20 November 2006
Enculturation 3.2: Visual Rhetoric
2001 issue of online journal
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
National Storytelling Network - History of Storytelling World
links list, many categories, many audio stories
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
18 November 2006
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
Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today
The Digital Journalist November 2006 Issue Contents
monthly online magazine; wonderful examples of documentary photography
DONA SCHWARTZ | PHOTOGRAPHER
with a social eye, she looks at a kitchen changing with a blended family, being a soccer mom, and shooting with a hidden digital camera in a strip club at the customer-woman interactions there
RCCS: Course List of Cyberculture Studies
Site is a center of such studies; course list regularly updaged
THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop
complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."
16 November 2006
lens culture: contemporary photography magazine
by 4 othersPhotographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
THE JOY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
online book, 2006
Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
by 1 otherextensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher
Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"
Invisible Culture-An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture-University of Rochester
by 1 otherproblematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility
Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory
deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field
15 November 2006
Film Experience Blog: The Vampire Blog-a-Thon
Oct. 31, 06; over fifty film bloggers contributed to the Vampire blogathon
100 films
film blog; announces upcoming blogathons: Lovesick Cinema, Feb. 14; Unspoken Cinema, 08 January; Film Criticism, 01 December-03 December; Alfred Hitchcock, 15 November; large network of film bloggers write for these
13 November 2006
Center for History and New Media
by 1 otherextensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
06 November 2006
Roadside Architecture
documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography
Digital Library in leisure studies
links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can
02 November 2006
LeisureArts: Some context for Concept Trucking
"practice engaged with various forms of ephemeral, convivial, and quotidian cultural production"
