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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 bit.ly/3LiOTOT. Read. Enjoy!

“The derision of English Literature and Philosophy as unprofitable degrees only counts when working-class students aspire to the humanities.” bit.ly/3Rg1qnW

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> 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")

Excerpt from @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> 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: we1s.ucsb.edu/wp-content/upl…)

Excerpt from @WE1Sproject article, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> 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.

@WE1Sproject Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> On the perception of the academic humanities as siloed in universities and blurred-together by contrast with the sciences.

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> On the different mind-share and flavor of the humanities in private vs. public higher ed institutions.

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> 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: #section1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">we1s.ucsb.edu/research/we1s-…)

Excerpt from our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus, amacad.org/publication/wh…: >> On the invisibility of the "humanities crisis" in media. (See also WE1S cards on the humanities crisis: #section1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">we1s.ucsb.edu/research/we1s-…)

Our @WE1Sproject article in Daedalus is part of issue of the journal about "The Humanities in American Life: Transforming the Relationship with the Public": amacad.org/daedalus/human…

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: amacad.org/publication/wh…

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.

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 bit.ly/3wfhCxI.

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

Eloquent commentary in @CulturalAnalyt today by @lindsaycthomas & @abigaildroge (doi.org/10.22148/001c.…), following up on their article in Cultural Analytics on “The Humanities in Public” (doi.org/10.22148/001c.…) based on @WE1Sproject data (we1s.ucsb.edu).

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: we1s.ucsb.edu/wp-content/upl…

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

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 bit.ly/WE1Smethods. For explanatory cards of Key Methods, see bit.ly/WE1Skeymethods

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: harbor.english.ucsb.edu:10002/collections/20…); or C-33, news identified with text-classifier as "about" H & S (start page: harbor.english.ucsb.edu:10002/collections/20…)