functionality, materiality, commodification
DESCRIPTION
Plenary presented by Dr. Cheryl E. Ball at the Thomas R. Watson conference on Rhetoric and Composition, October 2008.TRANSCRIPT
Function, Commodity, Materiality
Narrating the Intellectual Labor of The New Work of Scholarship
Digital Tenure Portfolio
o Which software to use?o How to design it? o Why to design it?o Which identities should I perform? o How can I make it useful to others?o How do I help readers read/value
born-digital work?
Connecting Discussions
N. Katherine Hayles:
Size of texts --> reading time --> heft/scope of project
Connecting Discussions
Matthew Kirschenbaum:
Writers’ material artifacts are increasingly digital, and so our ways of studying them will change.
Connecting Discussions
(my read of) Janet Murray:
Why read kaleidoscopic texts when we can read the criticism?
Connecting Discussions
Richard Miller & Paul Hammond:
What value does the university bring to digital communication?
Connecting Discussions
Anne Wysocki:
How do we recognize materiality and bodies so that we can value
craft and labor?
Connecting Discussions
Lev Manovich:
Texts are no longer fixed/static, but are performances experienced through software.
Relational Issues
o Reading Times o Scopeo Value-Addedo Materialityo Crafto Laboro Performance
Digital Scholarship
A Possible 3D Axis to Map, Describe, and Value Digital Scholarship
A Short Example
How do we make the work we do visible to (tenure) readers?
Narrating Our Labor
Electronic Literature Collection usesS, M, L, XL
“The designations reflect both the length of a work and the difficulties it offers for reading and comprehension.”
Size of Digital Works
Size of Digital Works
o Count project from start to finisho What’s considered labor?o What’s left out of your count?
Size of Digital Works
Digital Scholarship
A Possible 3D Axis to Map, Describe, and Value Digital Scholarship
