December 2006
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"
artists and art...the-artists.org
by 1 otherextended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help.
by 3 othersa look-up source for information
November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by 4 othersportal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
useful and intriguingly designed website, with resources such as essays, links, keywords and definitions pages
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography
a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet
THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop
complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."
cinelinks
links page from Cinetext: Film and Philosophy ejournal
Book Review of "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization"
Filmmakers and writers need to be aware of the history and social practice "spoken" by spaces and places. This is about the politics of gardens.
translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net
a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language
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
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
Anxious Libraries
wonderfully designed hypertext project on what libraries might mean today, with all those books few people read; a model of a hypertext exploration of an important intellectual topic
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
