Humanities + Digital: Visual Interpretations Conference
MIT Media Lab 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions?
How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions?
Johanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
Johanna Drucker tells us how designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes.
Let's talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let's raise the questions that need to be raised.
In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations in web-based environments.
In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations with Annotation Studio.
Textual Science, as Gregory Heyworth argues, is poised to change the established order of things. With images of recovered works, many previously unseen, this talk will chart the way ahead in theory and praxis.
Using the tools of online textual annotation, readers can collaborate on annotating or interpreting a work, make their annotations public, and respond to interpretations by others.
Let's talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who's doing what where in DH at MIT?
Digitally based knowledge has reevaluate their existing pedagogical methods. In this workshop, we investigate one possible solution to this challenge: digital annotation.
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute's work.
Douglas O’Reagan will update the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT.
