The Thesis: Texts and Machines -- New Forms of Dissertation -- The Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools -- Digital Literacies for the Research Institution -- Media Systems, Multimodality and Posthumanism -- Reframing the Performing Arts -- Complexity Theory -- Re-imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis -- Traditional Theses and Multimodal Communication -- Ethics and Representation -- Copyright Management Approaches -- Understanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research -- The Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research -- Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era -- Practice-as-Research in Music Performance -- Translating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (re)presentation -- Disciplinary 'Specificity' and the Digital Submission -- Digits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and its Modes of Reproduction -- The Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses -- The Changing Role of Library and Information Services -- Animating the Archive -- Establishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs -- A Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times -- How Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning -- Researching Adolescents' Literacies Multimodally -- Implication for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs -- UNCAGED Boxed-up.

"This handbook sets out the processes and products of 'digital' research. It is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences."--Cover, p. [4].