V. Analysis
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V. Analysis
Autoethnographic Narratives | Published Narratives | Interview Narratives
Interview Narratives
The following figures map the relationship between people as invention influences and specific changes in webtext drafts. The narratives used to generate these analyses were solicited via interviews.
Kinloch, Moss, and Richardson, "Claiming Our Place on the Flo(or)"
Descriptive Summary
A: Beverly did interviews with Cindy and Katie Comer for the DALN; she and the co-authors interviewed as a team.
- Collaborator | Give | Media
B: Cindy and Scott and Louie invited the three co-authors to submit a curated exhibit for the DALN collection
- Editor | Motivate | Total
C: Valerie had just created a digital piece with the help of an undergrad student from a student technology group, which made a webtext project possible to pursue.
- Consultant | Motivate | Code
D: The co-authors determined the themes and sections together before bringing in their digital consultant.
- Collaborator | Give | Text
E: The co-authors responded to the call and questions Cindy and Scott and Louie had written up.
F: The co-authors included video clips from interviews other than their own.
G: Angelo the designer picked out the book spine and background image.
- Consultant | Give | Splash
H: Angelo designed several drafts—first a simple streamlined one, and then one that had elements the co-authors did not want to include in the project.
- Collaborator | Re-Envision | Total
I: The co-authors decided to do an audio introduction in which they would each read a quote from Anna Jean Cooper, June Jordan, and Sojourner Truth, as well as from each other’s work.
- Collaborator | Give | Media
J: The designer included elements with moving lights that Beverly thought was nice as a design but did not match what the argument was trying to do.
- Collaborator | Re-Envision | Splash
K: The co-authors asked for the order of women on the homepage to change to match the audio intro.
- Collaborator | Suggest | Media
L: Beverly asked for a design change so that an image of a tree did not look like it was coming out of an image of a woman’s head.
- Collaborator | Suggest | Media
M: The designer added elements and features that the co-authors said did not match with their content and argument for a scholarly article
- Consultant | Re-Envision | Total
N: The designer came up with the book spine idea and scene/place, which the co-authors liked.
- Consultant | Give | Splash
O: The designer added pictures of the three historical women, which the co-authors also liked in terms of connecting their project to a legacy of black women scholars and thinkers.
- Consultant | Give | Media
P: The co-authors met with the designer to talk through their plans for an article with video essays, and when they next met he had come up with a design draft.
Q: The authors asked for and provided pictures of the book covers at the end.
- Collaborators | Give | Media
R: Beverly couldn’t remember whose idea the moving map at the end was, though it connected back to their discussions in the project
- Collaborator | Suggest | Media
S: The editors asked for transcriptions or captions in the project, which the co-authors hired someone to do.
Voss, "So my computer literacy journey..."
Descriptive Summary
A: Voss received help from an undergraduate web development expert at OSU’s Digital Union as she was working on her project.
- Consultant | Inform | Code
B: Voss receives guidance in general from her husband, a software developer.
- Consultant | Inform | Code
C: Voss worked with videos that were likely composed by students for an assignment prompt.
D: Faculty editors at Ohio State circulated a CFP for the collection.
- Editor | Motivate | Total
E: Voss developed the project initially as a project for Jonathan Buehl’s research methods class.
- Colleague | Motivate | Total
F: The editors’ feedback on Voss’s first draft indicated that this was not the kind of project they had in mind.
- Editor | Re-Envision | Total
G: The editors provided multiple rounds of feedback; the next round of feedback indicated that the project needed to have the substance and heft of an article in a print journal.
- Editor | Re-Envision | Total
H: Voss’s husband suggested she try a WYSIWYG editor called Coffee Cup.
- Consultant | Inform | Total
I: Cindy showed Voss her chapter for the project as a model and gave her the initial “skeleton” as a structure to work with.
J: The student from the Digital Union had a consultation with Voss.
- Consultant | Inform | Code
K: The editors provided a final round of feedback, after which there was not a significant amount of structural revision.
L: Voss’s husband wasn’t able to help her get the video player to work, so she talked to the Digital Union’s consultants as well as staff at the DMP.
- Consultant | Inform | Media
M: Voss relied on the expertise of her husband, Cindy, staff in the DMP, Amy Spears, and Ryan Umiza, and the Digital Union consultants.
- Consultant | Inform | Total
N: Cindy gave Voss an HTML file for one page out of which to build the rest of the structure.
O: Voss mentioned that she never got pushback from the editors about the design aspects, but that they were happy as it was.
P: Voss worked closely with Cindy, who was an editor but also mentored her toward writing a mature scholarly argument.
Q: Cindy gave Voss more directive advice to help her figure out what the editors wanted her to do with the project.
R: The template Cindy gave Voss was the “vehicle” for getting to her project’s final structure.
Chamberlain, Gramer, and Harline, "Mess Not Mastery"
Descriptive Summary
A: Elizabeth was the one who wanted the project to be a webtext, and Rachel and Megan were open to the idea.
- Collaborator | Motivate | Code
B: Elizabeth had been in conversation with Kris Blair and wanted to propose a webtext for C & C Online, especially since their project was drawing on Kris’s work.
- Editor | Motivate | Total
C: The co-authors wanted to represent the girls at DMA and what they learned.
- Student | Motivate | Total
D: Mary P. encouraged the co-authors to think about their research questions going into the camp and develop a publication out of it.
- Colleague | Motivate | Total
E: The co-authors were able to include, or at least consider including, images/video files and data from the girls’ projects due to the article’s form as a webtext.
F: The co-authors divided up their sections based on what they each wanted to write about.
- Collaborator | Give | Navigation + Text
G: Elizabeth pushed the co-authors to start moving the project online.
- Collaborator | Suggest | Code
H: Elizabeth proposed the project’s iMac format.
- Collaborator | Suggest | Splash
I: The co-authors each came up with different answers to the initial research questions.
- Collaborator | Give | Text
J: The authors embraced a nonlinear structure in order to explore their main questions somewhat independently.
- Collaborator | Give | Navigation
K: The editors provided a final round of feedback, after which there was not a significant amount of structural revision.
L: As far as the design went, Megan had strong opinions about which icon represented a particular section while Rachel didn’t particularly care.
- Collaborator | Suggest | Navigation
M: Elizabeth developed the post-it image on the Mac screen.
- Collaborator | Give | Splash
N: The reviewers asked what the function of the image gallery was, and the co-authors included a textual explanation in response at the beginning of the image gallery.
O: Cindy gave Voss an HTML file for one page out of which to build the rest of the structure.
P: The co-authors worked to protect the girls in their drafting process (research pseudonymity), which limited the kinds of materials they could use in order to avoid identifiable data.
Q: Kris Blair is mentioned as a mentor and an inspiration for the project.
- Colleague | Motivate | Total
R: Megan had the idea to include the post-it notes.
- Collaborator | Suggest | Media
S: Megan had the idea to include the storyboard image on the landing page.
T: The co-authors relied on each other’s skills and expertise, especially Elizabeth’s on the design/technical side.
- Collaborator | Inform | Code
Hanzalik, "Electrate Dream Interpretation"
Descriptive Summary
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