Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, & Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital_Humanities
2014; USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism; Volume: 8; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1932-8036
Autores Tópico(s)Digital Humanities and Scholarship
ResumoThe New York Times laid it all out in late October 2013: The humanities, in apparently precipitous decline, are worrying college and university administrations. Never mind that the drop in the percentage of degrees awarded in the humanities is measured with an abnormal spike as its starting point; never mind that the drop is accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of degree options for students across the curriculum; never mind the number of majors that are missing from the category of the humanities (art history is grouped among the arts, while ethnic studies and other interdisciplinary fields are credited wholly to the social sciences); never mind that, of all fields, computer science seems to be experiencing a far greater drop in degrees awarded than is the humanities. Once the Old Grey Lady has decided your relevance is waning, it would seem, there’s little to do but make a cup of tea and straighten the doilies and wait for the inevitable end. Or, as Twitter would say: GUYS, the humanities are anxious about their future, and The Times is ON IT.
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