Put yourself in Paul Revere’s shoes…
Rather than simply illustrate the historical narrative of Boston's Old North Church using primary sources, HyperStudio’s Tories, Timid, or True Blue? asks students to fully assume the role of an...
View ArticleTimeline Visualizations: A Brief and Incomplete Teleological History (Part 1)
Timelines: the blessing and bane of so many digital humanities projects. While tools like SIMILE's Timeline have made it easier to represent a series of events within the limited space of the screen,...
View ArticleRe-Imagining the Archive
THE ROLE OF PROCESS AND DOCUMENTATION IN CREATIVE WORK / A CASE STUDY OF MIT ACT’S FUTURE ARCHIVE PROJECT Madeleine Clare Elish, Research Assistant Part of HyperStudio’s ongoing research agenda in the...
View ArticleHyperStudio participates in MIT-Haiti Symposium
HyperStudio participated in the MIT-Haiti "Best Practices for Reconstruction: Technology-enhanced and Open Education in Haitian Universities" Symposium, which brought Haitian University professors...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Faculty Workshop with Brett Bobley (NEH), January 27, 2011
Please join us for an all day Digital Humanities Workshop with Brett Bobley, Director of the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH), National Endowment for the Humanities, jointly held on January 27, 2011...
View ArticleHyperStudio Receives NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant
We are happy to announce that HyperStudio has received a Level II Start-Up grant from the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “Annotation Studio...
View ArticleDigital Annotation in the Classroom: Wyn Kelley Reflects on Annotation Studio
In the digital humanities, we often talk about how we can use technology and big data to accomplish what Franco Moretti calls “distant reading” of literary, historical, and artistic texts. But Wyn...
View ArticleRethinking Learning through Annotation Studio
In recent years, academic professional organizations have adopted guidelines for evaluating scholars’ work in the digital humanities. The MLA, for example, after exploring the challenge in a series of...
View ArticleTelling Forgotten Stories; Testing Traditional Narratives
As HyperStudio’s other new resident Research Assistant, I’m finding it hard to believe that I’m nearly one fourth of the way through my time here. I’ve worked so far on a number of interesting Digital...
View ArticleIntroducing the Active Archives Initiative: Making Stories, within the Archive
During our tenure at HyperStudio as research assistants, we’ve had the chance to work on a number of archival projects at various stages of implementation. From uploading, encoding, and storing of...
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