04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
by jlesage
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
30 November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
by jlesage
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
by jlesage
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
MIT communications forum archive
by jlesage
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
20 November 2006
Joel Kovel
by jlesage
many of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
by jlesage
Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.
Geographies of Responsibility by Doreen Massey
by jlesage
on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity
18 November 2006
13 November 2006
$99,000 house
by jlesage
built out of shipping containers, schematics given; is this sustainability?
Internet history
by jlesage & 1 other
on other pages, find history of other important Internet developments, such as Google and PayPal
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
by jlesage
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
11 November 2006
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
by jlesage
entire text of this major left history is online
Howie's Home Page
by jlesage
homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
The Imperial Archive
by jlesage
influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries; deals with specific areas of the world that were former colonies
06 November 2006
Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?
by jlesage
what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
by jlesage
Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
howstuffismade.org
by jlesage
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
Media Art Net | Overview of Media Art | MassMedia
by jlesage
links to many full text essays on television; site is a little difficult to navigate, but links to much good writing
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
by jlesage
entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
by jlesage
by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."
Invincible Cities
by jlesage
photographic exploration of two poor cities, a combination of Walter Benjamin's interest in traces and overlays with systematic, extensive visual ethnography
03 November 2006
"Contributions to a Resistant Visual Culture Glossary"
by jlesage
essay introducing concepts that can help critic look at visual culture more politically
"Flaubert's Point of View" by Pierre Bourdieu
by jlesage
complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production
