital scholarship

Intended workshop on how to read digital scholarship, but unique circumstances

Discussion:

One example of how digital writing (rhet/comp) studies sees digital scholarship. Do your answers fall somewhere on this line? Different for each context Individual contexts: Me: presenting born-digital work Another scholar: print-like, archival work Institutional contexts: OSU, VCU – print-biased tenure guidelines; changed them USU, ISU – peer-review is enough Disciplinary: MLA, (CELJ) Further explore disciplinary issues, often where assumptions for what counts as acceptable forms of scholarship comes from.

Think of an example of print-based scholarship that deviates from expectations of traditional scholarship? How do we know or classify that work AS scholarship?

How do we translate what we know from print-based work to digital work? (esp born-digital end of spectrum) EXPLAIN GRAPHIC -- Where are publication venues placed on this semantic map? -- How does their placement (of venue) relate to the kinds of work published in that venue? -- Where are individual texts placed on the map? -- Where do readers position their expertise on the map? -- What is the distance between a reader (of the text, the journal, or a T&P member) as audience and a particular text? CONTEXT!!!! (Using this or other strategies with an actual text. Norming??)

Peer-reviewed digital scholarship for a special issue on manifestos. Pretend you are a tenure reader or a job search cmte member and this piece is part of a candidate’s portfolio. 10 minutes - enjoy

I want to spend some time hearing how you evaluated “ultimate abstraction” Use the questions as starting points, but you might have other issues to address.

Where were the similarities and differences in/between/across disciplines?

Conclude by thinking of strategies (authors and readers) for understanding digital scholarship.

What other strategies could you foresee? DO WE KNOW WHAT OUR DEPT’s CRITERIA IS??? (Changes at OSU and VCU – not just about digital media scholars, but literature)

I hope you keep the discussion going, among yourselves and with other digital scholars and stakeholders in various disciplines. And I hope you let me know if I can be of any help. Questions?

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Scholarship, Art, or Fun?! - Presentation Transcript

Scholarship, Art, or Fun?! Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Publications Dr. Cheryl E. Ball
Contexts of Digital Scholarship
- What do you think of when you hear “digital scholarship”?
What is Digital Scholarship?
Spectrum of Digital Scholarship
- print-like  webtext  born-digital
Assumptions About Print-Based Scholarship Bibliography Been published; already been reviewed We know the authors Academic press Canonical-ish Clear argument witin the discipline(s) Been cited by other scholars we know who already have academic reputations On reading lists Follows methodology of the field Engages in new disciplinary convos Creates new disciplinary terminology School affiliation.cultural capital
My Assumptions About Digital Scholarship
A Digital Scholarship Manifesto
Evaluating Digital Scholarship
- What lenses/traditions/genres did you use?
- What was unexpected?
- How did you (or did you?) reconcile gaps in meaning-making?
Evaluation Strategies Your similarities here!
Ways to Show Value in Digital Scholarship
Ways to Show Value in Digital Scholarship
Thank you