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Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
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...
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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. Braun's in-depth study documents English pr
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Institutional Frameworks and "the Risky Thing" of Digital Scholarship and Teaching; 1. Cultivating Digital Media Work in English Studies: Negotiating Disciplinary Questions; 2. Situating Digital Media Teaching: Challenging the "Hierarchy of Signs"; 3. Scholarship through a New Lens: Digital Production and New Models of Evaluation; 4. Professional Development in/with Digital Media: Sustaining a Technological Ecology; Conclusion: The Future of Digital Media and/in English Studies-Models of Practice; Notes
