News Archives

2008

April 2008
Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS
"HyperStudio, a superb research and development laboratory for digital humanities. Many of our faculty are leaders in inventing ways to incorporate digital technology into teaching and research, and creating innovative educational tools such as "Cultura" for teaching language and culture... and the Shakespeare Electronic Archive." more...

January 2008
MIT web site puts human face on Iraq war
"As the war in Iraq approaches its fifth anniversary, a new web site from MIT's Center for International Studies and the HyperStudio aims to provide an accurate account of living conditions, as well as civilian injuries and deaths due to political violence, throughout the Middle Eastern state." more...

2007

January 2007
Podcasting enables 24/7 foreign language study
"Much of the content came from recent film festivals and radio art programs which, due to copyright restrictions, were made available as streaming media through the [HyperStudio's] Metamedia framework and on iPods provided by LLARC." more...

2006

October 2006
French language program plumbs cultural depths
"Since its introduction in 1997, Cultura has been adopted at numerous colleges and universities, including Brown, Barnard, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley and Smith, and put to work in many languages besides French." more...

April 2006
$4.25 million donated to support humanities
"The gift will establish a $3 million endowment for a Contemporary French Studies Fund and will support the Hyperstudio and Comparative Media Studies Program... In announcing the gift, Philip S. Khoury, the Kenan Sahin Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, said, "This generous gift will have an enormous impact on the humanities at MIT. It will support the continuing creative initiatives of our French faculty and provide critical core funding for our innovative Hyperstudio and Comparative Media Studies Program." more...

2005

2004

May/June 2004
Metamedia translates into classroom innovation.
IS&T Newsletter. Metamedia is featured on the front page with an article about three new curriculum projects: Cultura, Balanchine Dance Archive, and American Authors Project.

Spring 2004
Metamedia is profiled in the Comparative Media Studies Newsletter
In Media Res.
Read accounts of different facets of the Metamedia project from several professors and students, including Prof. Peter Donaldson, Wynn Kelly, Gilberte Furstenberg and graduate students Moneta Ho, Andrea McCarty and Rekha Murthy.

2003

November 2003
Humanities Go Digital: Innovative multimedia programs give students new ways to study languages, literature, and the arts.
Technology Review
The magazine article features several of our projects, as well as interviews with the faculty working on each project. This includes the foreign language project Berliner Sehen with Ellen Crocker and Kurt Fendt, the literature projects Shakespeare Electronic Archive with Peter Donaldson and American Authors with Wyn Kelley, and the Balanchine Dance Archive with Thomas DeFrantz of music and theater arts. more

November 2003
MIT Welcomes Its First Interdisciplinary Major.
Soundings, Magazine of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
This article highlights the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program, which is the first interdisciplinary major offered at MIT. CMS sponsors several hands-on research projects, including Metamedia.

1994

December 1994
New program will offer students hypermedia visit to Berlin
"Berliners, residents of the emerging new/old capital of Germany, are the focus of a new multimedia project being undertaken by Ellen Crocker and Kurt Fendt." read more...