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by jlesageFilm professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.
on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity
many of his essays and interviews here
built out of shipping containers, schematics given; is this sustainability?
on other pages, find history of other important Internet developments, such as Google and PayPal
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
entire text of this major left history is online
homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries; deals with specific areas of the world that were former colonies
what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty
links to many full text essays on television; site is a little difficult to navigate, but links to much good writing
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."
photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production