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PUBLIC MARKS with tags users & digitalculture

16 November 2006

Squidoo

by jlesage & 1 other
social bookmarking portal lets users share expertise on some subject; room for author's comments and explanations; more discursive than delicious; less writing than a blog; see "Visual Thinking," also "Ephemeral Films"

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"

Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory

by jlesage
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field

13 November 2006

Center for History and New Media

by jlesage & 1 other
extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

by jlesage
"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"

11 November 2006

dream

by jlesage
tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point

ScreenReader.net: Our Mission

by jlesage
At ScreenReader.net we have freeware for blindness and visual impairment special needs throughout the world. It is free only to individual blind people for their personal use at home: it is not free to organisations.

06 November 2006

Media Art Net | Overview of Media Art | MassMedia

by jlesage
links to many full text essays on television; site is a little difficult to navigate, but links to much good writing

The Mirror Project: Adventures in Reflective Surfaces

by jlesage & 4 others
collection of images from people who photographed themselves in reflective surfaces; since this is a favorite tactics of lovers of light, many images are well composed and intriguing

31 October 2006

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

by jlesage
"Vectors maps the multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era, crystallizing around themes that highlight the social, political, and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence."

Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks

by jlesage
Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading

21 October 2006

STORYTRON - Interactive Storytelling

by jlesage
Software for something between a game and literary hypertext. "Storytronics uses Verbs to define what may happen in interactive storytelling. Each Verb represents one possible dramatic action, like a kiss, a demand, or an advice." Looks like fun.

17 October 2006

Papers for the 06 International Symposium on Electronic Arts

by jlesage
many full text papers available, with theoretical reflections and case studies, across media

16 October 2006

Blogs for Learning

by jlesage
"provide information and resources surrounding the technical, legal, and pedagogical aspects of blogging in the classroom"

15 October 2006

11 October 2006

Digital Story Examples

by jlesage
a page leading to many examples, things you could make with imovie; from more than decade of practice from 1990-2003

05 October 2006

Virtual Society? Projects

by jlesage
"the social science of electronic technologies"; links to major projects on Internet research

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

Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics

by jlesage
expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink

net critique » 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