03 December 2006
How 2 Connect Using Social Media on Squidoo
a good overview of various aspects of Web2.0
02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 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.
Media Art Net | Sitemap
English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
Black Film Research Online
good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet
Dr. Bruce Klopfenstein's Interactive Television Blog via Firefox
articulate discussions of impact of new media on TV and the interaction between the two
Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
by 2 othersCanadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
27 November 2006
essay on academic blogging in Reconstruction
06, overview, rationale, and links to academic blogs
26 November 2006
Cyberstudies webring
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
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
Jason Mittell's Just TV blog
blog by television scholar with a book on TV genres;
24 November 2006
H2O Playlist: UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian
considering Web 2.0 in the context of Internet useability for people with disabilities
22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
George Mason's Nonfiction Universe: a resource for nonfiction writer and nonfiction teachers
lots of material useful for documentary film, blogging, autobiography
Vispo ~ Langu(im)age: interactive, visual, and sound poetry by Jim Andrews
theory and examples, with links to other artists
21 November 2006
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
GEO 101 World Human Geography
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
Research on Place and Space
by 1 otherhuge 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."
20 November 2006
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 3.2: Visual Rhetoric
2001 issue of online journal
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
Notes on The Gaze
Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
19 November 2006
Fragment.nl :: Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources
bibliography, updated as of aug 06, that includes pages for: Online Articles and Journals: Books & Print Articles: Novels: Homepages: Mirrored Pages: Mailinglists: General Resources: Game Research: MUD & MOO Resources
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
