November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
by jlesage
"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."
MIT communications forum archive
by jlesage
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
Visual Studies Fine Arts Videos 2002-2003
by jlesage
advanced students' video projects online, from Univ of Toronto
Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links
by jlesage
documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US
Word Circuits
by jlesage
"This is a place for poetry and fiction born to pixels rather than the page--writing that's digital down to its bones." An excellent resource with both online poetry, often Flash poetry, and other links.
Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext and Flash animated poems
by jlesage
uses the duration of video to make kinetic poetry that has a narrative in the words and beyond them; nice example for students of simple form with complex effects
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
by jlesage
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
MIT--media in transition 05: the work of stories
by jlesage
much of the conference is available in av form or papers or abstracts.
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
by jlesage
Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
Photoethnography.com
by jlesage
links to courses compiled by Karen Nakamura, who notes that most courses in Visual Anthropology teach visual analysis and not visual production
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
by jlesage
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
by jlesage
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
Planned Obsolescence
by jlesage
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
I Want Media - Media News & Resources
by jlesage & 1 other
media headlines, regrettably no RSS feed for site
August 2006
Media Studies - Televisuality
by jlesage
a wonderful site, with examples, that explains how tv works visually
July 2006
Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
by jlesage
a relatively new film studies blog, reviews texts, offers syllabi
SCAN | journal of media arts culture ::
by jlesage
"the aesthetics and the political economy of media arts, as practised in both new and traditional media forms"; site is a little difficult to navigate, good theoretical articles with comprehensive bibliographies
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
by jlesage
analyses with extensive visual examples; archives of print issues since 1974
ScreenSite: media education, film terminology, syllabi, news articles, film schools
by jlesage & 1 other
upgrade July 06; essential site for film and media syllabi, annotated journal roundups, and inventory of college media programs; new category for posting articles
June 2006
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