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Shaping The Digital Dissertation

Shaping the Digital Dissertation
Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities
Edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger





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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Contributor Biographies
ix
Introduction: Shedding Light on the Process of Digital Knowledge Production
1
Anke Finger and Virginia Kuhn
SECTION I: ISSUES IN DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP AND DOCTORAL EDUCATION
17
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 Policies, Practices and Archiving
49
Kathie Gossett and Liza Potts
5.
The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor’s Perspective
65
Anke Finger
6.
Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing
83
Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan, Monica McCormick and Joshua Neds-Fox
SECTION II: SHAPING THE DIGITAL DISSERTATION IN ACTION
105
7.
Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation
107
Katherine Walden and Thomas Oates
8.
MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History
119
Cécile Armand
9.
Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project
129
Sarah-Mai Dang
10.
#SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into Networked Knowledge Production
151
Erin Rose Glass
11.
Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing Humanities Scholarship
165
Lisa Tagliaferri
12.
The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools
187
Anthony Masure
13.
Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and Movements: Cinematic Bricolage
205
Lena Redman
14.
Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation
237
Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe
15.
Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths
247
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 final product inspire more cutting-edge work in the future.
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 approach to evaluative decision making in the academy. She serves on the steering committee of the Force Scholarly Communication Institute and the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
Cécile Armand is currently a Postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project “Elites, Networks and Power in modern China” (Aix-Marseille University). Prior to assuming this position, she obtained a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2018–2020) and the Andrew Mellon Foundation as part of the DHAsia Program at Stanford University (2017–2018). She completed her PhD in History at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon (ENS Lyon, France) in June 2017. Her dissertation dealt with a spatial history of advertising in modern Shanghai (1905–1949). She also led an interdisciplinary junior research lab devoted to digital humanities at ENS Lyon.
Cheryl E. Ball directs the Digital Publishing Collaborative and the Vega publishing project at Wayne State University. She is executive director for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Library Publishing Curriculum, and is editor of Kairos, the longest continuously running scholarly multimedia journal in the world. See http://ceball.com for her full CV.
Allison C. Belan is the Director for Strategic Innovation at Duke University Press. Allison leads critical strategic initiatives and drives the development and execution of the organization’s strategic plan. She manages the Press’s IT, business systems and digital content teams. Prior to assuming this role, Allison worked at Duke University Press in a variety of roles, including Journal Production Manager and Director for Digital Publishing.
Sarah-Mai Dang is Principal Investigator of the BMBF research group “Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History” (DAVIDF) at the Institute of Media Studies, Philipps University Marburg, Germany. Additionally, she is project leader of the international DFG research network “Ne