December 2006
How 2 Connect Using Social Media on Squidoo
a good overview of various aspects of Web2.0
November 2006
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."
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
"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
Newest Webcams
by 12 othersrandom live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto, version 4
edited version of essay
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
Radical Graphics
large collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration
October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
The Propaganda Remix Project
by 2 othersold WW2 posters with contemporary messages; very well thought out designwise; print out for your office door
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
The Google YouTube Tango
essay about the political consequences of marketing based on Internet-use data
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.
DIY Media Weblog
new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications
Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin
"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."
Pew Internet: Future of the Internet
well worth downloading and printing the 104 pp PDF document; the list of contributors alone is worth following up on; especially interesting on the inequalities and possibilities for repression
August 2006
EFF: Electronic Freedom Foundation
Aug. 06, stop new network and Internet censorship bill
craigbellamy.net
blog by media teacher "profiling some of the web2.0 developments--in a cultural, political and social sense"
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
interesting left theory online journal--"exploring culture and politics after the net"
ANONYMIZER - INTERNET PRIVACY & SECURITY SOLUTIONS
by 5 othersPC software that lets you surf anonymously. High school students can hide they are on MySpace at school; workers can browse the Internet for personal use; and folks in China can hide their tracks.
