public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags digitalculture & history

December 2006

Media Art Net | Sitemap

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

November 2006

Pew Internet: Riding the Waves of "Web 2.0"

10/06 report from one of the major sources of information on Internet use in the United States

ArtLex on New Media

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

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

JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing

many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing

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

Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links

documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US

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

Internet history

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on other pages, find history of other important Internet developments, such as Google and PayPal

"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

Telegraph | Digital Life | A gallery of galleries

websites for art, visual browsing for your inspiration and pleasure

howstuffismade.org

visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty

October 2006

I Photograph to Remember

Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic

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

net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu

Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"

September 2006

Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software

The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.

July 2006

Terry Mockler's Journey Through Cyberspace

newmedia maker and writer has several interesting blog sites; goal is to develop "readership by utilizing writing to probe cyberspace for post-literate identities."

May 2006