Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-5-2015

Subject: LCSH

Peer review, English language--Study and teaching

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

Abstract

Digital scholarly publishing is moving toward the use of commenting features, which allow readers to contribute to the knowledge production of the publication and establish a community of readers within a digital text. In this article, I use theories of interactivity in order to articulate some of the potentials as well as challenges that are inherent in using commenting features within digital scholarship. In using interactivity as the main theory through which scholars understand their decisions about commenting functions, this article argues, digital scholars will better be able to frame the interactions that can occur among readers and the author within the online scholarship.

Comments

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Sheffield, J. P. (2015). Digital Scholarship and Interactivity: A Study of Commenting Features in Networked Books. Computers and Composition: An International Journal, 37, 166-181, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2015.06.010. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the CC/BY/NC/ND license.

DOI

10.1016/j.compcom.2015.06.010

Publisher Citation

Sheffield, J. P. (2015). Digital Scholarship and Interactivity: A Study of Commenting Features in Networked Books. Computers and Composition: An International Journal, 37, 166-181. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-composition/

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