21 November 2006
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
GEO 101 World Human Geography
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
Research on Place and Space
by 1 otherhuge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
What Can We Do With Flickr? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.
20 November 2006
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
Fixings Shadows - Still Photography
work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value, including a section on found photos
Visualising Ethnography
gateway site with links, courses, intereviews, tips
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon
Enculturation 3.2: Visual Rhetoric
2001 issue of online journal
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
useful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
cindy sherman online resources
compiled by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by 1 othervery well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Aesthetics and Visual Culture
extensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06
National Storytelling Network - History of Storytelling World
links list, many categories, many audio stories
Joel Kovel
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
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
Early Visual Media
by 1 otherpre-cinema, early photography, early film, early television; lots of visual examples and explanations
