01 December 2006
Media Art Net | Sitemap
by jlesageEnglish site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
by jlesage"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
28 November 2006
James Elkins - Syllabi
by jlesagemany of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi
27 November 2006
Reconstruction
by jlesagea cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.
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."
Cyberstudies webring
by jlesagecollection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
MIT communications forum archive
by jlesagethe 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
22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesageentry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
21 November 2006
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
by jlesageGeography 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.
Research on Place and Space
by jlesage & 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
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
by jlesage"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
by jlesagelarge American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality by Janez Strehovec, Ph.D.
by jlesageuseful 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 jlesageby Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
by jlesageIntroduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
by jlesage & 1 othervery well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesagevery large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Aesthetics and Visual Culture
by jlesageextensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06
Joel Kovel
by jlesagemany of this important writer's essays online, a psychoanalyst who has long been a political commentator
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
by jlesageblog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint
18 November 2006
RCCS: Course List of Cyberculture Studies
by jlesageSite is a center of such studies; course list regularly updaged