28 November 2006
jlesage's reviews
by jlesage
my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.
26 November 2006
Cyberstudies webring
by jlesage
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
activelearning strategies
by jlesage
a philosophy of education that relies on simulations, role plays, real world activities; practical tips and bibliography
19 November 2006
Video History Project: Resources
by jlesage
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
16 November 2006
Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004
by jlesage
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"
13 November 2006
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesage
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
06 November 2006
Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?
by jlesage
what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?
BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade)
by jlesage & 4 others
send in your books and request and get others' used books
howstuffismade.org
by jlesage
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
03 November 2006
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
by jlesage
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
02 November 2006
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
by jlesage
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
21 October 2006
Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing (flickr) | Teaching Hacks.com
by jlesage
aiding social networking and sharing of resources for using photography in education
18 October 2006
Bruno Latour: ARTICLES
by jlesage
most of these works are in English and have full text version online
17 October 2006
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
by jlesage
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
TRANSFORMATIONS
by jlesage
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
05 October 2006
DIY Media Weblog
by jlesage
new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications
Networked Public Culture
by jlesage
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
03 October 2006
Dada: Distributed Aesthetics Workshop - Institute of Network Cultures
by jlesage
wiki from the workshop, see also essay by Munster and Lovink
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
by jlesage
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
Overview of a Distributed Aesthetics workshop
by jlesage
considering a new kind of network or network-assisted art, such as Internet or cell phone facilitated performances, on or offline; using locative media; Creative Commons, etc. An older idea was Internet Art.
net critique ยป Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths
by jlesage
social software's potential shaping of the Internet, journalism, business--or not
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