December 2006
BUBL LINK: Media studies
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a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics
artists and art...the-artists.org
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extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
November 2006
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Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
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a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006
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ArtLex Art Dictionary
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search, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms
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Anthro.Net Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology
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large portal, includes cultural geography, ethnic studies, visual arts, postmodern anthropology
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Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
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The invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.
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LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more.
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from "start spot" which has other such categorized listing pages for movies, shopping, museums, etc.
Overview Map "digital enlightenment: research"
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a visual map, with links, of how to use metasites for knowledge acquisition, research, and reading online; author has other such maps on his site; useful for students as mode of presenting info and for info itself.
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LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
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You sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
October 2006
The Media and Communications Studies Site
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gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis
Paul Virilio: Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!
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complete text of major essay; overview of Internet use
September 2006
"film theory" - Prefound2
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As always when I try out a new search engine, I search on "film theory." This site usefully brings up links to syllabi as well as other sites.
Resource Discovery Network
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excellent UK academic search tool for all disciplines. I looked up "film theory,' "feminism" and "television" and got useful results of sites I had not visited before, and some I had.
July 2006
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Clusty the Clustering Engine
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This is a top-notch new kind of search engine (Web 2.0). My test case for searches is "film theory" as the search term, and such a search brought me many new resources I was previously unaware of.