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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags culturalstudies & internet

01 December 2006

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.

Media Art Net | Sitemap

English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

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narrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"

27 November 2006

Reconstruction

a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.

26 November 2006

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

22 November 2006

ArtLex on New Media

entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful

20 November 2006

18 November 2006

Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa

one of the largest set of links, updated regularly, to all aspects of communication; many political themes; a wide range of disciplinary approaches included; highly recommended

ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography

a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet

THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop

complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."

16 November 2006

Geoff Stahl - Still 'Winning Space?': Updating Subcultural Theory

deals with the impact of computer mediated communication on subcultural theory; refutes role of "authenticity"; good overview of shifts in field

13 November 2006

Center for History and New Media

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extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center

"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy

a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available

31 October 2006

M/C Journal - Latest Issue

from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically

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

16 October 2006

Swarming Media

blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture

06 October 2006

05 October 2006

barclaybarrios.com: course archive

"Archived course Web sites presented "as is," including student work good and bad, sections left un-updated, and typos." Attractive and useful pedagogical use of Internet in teaching.