What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media
Forum on innovative and experimental dissertation formats
Friday, October 10, 2014 · 4 - 5:30 PM
Off Campus
Chair: Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Director, Futures Initiative and HASTAC@CUNY
Panelists:
Jade E. Davis, Communications, University of North Carolina
Dwayne Dixon, Anthropology, Duke University
Gregory T. Donovan, Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
Amanda Licastro, English, Graduate Center, CUNY
Nick Sousanis, Teachers College, Columbia University
This Forum showcases recent and current doctoral students whose dissertations exemplify innovative, experimental formats--Scalar, video, websites, comics, multimedia inter actives. The Forum is co-sponsored by the Futures Initiative, HASTAC@CUNY, CUNY DHI (CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative), as well as by distance partners: the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University, HASTAC Scholars (an international graduate student network), and the online journal Hybrid Pedagogy, and a growing list of programs at the GC and beyond.
The event will be webcast and live tweeted by Futures Initiative and CUNY DHI fellows who will leading collaboration on an open public Google Doc designed to record, celebrate, and model successful institutional change.
Livestreamed from: http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live
Twitter Hashtag: #remixthediss | Follow on Twitter: http://bit.ly/remixthediss-twitter
What is a Dissertation? (Public Google Doc): http://bit.ly/remixthediss-models
Think-Pair-Share Activity (Public Google Doc): http://bit.ly/remixthediss-questions
TAGSExplorer Hashtag Archive: http://bit.ly/remixthediss-twittermap