The SAGE Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses (eBook, ePUB)

SAGE Publications
Redaktion: Andrews, Richard N. L. N. L.; England, Jude; Domingo, Myrrh; Davis, Stephen N. N.; Borg, Erik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Topics covered include:

- how to make research more accessible

- the use of search engines and other sources to determine the scope of work

- research training for students

- what will theses, dissertations and research reports look like in ten years' time?

- the storing and archiving of such research

- ethics and methodologies in the field

- intercultural issues

The editors focus on advances in arts and practice-based doctorates, and their application in other fields and disciplines. The contributions chart new territory for universities, research project directors, supervisors and research students regarding the nature and format of Masters and doctoral work, as well as research projects.

This handbook is an essential reference for researchers, supervisors and administrators on how to conduct and evaluate research projects in a digital and multimodal age.

Richard Andrews is Professor in English, Faculty of Children and Learning, Institute of Education.

Erik Borg is a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University's Centre for Academic Writing.

Stephen Boyd Davis is Research Leader in the School of Design, Royal College of Art.

Myrrh Domingo is Visiting Assistant Professor in English Education and Literacy Education at New York University.

Jude England is Head of Social Sciences at the British Library.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473971813
• Artikelnr.: 44875853

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Stephen Boyd Davis, Myrrh Domingo and Jude England PART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES The Thesis: Texts and Machines - Erik Borg and Stephen Boyd Davis New Forms of Dissertation - Richard Andrews and Jude England The Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools - Richard P.J. Freeman and Andrew Tolmie Digital Literacies for the Research Institution - Helen Beetham, Allison Littlejohn and Colin Milligan PART TWO: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Media Systems, Multimodality and Post-Humanism - Lesley Gourlay Reframing the Performing Arts - Zoe Beardshaw Andrews Complexity Theory - June Elizabeth Parnell Re-Imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis - Jude Fransman Traditional Theses and Multimodal Communication - Dylan Yamada-Rice PART THREE: ETHICAL AND INTERCULTURAL ISSUES Ethics and Representation - Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller Copyright Managment Approaches - Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O
Brien Understanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research - Pauline Hope Cheong The Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research - Myrrh Domingo PART FOUR: MULTIMODALITY,INCLUDING THE REPRESENTATION AND PRESENTATION OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era - Gunther Kress Practice-as-Research in Music Performance - Mine Dogantan-Dack Translating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (Re)Presentation - Anna-Marjatta Milsom Disciplinary
Specificity
and the Digital Submission - Susan Melrose Digits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and Its Modes of Reproduction - Juliet MacDonald PART FIVE: ARCHIVING, STORAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE The Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses - Michael Schwab The Changing Role of Library and Information Services - Joanna Newman Animating the Archive - Martin Rieser Establishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs - Lisa Stansbie PART SIX: RESEARCH METHODS A Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times - Ilana Snyder and Denise Beale How Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning - Amy Alexandra Wilson Researching Adoloscents
Literacies Multimodally - Lalitha Vasudevan and Tiffany DeJaynes Implication for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs - Joyce S.R. Yee Uncaged Boxed-up - Ralf Nuhn Index