November 2006
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3
by 1 otherOct 06, review of software potentially useful to students and teachers; overview useful for folks interested in thinking about Internet and education in new ways
Invincible Cities
photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by 56 othersYou sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
October 2006
Fast Capitalism ejournal
interdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media
course outline on photography and place
using photography as disciplined mode of exploration, expressing ideas
Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication
left urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus
Praxis (e)Press - Contents
"critical works in theory and practice in several fields from a variety of different theoretical perspectives – including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist"
Martin Ryder
extensive links in and coverage of topics around the sociology of knowledge
graphic illustration of data about US
by 2 othersI learned new search terms for visualization: infosthetics or infoviz.
Urban Communication
urban life, communication, and technology
what to think about so many lurkers
by 2 othersmore lurkers than online writers--do you need to worry about it?
Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
updated 2006. Topics include historical periods for British and U.S. Literature, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Hypertext
Marie-Laure Ryan
homepage of scholar with many of her essays on narrative theory and electronic textuality available in full text form.
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.
MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Weblog
Theoretically sophisticated and business-informed blog on Interet and media issues.
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
Memory in Science: Index & Bibliography - John Sutton
2001, will be updated. Many links in the "social memory" section to memory and film
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory
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
August 2006
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"
July 2006
Pew Internet - Bloggers Report, July 19 '06
Most bloggers are diarists and do not consider themselves reporting on news, politics, etc.; pdf file of complete report available here
