Should the "digital project" replace dissertations in PhD programs?

Inside Higher Education examines the emerging trend:

Graduate students need to learn "what it means to write for the web, with the web," which is not the same thing, [said Rutgers English prof Richard E. Miller], "as making PDFs of your [print] articles."

Whether departments want it to happen or not, the form of scholarship is going to change, he said. Rather than avoiding that, scholars should consider the ramifications, he said, by redesigning dissertations. "Once you lose the monograph, what’s the future of the long argument?"

There's not much of a future for your English PhDs, monograph or no monograph, and you know it.  ← short argument.