Scholars’ Role in their Digital Future
UCLA professor Johanna Drucker, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, remarks that humanities and social science scholars must become more active participants in their future digital environments. Drucker calls this work “an intellectual responsibility, not a technical task.”
Often considered to be the realm of librarians and technologists, digital tools that do not help scholars engage in research are not used. Drucker points to the critical need for scholars, including those in the humanities, to work with these partners to create useful digital tools for the types of scholarship they do. She believes scholars must take their role seriously and administrators must see the value of this work.
