01 December 2006
Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions
by jlesageThe site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.
artists and art...the-artists.org
by jlesage & 1 otherextended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists
[debates] A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons
by jlesageby Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence
22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
by jlesageentry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
Jo’s Toolkit for grassroots and student journalists
by jlesagetips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual
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
Conversations with Dina
by jlesagepost on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
by jlesage & 4 othersportal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
by jlesageextensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
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
ArtLex Art Dictionary
by jlesage & 3 otherssearch, arranged in alphabetical order, large number of terms
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
Bruce B. Janz Home Page
by jlesagevery large academic resources collection for arts, humanities, social theory, philosophy
Connectivism Blog
by jlesage & 1 othera new theory of education and learning, for a digital Internet culture
16 November 2006
Sequence Analysis
by jlesage & 1 otherby a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence
Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
by jlesage & 1 otherextensive links page for cultural studies, theory, web resources, major figures by a teacher
David Butz and Michael Ripmeester - Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures
by jlesagecombines concept of Third Space with that of subcultural resistance