03 November 2006
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
"Flaubert's Point of View" by Pierre Bourdieu
complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production
"Rhetorical and Political Agency in the Habitus"
essay attempting to analyze potential agency of teachers and students
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
BOURDIEU AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF AESTHETICS
interpretive essay that provides good overview for cultural studies; constrasts Bourdieu and Derrida
02 November 2006
SocioSite
a very large sociology site from the University of Amsterdam; of particular interest are a section on web sociology and one on famous sociology; site is full of both explanations and links to other full text articles
Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies
huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies
"The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs"
theoretical study from the Netherlands about functioning and origins of blogs in US
walking as knowing as making
a concept of walking = knowledge building sensorially; bibliography of readings linked to here
31 October 2006
Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications
major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online
Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan
chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster
homepage with many interesting links by prolific scholar
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
"Vectors maps the multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era, crystallizing around themes that highlight the social, political, and cultural stakes of our increasingly technologically-mediated existence."
Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks
Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading
21 October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts
Counterblast :: The E-journal of Communication and Culture
reviews in cultural studies, film, and television; from NYU
18 October 2006
Dr.Henry A. Giroux-Online Articles
left theorist of culture and pedagogy
lecturelinks of Mary Klages
extensive lecture notes on major cultural figures and critical concepts for course Modern Critical Thought
syllabus05: Visual Studies and Visual Culture
follow up on the links to his slide shows, with images from history of art; also links to online materials of interest
Cultural Studies Central
large omnibus site with many resources
Theory and Method in American/Cultural Studies: A Bibliographic Essay
2006, long bibliographic essay covering many approaches, including Marxism/s
17 October 2006
TRANSFORMATIONS
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
Vectors
Journal of Cultural and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
multilingual web journal
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"
