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Quit Lit: Do the Humanities Need the University
There’s a new genre taking shape on blogs, Twitter, and even in the pages of The London Review of Books: Quit Lit. Just last week, Mariana Warner, a creative writing professor and member of the Man Booker prize committee, explained her decision to resign her…
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Knowledge, Virtue and the Research University
Recently, a broad literature has chronicled, diagnosed, and attempted to solve what many have referred to as a “crisis” in higher education. Some authors tie the purported crisis to an out-of-touch faculty or lackadaisical students, while others blame a conservative…
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Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid . . . or Smart
LAST YEAR THE ECONOMIST PUBLISHED A special report not on the global financial crisis or the polarization of the American electorate, but on the era of big data. Article after article cited one big number after another to bolster the…
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Big Data, Small Data, and the Ethics of Scale
This past summer, two Cornell University scholars and a researcher from Facebook’s Data Science unit published a paper on what they termed “emotional contagion.” They claimed to show that Facebook’s news feed algorithm, the complex set of instructions that determines what shows up…
Chad Wellmon 