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.

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