SAGE Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses

Editor/Author Andrews, Richard, Borg, Erik and Davis, Stephen Boyd, et.al.
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $176.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $264.00
ISBN: 978-0-85702-739-9
Category: Language & Literature - Composition (Language arts)
Image Count: 46
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

This handbook sets out the processes and products of digital research. It is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

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Table of Contents

  • About the Editors
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction - Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Stephen Boyd Davis, Myrrh Domingo and Jude England
  • Section 1 Institutional Perspectives
  • 1 The Thesis: Texts and Machines - Erik Borg and Stephen Boyd Davis
  • 2 New Forms of Dissertation - Richard Andrews and Jude England
  • 3 The Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools - Richard P. J. Freeman and Andrew Tolmie
  • 4 Digital Literacies for the Research Institution - Helen Beetham, Allison Littlejohn and Colin Milligan
  • Section 2 Student Perspectives
  • 5 Media Systems, Multimodality and Posthumanism - Lesley Gourlay
  • 6 Reframing the Performing Arts - Zoë Beardshaw Andrews
  • 7 Complexity Theory - June Elizabeth Parnell
  • 8 Re-imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis - Jude Fransman
  • 9 Traditional Theses and Multimodal Communication - Dylan Yamada-Rice
  • Section 3 Ethical and Intercultural Issues
  • Introduction
  • 10 Ethics and Representation - Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller
  • 11 Copyright Management Approaches - Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O'Brien
  • 12 Understanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research - Pauline Hope Cheong
  • 13 The Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research - Myrrh Domingo
  • Section 4 Multimodality, Including the Representation and Presentation of Theses and Dissertations
  • 14 Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era - Gunther Kress
  • 15 Practice-as-Research in Music Performance - Mine Doğantan-Dack
  • 16 Translating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (re)presentation - Anna-Marjatta Milsom
  • 17 Disciplinary ‘Specificity’ and the Digital Submission - Susan Melrose
  • 18 Digits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and its Modes of Reproduction - Juliet MacDonald
  • Section 5 Archiving, Storage and Accessibility in the Digital Age
  • 19 The Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses - Michael Schwab
  • 20 The Changing Role of Library and Information Services - Joanna Newman
  • 21 Animating the Archive - Martin Rieser
  • 22 Establishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs - Lisa Stansbie
  • Section 6 Research Methods
  • 23 A Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times - Ilana Snyder and Denise Beale
  • 24 How Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning - Amy Alexandra Wilson
  • 25 Researching Adolescents' Literacies Multimodally - Lalitha Vasudevan and Tiffany DeJaynes
  • 26 Implications for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs - Joyce S.R. Yee
  • 27 UNCAGED Boxed-up - Ralf Nuhn