[Air-L] Digital Scholarship: Invitation to my Blogged Doctoral Exam

[Mark Chen]

Hooray UW represent!

You may be interested Jason that I also attempted to make academia more
transparent when I started blogging as a new grad student, too. I posted my
exam questions and answers when I took them in 2007. (archived at the
bottom of this page: http://markdangerchen.net/papers/)

When I did my dissertation defense, I recorded it and uploaded them to
YouTube, too, and I afaik, I was the second person at UW to put a CC
license on the dissertation.

Huge props to you!

mark



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, jason c young <youngjc2 at uw.edu> wrote:

> Dear Air-L Members,
>
> First, let me introduce myself to the wider community, since this is my
> first post here... my name is Jason Young, and I am currently a graduate
> student in Geography at the University of Washington. While I am still in
> the beginning stages of my PhD program, I am planning to use my doctoral
> research to explore the implications of digital technologies for Inuit as
> they engage in politics of environmentalism in the Arctic.
>
> I am writing to the listserv because I would like to invite you all to
> participate in a digital, scholarly experiment that I started last week. I
> have become increasingly interested in leveraging digital technologies to
> open up traditionally closed aspects of the graduate experience. In this
> spirit I decided to blog an aspect of my graduate work which is
> traditionally only open to the members of my doctoral community. In
> particular I blogged my Preliminary Examination this past weekend, which is
> essentially a practice version of our General or Comprehensive Exams. This
> exam is designed to explore what knowledge I currently have of relevant
> literature, in order to suggest further readings which will help me
> progress in my intellectual development.
>
> Opening the Exam process to many eyes has left me feeling a little
> vulnerable, especially since Prelims is designed to expose holes in my
> current academic knowledge. However, I am really hoping that this process
> might help me to gain access to and learn from a wide range of perspectives
> on my work, and also perhaps to provide a resource for other students as
> they go through similar exam processes. I thought Air-L might be a good
> target audience, both because you all might be interested in this type of
> digital scholarship and also because most of my scholarship has been
> limited to geographical understandings of technology. I would love
> suggestions and ideas on readings, etc., which might help me to explore the
> great work going on across other disciplines.
>
> If you are at all interested in the process, you can find more information
> here: <
>
> http://jasoncyoung.com/home/digital-experimentation-expanding-the-preliminary-examination/
> >.
> I would certainly appreciate any time you might be able to spend taking a
> look at the exam, and highly encourage commenting!
>
> Thanks so much,
> Jason
>
> PS. Apologies for any duplicate emails via cross-posting!
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-- 
Mark Chen, PhD | @mcdanger | markdangerchen.net
Indie Game Designer, Ed Tech Researcher, Consultant, Adjunct Prof at
Pepperdine, UW Bothell, and UOIT, Accidental Hero and Layabout
This was sent from a PC with a full-size keyboard; misspellings and brevity
are entirely my fault.