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K eDiteD by Virginia Kuhn anD anKe Finger Shaping the Digital DiSSertation uhn KnowleDge proDuction in the artS anD humanitieS an D F eDiteD by Virginia Kuhn anD anKe Finger inger Shaping the Digital Digital dissertatons have been a part of academic research for years now, yet there are ( e stll many questons surrounding their processes. Are interactve dissertatons signifcantly DS iSSertation diferent from their paper-based counterparts? What are the efects of digital projects on ) D doctoral educaton? How does one choose and defend a digital dissertaton? This book explores the wider implicatons of digital scholarship across insttutonal, geographic, and disciplinary divides. The volume is arranged in two sectons: the frst, writen by senior scholars, addresses conceptual concerns regarding the directon and assessment of digital dissertatons in KnowleDge proDuction in the the broader context of doctoral educaton. The second secton consists of case studies by PhD students whose research resulted in a natvely digital dissertaton that they have S haping successfully defended. These early-career researchers have been selected to represent a artS anD humanitieS range of disciplines and insttutons. Despite the profound efect of incorporated digital tools on dissertatons, the literature concerning them is limited. This volume aims to provide a fresh, up-to-date view on the the digital dissertaton, considering the newest technological advances. It is especially relevant in the European context where digital dissertatons, mostly in arts-based research, are D more popular. Shaping the Digital Dissertaton aims to provide insights, precedents and best practces to igital graduate students, doctoral advisors, insttutonal agents, and dissertaton commitees. As digital dissertatons have a potental impact on the state of research as a whole, this edited collecton will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone D interested in the future of doctoral studies. i SS This is the author-approved editon of this Open Access ttle. As with all Open Book ertation publicatons, this entre book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editons, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com Cover photo by Erda Estremera on Unsplash, htps://unsplash.com/photos/eMX1aIAp9Nw Design by Anna Gat book eebook and OA editons also available OPEN ACCESS obp To access digital resources including: blog posts videos online appendices and to purchase copies of this book in: hardback paperback ebook editions Go to: htps://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1287 Open Book Publishers is a non-proft independent initiative. We rely on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality academic works. SHAPING THE DIGITAL DISSERTATION Shaping the Digital Dissertation Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities Edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2021 Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger (eds). Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger, Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities. 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ISBN Paperback: 9781800640986 ISBN Hardback: 9781800640993 ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781800641006 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781800641013 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781800641020 ISBN XML: 9781800641037 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0239 Cover image: Erda Estremera on Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/eMX1aIAp9Nw. Cover design by Anna Gatti. Contents Acknowledgements vii Contributor Biographies ix Introduction: Shedding Light on the Process of Digital 1 Knowledge Production Anke Finger and Virginia Kuhn SECTION I: ISSUES IN DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP AND 17 DOCTORAL EDUCATION 1. Dissertating in Public 19 Kathleen Fitzpatrick 2. Publication Models and Open Access 25 Cheryl E. Ball 3. The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in Evaluation 35 Virginia Kuhn 4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation 49 Policies, Practices and Archiving Kathie Gossett and Liza Potts 5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think 65 of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor’s Perspective Anke Finger 6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): 83 A Heuristic for Digital Publishing Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan, Monica McCormick and Joshua Neds-Fox vi Shaping the Digital Dissertation SECTION II: SHAPING THE DIGITAL DISSERTATION IN 105 ACTION 7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the 107 Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation Katherine Walden and Thomas Oates 8. MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD 119 Dissertation in Chinese History Cécile Armand 9. Publish Less, Communicate More! Refecting the 129 Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project Sarah-Mai Dang 10. #SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into 151 Networked Knowledge Production Erin Rose Glass 11. Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing 165 Humanities Scholarship Lisa Tagliaferri 12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from 187 Graphic Design to Online Tools Anthony Masure 13. Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and 205 Movements: Cinematic Bricolage Lena Redman 14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and 237 Copyright in a History Dissertation Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe 15. Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, 247 Representation and Refection in Tactile Paths Christopher Williams List of illustrations 261 Index 265 Acknowledgements Virginia Kuhn began this collection several years before its publication, enlisting the help of Kathie Gosset as co-editor. Both realized their time was limited, but they also felt the need for this collection quite strongly. Just when Kathie’s schedule made her continuing involvement untenable, Virginia was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer making the whole enterprise seem doomed to remain incomplete. With Virginia’s strong recovery, the addition of Anke Finger, one of the collection’s authors, as co-editor, the patience of our contributors and the good will of this Press, we are proud to see this collection come to fruition. Over the course of shaping this project into a book, a number of colleagues and institutions have been immensely supportive. Virginia would like to thank Kathie Gossett, the value of whose early work molding the volume cannot be overstated. Her chapter, co-authored with Liza Potts, is a vital addition to this collection. Virginia would also like to thank her colleagues and graduate students whose careful thinking, pedagogical excellence and collegiality have provided a sounding board and intellectual home for the many years since she defended her own digital dissertation in 2005. Anke Finger would like to thank the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut for their generous support of this book project. She is immensely grateful to all graduate students who have embarked on explorations within digital scholarship, and who worked towards making Digital Humanities and Media Studies a lasting initiative, together with many colleagues within and beyond UConn. The creativity and curiosity have been and continue to be enormously inspiring; the same is the case for everyone involved with this volume, the contributors and, most particularly, Virginia Kuhn. May the fnal product inspire more cutting-edge work in the future. viii Shaping the Digital Dissertation We would also like to thank Alessandra Tosi and the team from Open Book Publishers, who made this process a transparent and ethical one. Their professionalism and warmth demonstrate that excellence and humanity are not mutually exclusive; rather they serve each other. We extend our particular gratitude to Adèle Kreager for her careful, insightful and prompt editing; Adèle made the process quite painless during what is an unprecedented moment in human history. Contributor Biographies Dr. Nicky Agate is the Snyder-Granader Assistant University Librarian for Research Data & Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-PI on the HuMetricsHSS initiative, which promotes a values- based, process-oriented