December 2006
How 2 Connect Using Social Media on Squidoo
a good overview of various aspects of Web2.0
November 2006
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
howstuffismade.org
visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty
"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
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
TRANSFORMATIONS
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
About radical reference | Radical Reference
a service provided by volunteer library workers from all over the United States to assist demonstrators and activists
DIY Media Weblog
new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications
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.
Pew Internet: Future of the Internet
well worth downloading and printing the 104 pp PDF document; the list of contributors alone is worth following up on; especially interesting on the inequalities and possibilities for repression
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