public marks

PUBLIC MARKS with tags essays & digitalculture

October 2006

Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard

by jlesage
Since many teachers use Blackboard, this is useful to them in analyzing how students negotiate aspects of that site and its technologies.

Marita Sturken'sHomePage

by jlesage
links to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security

September 2006

Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software

by jlesage
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.

August 2006

Notes on the Cinema Stylographer: Ganeden, 2003

by jlesage
contains a list of every blogger that contributed to the avant-garde film blogathon, a good compilation of bloggers interested in the topic. This blog gathers intelligent comments for its postings.

July 2006

alterity

by jlesage
Danah Boyd's blog specifically for commenting on all the basic readings she did for her PhD exams