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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & essays

06 October 2006

Jahn: PPP/Narratology

Manfred Jahn Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative

05 October 2006

Rob Shields | Publications

many full text essays on space, including online space

Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

accumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist

Department of Anthropology

The University of Alabama's Anthropology Department has links to course materials, lectures, resources developed by students, and outside links. A model for Internet academic resources institutionally.

Cultural Studies Central

last updated, 2002; a plan and partial execution of a clearinghouse, discussion formum, journal

critcrim.org

Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.

b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues

"writings cutting across and between politics, media, literature, history, law, science, medicine, philosophy, economics, music, film and more." Attractive and informative graphic design for ejournal homepage.

Flow Conference 2006

Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.

Networked Public Culture

theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.

02 October 2006

Street Media: A Thesis Proposal

Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.

Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard

Since many teachers use Blackboard, this is useful to them in analyzing how students negotiate aspects of that site and its technologies.

H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance

For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.

01 October 2006

Marita Sturken'sHomePage

links to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security

OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"

Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture

H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"

subtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship

re-public: re.imagining democracy

e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective

A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell

1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history