December 2006
BUBL LINK: Media studies
by jlesage
a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics
artists and art...the-artists.org
by jlesage & 1 other
extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
November 2006
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
by jlesage & 4 others
a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006
ArtLex Art Dictionary
by jlesage & 3 others
search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms
Anthro.Net Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology
by jlesage & 2 others
large portal, includes cultural geography, ethnic studies, visual arts, postmodern anthropology
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
by jlesage & 7 others
The invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.
LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
by jlesage & 7 others
from "start spot" which has other such categorized listing pages for movies, shopping, museums, etc.
Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"
by jlesage
a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by jlesage & 56 others
You sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
October 2006
The Media and Communications Studies Site
by jlesage
gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis
Paul Virilio: Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!
by jlesage
complete text of major essay; overview of Internet use
September 2006
"film theory" - Prefound2
by jlesage
As always when I try out a new search engine, I search on "film theory." This site usefully brings up links to syllabi as well as other sites.
Resource Discovery Network
by jlesage
excellent UK academic search tool for all disciplines. I looked up "film theory,' "feminism" and "television" and got useful results of sites I had not visited before, and some I had.
July 2006
Clusty the Clustering Engine
by jlesage & 56 others
This is a top-notch new kind of search engine (Web 2.0). My test case for searches is "film theory" as the search term, and such a search brought me many new resources I was previously unaware of.
