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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags NewMedia & internet

December 2006

New Media and Cyberculture library resouces

Library Resources for communication studies site; here, suggested keywords for searches, reference works, periodical indexes, web sites, professional associations, journals and trade publications, statistical sources. updated 2004.

BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine

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a social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews

[debates] A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons

by Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence

November 2006

CyberJournalist.net: Technology, blogs, the Internet and the media, from the Online News Association

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a news site about cyberjournalism, with many resources, such as roundup links to most cyberjournalist sites; a phenomenon being embraced by many news organizations themselves

Cyberstudies webring

collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences

MIT communications forum archive

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

Mediascape

ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture

Writing Demonstrations

interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.

ArtLex on New Media

entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem

video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition

Center for History and New Media

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

Furtherfield Links

extensive set of links to digital art projects, grouped by themes and types

October 2006

M/C Journal - Latest Issue

from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically

if:book

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a blog from the Institute for the Future of the Book, where much interesting work on screen reading and publication is going on

Planned Obsolescence

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.

Swarming Media

blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture

Morph: We Imagine Archives

Media Center blog about technology and narrative; thoughtful writing; group of writers take on a specific topic related to narrative and communication weekly

virtualpolitik: Who Will Be Voted Off the Island?

a review of Jenkins' "Convergence Culture" that covers some of the main topics in current New Media scholarship

"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink

We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.

July 2006