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November 2006

Lists of Bests

by jlesage & 5 others
again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

Cyberstudies webring

by jlesage
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences

Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004

by jlesage
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"

Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity

by jlesage
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.

Digital Library in leisure studies

by jlesage
links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can

Pierre Bourdieu and taste

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

October 2006

TRANSFORMATIONS

by jlesage
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"

July 2006

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last mark : 27/11/2006 22:06