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Friday, October 30th, 2009

“CELJ Subcommittee on E-Journal Guidelines”

committee
Member. (2008-present). Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Also: Member (2008). Subcommittee on E-Journal Guidelines.

description
This subcommittee of the CELJ was tasked with writing a set of guidelines on best practices for electronic journal editors. I was one of three e-journal editors (of 12 editors) who served. I participated heavily in the writing and revision of the document, including changing early versions that addressed multiple audiences with incorrect information (i.e., trying to appeal to authors and administrators through an historical overview of the move from print to digital publishing; suggesting that publishing online was “quicker and cheaper” than print, which is not usually true, etc.). The sections that I worked on most closely include “Mission Statement, Submission Guidelines, and Timely Review,” “Style,” “Web Design,” “Accessibility,” “Availability,” and the reference list.

accompanying materials

Best Practices for Online Journal Editors (pdf)

see also

cross-listing under Technical Reports

Tags: cross-listed, member, national service

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“B-Movie Virgin Sacrifice: Digital Scholarship in a Print-Tenure World”

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, March 12). B-Movie virgin sacrifice: Digital scholarship in a print-tenure world. Conference on College Composition & Communication, San Francisco, CA.

abstract
In this presentation, I respond to pressures that tenure and promotion evaluators do not know how to read digital scholarship (MLA “Evaluating Scholarship” Report, 2006) and do not value the peer-review system used to evaluate digital scholarship (Ball, 2008; Jenson & Olson, 2009). Such devaluation affects the choices that tenure-track scholars make regarding in what media they can and should produce their scholarship (Anderson et al, 2006), which leads to a cycle of non-production and continued non-evaluation of new media. To save hirself from the print-tenure volcano, Speaker 2 foregrounds production as an analytical method by screening a video tutorial composed to help evaluators read new media scholarship.

accompanying materials

video (cross-listed in Research Designs)

Tags: cross-listed, professional convention, session

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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

“Sound in/as Compositional Space” [Video]

citation
Designer/Producer. (2006). Sound in/as compositional space [Video + website]. Computers and Composition Online. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/sound

abstract
I designed this website and introductory video for the Sound special issue in C&C Online, which I guest-edited (with Byron Hawk). The video is a 2-minute mash-up/remix of the webtexts contained in the special issue and serves as our “letter from the guest editors” in a multimedia format. (Note: The video is hosted on my server because of space issues on the C&C Online server.)

accompanying materials

website
direct link to the video introduction (38mb .mov) [cross-listed in editorial columns]

see also

C&C [print] special issue on sound (under edited journals)
C&C Online special issue on sound (under edited journals)

Tags: cross-listed, DV, editorial column, multimedia, online, open-access, published, webtext

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Monday, October 2nd, 2006

“sound+composition+space”

citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Hawk, Byron. (2006). sound+composition+space [Video]. C&C Online. [Special issue: Sound]. http://ceball.com/other/cconline/sound/intro1.mov

abstract
This mash-up of video and audio pieces serves as an introduction to the special issue on sound. Like a traditional “letter from the guest editors,” in which editors contextualize and provide abtracts of the articles in a special issue, this mash-up provides “abstracts” of video and audio that are included in the authors’ texts, thereby contextualizing them by juxtaposing the multiple modes of communication in one text. By splicing samples together (a la the hip hop tradition) from the 14 authors’ pieces, this introduction enacts the performative, aesthetic qualities that the authors articulate are necessary to composition studies in the 21st century. From visual and aural noise at the beginning of the intro, the editors move into an argument for including sound as part of digital writing’s compositional space — that sampling, voiceovers, cut-ups, and other oral/aural considerations can take us into what happens next in writing studies. (Note: Video hosted on my website due to space limitations on C&C Online server.)