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New Media
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General Resources- Media Studies
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MCS: Media & Communications Studies Site ("an award-winning portal or 'meta-index' to internet-based resources useful in the academic study of media and communication . . . originally established by Daniel Chandler in Spring 1995 and is hosted by the U. of Wales, Aberystwyth")
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Communications, Culture, and Media Studies Infobase (encylopedic collection of articles on major media/cultural studies theories, communications studies schools of thought, and studies; initially aimed at British A-level students) (Mick Underwood)
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Popcultures.com- Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center (extensive site comprising links to media and cutlural studies articles; guides to theorists; calls for papers; academic programs; newsgroups) (Sarah Zupko, Tribune Media)
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Communication Studies Resources (links to resources on a wide variety of media, communications, and cultural studies topics) (Dept. of Communications, U. Iowa)
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American Communication Assoc. ("a not-for-profit organization, a virtual professional association with actual presence in the world of scholars and practitioners alike. ACA was created to promote academic and professional research, criticism, teaching, practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication...") |
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Frameline Home ("mission is to support, develop, and promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer visibility through media arts") |
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GLAAD: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ("dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation") |
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Interface Archive Transfer Service ("access to the millions of feet of film at the National Archives, Library of Congress, and National Air and Space Museum plus private library collections") |
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Internet Resources for the Study of Communications (Paul Starr; Princeton U.)
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Homepage (resources compiled for a course entitled "Communications, Culture, and Society")(Paul Starr, Princeton U.) |
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MediaRights ("nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues") |
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mediastudies.com ("to help advance research and education in media studies and critical thinking . . .serves as a hub - providing links to international news, media studies sites and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community") (Peter Clayton) |
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Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
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Course List:- Cyberculture (extensive set of links to syllabis and course pages ) (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies; David Silver, U. Washington) |
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Screen Site ("ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students") (U. Alabama)
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies ("professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image . . Film Studies, Cinema Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies") |
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SXSW (South by Southwest) ("dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals"; produces internationally recognized SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, among others) |
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Third World Newsreel ("one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the US"; "committed to the creation and appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world") |
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Media Theory and Theorists
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Theory.org.uk ("social theory for fans of popular culture; popular culture for fans of social theory") (David Gauntlett, Bournemouth Media School, UK) |
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Daniel Chandler (U. Wales, Aberystwyth), (extensive resource and links guide, including overview essays written by Chandler)
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Essays By Daniel Chandler
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Noam Chomsky
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Sean Cubitt (Liverpool John Moores U., UK), Digital Aesthetics ("the first full-length study to investigate the aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world...") (companion site, including illustrations, related links, "outtakes") |
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Guy Debord
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Guy Debord (bibliography of Debord, links to many of his texts) (Not Bored"an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal") |
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Guy Dubord (notbored.org) |
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Guy Debord (resources to biographical links and links to/about Debord's work) |
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Gilles Deleuze And Félix Guattari
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General Resources
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The Deleuze & Guattari Page (Spoon Collective; Jon Beasley-Murray & Jim Castonguay) ("This website accompanies the deleuze-guattari email list . . . forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in both the separate and joint works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari . . . since 1994) |
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Other Relevant Pages
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Deleuze and Guattari Rhiz-O-Mat ("The first version of the Rhiz-o-Mat was created on the 'm.e.s.s.i.a.h.' site circa May 1995. A Thousand Plateaus recommended a record-album style of reading -- what if it skipped? . . . A series of meta-tags. A simple quote feeder. "Push Media" . . . BlebNet has now reformatted this arcane textual artifact with an all new post-apocalyptic shell with a client-based back-end squiggle.") |
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Secondary Literature
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Writings & Interviews
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Frankfurt School
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Frankfurt School- General
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Theodor Adorno
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Adorno Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Scott H. Moore) |
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Walter Benjamin
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Max Horkheimer
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Herbert Marcuse
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Henry Jenkins (Mass. Instititute of Technology)
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Henry Jenkins (MIT), ("this is the story of how a mild mannered MIT Professor ended up being called before Congress to testify about 'selling violence to our children' and what it is like to testify") |
