C&W 2008 Presentation: New Media Scholarly Heuristics
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, May 23). New media scholarship: Taxonomies, heuristics, and strategies to connect (?) authors, editors, departments, and tenure committees. Computers and Writing, Athens, GA.
abstract
Panel Title: New Media Scholarship Stakeholders: Departmental, Editorial, and Authorial Issues
Although increasing numbers of faculty are creating scholarship for online venues, the Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion indicates that most departments claimed to have no idea how to evaluate digital scholarship. The task force does not distinguish, however, between “print-like” scholarship that appears online and new media scholarship that utilizes modes besides typed words to make its argument. It should be straightforward enough to read print-like scholarship online and, in turn, help tenure and promotion committees read and value it. But how do we read and help tenure and promotion committees read and value — and how do journals help authors revise — new media scholarship that has no print analogue? These are the questions that this panel will explore.
Speaker 2 [Cheryl] will draw on Allison Warner’s (2007) heuristic for assessing the scholarly value of traditional webtexts that fall between print-like and multimedia-rich, digital scholarship. Warner intentionally leaves room for other scholars to explore the ways that such a heuristic might be applicable (or flexible) for texts that incorporate multimedia elements, such as new media scholarship. The purpose of this presentation is to posit additional heuristics — and the complications of adding more heuristics–for emerging new media scholarly conventions that can be of use to tenure and promotion stakeholders.
co-presenters
- Catherine Braun, The Ohio State University-Marion
- Virginia Kuhn, Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California
attendance
30ish people?
accompanying materials
C&W 2008 PowerPoint presentation with presenters notes
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