October 2006
net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu
by jlesage
Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
by jlesage
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
by jlesage
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"
by jlesage
subtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship
September 2006
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
by jlesage
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
August 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
by jlesage & 1 other
attractively designed and easy to understand hyperlinks
July 2006
if:book: introducing MediaCommons
by jlesage
new project for intellectual ejournal/blog for media studies; interesting set of comments accumulated about its feasibility
filmjourney.org : Unshown Cinema
by jlesage & 1 other
"hopes to address a diverse assortment of films and give special attention to their historical, technical, and human values"
Terry Mockler's Journey Through Cyberspace
by jlesage
newmedia maker and writer has several interesting blog sites; goal is to develop "readership by utilizing writing to probe cyberspace for post-literate identities."
timescape syllabus
by jlesage
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."
City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
by jlesage
a large hypertextual site with an analysis of the Taiwan classic film in its various aspects, especially social/historical and aesthetic; an early example of the possibilities of using the Internet for in-depth film analysis and yet to be surpassed
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
by jlesage
mixture of art and criticism in its focus
Cyberculture
by jlesage
Sunka Simon's course on Cyberculture at Swarthmore, spring 2005. Excellent resources, links. Attractive graphic design.
Theory, Culture & Society -- short essays defining key concepts
by jlesage
very useful for theoretical studies in the humanities
June 2006
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
by jlesage
large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies
