Visualizing Cultures Website<\/a><\/p>\nDescription of activity, project, solution, and outcome<\/h2>\n
We regard Visualizing Cultures as a conceptual model for incorporating visual materials as \u201ctexts\u201d integral and essential to understanding in the humanities and social sciences in general. This builds on our increasing fascination with the dynamics of society and culture at popular or grass-roots levels; with constructions of \u201cself\u201d and \u201cothers\u201d; with the multiple manifestations of \u201cmodernity,\u201d particularly as seen comparatively across time and place; and so on. Visualizing Cultures is not art history, and the visuals we draw on run the gamut: lithographs, engravings, woodblock prints, paintings and drawings, photographs, posters, advertisements, cartoons, and fine art as well. These are integrated with original scholarly commentaries, as well as written texts from the time.<\/p>\n
Importance or relevance to other faculty, staff, students, departments, and programs<\/h2>\n
With its base in MIT, Visualizing Cultures is in the fortunate position of having ready access to cutting-edge innovation (and innovators) in online technologies. For example, our two-year collaboration with the technologists in the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) at MIT has led to promising pilot work on the development of online application tools to improve the organization of digitized images, allow users (scholars, for example) to add \u201cwiki\u201d metadata to any visual in the collection, and facilitate \u201cfederated\u201d searches across multiple institutions or collections. The spin-off potential here seems very promising, but there is still a great deal of refinement to be done.<\/p>\n
Scott Shunk,\u00a0Foreign Languages and Literatures Section,\u00a0MIT
\n(Presented at MIT Educational Technology Fair 2009)<\/p>\n
Topic Area(s)<\/h2>\n
2.\u00a0Finding and integrating digital content into the curriculum<\/em>
\n 4.\u00a0Incorporating visualizations and simulations to deepen student understanding<\/em>
\n 5.\u00a0Open educational tools and resources<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poster Presentation\/Demo Abstract Visualizing Cultures is an innovative website that opens windows on modern history by integrating graphic images, expert commentary, elegant design, and substantial databases in ways that have become technologically possible only recently. It can be accessed at http:\/\/visualizingcultures.mit.edu. Launched at MIT in 2002, the site has focused topically to date on Japan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech-fair-2009","tag-edtech-fair-2009"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitcet.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}