Critical Approaches to Culture, Communications + Hypermedia
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Hommage: Johan van der Keuken

Atom Egoyan: An Interview + Articles

Self-Portrait

Learning to Learn in a Virtual World (Spanish version)

Roland Barthes

Digital Photography

Media Literacy

Video in the Field

This site is now listed at the Social Science Information Gateway. Their search engine is available on my home page

SOSIG

Aesthetics and Computation Group

Affective Computing

Visual Who

Transdisciplinary Studies

Computers + Technology course

Post-Human

Digitization of Culture

Postmodern Media Communities

Digital Culture

Community Media

Working in the Field with Video

Introduction to Explorations in Film Theory

Sample syllabus for Critical Approaches to Culture Studies

FreeNets: Developing a New Research Agenda

The Challenge of Change in Creating Learning Communities

Jacques Lacan

The Electronic Word

More on Community and Community Media

Martin Walsh Lecture

Portable Video

Virtual Human

Burda Center for Innovative Communications

Media Awareness

CIRET is the International Centre for Research in Transdisciplinarity. It is headquartered in Paris and publishes a wide variety of material on its web site. My essay, "Disciplines in Crisis: Transdisciplinary Approaches in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences," can be found here. I am a member of CIRET.
"Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary," was published in December of 1995. A superb review of the book can be found here as well as notes and questions on the ideas in the book. The English Journal "Sight and Sound" which is published by the British Film Institute wrote a wonderful review of the book. John Caldwell published an excellent review in Film Quarterly and Hart Cohen published a review in Australia.
A recent presentation entitled, "Context, Communication and Learning," can be found here (PDF). As well, "The Challenge of Change in Creating Learning Communities," is available in PDF form. This latter essay was published in VIMUKT SHIKSHA which is journal from India.
Communications Policy and The New Public Sphere: Towards a New Research Agenda appeared in the journal, Community Technology Review. I also published a response essay that deals with education and technology in the journal CultureMachine.
"The Radical Impossibility of Teaching," is a revised version of a presentation given to the Federation Internationale des Sciences Sociales, in Milan Italy in 1999. "Learning to Learn in a Virtual World," was given at the American Educational Research Association in Montreal in 1999.
I have done a great deal of research on "Postmodern Media Communities." This piece was published in Basilisk Magazine. There is a chapter on Postmodern Media Communities in Cultures of Vision. As well, a piece of mine on Community Video in South Africa can be found here.
The Introduction to "Explorations in Film Theory," my first book, is now available. Here is a very useful critique of Explorations. Towards a Media Anthropology was published in the Centre for Visual Anthropology Journal. Community Video was published in Media Institute of Southern Africa Journal.
Lumiere's Revenge which is about the documentary cinema was published by Continuum Magazine. Camera Lucida: Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Photographic Image was also published by Continuum which is an Australian Journal. The Eyes Don't Have it: Video Images and Ethnography is also available. This last piece deals with the role of video in Aboriginal culture in Australia.
In 1988, I gave the Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture at Queen's University. A copy of the lecture is available here. An essay on "Technology, Information and Learning." A sample of a syllabus from one of my undergraduate courses at McGill University is available. Freenets and Information Networks: Developing a Research Agenda is an essay on one of the key developments in the history of the Internet.
VideoSpace/Video Time: The Electronic Image and Portable Video. This essay traces out the relationship between the Challenge for Change Program at the National Film Board and the use of portable video for political change and communications. This is essay is in six parts with footnotes at the end.

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