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.
artists and art...the-artists.org
by 1 otherextended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
[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
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by 4 othersportal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
Notes on The Gaze
Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
Research on Place and Space
excellent portal by cultural studies teacher; updated
Visual Anthropology
major ejournal for field
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy
a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
entire text of this major left history is online
contemporary literary theory, lectures and essays by John Lye
on many currents, also external links
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
brief overview of many currents, with links and bibliography
Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited
by 4 othersNov 06. Foremost UK online newspaper has roundup of issues, people, in "new" Internet.
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts
screenonline
by 1 other"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv
critcrim.org
Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.
September 2006
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
August 2006
The Observer | Review | Websites that changed the world
by 3 othershas interesting information about founding and use of favorite websites; good classroom handout
MPI - Participant Rooms
excellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"
Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network
left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups
Main Page - MarxWiki
developed by a class taught by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema
analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way
July 2006
Bloglines | About Bloglines
I tried a number of ways to do RSS news feeds but could not get the hang of it. This is a site that keeps a free news aggregator for you. It has an intuitive and practical interface. The disadvantage is that once again I contribute to marketing data co
