Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » doctoral 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.
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Advisor. Kairos editing internship, Illinois State University.

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PhD students at Illinois State (and a Masters student at Utah State) have the occasional opportunity to be a research assistant for the journal I edit, Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. Depending on the journal’s needs at the time, students’ technical and theoretical skills, as well as how long they will be assigned to the journal based on departmental teaching needs, students are guided to perform different projects from copy- and design-editing to non-production projects such as designing promotional materials. Depending on the project, I create training documents or verbally guide students through the process.

students/projects

  • Kyle Jensen (Spring 2009), created promotional website for editorial projects, including Kairos, in department
  • Devon Fitzgerald (Spring 2008), worked on copy- and design-editing in production cycle
  • Susan Baxter (2004-06: volunteer), compiled a database-ready bibliography of citation contents for Kairos‘s first ten years of publication

accompanying materials

  • none available
]]> http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/kairos-editing-internship/feed/ 0 Halle: “Digital Media Scholarship in the Humanities” http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/halle-%e2%80%9cdigital-media-scholarship-in-the-humanities%e2%80%9d/ http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/halle-%e2%80%9cdigital-media-scholarship-in-the-humanities%e2%80%9d/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:09:39 +0000 cball http://www.ceball.com/tenure/?p=789 citation
Steve Halle. (2009, Fall). Digital Media Scholarship in the Humanities. Illinois State University.

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PhD student in English studies, Steve Halle, sat in on my English 239: Multimodal Composition class to work on an independent digital scholarship project. Graduate students had advanced readings and worked individually but otherwise contributed to class discussions and followed the undergraduate syllabus.

accompanying materials

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Alan Williams. (2009, Fall). Digital Media Scholarship in the Humanities. Illinois State University.

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PhD student in English studies, Alan Williams, sat in on my English 239: Multimodal Composition class to work on an independent digital scholarship project. Graduate students had advanced readings and worked individually but otherwise contributed to class discussions and followed the undergraduate syllabus.

accompanying materials

]]> http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/williams-digital-media-scholarship-in-the-humanities/feed/ 0 Lamanna: “Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices” http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/lamanna-%e2%80%9cdisciplining-identities-feminism-new-media-and-21st-century-research-practices%e2%80%9d/ http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2009/10/30/lamanna-%e2%80%9cdisciplining-identities-feminism-new-media-and-21st-century-research-practices%e2%80%9d/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:09:55 +0000 cball http://www.ceball.com/tenure/?p=763 citation
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.

accompanying materials

  • none
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