{"69600":{"#nid":"69600","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Bogost on Humanities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022[Moreover], there\u2019s nothing necessarily humanistic about skills like critical thinking or lifelong learning or communication or even culture or solace,\u0022 writes Ian Bogost, Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media, in his new book \u003Cem\u003EHow to Do Things With Videogames\u003C\/em\u003E. Bogost continues, \u0022These are qualities to which almost any discipline could reasonably lay claim. Who is to say that linear algebra is any less of a candidate for critical thinking than is Latin? Or that computer science can\u2019t develop an interest in lifelong learning as much as art history can? Or that civil engineering isn\u2019t cultural?\u0022\u003Cem\u003E Source: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/ideas-market\/2011\/08\/23\/defending-the-humanities-in-a-fresh-way\/?mod=google_news_blog\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Wall Street Journal\u003C\/a\u003E, August 23, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-08-25 16:18:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:06","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Anton Leykin","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/ideas-market\/2011\/08\/23\/defending-the-humanities-in-a-fresh-way\/?mod=google_news_blog","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4181","name":"humanities"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"3562","name":"Wall Street Journal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}