02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
Cyberculture Links
prepared by noted scholar, Sean Cubitt, extensive links in various categories, good links to theory
Media Art Net | Sitemap
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein's Interactive Television Blog via Firefox
articulate discussions of impact of new media on TV and the interaction between the two
30 November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
20 November 2006
Enculturation 3.2: Visual Rhetoric
2001 issue of online journal
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
useful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by 1 othervery 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
Joel Kovel
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
18 November 2006
ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography
a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet
The Digital Journalist November 2006 Issue Contents
monthly online magazine; wonderful examples of documentary photography
Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page
extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page
16 November 2006
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by 4 othersPhotographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
Invisible Culture-An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture-University of Rochester
by 1 otherproblematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility
Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.
13 November 2006
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
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
11 November 2006
Scope - Institute of Film Studies journal
published by Univ of Nottingham
Howie's Home Page
homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
06 November 2006
Department of Geography : Research Clusters / Groups - Durham University
publications of Mike Crang, major cultural geographer and sociologist