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Douglas Kellner (UCLA)
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Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law)
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Marhall Mcluhan
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McLuhan Global Research Network ("a not for profit knowledge media design and public policy think tank that supports collaborations among scholars, researchers and practitioners whose work extends the insights of Marshall McLuhan") ("Incubated at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, U. Toronto") |
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Marshall McLuhan (McLuhan quotes, biography, and links) (estate of Marshall McLuhan) |
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Purely McLuhan (bio/bibliography and McLuhan links) (Valeria Buitron, U. Chicago) |
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The McLuhan Probes (monthly publication on media theorist McLuhan; visually oriented site) (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design) |
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Media Ecology
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Media Ecology Association (The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community.) |
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Media Ecology (links to resources about media ecology, from media literacy perspective) (Susan Rogers) |
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Neil Postman
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Neil Postman (links to articles by and about Postman) (Daniel Chandler, MCS- U. of Wales) |
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Media Effects
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Henry Jenkins (MIT), ("this is the story of how a mild mannered MIT Professor ended up being called before Congress to testify about 'selling violence to our children' and what it is like to testify") |
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Media Literacy
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Center for Media Literacy ("a nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally.") (resources for teachers) |
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Media Awareness Network ("resources and support for everyone interested in media and information literacy for young people") |
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Media Education Foundation ("produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation.") |
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Neil Postman
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Neil Postman (links to articles by and about Postman) (Daniel Chandler, MCS- U. of Wales) |
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David N. Rodowick (King's College, London)
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Herbert Schiller
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Media Histories
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The Media History Project ("promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels") (School of Journalism and Mass Comm., U. of Minnesota)
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Radio Program Archive ("Over 35 years ago I began this radio collection from original transcriptions, private collectors and other institutional collections to preserve for research and scholarship what people had once heard over American radio. It was decided not to attempt to collect every program of every series which exists, but a representative sampling of most series and shows") (Marvin R. Bensman, U. of Memphis) |
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Telemuseum (history of telecommunications) (Telecommunications Museum, Stockholm; with major links to "History" and "Exhibitions"; available in English or Swedish language) |
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TV
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General Resources (Television Studies)
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive ("the Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt Universitythe world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.") |
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TV Week (television industry trade publication; formerly titled Electronic Media) |
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Ireland Film and Television Network "gateway to the Irish film and television industry . . .Ireland's premier film information service . . . up-dated daily, providing information about all aspects of the audio-visual industry" |
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Journal of Popular Film and Television ("Offers sociocultural perspectives on commercial films and television. Essays discuss networks, genres and audiences, as well as studios, directors and stars") |
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Memorable TV ("contains details of thousands of TV shows from around the world, from the golden age of Television to today's hit shows") (UK, US, and British) |
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Science Fiction Page (this site offers a number of guides to Science Fiction television series) (Duncan White and Bevis King) |
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Screen Site ("ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students") (U. Alabama)
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Television Links (a variety of resources about television) (Sarah Sharpe at Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center) |
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TV Barn (television news, reviews, and resources for and about television critics) (Aaron Barnhart) |
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TV Newser ("blogging about television news") (Brian Stelter) |
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TV Tattle ("a weblog of TV news and criticism") |
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TV Tome ("has over 2,100 complete guides covering almost all the current shows and many of your favorite classics. There's also an additional 3,000+ guides that are partially complete or under development") |
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Zap2it.com ("guide to what's onscreen - TV, movies, Internet") (Zap2it.com / Tribune Media Services) |
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Articles, Essays, and Theory (Television Studies)
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Reality TV
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Screen ("the leading international academic journal in the field of film and television...")(John Logie Baird Centre (Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde / Oxford U.Press) |
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Soap Operas
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Television Series and Shows
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Buffy Studies by Discipline- Bibliography ("This under-construction and admittedly arbitrary (and incomplete) classification scheme includes published essays in print and online journals and published and forthcoming collections, essays submitted for consideration to Slayage, a few theses and dissertations, books on BtVS, proposals received for the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and papers given at conferences such as Blood, Text and Fears") (Slayage) |
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Slayage ("The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies") |
