public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag overviews

November 2006

Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture

intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page

Pierre Bourdieu and taste

overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site

SocioSite

a very large sociology site from the University of Amsterdam; of particular interest are a section on web sociology and one on famous sociology; site is full of both explanations and links to other full text articles

October 2006

Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens

for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts

Jahn: Homepage

major figure in narrative theory has much work available online

The Google YouTube Tango

essay about the political consequences of marketing based on Internet-use data

Types of Stories for the Telling

useful for writers and teachers; screenwriters will find a lot of basic story types to exploit

Main Page - AcademicBlogs

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A wiki about academic blogs, with links to blogs in each academic area of study

screenonline

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"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv

critcrim.org

Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.

net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu

Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"

September 2006

IDEA Photographic | After Modernism

a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations

Film Studies Resources - Academic Info

useful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv

August 2006

The Observer | Review | Websites that changed the world

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has interesting information about founding and use of favorite websites; good classroom handout

Media Studies - Televisuality

a wonderful site, with examples, that explains how tv works visually

MPI - Participant Rooms

excellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"

Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network

left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups

Main Page - MarxWiki

developed by a class taught by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema

analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way

eLearn: Feature Article

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good overview of shifts in edtech to new kinds of networked learning

left media resources

left links to alternate analysis of current and historical events

Digital Aesthetics

site to accompany Sean Cubitt's book Digital Aesthetics