{"id":7965,"date":"2015-06-19T05:02:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2015-06-19T05:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:02:56","slug":"dissertations-as-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7965","title":{"rendered":"Dissertations as tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something light(er)-weight for the weekend \u2013 an entertaining, but also thought-provoking article from <em>The New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It condenses into tweets all possible angles taken on research by academic theses. I find these two particularly amusing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A problem you thought you could solve defines your field; you can\u2019t imagine the field without the problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The name we\u2019ve been using for this stuff is anachronistic. Here\u2019s a better name.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit like the seven plots theory in literature\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Seven_Basic_Plots\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Seven_Basic_Plots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/3632074\/Everything-ever-written-boiled-down-to-seven-plots.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/3632074\/Everything-ever-written-boiled-down-to-seven-plots.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Magda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something light(er)-weight for the weekend \u2013 an entertaining, but also thought-provoking article from The New Yorker. http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets It condenses into tweets all possible angles taken on research by academic theses. I find these two particularly amusing: A problem you thought you could solve defines your field; you can\u2019t imagine the field without the problem. The name we\u2019ve been using for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-24t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}