public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & space

October 2006

Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler

semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography

Rob Shields | Publications

many full text essays on space, including online space

Cultural Studies Central

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

DIY Media Weblog

new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications

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.

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

"Our increasing emphasis on quantitative reductions, like ranking lists, at the expense of critically engaged qualitative thought, can be seen as bottom-line strategies for efficiently navigating our increasingly .. networked cybernetic order."

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.

course outline on space, place, and landscape in contemporary art

You will need to cut and paste URLs into your browser, but there is much here to followup on in terms of bibliography and links.

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.

course outline on social construction of space

understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians

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.

Martin Irvine, Georgetown University

useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory

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

September 2006

July 2006

Jennifer Mapes

photographer and geographer studying small towns