December 2006
New Media and Cyberculture library resouces
Library Resources for communication studies site; here, suggested keywords for searches, reference works, periodical indexes, web sites, professional associations, journals and trade publications, statistical sources. updated 2004.
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
Research on Place and Space
excellent portal by cultural studies teacher; updated
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
"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
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
brief overview of many currents, with links and bibliography
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture
intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page
Pierre Bourdieu and taste
overview, with many links; part of a larger, interesting cultural studies site
SocioSite
a very large sociology site from the University of Amsterdam; of particular interest are a section on web sociology and one on famous sociology; site is full of both explanations and links to other full text articles
October 2006
Knowing Knowledge - a photoset on Flickr by George Siemens
for those interested in infoaesthetics, this set of 57 images about aspects of knowledge is a stimulating philosophical exercise and a way to ask students how they might have made an image of similar interacting concepts
net critique ยป Interview with Alan Liu
Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"
September 2006
IDEA Photographic | After Modernism
a useful and attractive comparison of modernist and postmodernist photography, with explanations and thematic organizations
July 2006
alterity
Danah Boyd's blog specifically for commenting on all the basic readings she did for her PhD exams
Theory, Culture & Society -- short essays defining key concepts
very useful for theoretical studies in the humanities
June 2006
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies
WJT Mitchell: theories of media glossary
major writer on cultural theory. graphic presentation of media terms with explanations given when clicked on
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