04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
Cyberculture Links
prepared by noted scholar, Sean Cubitt, extensive links in various categories, good links to theory
New Media and Cyberculture library resouces
Library Resources for communication studies site; here, suggested keywords for searches, reference works, periodical indexes, web sites, professional associations, journals and trade publications, statistical sources. updated 2004.
Black Film Research Online
good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
BUBL LINK: Media studies
a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics
artists and art...the-artists.org
by 1 otherextended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
Edward Tufte home site
by 4 otherslots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
Blogging as pedagogic practice: by Marcus O'Donnell
theoretical overview and roundup of concepts about Internet and education
30 November 2006
Synoptique
film journal from Concordia University in Montreal
28 November 2006
James Elkins - Syllabi
many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi
A Research Guide for Students - Site Map
a very large portal for students and teachers, including how to search, formatting of research papers, and many content links
A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey
some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System
27 November 2006
eipcp.net
transversal is a multilingual web journal; interesting web design
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
by 4 othersa librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006
Reconstruction
a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.
essay on academic blogging in Reconstruction
06, overview, rationale, and links to academic blogs
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Links to cultural studies syllabi
from the Cultural Studies L site, a listerv and a source of other resources as well
Cyberstudies webring
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
MIT communications forum archive
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
