Cultivating ecologies for digital media work : the case of English studies / Catherine C. Braun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braun, Catherine C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Computer-assisted instruction.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Report writing--Computer-assisted instruction.

Report writing.

Report writing--Study and teaching.

Electronic portfolios in education.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Hypertext systems.

Physical Description:

xii, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2014]

Summary:

The onslaught of the digital age has rapidly redefined the parameters of virtually every aspect of daily life, and the world of academic scholarship is no exception. In English departments across American institutions of higher education, faculty members face an uphill battle in the struggle for professional recognition of their digital works. In Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work, author Catherine C. Braun calls for a shift in thinking about the professional methods and digital goals of the English studies discipline and its central texts. Brauh's in-depth study documents English professors and the challenges they face in both career and classroom as they attempt to gain appropriate value for digital teaching and creation within their field, departments, and institutions. In addition, she calls for crucial changes in higher-education institutional procedures themselves, including new methods of evaluating digital scholarship on an even playing field with other forms of work during the processes for promotion and tenure. Cultivating Ecologies for Digital Media Work is the first volume: to offer a specific examination of the digital shift's impact on English studies and provides the scaffold upon which productive conversations about the future of the field and digital pedagogy can he built. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cultivating Digital Media Work in English Studies: Negotiating Disciplinary Questions

Situating Digital Media Teaching: Challenging the Hierarchy of Signs

Scholarship through a New Lens: Digital Production and New Models of Evaluation

Professional Development in/with Digital Media: Sustaining a Technological Ecology

Conclusion: The Future of Digital Media and/in English Studies: Models of Practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809332960

0809332965

OCLC:

827841502