November 2006
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
by jlesage
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
NMEDIAC : THE JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE : nmediac.net
by jlesage
papers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"
Gender Identity Panel - Resources
by jlesage
links to many interesting online hypertext, visually innovative works; some links no longer functional
October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
by jlesage
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
Planned Obsolescence
by jlesage
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.
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
by jlesage
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
Swarming Media
by jlesage
blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture
WRT: Writer Response Theory
by jlesage & 1 other
"exploration of digital character art — any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way"
Journal for MultiMedia History - Volume 3 (2000) Contents Page
by jlesage
journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia
Tech Head Stories
by jlesage
big list of links for many aspects of digital storytelling; regularly updated
Haraway_CyborgManifesto.html
by jlesage & 1 other
full text of famous essay in feminist Internet theory
I Want Media - Media News & Resources
by jlesage & 1 other
media headlines, regrettably no RSS feed for site
Morph: We Imagine Archives
by jlesage
Media Center blog about technology and narrative; thoughtful writing; group of writers take on a specific topic related to narrative and communication weekly
virtualpolitik: Who Will Be Voted Off the Island?
by jlesage
a review of Jenkins' "Convergence Culture" that covers some of the main topics in current New Media scholarship
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
by jlesage
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
September 2006
Dave Miller Art Blog
by jlesage
visual artist rethinking what narrative might mean with Internet, flashmobs, etc.
Second Story Interactive Studios
by jlesage
a collection of exemplary multimedia projects, some for exhibitions, some hypertext fiction. Many available. Good models for students learning how to do such projects in terms of design and useability.
CHAPTER ONE
by jlesage & 1 other
hypertext novel about a girl on trial for arson, theft, and murder.
August 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
by jlesage & 1 other
attractively designed and easy to understand hyperlinks
Media Studies - Televisuality
by jlesage
a wonderful site, with examples, that explains how tv works visually
MPI - Participant Rooms
by jlesage
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"
