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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags culturalstudies & links

01 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.

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

27 November 2006

Lists of Bests

by 5 others
again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

26 November 2006

Links to cultural studies syllabi

from the Cultural Studies L site, a listerv and a source of other resources as well

Cyberstudies webring

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

22 November 2006

ArtLex on New Media

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

21 November 2006

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.

Research on Place and Space

by 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."

20 November 2006

American Studies Electronic Crossroads

large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

Aesthetics and Visual Culture

extensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06

18 November 2006

Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa

one of the largest set of links, updated regularly, to all aspects of communication; many political themes; a wide range of disciplinary approaches included; highly recommended

16 November 2006

Research on Place and Space

excellent portal by cultural studies teacher; updated

Philosophy and Contemporary Culture

by 1 other
extensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher

15 November 2006

Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links

documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US

11 November 2006

Literary Theory. Literary Criticism

very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities

06 November 2006

SUBSOL other worlds

links to art and activism, art ejournals

Digital Library in leisure studies

links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can