If you want to spend a life studying literary/cultural history, the path of least resistance rn is clear. Go to grad school in CS or Information Science & take courses in the humanities. There are a thousand interesting research questions down that road, and there are jobs.
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I hasten to say that there are lots of other paths. For instance, yes, you can do it the other way around. There are great English/History programs that will support your forays into other disciplines. My tweet (which I'm going to pin) is about "the path of least resistance rn."
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People don't know that path exists. But it exists, and the people pursuing it are sometimes getting multiple job offers.
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the same computer science that somehow didn't want to deal with master-slave files until after
#GeorgeFloyd. The one that created machine learning for DARPA and the CIA? The one whose SV tech industry is blowing up our political scene for fascist white supremacists & "profits."1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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The one currently happily to collaborate w/ ed tech to make our students test subjects for racialized, violent biometric surveillance?
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The CS with the white supremacy, toxic masculinity, fascist, racist as hell, homophobic to students, faculty, and people working in the industry? So who is going to get these jobs other than white cisgendered men?
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See the ppl I've recently RTd on my timeline. In practice, very few people who've taken this path are white cisgendered men. It tends to appeal to people who are in CS but looking for an alternative to dominant CS values.
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There's also Information Science, which is (in many universities) a discipline very different from CS. Safiya Noble, for instance, has an IS Ph.D; Tressie McMillan Cottom, I believe, is now teaching in an iSchool.
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You know that LIS has a huge whiteness problem. They discuss it regularly. Neither @safiyanoble or @tressiemcphd did a degree in CS and then classes in humanities on the side. So are you going to retract your original CS techno utopia?
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I’m not sure what the force of “original” is there? (Information Science was in my original tweet.) Respect you a lot, Dorothy, but I know many students, from a range of backgrounds, who have pursued this path successfully. Why would I retract a belief in their success?
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