December 2006
BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine
by 4 othersa social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews
Media Art Net | Sitemap
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
November 2006
Reconstruction
a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.
MIT communications forum archive
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
Mediascape
ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture
Visualising Ethnography
gateway site with links, courses, intereviews, tips
MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine
by 1 otherperhaps an improvement over Rotten Tomatoes, also gives links to blogs that dealt with a given film; worth a try
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
by 3 otherslarge collection of academic essays; "such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. Also hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings."
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
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Elastic Enthusiastic by Angelo Plessas
clever animated game, very simple
AirMonkey
looking at flash animation games lately, simple ones, cause I am not good at gaming
Newest Webcams
by 12 othersrandom live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance
tashpix home page
group of collaborators dedicated to exploring the potentials of digital film making without preconceptions of content or style.
Miguel Carrasco's Real World: Watch TV for Free - Part 2
ways to use your computer to watch television from around the world
U B U W E B
by 28 others"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film
October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
Planned Obsolescence
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
Screens - Arts - New York Times Blog
Virginia Heffernan's blog; here a discussion about dance and music video on YouTube with popularity that does not depend on the viewer knowing English
July 2006
cinematicfilm experimental film video art
by 1 otherexperimental database on the web of experimental film & video art
Internet Archive
by 35 others"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
Douglas Kellner site
important writer on critical theory, cultural studies
