Convergence of Humanities, Social Science, and Information Science
The world is undergoing a vast cultural transformation, involving globalization and communication via the World Wide Web, but also marked by the emergence of a vast number and diversity of online subcultures. The economic consequences are quite significant, not merely in the entertainment industries but in commerce more generally. In universities, the recent decline of enrollments in the humanities and the growth of enrollments in computer science suggest that traditional definitions of academic fields may be obsolete, and innovation may revive the humanities by rendering them more computational. Since well over a century ago when Hollerith developed information technology ...
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