Overview
- Puts forth an idea of what the digital move suggests for the future of academic publications
- Addresses how do academic publications' affiliated media (e.g., social media accounts, blogs, etc.) support and reflect their content and overall intent
- Interrogates the current state of writing center studies, especially as exemplified in the tension(s) between print and digital modes of distribution
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
The disciplinary triad of open-access, multimodality, and writing center studies presents a timely, critical lens for discussing academic publishing in a moment of crucibilic change, where rapid technological advancements force scholars and institutions to question what is produced and “counts” as academic writing.
Using historiographic, quantitative, and qualitative analysis, Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies sees writing center scholarship as a microcosm of many of the larger issues at play in the contemporary academic publishing landscape. This case study approach reveals the complex, imbricated ways that questions about publishing manifest both within the content of journals, and as related to academics’ perceptions as signifiers of disciplinary visibility, identity, and transformation.
More than just reaffirming the conventional wisdom about these changes in publishing—that these shifts are happening and we do not always know how to pinpoint them—Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies suggests that scholars in all fields, compositionists, and writing center practitioners be conscious of the ways they are complicit in maintaining barriers to accessibility and innovation.
Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elisabeth H. Buck is Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Writing and Reading Center at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies
Authors: Elisabeth H. Buck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69505-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69504-4Published: 04 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88789-0Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69505-1Published: 16 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 148
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Digital/New Media, Digital Humanities, Media and Communication, Higher Education, Technology and Digital Education