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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags SocialNetworking & essays

December 2006

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

Video History Project: Resources

information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment

Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity

Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.

Confronting Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Ed'n in 21st Century

Henry Jenkins, with Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robinson, and Margaret Weigel ; PDF or online in 6 parts; sensible and sparks new directions of thought; respectful of students

Digital Library in leisure studies

links to full text essays; important to consider how people choose to organize their time and attention, when they can

"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti

an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.

October 2006

Bruno Latour: ARTICLES

most of these works are in English and have full text version online

TRANSFORMATIONS

"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"

Networked Public Culture

theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.

September 2006

August 2006

eLearn: Feature Article

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good overview of shifts in edtech to new kinds of networked learning

CultureSpace

intelligent movie blog with good comments posted as well