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Simpsons Archive ("the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons and other fans around the world") |
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Star Trek
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The Prisoner
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Xena: Warrior Princess
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Television Networks
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Film/Video
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General Film/Video Resources
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1001 bandes-annonces (page containing trailers, mainly of American and French films; French language site) |
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The American Film Institute ("the nation's preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image. Since 1967, AFI has served as America's voice for film, television, video, and the digital arts, with innovative programs in education, training |
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California Newsreel (non-profit documentary film and video production and distribution center with extensive "collections of African American video, African video, video on the workplace, and . . . media and society") |
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CineWEB ("web service designed exclusively for film and video industry professionals"; includes "specialized databases for location scouting, crewing up, and more," also "trade magazines and journals online") (Dave Gardner) |
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Film and Destroy ("presents, supports and encourages independent and experimental work by, for and about women") (Bridget Irish) |
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Film Bibliographies ("bibliographies on miscellaneous film topics and themes (e.g., food in the movies; disabilities in the movies; the movies, race and ethnicity; women in film and TV; and others)") (Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley) |
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Filmfestivals.com (offers links to festivals around the world and to film reviews, as well as to resources for film "professionals") |
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Frameline Home ("mission is to support, develop, and promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer visibility through media arts") |
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Ireland Film and Television Network "gateway to the Irish film and television industry . . .Ireland's premier film information service . . . up-dated daily, providing information about all aspects of the audio-visual industry" |
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MediaRights ("nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues") |
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Moviefone (movie theater schedules in select cities and neighborhoods; searchable; requires graphical browser) (MovieFone/AOL) |
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Movienet (theater showtimes, by city) (Goldwyn/Landmark Theatres) |
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OnVideo ("hot video news and information about home video and film, including cool sell-through titles, the latest non-theatrical releases, "B" films, promotions, collections, price reductions, special interest videos, made-for-video releases, music videos") |
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Real Movies (movie trailers, reviews, box office reports) |
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Screen Site ("ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students") (U. Alabama)
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies ("professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image . . Film Studies, Cinema Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies") |
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Film History
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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Bertolucci Core ("biography, filmography, criticism, links") (Dept. of Italian, Vassar College) |
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Blade Runner Page: 2019 Off-World ("...a growing archive...with information unique to this site as well as links to other Internet resources.")(UnderWorld Industries)
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Citizen Kane's Borrowings ("...For all the lavish praise heaped upon Citizen Kane for its originality, there are too many attributions to it that "scholars" have made that the film doesn't deserve. Herein is my list of techniques employed in "Citizen Kane" . . .) (David Hayes) |
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Dermatology in the Cinema ("As a dermatologist and a film buff, I've found a series of skin conditions featured in movies. . . ") |
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Film-Historia ("FILM-HISTORIA Online is a tri-lingual (Spanish, English, and Catalan) journal dedicated to the study of the relationship between history and cinema studies modeled on the British journals Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television and Film and History.") |
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Dan Georgakas, "Hollywood Blacklist" (informational article from Buhle, Buhle, and Georgakas, ed., Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1992) (Al Fireis, U. Penn) |
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard Interview (excerpts by Henri Behar; "On the role of the filmmaker in a world where bombs exploding are a daily occurrence") |
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Stanley Kubrick
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Akira Kurosawa
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Fritz Lang
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ModernTimes: Classic Film Pages (includes articles, images, audio clips, bibliography, links, etc.; sections on classic films, B-films, early Black Hollywood, screwball comedies, Edward G. Robinson, and Barbara Stanwyck) (Michael Mill |
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Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray (includes biography and filmography, and much more) (S. K. Singh, Bombay) |
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Contemporary Film
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Pedro Almodovar:
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Almodovarlandia (links to resources about Almodovar; in English. German and Spanish) (Karl Erber) |
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David Cronenberg
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Film.com (Reviews, Film Festivals, Screening Room, movie news, and more) |
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Peter Greenaway
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Hal Hartley
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Hong Kong Cinema
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Electric Shadows Journal ("...a mailing list devoted to Asian Arthouse Movies...; links to discussions on a great many topics such as "Films," "Directors," "Group Reviews," and "Essays,") |
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David Lynch
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Official David Lynch Site ("This is a membership and pay-per-series site. There are a number of experiences waiting for you if you choose to become a member . . .") |
