Hopkins, Andrew (2022) COVID, CO2, and the future of the Digital Humanities 2022. Journal of Art Historiography (27s). ISSN 2042-4752
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Abstract
The coincidence, in the years 2020–2022, of COVID and increasing worldwide concern about carbon footprints, would appear to culminate in an obvious direction for the future of the DH: the necessity to push forward with mass digitisation so that scholars do not need to fly around the world to study unique objects such as manuscripts, and the move to exclusively digital publishing in order to avoid generating carbon footprints for books and journals which, now in 2022, appear to be entirely unnecessary to publish in print and more akin to driving around in a 1950s Cadillac. The proposition to stop most or all print publishing in academia may have been unthinkable even a decade ago, but in the current situation, and the forseeable future, it would be the most effective way for scholarship and scholars to make their contribution to de-carbonisation.
| Type of Work: | Article |
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| School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law |
| Department: | Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies |
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| Date: | December 2022 |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
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| ID Code: | 4196 |
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