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June 2, 2006academic humor
God i love PhD Comics. Right now, my working dissertation proposal title does have a colon in it. And some fancy buzzwords. Rather than wit, it has a symbol. Of course, it's only a mod of a title i've been using for my MySpace stuff generally which makes me uber lame... ["Why American Youth (heart) MySpace: Identity Production and Digital Publics"] I don't know if there are other academics reading this, but i'd sooo love to hear your dissertation titles... I sent this comic to a few friends yesterday and it made me giggle to think how stereotypical we all are in our title creations. Six more days and counting. Category: academic Tags: phdcomics dissertation Posted by zephoria at June 2, 2006 11:03 AM
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I actually read this cartoon earlier today and printed out my own copy . . . as I struggle right now with a dissertation title, I'm following the strategies outlined here. ;-)
Posted by Billie | June 2, 2006 1:08 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 13:08
Mine is:
"Making Sense of Doctoral Attrition in Library & Information Science"
Alas, I didn't have that handy guide to help me when I crafted my title.
Posted by Liz Lawley | June 2, 2006 1:38 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 13:38
I'm still working on mine. Right now is "Multiliteracies, popular culture, and identity construction: Understanding the social ecology of informal digital literacy practices"
Posted by Fawn | June 2, 2006 2:04 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 14:04
Danah,
I'm still working on mine as well, thinking of ways to include some humor into it.
Michael
Posted by Michael Darius | June 2, 2006 3:20 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 15:20
I might have missed something on that phd comics page... but what they should *definitely* have is a Dissertation Title Generator. Now... I found a title generator at: http://www.brysons.net/generator/index.cgi
But that's just if you want a title for Orwell's "Animal Farm" (been years since I've taught that. Some programmer... please... think of the doctoral candidates... and the puppies... make a Dissertation Title Generator!
Anyhow... good luck with yours Danah. I would recommend the post colon gibberish to be in "text-message-ese"... just a thought.
Posted by Jeff Cooper | June 2, 2006 9:28 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 21:28
Current paper title?
The Flesh Machine Doesn't Want Our DNA: Better Living Through Bad Chemistry and Good Media for Disability Activists
Posted by museumfreak | June 2, 2006 10:52 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 22:52
I apparently had the guide:
The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Electronic Media.
Short on jargon; long on prepositions.
Posted by KF | June 2, 2006 11:08 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 23:08
"Towards an Anthology of Spanish American Women Poets, 1880-1930"
But I've committed many paper titles that had the colon and the jargon!
How about "Naked in the Wilderness: Mythic Landscapes, Bodies, Patagonia, and Mars"
Pomposity *and* the word "naked"!
Posted by Liz Henry | June 2, 2006 11:26 PM
Posted on June 2, 2006 23:26
We play this game with conference presentations also. Some eye catching title, the inevitable colon that the boring stuff. For instance:
Oh My God Look At Those Tits: A cultural study of British Christian ornithological societies
Who Died and Made You President?: A Study of Vice-president Inaugural speeches.
Fun for the whole family.
Posted by stroygeek | June 3, 2006 9:52 AM
Posted on June 3, 2006 09:52
One of my professors in a history of journalism seminar actually had a class on the elements of a paper that gets accepted for presentation. One of the main elements was that the title had to have two parts separated by a colon. It worked for the paper I sent to an association that semester. :-)
Posted by Bryan | June 3, 2006 5:55 PM
Posted on June 3, 2006 17:55
Ha, spot on. Stephen Brown talks about this at great length in one of his books. My Undergrad dissertation was called Postmodern rock music consumption: An introspection
Posted by Cole | June 5, 2006 3:42 AM
Posted on June 5, 2006 03:42
"Principals, Agents, and Distant Markets: The Role of Information in Non-State Market-Driven Environmental Policies"
I was going to go with "Invisible Hand, Distant Mouths," but it seemed ... well, unseemly.
Posted by Ken | June 5, 2006 8:17 AM
Posted on June 5, 2006 08:17
Yes, when I saw that cartoon I thought it was hilarious!
My dissertation title was "Dynamic Planning: The Application of AI Planning Advances to Project Management" -- seems I fit the pattern ;-)
Posted by Meri | June 5, 2006 1:00 PM
Posted on June 5, 2006 13:00
my last dissertation title was (translated from french):
"Generations X/Y: between Media representation and self representation"
or something....
Posted by sijeka | June 7, 2006 5:46 AM
Posted on June 7, 2006 05:46
honors:
coming out of the bias closet: clarity and community in alternative media discourse - snore
PhD: round one - just like above:
"Managinge to connect: The relationship between social structure, social support and personal something or other"
PhD: round three (proposal accepted):
"Networking in Everyday Life" - short sweet, fits on a postage stamp.
Posted by Bernie | September 25, 2006 3:49 PM
Posted on September 25, 2006 15:49