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Christopher Nolan
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Jonathan Nolan Memento Mori (Story that inspired the film Memento(Esquire Magazine) |
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Martin Scorsese
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ScreenSite ("ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students . . .first emerged in 1994 during the Paleolithic era of the Web. In 2003 we mounted a major renovation) (U. Alabama) |
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Quentin Tarantino
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Wayne Wang
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Wim Wenders
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Film Theory
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Film Theory List ("This list is a forum for the discussion of the theory of film, cinema, video and related media in all their aspects: aesthetic, artistic, cultural, social, philosophical and political...") (The Spoon Collective) |
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Feminist Film Theory
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David N. Rodowick (King's College, London)
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Screen ("the leading international academic journal in the field of film and television...")(John Logie Baird Centre (Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde / Oxford U.Press) |
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Movie Studios, Film & Production Companies
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Rhythm and Hues Studios ("an Academy Award® winning film production studio specializing in visual effects for feature films, television commercials, theme park rides, music videos and interactive games...") |
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Festivals
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Filmfestivals.com (offers links to festivals around the world and to film reviews, as well as to resources for film "professionals") |
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Frameline Home ("mission is to support, develop, and promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer visibility through media arts") |
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Hollywood Black Film Festival ("festival aims to enhance the careers of emerging and established black filmmakers through a public exhibition and competition program") |
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OutFest (Gay & Lesbian Film festivals) |
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SXSW (South by Southwest) ("dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals"; produces internationally recognized SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, among others) |
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Film Studies Depts. & Programs
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New Media
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New Media- General
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Convergence ("the journal of research into new media technologies") |
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Institute for New Media Studies (the University of Minnesota Institute for New Media Studies is a center for creation, innovation, and examination of content and messages and the affects of new media technologies and techniques on their forms and functions) |
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K.i.s.s. of the Panopticon: Cultural Theory and New Media
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K.I.S.S. Homepage (plain-speaking site that gives "people a quick, user-friendly, one-stop" guide to new media literacy as well as cultural/critical theory and its relationship with communications and new media) (Doug Bicket) |
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Comprehensive Index (ambitious hypertext glossary of major authors and topics in cultural theory; supplies brief descriptions or intros) |
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Special Topics (including "nature of the self," "postcolonialism and new media," "national identity," "British press in Europe," "machine intelligence," "how to read semiotics," "screen theory," |
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New Media Studies (companion site to Web.Studies 2004) (this site has been designed for the study of new media, with a strong emphasis on the Web, and contains articles, book, website reviews, web design guides, internet information, and more.) (David Gauntlett, U. of Leeds) |
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Cd-Roms
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The CD Information Center (a public-service site with links to some valuable links, such as "FAQs", "Industry News", "Bibliography & Glossaries", and "Selected Articles")(The CD Info Company) |
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The CD-ROM Shopper's Guide ("This site was initially created for CD-ROM discussion, but now has expanded to all types of digital storage. That includes CDI's, VideoCD's, DVD's, CD-RW's, and so on ... At the heart of our site are our discussion message boards. In addition, the site offers an excellent price comparison bot (Bargain Finder), and numerous links to other resources.") |
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Queue ("Queue develops, publishes and markets educational CD-ROM...") |
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Cyberculture
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General Resources
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ART+COM ("an interdisciplinary group concerned with the integration of computer technology, communication and design") |
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Bibliography on Chat Communication ("the subject of this bibliography are contributions on Computer-Mediated Communication, that deal with communication in webchats and IRC (partially also MUDs and MOOs) under the perspective of linguistics, communication research and/or social sciences") (in English and German) (Michael Beisswenger) |
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Computer Mediated Communication Resources ("here, you'll find organized and annotated links to Web sites about information sources related to CMC technology, use, and study, with an emphasis on Internet-based CMC") (John December) |
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Corante ("Tech News Filtered Daily") (links to numerous weblogs and columns) |
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CTHEORY ("international journal of theory, technology and culture") |
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CyberReader Page (support page for Victor J. Vitanza's anthology of readings on cyberspace and virtual reality) |
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Digitale Film Directory (This directory is divided into seven sub-directories: Studios on the Internet; Independant Film Makers; Electronic Publications; Enhanced Cinemas; Digital Cinema Experiments; Cinema History; and Other Internet Film Resources) |
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Internet Culture (well-organized and -selected page of links) (Martin Ryder, U. Colorado, Denver) |
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Netlab (Sociology, U. Toronto) |
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New Media Studies (companion site to Web.Studies 2004) (this site has been designed for the study of new media, with a strong emphasis on the Web, and contains articles, book, website reviews, web design guides, internet information, and more.) (David Gauntlett, U. of Leeds) |
