Major Speeches Category
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, Dec. 2). The contestation of multimodality in new media scholarship. Visual Culture Colloquium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
poster for talk, designed by Michele Melanie
abstract
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy has been publishing digital media scholarship since 1996, and each new medium and digital technology offers authors changing ways that they can make meaning through visual, aural, linguistic, and other modes of communication. As editor of Kairos, it is my responsibility to understand the often cutting-edge and genre-bending moves authors make in their submissions to this rhetoric and composition journal. I will present a few examples of submissions (historical and recent) that required the staff and editorial board members to re-negotiate the ever-changing boundaries between ‘typical’ digital scholarship and “new media scholarship,” exemplified by the relationship between the visual and the linguistic (i.e., written).
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, November 18). The state of multimodal composition pedagogies. Text, Image, Networks, & Culture Group, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
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As the English department at VCU introduced a new, transdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text, I was invited to present results from my recently completed national survey of multimodal teacher-scholars.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, February 7). New medi-ack!: Considering technology-rich texts in a literature/writing curriculum. Kent State University, Kent, OH.
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In two lecture-workshops (one for literature faculty and one for composition faculty), I presented an overview of the history of multimodality in English studies and how multimodal texts are assigned, composed, and analyzed/assessed in the various disciplines. This lecture was part of a year-long speaker series intended to support Kent State’s initiative to introduce multimodal composition in all of its first-year writing classes.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Selfe, Cynthia; Kemp, Fred; Inman, James, & Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, February 18). What defines computers and writing as a discipline? Computers & Writing Online Conference.
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In a roundtable keynote, presented in a synchronous MOO (multi-user, object-oriented chat/game platform), the four presenters address multi-layered questions: Is Computers & Writing truly a discipline? What distinguishes it from the related disciplines of Composition & Rhetoric or Technical Communication? What is the research and theory that inform its teaching and practice? The panelists take questions from the audience as well.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, January 25). What’s the point of new media? Evaluating transitional, digital scholarship. Digital Literacies Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
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In this presentation, I address the recent MLA Task Force report, Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006), which acknowledges an increasing need for thoughtful new strategies of evaluating digital scholarship in departments of English. I look at a contemporary heuristic (Warner, 2007) for reading and evaluating “webtexts” (texts that convey most of their meaning through text and hyperlinks) and compare them to “new media texts” that use multimodal elements to enact and convey meaning. The presentation is exploratory–just like the new media texts that it investigates–and discussion/interaction from the audience is encouraged.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 18). Narrating the intellectual labor of the new work of scholarship. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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Each presenter (Ball with Andrea Lunsford, Jonathan Alexander, Scott DeWitt, Charles Kostelnick, Bump Halbritter, & Cynthia Selfe) had 10 minutes to “pitch” their concepts for what constitutes the ‘new work’ of composing. As this was the last plenary session of the conference, Ball served to sum up the other plenary sessions into major threads, focusing on how each previous presenter addressed (explicitly or implicitly) the intellectual labor of digital scholarship.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, November 10). Scholarship, art, or fun?!: Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital publications. Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH.
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In this presentation, I discuss the contexts and definitions of digital scholarship, and ask the audience about their assumptions of such work. Then, using a sample scholarly webtext, ask the audience to help evaluate it.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, April 2). Doing your own P.R.: Developing online faculty and staff portfolios to disseminate teaching, research, and service activity. The University of Findlay, Findlay, OH.
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Cheryl E. Ball will discuss the changing landscape of scholarship in the digital humanities, including examining types of digital scholarship that will change the way tenure and promotion reviews happen at universities. As part of this discussion, particular attention will be given to disseminating one’s teaching, research/creative activities, and service through an electronic portfolio.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E.; Gossett, Kathie; Kalmbach, Jim; Losh, Liz; Lunsford, Karen; Reed, Scott; & Salvo, Michael. (2009, June 21). Town hall: Ubiquitous and sustainable computing: @ School @ Work @ Play. Computers & Writing, University of California–Davis.
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A roundtable discussion from leaders in the field of digital writing studies about how our work and play can be both ubiquitous and sustainable. My focus was on issues in publishing digital scholarship.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, October 13). The aesthetics of editing digital media scholarship: A look at Kairos. Online Research Mediation & the Arts Seminar. Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
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I will present a short history and overview of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, which has been publishing digital media texts since 1996. I will discuss how Kairos editors, board members, and authors negotiate the journal’s ever-changing boundaries between ‘typical’ print and ‘typical’ digital scholarship (in digital writing studies) as exemplified in the complicated relationship between aesthetics and rhetorics in a recent set of creative submissions, with an in-depth look at one submission in particular.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E., & Blair, Kristine. (2009, October 23). Publishing 2.0: New rules for new scholars. English Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
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In a shared speaker-series lecture, Ball & Blair discuss the state of digital scholarship, roles of peer-review and mentoring, issues in assessing and evaluating digital scholarship for tenure and promotion purposes, and ways to gain professional development through digital media for rising, junior, and senior scholars in English studies. After the talk, Ball & Blair met individually with graduate students for a two-hour Q&A session.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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Ball, Cheryl E, & Blair, Kristine. (2008, April 2). Digital scholarship and the future of composition studies: A call to action. Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition & Communication. New Orleans, LA.
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The Research Network Forum (RNF) is a pre-conference all-day workshop for graduate students and junior scholars who are mentored on current research projects by senior scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition. During this shared plenary talk, Kris Blair (editor of Computers and Composition Online) spoke about professional development and Preparing Future Faculty in regards to the need to include digital media in graduate program curricula, including encouraging students to publish digital scholarship. I followed Blair and spoke about the current state of digital scholarship in the humanities, summing up with tips for graduate students, junior faculty, and senior faculty about publishing (and supporting the “counting” of) digital scholarship in their respective departments.
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- RNF talk (mp3 audio file of my portion of talk)
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, February 1). What’s the point of new media? Evaluating transitional, digital scholarship. English Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
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Professor Ball will speak on “What’s the Point of New Media? Evaluating Transitional, Digital Scholarship.” In this presentation, she will address the recent MLA Task Force report, Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006), which acknowledges an increasing need for thoughtful new strategies of evaluating digital scholarship in departments of English. Professor Ball will look at a contemporary heuristic (Warner, 2007) for reading and evaluating “webtexts” (texts that convey most of their meaning through text and hyperlinks) and compare them to “new media texts” that use multimodal elements to enact and convey meaning. This talk will be especially relevant for colleagues who might be involved in reading and evaluating new media texts during tenure and promotion cases. The presentation will be exploratory–just like the new media texts that it investigates–and discussion/interaction from the audience will be encouraged.
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* Note: The heuristic comes from Allison Brovey Warner’s (2007) dissertation entitled, Assessing the Scholarly Value of Online Texts (U of Maryland).
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, March 31). Composing from the underground: Combining academic and aesthetic practices in new media. Jacobson Symposium in Teaching with Technology. Creighton University, Omaha, NE.
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In this keynote, I draw on Joe Marshall Hardin’s (2001) descriptions from Opening Spaces on English studies and aestheticism and the binaries between high and low art cultures, as represented by literature and composition studies. In speaking about aesthetic versus academic literacies, I discuss a sample new media text that a student produced (Robert Watkins’ “Words are the Ultimate Abstraction”) and show how new media production in our classes can bridge the gap between high and low literacies.
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