public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag journalism

02 December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

01 December 2006

Four Word Film Review

by 4 others
really, reviews in just four words for over 16,000 films

No More Marriages!: Welcome To The Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon!

Andy Hobal's film blog runs a carnival on film criticism; the film bloggers run many blogathons and garner good accumulated comments

27 November 2006

CyberJournalist.net: Technology, blogs, the Internet and the media, from the Online News Association

by 3 others
a news site about cyberjournalism, with many resources, such as roundup links to most cyberjournalist sites; a phenomenon being embraced by many news organizations themselves

26 November 2006

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

Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists

tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual

20 November 2006

culture.info - sharing knowledge for culture - visual

the visual page from a large European web portal for arts professionals; another page is for media

Welcome to Transparency

by 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine

by 1 other
perhaps an improvement over Rotten Tomatoes, also gives links to blogs that dealt with a given film; worth a try

19 November 2006

Poynter Online - Writing Tools

50 writing tools, a quick list; we can all benefit from these

Open Source Radio Show

"Every time we have an idea for an hour of radio we post it to the site." Via blog viewers help build shows which air after research.

Cabinet Magazine Online -

a quarterly journal of art, design, culture; partly playful, some art, some scholarly essays; good mix of specific reviews and overviews

Chicago's Video Underground

1973 article about portapak pioneers in Chicago video, also Dan Sandin, who invented an early image processor; it's about my generation and my people, so I love it, as I loved the Sandin Image Processor

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

15 November 2006

11 November 2006

Newest Webcams

by 12 others
random live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance

Magnum Photos - Essays

audio/slideshows from top photographers, often commenting on their craft

07 November 2006