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PEW Internet & American Life Project ("The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces original, academic-quality reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project also aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of essential, relevant data and timely discussions of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world") |
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WayBack Machine (Internet Archive) (massive archive of Web sites launched on Oct. 24th, 2001, that is designed to provide access to Web pages as they existed in the past; searching for a site returns dated versions starting about fall 1996) |
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Projects, Sites
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Bodies, INCorporated (sophisticated multimedia, interactive environment in which users construct virtual bodies and "incorporate" as part of an exploration of the interface between art and corporate zones) (Victoria Vesna et al., U. California, Los Angeles) |
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BotSpot (Bots and intelligent agents on the net) |
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Caltech Infospheres Project ("Traditional organizations with fixed sets of people and resources, carrying out fixed sets of activities, are giving way to fluid [virtual] organizations that link different groups of people and resources temporarily to carry out missions as they a |
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Coded Messages: CHAINS (conceptual hypermedia project that raises "questions about the power of language and communications in traditional and post-modern society" by connecting "our friends in Ghana (where there is no Internet service at all) and Web surfers . . .") |
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Consumptive Writing (A Fatal Strategy) (unique site that presents an anti-"process" approach to the philosophy and practice of composition teaching on the basis of cross-disciplinary reflections centered on Baudrillard's philosophy) (Matthew Levy, U. Texas, Arlington) |
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The CyberCulture, Identity, and Gender Resources Page (A metapage in the interactive database mode that offers compiled research on such issues as Role Playing MUDs and the performance of gender, as well as questions regarding "the body," the "Real" and the "Virtual." The site offers a large number of a |
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Education and Technology Resources (Virginia Montecito, George Mason U.) ("Welcome to my Web site with education, technology, and scholarship resources for faculty and students. For example, I have "how-to" guides for computer-mediated communication and resources on distance learning, |
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Edward_Amiga ("Edward_Amiga is a hypernovel, let's say a linear fiction integrating programation as a new language. You need to read french and have the JavaScript option of your browser enabled.") (Fred Romano, France) |
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Eliza (the famous early bot designed by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT for research into natural language conversation with computers; site allows user to "chat" with Eliza through Web forms) |
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Future Culture Home Page ("FutureCulture is deliberately broad in scope when it comes to the topics discussed, but a quick list might include: Technoculture/new edge/cyberculture; Cyberspace & the Internet; Virtual reality; The computer underground; Cyberpunk (literary and c |
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The Geography of Cyberspace ("resources for measuring and mapping the geography of an embryonic Cyberspace [i.e. the Internet and WWW]") (Martin Dodge) |
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Headmap ("The headmap manifesto is a sequence of texts dealing with the social and cultural implications of location aware devices") (Ben Russell) |
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Honoria in Ciberspazio ("Th[is] cyberspace opera . . . is a romantic musical comedy. It is about a time when clones of the mythic postmodern cyborg creature attempted to seduce various human internet users.When isolated and lonely computer hackers entreat the great oracle") |
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IMMAGINA/E - Surreal weirdness (Guido Poggi) ("Surreal computer-art image gallery; subtopics diverse, ranging from "Surrealities" and "Humananimals" to "Bjork" ") |
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The Informedia Project ("research initiative at Carnegie Mellon University funded by the NSF, DARPA, NASA and others, that studies how multimedia Digital Libraries can be established and used. Informedia is building a multimedia library that will contain over a thousand ho |
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Internet Love Fest (server/publisher of "cyberspace-only material and experimental HTML; the theme is the emergence of intelligent life after humans") |
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IT & Telecoms (includes links for CMC, information tech and gender, identity and the Internet, IT and society, virtual communities, etc.) (Daniel Chandler) |
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Liquid Information Organization (site dedicated to envisioning a future, more "fluid" integration of information; the "liquid information environment" is "total integration, and not just an information tsunami. . . . It's where you can edit inform |
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Mary Flanagan (Hunter C.), Home Page ("links to creative work, shows / events, writing, cv, course materials, and my research projects for girls, including the RAPUNSEL project and "The Adventures of Josie True" funded by the NSF") |
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Neo-Nomad (blog dedicated to the technonology, culture, and design of "mobilities") (Yasmine Abbas) |
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Survival Research Laboratories ("creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations. . . . Each [SRL] performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between |
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Takedown (site that details the hunt for hacker Kevin Mitnick (once "America's most-wanted computer outlaw") from the perspective of Tsutomu Shimomura) (Vicious Fishes Web Design & Dan Meriwether) |
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The Turing Test Homepage ("contains all the information that we could find concerning the so called 'Turing Test' ") (Ayse Pinar Saygin) |
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The Virtual City (Rice Design Alliance 1994 lecture series on the impact of technology on the concept of the city) |
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Writings, Interviews
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Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, "The Californian Ideology" ("The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as Wired and Mondo 2000 as well as the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and many others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, thirty-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. . . .")
