4Humanities

Thoughtful international advocacy for the humanities--backed up by research & projects of local chapters; powered by international digital humanities community.

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

Available to all at https://t.co/tXEIra0YZB

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

The entire Daedalus issue on "The #Humanities in American Life:
Transforming the Relationship
with the Public" is now available free for download as a single PDF at https://t.co/tXEIra0YZB. Read. Enjoy!

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

“The derision of English Literature and Philosophy as unprofitable degrees only counts when working-class students aspire to the humanities.” https://t.co/SutbtfrAeI

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On how the humanities fail to show how to bridge between the "small" humanities ("the book I love") to the "big" humanities ("the issues we care about")

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

Excerpt from @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On how "object-poor" the humanities are. In the public's perception, humanists do talks; scientists do things. See also WE1S card on contrast with sciences: https://t.co/1wE9UZhX5f)

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

Excerpt from @WE1Sproject article, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On lack of media attention to how underrepresented groups relate to humanities by contrast to the sciences. This was WE1S's most frustrating research inquiry: huge effort, sparse results. Public doesn't seem to care.

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

@WE1Sproject Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On the perception of the academic humanities as siloed in universities and blurred-together by contrast with the sciences.

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On the different mind-share and flavor of the humanities in private vs. public higher ed institutions.

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On the diffusion of humanities in "ordinary" life. (Cf. Michael Levenson's book, The Humanities and Everyday Life, 2017. See also WE1S cards on humanities & ordinary life: https://t.co/zeDXIpIIbJ)

[Alan Liu @alanyliu]

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, https://t.co/6kDddVaR7D:

>> On the invisibility of the "humanities crisis" in media. (See also WE1S cards on the humanities crisis: https://t.co/zeDXIpIIbJ)

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

Our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus is part of issue of the journal about "The Humanities in American Life: Transforming the Relationship with the Public": https://t.co/la1ska8hmS

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

Just out in Daedalus: our ariticle "What Everyone Says: Public Perceptions of the Humanities in the Media" -- a high-level synthesis of findings from our WhatEvery1Sasy (WE1S) project, with reflections and and general recommendations for the humanities: https://t.co/ywigrWFvj4

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

Fabulous contributions from @WE1Sproject team, Carin Berkowitz (@njhumanities) and Matthew Gibson (@VAHumanities), @judithbutIer, @GuyerSara, @DDMeringolo, @susansmulyan, @KAnthonyAppiah, @KeithWailoo, and so many others.

I hope you will find it interesting and useful.

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

Thrilled to finally share the new Daedalus issue on The #Humanities in American Life: Transforming the Relationship with the Public. Online (and open access) at https://t.co/1Ook53MVd5.

[MLA News @MLAnews]

Thanks to @alanyliu and team for sharing this thought-provoking data about the representation of the humanities in the news!

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

Eloquent commentary in @CulturalAnalyt today by @lindsaycthomas & @abigaildroge (https://t.co/CMhTAHj4uo), following up on their article in Cultural Analytics on “The Humanities in Public” (https://t.co/LVWgp5Faqa) based on @WE1Sproject data (https://t.co/9S3caBGKi7).

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

On the quantitative side, the @WE1Sproject's key method for computational analysis of large numbers of journalistic articles mentioning the humanities was topic modeling. See our 1-page card on topic modeling: https://t.co/BzG5k7EJfC

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

Our research in the WE1S project included combinations of quantitative & qualitative, computational- & human-powered, and "distant" and "close" reading methods.

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

We've tweeted on WE1S's materials & findings. Now we turn to how we studied materials to reach findings. Here starts a series of tweets on our methods. For an overview of WE1S methods, see https://t.co/39QSLenOJW. For explanatory cards of Key Methods, see https://t.co/npYiXDFeRm

[WE1S Project @WE1Sproject]

Other interesting WE1S data collections are ones we used to compare humanities & sciences. E.g., C-21, data on news mentioning H & S (start page: https://t.co/yfUv1CzjLE); or C-33, news identified with text-classifier as "about" H & S (start page: https://t.co/UszhoRkuvr)