207 Notes Introduction: Institutional Frameworks and “the Risky Thing” of Digital Scholarship and Teaching 1. At this time, attempting to publish a traditional printed book might be at least as risky as composing a digital project. If they are not going under, university presses are publishing fewer and fewer books, especially in the humanities. English departments are going to have to seriously rethink the monograph requirement, or they risk losing a great many talented scholars because of market factors that have nothing to do with the scholarly worth of those faculty members’ work. Conversations about digital media works can help lead departments to think about and discuss the underlying issue of scholarly values in ways that can help us imagine a definition of scholarship that is not bound to a single, no longer sustainable form. 1. Cultivating Digital Media Work in English Studies: Negotiating Disciplinary Questions 1. See Selfe; Tyner; Wysocki; Wysocki, Johnson-Eilola, Selfe, and Sirc; Yagelski; and Yancey, “Made Not Only in Words.” 2. Ethnography is a method that involves a researcher’s spending time in “the field,” observing a community or culture, and gathering artifacts and interviews in order to understand how the community or culture understands itself. I say my approach is semi-ethnographic because, although I spent time observing individuals ’ classes and interviewing them, I did not observe faculty and graduate students in the departments I visited interacting with each other. My main goal, however, was to see these departments as communities/cultures and to study how members of these departments understand the inner workings of their departments. 3. For this terminology, I am grateful to the graduate program and policy committee of the English department at the Ohio State University, who referred to English as a “set of inter-disciplines” in an internal document. 4. Disciplinary identities can be multiple, depending on the rhetorical situation. For instance, a faculty member in rhetoric and composition, with a specialty in computers and composition, who works in an English department might identify primarily as an English professor at university functions but as a compositionist at certain conferences and as a digital media specialist in another context. 5. Of course, these are not the only realms of academic work, and in actual practice these realms overlap. However, categorizing academic work in this way not only helps to make sense of the data but also corresponds well (though not completely) to the classification system most American colleges and universities use to evaluate academic work for tenure and promotion. NOTES 208 2. Situating Digital Media Teaching: Challenging the “Hierarchy of Signs” 1. The university requires all undergraduate students to complete two writing courses—a first-year writing class and a second-year writing class. The first-year writing program is administered by the parallel cultures department and has a TA training course associated with it, as well as an official curriculum. The second -level writing program is a Writing Across the Curriculum initiative, and many departments across the university offer variations. The required common theme is “the American experience,” and the WAC program (a college-level administrative unit) sponsors nonrequired professional development opportunities for instructors, most of whom are graduate students. 2. See Steven Heller, “Designing Hate,” Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography , ed. Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs (New York: Allworth Press, 2001), 42–44. 3. Although literature faculty are not located in the integrated literacies department , that department does include faculty in fields like cultural studies, who are as concerned with reading and texts as Scholes argues literature faculty are. 3. Scholarship through a New Lens: Digital Production and New Models of Evaluation 1. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is one of the premier online journals in Cosmo’s field. Computers and Composition is one of the leading print journals in Cosmo’s field. 2. I have omitted the brief rationale that accompanies each question in the “MLA Evaluation Wiki.” 3. The department’s policy was still in draft form when I gathered my data; however, the department chair and Ava were confident that the draft would be ratified by the department with few, if any, changes. 4. The Wayback Machine, now called the Internet Archive (http://web.archive. org), began archiving web pages in 1996 and provides a way for users to find copies of websites that have become defunct. 4. Professional Development in/with Digital Media: Sustaining a Technological Ecology 1. Unfortunately, because the video used the actual theme song from...