Friday, February 16, 2:30-3:45 pm
Digital Research & Scholarship Commons (Strozier, lower ground level)
Digital Publishing Environments and Rigorous Peer Review
The Digital Scholars / DH Reading & Discussion Group is pleased to announce our first guest speaker of Spring 2018, Dr. Cheryl Ball, currently director of the Digital Publishing Collaborative at Wayne State University Libraries, project director for Vega, and editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Dr. Ball will ask us to consider how the relationship between “open-access,” “digital” and “publishing” can be both generative and speculative, raising questions about the affordances for academic freedom as well as the constraints for valuation of circulating, publishable objects. Ultimately, Ball will ask us to consider how the implications of this conversation might speak to three principal concerns widely shared among digital humanists: (1) the nature of online scholarly community building; (2) the accessibility of research infrastructures; and (3) the need to maintain rigorous peer review in an open-commenting environment.
All are welcome, regardless of mindset or expertise, and all are welcome to read or peruse the following articles and white papers:
- Ansolabehere, Karina; Ball, Cheryl [lead author]; Devare, Medha; Guidotti, Tee; Priedhorsky, Bill; van der Stelt, Wim; Taylor, Mike; Veldsman, Susan; & Willinsky, John. (2016). The moral dimensions of open [access/scholarship/data]. Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, Vol. 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.13021/G8SW2G
- Ball, Cheryl E. (2017). Building a Scholarly Multimedia Publishing Infrastructure. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 48(2): 99-115. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.48.2.99 [access at FSU]
- Ball, Cheryl E., & Eyman, Douglas. (2015). Editorial workflows for multimedia-rich scholarship. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 18(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.406
- Ball, Cheryl E. (2013, January 28). The kairotic nature of online scholarly community building. mediaCommons: a digital scholarly network. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/question/how-do-we-build-digital-cohorts-and-academic-communities/response/kairotic- nature-online-sc
- Ball, Cheryl E. (2012). Assessing scholarly multimedia: A rhetorical genre studies approach. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21 [Special issue: Making the implicit explicit in assessing multimodal composition], 61–77. http://ceball.com/2011/11/26/assessing-scholarly-multimedia/
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, & Santo, Avi. (2012). Open Review: A Study of Contexts and Practices [white paper]. https://mellon.org/media/filer_public/20/ff/20ff03e0-17b0-465b-ae82-1ed7c8cef362/mediacommons-open-review-white-paper-final.pdf
We hope you can join us,
-TSG