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Sandra Braman (U. Illinois), "Art in the Net" (essay on the sociocultural relation of the arts to information society) (Undercurrents) |
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Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945) (HTML version of the canonical essay on hypertext; originally published in The Atlantic Monthly) |
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Fred Evans, "Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy" (long essay which argues that "the Internet's status as a "virtual" rather than actual reality (its status as a serendipitous form of what phenomenologists call an epochéor a "placing within brackets" of our standard beliefs) reveals some of the more |
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Victor Margolin (U. Illinois, Chicago), "The Politics of the Artificial" (1995) (philosophical approach to the concept of artifice that includes discussion of William Gibson, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, and other postmodern writers) |
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María Elena Martínez Torres (U. California, Berkeley), "The Internet: Post-Modern Struggle by the Dispossessed of Modernity" (1997) ("The paradox of the revolution in technology that took world capitalism to a new stage of structure and organization-globalization-is that exactly the same technology has also made possible the creation of a counter-hegemonic movement, the global ci |
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Ken Sanes, Transparency (site featuring essays by a former newspaper columnist and freelance writer on cultural studies and cyberculture) |
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Steven Shaviro (U. Washington), Doom Patrols ("theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture"; full text of book) (1995-1997) |
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Steve Silberman "Black Flight to the Net" ("The author of a new study reporting a US$53 million surge in high-tech purchases by African American families in 1996 says that the rush of blacks to the online world is being driven partly by a hunger to find replacements for news and programming") (Wired) |
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Paul Treanor, "Why Telecity Projects Are Wrong" ("The EU now uses the name telecities for projects which were originally called freenets in the United States. They are also called digital cities, or telepolis. . . . Characteristic of telecity projects is the claim to provide some ki |
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Robert M. Young (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Primitive Processes on the Internet" (1996) ("an exploration of people's primitive feelings about computers and getting on the Internet. It also examines some of the fantasy and other irrational elements of being on the 'net") |
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Internet Broadcast Media
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Internet Talk Radio ("Internet Talk Radio started broadcasting in 1993 as the first radio station on the Internet. As part of the museum.media.org effort to rescue some of our past work, we're also maintaining archives of early programs in their original state. Over time, we hope to go back and rescue these archives, but for now we offer them to you the way they looked in the early days of the web. You may find some broken links and some musty audio formats, but we hope you'll find some use for the data in the state they are in until we get around to refurbishing them.") |
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RealPlayer (free and commercial versions of the RealPlayer streaming audio and video client program) () RealNetworks, Inc.) |
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Video/Computer Games and Gaming
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Game Culture ("developed as a central information resource for academics, developers, gamers and others interested in the significance of computer games as a cultural phenomenon") |
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Game Research ("this site attempts to bring together the art, science and business of computer games") (articles, book reviews, tutorials) |
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Women Gamers ("because women DO play") (articles, reviews, interviews) |
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Popular Music
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IndieWeb ("the Net's first independent label space") (Chelsea Starr & Chris Barrus) |
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Journalism
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Journalism Studies and General Resources
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Media-Watch Groups & Sites
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FAIR- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ("national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.") (links to action alerts, Counterspin articles, articles from "Extra!"-- their print magazine of media criticism) |
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The Freedom Forum ("a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people") |
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Project Censored ("the Mission of Project Censored is to educate people about the role of independent journalism in a democratic society and to tell The News That Didn't Make the News and why . . .a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media") |
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The War Room (conservative media page with extensive links to other politically "right" online sites) |
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American Journalism Review ("covers all aspects of print, television, radio and online media . . . examines how the media cover specific stories and broader coverage trends . . . ethical dilemmas in the field and monitors the impact of technology on how journalism is practiced and on the final product") |
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Dan Gillmor We The Media ("A Web site and Weblog About Topics and Issues Discussed in the Book We the Media by Dan Gillmor") |
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Poynter Online ("everything you need to be a better journalist") (includes a number of daily newsletters on a variety of journalism topics) |
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Romenesko ("your daily fix of media industry news, commentary, and memos") (aimed at journalists) (Poynter Online)
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TV Newser ("blogging about television news") (Brian Stelter) |
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U.S. news sources
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive ("the Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt Universitythe world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.") |
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AlterNet "a highly acclaimed Internet information source that provides readers with crucial facts and passionate opinions they can't find anywhere else. Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news and now provides free online content to over 1.5 million readers every month") |
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Disinformation: The Subculture Search Engine (annotated "alternative" guide/links to news and society; "the search service of choice for individuals looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' that seldom seems to slip through |
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Latino USA ("The radio journal of news and culture" |
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MediaFinder ("the source for subscription, advertising and mailing list rates & info for 90,000 U.S. & international print media & catalogs") (Oxbridge Communications) |
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NewsLink (links to daily & weekly papers)(American Journalism Review) |
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New York Times
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Stop the Presses: Behind the Brass Door (multimedia tribute to the closing of The New York Times 43rd Street Press Room in July 1997; includes streaming video and virtual pressroom tours) (New York Times) |
