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What ScholarshipMakes

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The multimodal humanistbrings together

databases, scholarly tools, networked writing, andpeer-to-peer commentary while also leveraging thepotential ofvisual and aural (and interactive) mediathat so dominate contemporary life She aims toproduce work that reconfigures the relationshipsamong author, reader, and technology whileinvestigating the computer [or anothertechnological tool] simultaneously as a platform, amedium, and a visualization device. She thinks

carefully about the relationship of form to content,expression to idea

(Tara McPherson, Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Cinema Journal48:2 (Winter 2009): 120).

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hands-on engagement with digital formsreorients the scholarly imagination, not because thetools are cool or new (even if they are) or becausethe audience for our work might be expanded (evenif it is), but because scholars come to realize thatthey understand their arguments and their objects

of study differently, even better, when theyapproach them through multiple modalities andemergent and interconnected forms of literacy. Theability to deploy new experiential, emotional and

even tactile aspects of argument and expression canopen up fresh avenues of inquiry and research

(McPherson 121)

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Practice / Production is researchif and only if it is (1) a systematic investigation, (2)conducted intentionally, (3) to acquire new knowledge,understanding, insights, etc., (4) justified, and (5)

communicated, (6) about a subject

research is purposive, inquisitive (seeking to acquire newknowledge), informed, methodical, and communicable

(Stephen A. R. Scrivener, The Roles of Art and Design Process and Object In Research In Nithikul Nimkulrat & TimORiley, Eds., Reflections and Connections: On the Relationship Between Creative Production and Academic Research(Helsinki:University of Art and Design, 2009):71)


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http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2010/08/11/how-to-evaluate-multimodal-work/


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http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2012/08/28/evaluating-multimodal-work-revisited/


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http://www.wordsinspace.net/urban-media-archaeology/2010-fall/


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Evaluation Stage 3


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Research/informationorganization

Writing/essayistic

Visualization/

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Your intro text offers a really nice crystallization of your largergoals. It attempts to tellus what your map showand it articulatelyidentifies the conceptual concerns that are at the core of your

project, i.e., that radio takes places. There are some reallyintriguing issues you raise in this intro text that, obviously becauseof time and technical limitations, you werent able to fully develop(e.g., imagined maps). But if what you said in your last ProcessBlog is truethat you want to continue your work on URTId

love to see some of these other dimensions of your project fleshedout!

Your map does a great job of presenting the historical part of yourargument. As I said in class yesterday, I think your tagging system is

BRILLIANT. I regret that we werent able to develop URT to apoint where it could support a timeline of some sortbut youdevised a fantastic work-around: date tags! This was a really creative,and effective, work-around.

Evaluation Stage 5:

Feedback from Me


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James Yang via The Chronicle:http://bit.ly/jkq0GW

Evaluation Stage 6:

Peer Review


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Via http://thetheory.co.uk/


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Concept + Content Content-/ Concept-Driven Design +

Technique

Documentation + Transparent,Collaborative Development

Academic Integrity + Openness Review + Critique


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Assess the Concept +Content and Concept-Content-Driven Design +

Technique of a fewsample DH projects andreverse-engineer thattheories that mightve

informed their creationVia Obscure Associate on Flickr: http://bit.ly/Tn9WNb


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