October 2006
placekraft
generating and studying: tactical urbanism, speculative cartography, ephemeral/vernacular architecture, and itinerant practices
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"
Anxious Libraries
wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic
Rosa Braidotti and Judith Butler on ethics of relation
a vivid debate between two feminist theorists described in detail
Swarming Media
blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture
Urban Communication
urban life, communication, and technology
Audio slide show: Bluegrass music's man of steel
example of how to incorporate personal history, music, and slides in portrait of dobro player and singer; also shows effectiveness of short, under three minute, audio slide show documentaries.
Journal for MultiMedia History - Volume 3 (2000) Contents Page
journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia
Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1
by 3 othersthe kinds of things all screenwriters can steal from, over and over
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
ideas site - craig stroupe
ideas explored to aid in teaching culture, web design, writing
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.
"Media and Narrative"
entry for forthcoming Routledge "Encyclopedia of Narrative"
net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu
Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"
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.
African-American Material, Visual, and Literary Culture on the World Wide Web
innovative approach to exploring cultural expression over many forms
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
September 2006
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
August 2006
www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site
by 1 otherattractively designed and easy to understand hyperlinks
July 2006
if:book: introducing MediaCommons
new project for intellectual ejournal/blog for media studies; interesting set of comments accumulated about its feasibility
