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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & research

December 2006

AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web

by 1 other
narrative+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"

November 2006

jlesage's reviews

my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.

ShopWiki

by 2 others
"ShopWiki actively crawls more than 180,000 online stores to ensure you’ll find the products you want at the best prices." For a class looking at web2.0 apps, it's the kind of thing students would enjoy playing with.

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.

Research on Place and Space

by 1 other
huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."

Visual Anthropology Papers

many full text papers available from visualnathropology.net

Bruce B. Janz Home Page

very large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy

Self/Person/Personal Identity Bibliographies

From philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience: Identity, Consciousness, Knowledge, Pathologies of the Self, Personalism, Narrative, Gender, Medical Ethics, Embodiment, Social Construction, Ethics, Politics, Law, Medicine. . .

Dave Harris and Colleagues

large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology

Philosophy and Contemporary Culture

by 1 other
extensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher

Squidoo

by 1 other
social bookmarking portal lets users share expertise on some subject; room for author's comments and explanations; more discursive than delicious; less writing than a blog; see "Visual Thinking," also "Ephemeral Films"

Homi Bhabha - Excerpts

excerpts from postcolonial scholar's major works, also bibliography, links, other material

Syllabus - SOC 4391 - Social Theory

value of the course outline is that there are links to chapters of most classics in social theory, reproduced as full text chapters and extensive excerpts

October 2006

b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal :: all issues

"writings cutting across and between politics, media, literature, history, law, science, medicine, philosophy, economics, music, film and more." Attractive and informative graphic design for ejournal homepage.

"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink

We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.

H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"

subtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship

August 2006