Donovan (2013)

Author

Donovan, G.T.

Year

2013

Title

MyDigitalFootprint.ORG: Young People and the Proprietary Ecology of Everyday Data

University

City University of New York

Discipline (uncoded)

Psychology

Macrostructure

Traditional-Simple

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Linguistic & Textual form, modality

Description and other notes

Digital dissertation with website. Methods in centre, where’d you expect it if you were looking at a traditional simple dissertation (IMRD). Findings are interspersed throughout entire dissertation. No conclusion to speak of in a typical sense. Not sure what macrostructure this would this be. Facilitated a participatory, collaborative research and design process with youth. Written component and institutional copy serves as a report on and record of this process. The website indicates that there is a downloadable PDf of the institutional dissertation, which gives me the impression that the written component is the dissertation. E.g.,  Header says Dissertation. The title of Donovan’s dissertation follows. Then there is Donovan’s name, as author. Below this is smaller text in italics that contains the conventional “submitted to… in partial fulfillment of” wording. The Abstract appears below this line, as text embedded on the page. Beside the abstract is an icon of a footprint that also looks like a question mark, with a caption that reads “Download PDF.” Clicking on these words initiates a download sequence and the same version of Donovan’s dissertation that I found using Proquest appears. Other: Website “serves as a digital archive of the dissertation project and its public defense” (homepage).Website positions the dissertation as but one publication resulting from the project (“Project Publications” page: https://mydigitalfootprint.org/publications/). Link to dissertation website: https://mydigitalfootprint.org/dissertation/

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

Connected. The unconventional components are positioned as inextricable from the conventional components (and vice versa).

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

Intermingled. There is a sense of interdependence between the atypical or unconventional and written or conventional component(s) and a distinct understanding that they are a part of the same project. 

Notes/Reasoning

The research undertaken for the dissertation happened through both the unconventional and conventional components.

Discipline 2 (coded)

Psychology

Discipline Grouping (coded)

SS

Source

General database search