22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesage
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists
by jlesage
tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual
StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator
by jlesage
ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
21 November 2006
Adding meaning and value to information
by jlesage
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
by jlesage
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
Research on Place and Space
by jlesage & 1 other
huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
by jlesage
how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.
20 November 2006
Pajiba - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
by jlesage & 2 others
movie and tv review site, very current, well written, various authors
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
by jlesage
a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
Fixings Shadows - Still Photography
by jlesage
work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos
Conversations with Dina
by jlesage
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by jlesage & 4 others
portal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
by jlesage
extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
by jlesage
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger
by jlesage
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
by jlesage
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
Notes on The Gaze
by jlesage
Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
19 November 2006
Fragment.nl :: Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources
by jlesage
bibliography, updated as of aug 06, that includes pages for: Online Articles and Journals: Books & Print Articles: Novels: Homepages: Mirrored Pages: Mailinglists: General Resources: Game Research: MUD & MOO Resources
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
by jlesage
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
Open Source Radio Show
by jlesage
"Every time we have an idea for an hour of radio we post it to the site." Via blog viewers help build shows which air after research.
