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Abstract:

"Last week, People, the most successful print magazine in history, announced that it is cutting its editorial staff in order to focus more energy on its web publication. This is yet another indication that the web, and digital media in general, is fundamentally transforming the way we do things.  What are people viewing on the web?  Not surprisingly, the majority of the data flowing across the vast global network are visual materials, typically video files.  All of us are getting more and more information from visual materials and less from text.  This will have an enormous impact on how we educate the web generation, though we've barely begun to think this through.  In this presentation, I'll speak about one innovative approach to visual learning in the humanities as we've conceived it in MIT’s Visualizing Cultures, a project I co-direct with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John W. Dower.  If time allows, I will briefly speak about other digital projects related to education in the humanities which my lab is also engaged in."

 

 

STS Speaker Series:

“Visualizing the World”


by
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa,
Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Date:

29th January 2007

Location:

NUS, Singapore
  • Co-sponsored by IDMI

Prof. Miyagawa successfully delivered the inaugural talk in the Speaker Series before a larger than average crowd of 50, drawn from different faculties of NUS and other universities, and including students and teachers from junior colleges and officials from the Media Development Authority. This crowd was also introduced to the Cluster and the FASS IDMI labs as a result of the talk


About the Speaker:
Shigeru Miyagawa has been at MIT since 1991, where he is Professor of Linguistics and holds the Chair, Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture. His linguistics publications in syntax, argument structure, and East Asian linguistics include several books/monographs and over forty articles, including two recent articles in the top journal, Linguistic Inquiry. Along with linguistics, he runs a laboratory that creates interactive educational programs. StarFestival, which looks at issues of growing up in multilingual, multicultural societies, was awarded the Best of Show at the 1997 MacWorld Exposition and the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Contribution to MIT Education. JP NET, which has the entire MIT Japanese program on the web, was one of the first online projects in the world to place an entire academic program on the Internet (1993–1994). Visualizing Cultures, in collaboration with the Pulitzer Prize historian John W. Dower, has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as an outstanding humanities educational Web site. It won the 2004 MIT Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award. For his work in interactive media, the educational technology magazine Converge chose him as one of twenty national "Shapers of the Future." He was on the original team that proposed OpenCourseWare, and has helped to start opencoursewares in Japan and elsewhere. He serves on the MIT Council on Educational Technology and the MIT OpenCourseWare Advisory Board.

 


 
 
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