The Sage handbook of digital dissertations and theses. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Digital dissertations and theses
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Andrews [and four others].
• Other Names: Andrews, Richard, 1948-
• Contents: Cover; Contents; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; SECTION 1: Institutional Perspectives; 1 -- The Thesis: Texts and Machines; 2 -- New Forms of Dissertation; 3 -- The Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools; 4 -- Digital Literacies for the Research Institution; SECTION 2: Student Perspectives; 5 -- Media Systems, Multimodality and Posthumanism; 6 -- Reframing the Performing Arts; 7 -- Complexity Theory; 8 -- Re-imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis; 9 -- Traditional Theses and Multimodal Communication; SECTION 3: Ethical and Intercultural Issues. 10 -- Ethics and Representation11 -- Copyright Management Approaches; 12 -- Understanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research; 13 -- The Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research; SECTION 4: Multimodality, Including the Representation and Presentation of Theses and Dissertations; 14 -- Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Refl ecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era; 15 -- Practice-as-Research in Music Performance; 16 -- Translating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (re)presentation; 17 -- Disciplinary 'Specifi city'and the Digital Submission. 18 -- Digits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and its Modes of ReproductionSECTION 5: Archiving, Storage and Accessibility in the Digital Age; 19 -- The Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses; 20 -- The Changing Role of Library and Information Services; 21 -- Animating the Archive; 22 -- Establishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs; SECTION 6: Research Methods; 23 -- A Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times; 24 -- How Changes in Representation can Affect Meaning; 25 -- Researching Adolescents' Literacies Multimodally. 26 -- Implications for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs27 -- UNCAGED Boxed-up; Index.
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 530 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 378.242; Electronic dissertations; Dissertations, Academic; EDUCATION -- Higher; Dissertations, Academic; Electronic dissertations; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446265581; 1446265587; 9781446201039; 1446201031
• Related ISBNs: 9780857027399; 0857027395
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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