Borgo Ton (2019)

Author

Ton, Mary Elizabeth Borgo

Year

2019

Title

Shining Lights: Magic Lanterns and the Missionary Movement, 1839—1868

University

Indiana University

Discipline (uncoded)

English

Macrostructure

Unclear

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Linguistic and textual forms, modality, practice, content.

Description and other notes

Digital dissertation using Scalar. Case studies focused on ‘magic lantern shows.’ Website includes mix of long-form prose, models of magic lanterns, recordings of shows, and animated images of slides. Aims to reconstruct the experience of magic lantern shows based on archival material. Final chapter of the digital dissertation is a reflection on the methods that were drawn on and to show how shifting to a digital form of the dissertation allowed the author to make new and different connections. Describes possibilities for scholarly communication. Institutional copy of the dissertation is only a ‘partially remediated’ version of the website. The title or landing page of the website provides one possible path readers can take if they are unused to the format of the digital dissertation.  This is a button labelled “How to Navigate this Dissertation” which, when clicked, brings the reader to a page that offers a “quick tour of the website’s key features.” This dissertation reframes conversations about the screen’s technological history through its method as well as its content.” Link to website: http://scalar.maryborgoton.com/shininglights/media-archaeology?path=what-is-shining-lights

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Separate. Unconventional component positioned as separate from the institutional copy of the dissertation.

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Parallel. Written component mainly functions as the institutional copy (i.e., a record) of the website and is not the dissertation.

Notes/Reasoning

Dissertation was submitted to the committee and defended as a website. Institutional component functions as a partial remediation of the prose from the website. The author encourages the reader to explore the dissertation’s content in this digital-born form. It was submitted in accordance with the University Graduate School’s Guidelines.

Discipline 2 (coded)

English

Discipline Grouping (coded)

HUM

Source

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