public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags essays & overviews

December 2006

Blogging as pedagogic practice: by Marcus O'Donnell

theoretical overview and roundup of concepts about Internet and education

November 2006

Notes on The Gaze

Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory

Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture

intriguing website taking up themes and critical theories/ists, with many links; check out "index" link on home page

October 2006

Jahn: Homepage

major figure in narrative theory has much work available online

screenonline

by 1 other
"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv

critcrim.org

Essay summarizing differences between modernist and postmodernist thought, useful for grad students, those who want to catch up quickly.

September 2006

Film Studies Resources - Academic Info

useful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv

August 2006

MPI - Participant Rooms

excellent set of academic online essays related to "global and local factors that enable/constrain cultural production and resignification/resistance by a varierty of media audiences"

Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network

left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups

Upperstall.com - A Better View of Indian Cinema

analytic writing about Indian cinema; a good place to start if you want to start looking at films from India in a serious way

eLearn: Feature Article

by 1 other
good overview of shifts in edtech to new kinds of networked learning

left media resources

left links to alternate analysis of current and historical events

July 2006

MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL

important journal covering independent and avant-garde films; complete index; online essays begin with issue no. 26, fall 1992

alterity

Danah Boyd's blog specifically for commenting on all the basic readings she did for her PhD exams

cinemaspace

one of the few hypertextual sites for film criticism

June 2006

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies