Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » Committees http://www.ceball.com/tenure Associate Professor of New Media Studies Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:43:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eikenes: “Navimation” (dissertation) http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/12/22/eikenes-navimation-dissertation/ http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/12/22/eikenes-navimation-dissertation/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:36:25 +0000 cball http://www.ceball.com/tenure/?p=1142 First opponent for Jon Olav Eikenes. (defended Dec. 22, 2010). “Navimation: A Socio-Cultural Exploration of Kinetic Interface Design.” Institute of Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

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As first opponent on this Norwegian disputation (completed in English), I was responsible for

  • reading a completed draft of the dissertation,
  • writing up a report outlining why (and whether) I thought it was defendable
  • working with the examination committee to create a topic for Eikenes’ “public trial” [presentation based on his dissertation]
  • articulating a set of questions to pose during his disputation [defense]
  • deciding, in consultation with the research committee, whether the candidate would pass the defense.
]]> http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/12/22/eikenes-navimation-dissertation/feed/ 0 Dimitroff: Masters Portfolio http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/dimitroff-masters-portfolio/ http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/dimitroff-masters-portfolio/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:34:16 +0000 cball http://www.ceball.com/tenure/?p=775 Co-chair, Masters portfolio committee. Daniel Dimitroff. (2010, December 2). “Digitally Situated Literacies of Storm Chasers.” Illinois State University.

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Dimitroff completed his masters portfolio, an option in the MA in Professional Writing and Rhetorics program in the English Department, by successfully defending his portfolio on December 2, 2010. His online portfolio (created as a Prezi) reflected on the visual and technical communication practices of stormchasers by analyzing stormchasing artifacts he created for school and for his hobby. Dimitroff is also a full-time technical writer.

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Chair, Masters thesis committee. Susan Baxter. (2007, July). “Online Citation and New Media Scholarship: Kairos and the Case for Online Publication.” Utah State University.

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As chair of Baxter’s Masters thesis committee, I guided her through writing an article-length thesis with an accompanying 72-page appendix that included her data. She spent a semester archiving all citations within Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and then coding them according to genre type so that she could compare the ways Kairos webtexts cited particular genres with other studies on the ways print articles cited those same (or different) genres. As of 2009, Baxter currently works full-time as a technical writer.

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Chair, Masters thesis committee. Melinda White. (2007, April). “Enlightenment Aisle Eight” [creative/multimedia]. Utah State University.

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As chair of White’s committee, I worked with colleagues on one of the department’s first creative, digital theses, “Enlightenment Aisle Eight.” White  drew on electronic literature and hypertext theory as well as creative writing to make an interactive, multimedia thesis. She also wrote an analytical essay describing the theories she used and why. After graduation, White began the interdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text where she also has served as an assistant editor to the online literary journal, Blackbird.

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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Carrie Lamanna. (2007, July). “Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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My role was to provide feedback to Lamanna during the dissertation defense, with specific attention to the relationship between her written chapters and her digital media chapters. (She was presenting some of the first all-digital chapters in a dissertation, so I was on hand to help explain their scholarly significance, if needed.) As of 2009, Lamanna is an assistant professor and Writing Center Director at Colorado State University. Her digital dissertation process opened a larger research study for her (with a colleague from UIUC, Kathie Gossett, with whom I work on Kairos) about digital dissertations in graduate schools and implementing digital media coursework into graduate curricula. They have presented at multiple conferences on this topic.

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