Designing born-digital scholarship: A study of webtext authors’ experience and design conventions

Abstract

This study curates an annotated portfolio of print scholarship, web design, and webtext features as a basis for interviews with webtext authors to examine their experiences composing webtexts for publication and design rationales within a four-part design space: orientation, movement, multimodality, and contextualization. Findings show that webtext authors draw on conventions of print-based scholarship and web design to define new possibilities for born-digital scholarship.