December 2006
Media Art Net | Sitemap
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
Blogging as pedagogic practice: by Marcus O'Donnell
theoretical overview and roundup of concepts about Internet and education
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
Mediascape
ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture
Visualising Ethnography
gateway site with links, courses, intereviews, tips
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
by 3 otherslarge collection of academic essays; "such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. Also hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings."
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
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
"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
Newest Webcams
by 12 othersrandom live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance
Media College - Video, Audio and Multimedia Resources
reference material for all electronic media-- video & television production, audio work, still imagery & graphics, website design; excellent quick guides and tutorials, on things like video streaming
Miguel Carrasco's Real World: Watch TV for Free - Part 2
ways to use your computer to watch television from around the world
October 2006
M/C Journal - Latest Issue
from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically
Transliteracies » Blog Archive » Lisa Parks
Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading
Planned Obsolescence
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
Screens - Arts - New York Times Blog
Virginia Heffernan's blog; here a discussion about dance and music video on YouTube with popularity that does not depend on the viewer knowing English
Flow Conference 2006
Oct 06. Innovative academic TV site, Flow, has upcoming conversational conference coming at end of month. Contributors submit short position papers, available for downloading.
MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Weblog
Theoretically sophisticated and business-informed blog on Interet and media issues.
August 2006
EFF: Electronic Freedom Foundation
Aug. 06, stop new network and Internet censorship bill
June 2006
Henry Jenkins
major theorist of tv and Internet social use
May 2006
CJR Daily
"realtime media criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review"
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