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Pulitzer Prizes (prize-winning works and author profiles) (Columbia Journalism Review) |
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Canadian News sources
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CNEWS (Canoe: Canadian Online Explorer) |
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European news sources
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Other international news sources
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International Teletimes ("Teletimes is a broad, international culture magazine assembled in Vancouver, Canada, and distributed all over the world through the Internet...") |
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Reuters News (also includes complete online edition of Funk & Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia and other resources; requires free registration) |
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Russian Story (pay-by-transaction "instant access to current copies of famous Russian newspapers in their original form, including all photos, charts, cartoons and even crosswords") |
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The World OnLine (Daily news program produced by BBC and Public Radio International) |
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Radio
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Deutsche Welle (German shortwave radio; requires the RealAudio client to receive audio) |
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Gainesville Amateur Radio Society On-Line ("Amateur radio is a hobby of personal enjoyment. But in times of need, hams are transformed into self-trained public service communicators, ready and able to help their neighbors during emergencies and natural disasters...") |
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Internet Talk Radio ("Internet Talk Radio started broadcasting in 1993 as the first radio station on the Internet. As part of the museum.media.org effort to rescue some of our past work, we're also maintaining archives of early programs in their original state. Over time, we hope to go back and rescue these archives, but for now we offer them to you the way they looked in the early days of the web. You may find some broken links and some musty audio formats, but we hope you'll find some use for the data in the state they are in until we get around to refurbishing them.") |
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Radio Locator (formerly "MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet") (500+ links, particularly useful for searching non-commercial--particularly college-radio--offereings) (Theodric Young) |
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Pacifica Radio Archives ("Pacifica Radio Archives is considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. This site is an interactive window into the collection and what has made it all possible") |
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Prometheus Radio Project ("microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters . . .conferences, events and literature on microradio and democratic media issues . . .public interest advocate on microradio issues, and to help facilitate public participation in the FCC rulemaking and legislative process") |
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Eric Boehlert (salon.com) "Radio's Big Bully" (series of articles on corporate consolidation of radio and Clear Channel Communications in particular) |
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Radio 4 All ("This site connects you to the movement to reclaim the airwaves...") |
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Radio Program Archive ("Over 35 years ago I began this radio collection from original transcriptions, private collectors and other institutional collections to preserve for research and scholarship what people had once heard over American radio. It was decided not to attempt to collect every program of every series which exists, but a representative sampling of most series and shows") (Marvin R. Bensman, U. of Memphis) |
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Real Radio ("This site has been inspired by recent disturbing events at one of the nation's last remaining bastions of free speech, KPFA . . . We can use the net to get the message out and to make sure everyone knows what is going on nationwide and even worldwide. On this site you will find links to other sites with more updated information. Most importantly, through this site you will be able to actually tune in to the few remaining radio stations that are doing something different and valuable. We hope to see that list grow over time. If you know of a station that needs to be heard (noncommercial only), this is the place to let us know") |
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Virtual Tuner ("The Internet's 1st Live Internet Radio and TV Directory") |
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Comics
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Academic Resources- comics ("this page collects inks to various resources of interest to those who study or teach comics in the classroom") (Gene Kannenberg, U. Houston) |
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Anime and Manga
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Anime and Manga Research Circle ("our goal is to build and maintain a diverse community of scholars engaged in the academic study of anime and manga, their associated (sub)cultures worldwide, and (tangentially) Japanese popular culture in general") |
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Art Spiegelman's Maus (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia - Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities) |
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Comics Scholarship and Academic Resources (annotated bibliography covering "book-length works about comic books and comic strips, from "fannish" histories to academic monographs. This site aims to provide more information and guidance on such books than you'd normally find in a library catalog entry")(Gene Kannenberg, U. Houston) |
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Comics Research Bibliography ("international bibliography of comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons, bandes dessinees, and related topics") (Michael Rhode and John Bullough) |
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Comix Scholars Discussion List ("The comix-scholars@clas.ufl.edu list serves as an academic forum for those involved in research, criticism and teaching related to comics art") (John Ronan, U. Florida) |
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Indy Magazine (bimonthly print magazine covering alternative comics; includes online resources) |
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Teacher Guide to the Professional Cartoonists Index (well-developed "lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in social sciences, art, journalism and English" at elementary, middle-school, and high-school levels; includes "the largest collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web--all . . . presented with the permission and participation of the cartoonists" (Peg Cagle, Lawrence Middle School, Los Angeles / Daryl Cagle, National Cartoonists Society) |
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Telecom Issues
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Community Telecom Toolkit ("Ten Steps to Building a More Diverse, Responsive, and Participatory Media System at the Local Level") (Center for Digital Democracy) |
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Telecoms Virtual Library (a free index of telecommunications companies and currently holds 8343 links . . .part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library and has been hosted by Analysys, one of the world's leading telecommunications consulting and research firms, since 1994") |
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Wireless Unleashed ("advocates freeing up low-frequency spectrum globally for wireless broadband and unlicensed applications") |
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Consumerism & Advertising
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Ad Flip ("the world's largest database of print advertising") |
