My Recommendations
George Lucas has set up a wonderful foundation devoted to Education and the Digital Age. Edutopia has many resources on it of great importance to anyone interested in learning.
Rise of the Machines: Why Demand Media Is Worth More Than the New York Times
The New Video where you can make fifty bucks for a quick shoot.
Dieter Rams 10 design principles
Expressive Intelligence Studio (Great Blog!)
Seattle Central Library: Civic Architecture in the Age of Media “Current technological devices are changing our understanding of time and space. Most importantly, they are changing the way we expect to experience time and space. Our lives and cities have continually been redefined by innovation, making it hard to argue which technology (mercantile, automobile, digital, etc.) has had the most impact. Yet, we are at a point of significant inversion, where many technologies are becoming more active than their users. As Simone Weil has suggested, technology now “is the thing that thinks, and it is the man who is reduced to the state of the thing.”
90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
Cine-Tracts: A Journal of Film and Communications Writers like John Berger, Raymond Williams, Stephen Heath, Teresa de Lauretis among others. A vast resource for researchers in Film Studies.
The Daily Bleat (a Blog that is full of interesting images and ideas)
The Institute for the Future of the Book is a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.
For those of you seeking quality discussions about Design, the Design Council in the UK is a wonderful resource.
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
The Pew Internet and American Life Project
The Official Blog of Henry Jenkins
The Interstitial Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art: literature, music, visual and performance art found in between categories and genres — art that crosses borders.
Media Literacies: Learning in a Participatory Culture
Arthur: Homegrown Counterculture — Comics and more
Resource Centre for Cyberculture
Ryeberg Curated Videos from YouTube
Computer Arts from the UK
apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed
Arthur Lipsett’s masterpiece Very Nice, Very Nice
Cine-Tracts: A Journal Film, Communications and Cultural Studies Ciné-Tracts was founded in 1977 and edited by Ron Burnett until it ceased publication in late 1982. During that time, the journal published seventeen issues (1,247 pages). Ciné-Tracts helped to solidify the growing Film/Cultural Studies area by working from an interdisciplinary orientation. A variety of people worked for the Journal and contributed to it. These include, Martin Walsh, Teresa de Lauretis, Stephen Heath, Raymond Williams, John Berger, Hart Cohen, Peter Harcourt, Zuzana Pick, Martha Burnett, Saul Landau, Bruce Elder, Peter Ohlin, Patricia Mellencamp and David Bordwell. Ciné-Tracts had over two thousand subscribers and Indiana University Press published a selection of essays from the journal in 1991, under the title, Explorations in Film Theory.
Learning Development Institute
