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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags education & culture

16 November 2006

13 November 2006

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

Internet history

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on other pages, find history of other important Internet developments, such as Google and PayPal

Why Work?

CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery. Since I am retired and a webmistress for a media site, ejumpcut.org, I love the idea of this site for personal reasons. But most people do have to work, so this maintains an utopian sensibility for al

www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site

large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended

"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

11 November 2006

Zensufi Park

Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs

Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century

Henry Jenkins, with Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, and Margaret Weigel ; PDF or online in 6 parts; sensible and sparks new directions of thought; respectful of students

10 November 2006

06 November 2006

Multimedia - From Wagner to Virtual Reality

attractive web site dealing with concepts, pioneers, images, theory

howstuffismade.org

visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

Documenting America

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huge photographic archive from Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection

Litsum: The Most Free Literature Summaries, Study Guides and Book Summaries

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like Cliff's Notes but now free; teachers beware and forget about those book reports on the classics

Invincible Cities

photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography

02 November 2006

Variant

journal of arts and culture in social context; theoretical essays; international in scope

walking as knowing as making

a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas

01 November 2006

Continental Drift a seminar with Brian Holmes

"articulating the immense geopolitical and economic shifts which took place between 1989-2001, the effects of those changes on bodies of governance and in turn the effects on subjectivity today"; links to political and social readings

U B U W E B

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"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film

31 October 2006

Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page

much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures

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