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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 17). Designing digital scholarship (and having it count): A case built on three perspectives. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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In this panel session, three presenters spoke to digital projects they had undertaken (a digital archive, a wiktionary, and a scholarly webtext published in Kairos), discussing compositional, revision, and “counting” issues relating to tenure and promotion. I responded to the panelists based on my experience as editor of Kairos, as a junior faculty member using a lot of digital scholarship in my tenure case, and as a promoter/user of digital portfolios to make tenure arguments.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May 18). How to get published in an online journal: An editors’ roundtable. Computers and Writing, Detroit, MI.
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This roundtable/mentoring session offered audience members a chance to hear from online journal editors what distinguishes each of their publications from the other as well as basic principles for querying and submitting to online journals in rhetoric and composition. Time was left for each journal editor to meet in small groups with interested authors for a Q&A.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, May 27). Editing scholarship in a new media age. Computers & Writing, Lubbock, TX.
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In this panel presentation, four presenters (editors of Kairos or authors for Kairos’s 10th anniversary issue) discuss the history and trajectory of digital writing studies’ longest-running online journal. I focused on the transitions the journal underwent as it progressed into its 11th year of publication.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, May 26). First year out: Time- and face-management tips for junior faculty members. Computers & Writing, Lubbock, TX.
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In this session, several newly hired tenure-track faculty members present advice, suggestions, and tips for managing the transition to their schools. I focused on how to balance professional and personal roles through time-management practices and on how to make sure your new colleagues get to know you, through what I called “face-management” practices.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, March 23). Revisiting the usefulness of current multimodal and new media theories. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Chicago, IL.
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In this presentation, I discussed two sets of rubrics posited by new media scholars, Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen in their book Multimodal Discourse and Lev Manovich in his book A Language of New Media. I argue that these rubrics are only so useful for rhetoric and composition scholars because they don’t focus on rhetorical ways of understanding digital media texts.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, June 17). Hackers, schmoozers, & wonder: Rhetoric, technology, & aesthetics in new media spaces. Computers & Writing, Palo Alto, CA.
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In this session, I presented on a “rhetoric of wow,” drawing on Geoffrey Sirc’s (2001) notion of a Happenings pedagogy and Philip Fisher’s (2003) poetics of wonder and thought. I apply that rhetoric to a student-produced video poem, to offer the audience a method of analysis/assessment of digital media texts.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Ball, Cheryl E. (2005, March 19). Throwing teachers over the top rope: The status of new media pedagogy in composition studies. Conference on College Composition & Communication, San Francisco, CA.
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Presenters in this session reported on the research questions, methodologies, and initial results from a CCCC Research Survey on multimodal composition.
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
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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.
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In this presentation, I 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.
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