05 October 2006
critcrim.org
Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.
Theorizing in real time: hyperaesthetics for the technoculture
"As bad as bad media aesthetics are when static, they will worsen as they become interactive. It is not enough to struggle towards hypermedia: we need to develop a hyperaesthetic."
b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues
"writings cutting across and between politics, media, literature, history, law, science, medicine, philosophy, economics, music, film and more." Attractive and informative graphic design for ejournal homepage.
Flow Conference 2006
Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.
Networked Public Culture
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
Welcome to convergence culture Henry Jenkins
opening chapter of Jenkins' new book, "Convergence Culture"
02 October 2006
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.
Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard
Since many teachers use Blackboard, this is useful to them in analyzing how students negotiate aspects of that site and its technologies.
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
01 October 2006
The Kitchen - Essays
"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
Steve Bussey's Blog: "Interpreting Popular Culture" Course
Blogger describes course, including a bibliography of exciting readings.
Marita Sturken'sHomePage
links to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security
Image and Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
by 2 othersvaluable resource, worth time to print out and read selected essays
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"
subtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship
re-public: re.imagining democracy
e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
Paul Virilio: Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!
complete text of major essay; overview of Internet use
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
Kali Tal - Reviews: Lisa Nakamura: Lisa Nakamura, "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet"
Kali Tal is a major writer on trauma literature and film; this essay appears on her blog.
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
major essay by Lisa Nakamura
25 September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.
The House Next Door
thoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources
De una de las mujeres que amo. | Negra cubana... tenía que ser
Cuban woman's blog with article about the representation of black women in advertising, in Spanish
15 September 2006
MiT4 abstracts and papaers
conference at MIT in 05 on the work of stories
Queers and Theory
a class blog, fall 06. We'll see where it goes.