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Adbusters ("We are a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century . . .To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates this website and offers its creative services through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency")
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Ad Critic (downloadable video of thousands of commercials) |
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Journal of Advertising ("the premier journal devoted to the development of advertising theory and its relationship to practice") |
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Marketing Science (Informs: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) |
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Public Relations Watch ("investigates and exposes how the public relations industry and other professional propagandists manipulate public information, perceptions and opinion on behalf of governments and special interests.") (Center for Media and Democracy) |
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Censorship
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Banned Books On-Line (Ockerbloom, John, U. of Pennsylvania) ("exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page.") |
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Cybercensorship
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Douglas Birsh (Villanova U.), "Sexually Explicit Materials and the Internet" (1996) ("describes the kinds of material on the Internet and its categorization. From a philosophical perspective, this material suggests some definitions and implications for legal and human rights") (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine) |
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The Center for Democracy and Technology ("a non-profit public interest organization based in Washington DC. The Center's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies") |
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Chip Head (critique of the U. S. law calling for a "V-Chip" or violence-censoring chip in television sets) (Ives Colin) |
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Congressional Decency Act Controversy
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Communications Decency Act (the part of the U. S. telecom act of 1996 relevant to indecency on the Internet) (Center for Democracy and Technology) |
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EFF - The Electronic Frontier Foundation ("Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties. Among our various activities, EFF opposes misguided legislation, initiates and defends court cases preserving individuals' rights, launches global public campaigns, introduces leading edge proposals and papers, hosts frequent educational events, engages the press regularly, and publishes a comprehensive archive of digital civil liberties information at one of the most linked-to websites in the world") |
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Time Magazine Cyberporn Controversy
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Cyberporn Debate (Donna Hoffman's and Thomas Novak's dissection of the Rimm report on cyberporn and its reception by Time Magazine) |
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The File Room Censorship Archive (illustrated archive on censorship) ("The File Room is an artist's project initiated by Muntadas, produced by Randolph Street Gallery in collaboration with the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago and the Department of Cultural Affairs - City of Chicago. The File Room is maintained by the National Coalition Against Censorship") |
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Index on Censorship ("the bi-monthly magazine for free speech . . . Index shows how free speech affects the political issues of the moment.") |
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Music Censorship
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A Brief History of Banned Music ("selective on-line chronicle of popular music that has been censored, banned or altered in the name of community standards and morals"; begins with the 1950s) (Eric Nuzum) |
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Project Censored ("the Mission of Project Censored is to educate people about the role of independent journalism in a democratic society and to tell The News That Didn't Make the News and why . . .a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media") |
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Susan Dwyer (McGill U.), "A Plea to Ignore the Consequences of Free Speech" (1996) ("asks us to reject consquentialist terms in debating the limits on free speech; instead, she calls for a position in which those who argue to restrict pornography and hate speech must say something more about the ways in which these things t |
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Journals (Media Studies)
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Canadian Journal of Communication ("A journal of research and scholarship encompassing the field of communication and journalism studies giving emphasis to Canadian work and Canadian issues...") |
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Convergence ("the journal of research into new media technologies") |
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Journal of Advertising ("the premier journal devoted to the development of advertising theory and its relationship to practice") |
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Journal of Popular Film and Television ("Offers sociocultural perspectives on commercial films and television. Essays discuss networks, genres and audiences, as well as studios, directors and stars") |
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Mediamatic Magazine ("Mediamatic Foundation was established in 1985 and was originally founded to act as a meeting place and forum for video artists and TV dissidents. The Foundation published Mediamatic Magazine, an international bilingual journal in Dutch and English about the cultural and artistic implications of new media. Since 1993 Mediamatic has also published a now famous series of CD-ROMs. ") |
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Screen ("the leading international academic journal in the field of film and television...")(John Logie Baird Centre (Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde / Oxford U.Press) |
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Third Text (journal) ("Third-World Perspectives on Contemporary Art & Culture")(U. of Waikato, New Zealand) |
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Departments, Programs, Professional Associations (Media Studies)
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The Aspen Institute "an international nonprofit educational institution dedicated to enhancing the quality of leadership through informed dialogue. It convenes men and women who represent diverse viewpoints and backgrounds from business, labor, government, the professions, the arts, and the nonprofit sector to relate timeless ideas and values to the foremost challenges facing societies, organizations, and individuals...") |
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Broadcast Education Association ("the professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate students who are interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises...") |
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The MIT Media Lab ("The Laboratory pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to traditional divisions among disciplines...") |
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New Media Centers ("a non-profit organization empowering educators to change the way people learn...")(San Francisco, CA) |
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies ("professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image . . Film Studies, Cinema Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies") |
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Courses, Syllabi, and Teaching Resources (Media Studies)
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Course List:- Cyberculture (extensive set of links to syllabis and course pages ) (Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies; David Silver, U. Washington) |
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