public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic_blogs & theory

December 2006

November 2006

Dialogic: Giorgio Agamben: Means Without Ends

a collection of ideas from Agamben that summarizes some of his key ideas; blog from "a dialogic provocateur searching for viable alternative/oppositional cultures." Much on film; many links.

October 2006

Swarming Media

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

WRT: Writer Response Theory

by 1 other
"exploration of digital character art — any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way"

Hypercrit

blog about relation between hypertext theory and theories of authorship

Long Sunday

culture and theory blog with a progressive politics; well written

Posthegemony

The "about" page for a blog on posthegemony. Author also comments succinctly on books, Latin America, film and television.

virtualpolitik

"A blog about digital rhetoric that asks the burning questions about electronic bureaucracy and institutional subversion on the Internet." Well-written, points to developments in the arts and on the web that otherwise might go unnoticed.

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

September 2006

Queers and Theory

a class blog, fall 06. We'll see where it goes.

July 2006

alterity

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

Terry Mockler's Journey Through Cyberspace

newmedia maker and writer has several interesting blog sites; goal is to develop "readership by utilizing writing to probe cyberspace for post-literate identities."

Surftrail: Anders Fagerjord's Blog

attractively designed blog tracing the thinkers the author found useful in areas of internet and blog theory, as well as other conceptual pursuits, categorized on the left side of the page

June 2006

BlogBib

by 3 others
An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs...

Slow Learner

thoughtful discussions of contemporary theory