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The Diffusion Of New Media Scholarship: Power, Innovation, And Resistance In Academe, Judith R. Edminster
The Diffusion Of New Media Scholarship: Power, Innovation, And Resistance In Academe, Judith R. Edminster
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are an evolving genre of graduate student research that is gaining widespread acceptance among universities in the international community. ETDs are also beginning to diffuse slowly among American universities; however, a number of issues continue to work against more rapid adoption among intitutions in the United States. This dissertation examines ETDs as an evolving electronic research genre by (1) historicizing the situated development of its predecessor, the traditional print dissertation, in nineteenth century German and American Universities; (2) reporting on the current state of the Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations, an initiative …