public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags television & journalism

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

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

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

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"

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

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

Newest Webcams

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

October 2006

The Media and Communications Studies Site

gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis

August 2006

July 2006

BBC Cumbria - Digital Lives

important video autobiography project for UK television

May 2006

CJR Daily

"realtime media criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review"