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This page contains links to a variety of sites on the Internet that (might) have some relevance to the issues we're concerned with in this course. Let me know if you'd like to add sites or supplement the annotations.
A useful and unique site put together by some teachers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Includes a very interesting annotated bibliography for "techno-critical pedagogues" in which selections are "rated" on the basis of their technological "bias."
A site containing varied resources, including course syllabi, how-to pages, and related links.
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This bibliography, which began as a result of a query I posted to the ACW-L listserv, is an expandable, annotatable online bibliography that includes a lot of interesting and varied selections--some of which have found their way into this course.
"A virtual community of scholars interested in computers and writing."
"An online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture." Includes a good annotated bibliography of resources related to the study of "cyberculture."
This site is really an online version of a doctoral dissertation or exam proposal, including the requisite rationales and readings lists. The bibliographies are eclectic and useful.
A site sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication devoted to the problems faced by academics whose work encompasses new forms of intellectual property. Includes personal narratives from academics who tried to have their work recognized as valid within traditional tenure and promotion structures.
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This site has a variety of links related to interactive fiction, including a bibliography on hypertext and hypermedia.
In this "Bookend" column from the March 15, 1998 New York Times Book Review, Miller argues that all the scholarly excitement about hyperfictions is, well, claptrap.
A site, maintained by an Eastgate Systems hypertext author, that is described by Kendall as "a resource for literature born to the screen rather than the page--poetry and fiction that's digital in its bones." Includes a useful list of authors who work in digital media (aith links to some of their web sites) as well as related resources.
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A kind of online bibliographic essay on recent scholarly and related work on McLuhan.
Pretty obvious.
Also pretty obvious.
This is the web site for Landow's well-known book by the same title. The site includes the text of the first chapter of the book, along with the table of contents for the rest of the book.
An interesting site that relates to our work in this course in several ways. It is, ostensibly, a "dynamic" online dictionary of philosophical terms, figures, and movements that is continually updated; as such, it includes concepts and figures that we relate to the course readings and to some of the writings students in this course have done. It is also an intriguing example of one possibility for the use of the web as a site for scholarly inquiry.
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Interesting essay posted to the online site for the Atlantic Monthly which poses the obvious question of the title about multimedia and digital "art."
Excerpts from the introduction to this new book can be found at this site.
A rather well known essay examining a "virtual rape" that occurred in a social MOO and its effects on the MOO subscribers. Originally published in The Village Voice, December 23, 1993. (Click on the link relating to "Mr. Bungle.")
A provocative piece in which Noble argues that the rush to the web on the part of universities is really an outgrowth of a broader, ongoing commericialization of higher education. Noble raises some important questions about the uses of emerging communications technologies in higher education.
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This online site for the print journal contains an index to every issue of the journal with links to abstracts and to some full-text articles.
This online journal, which focuses on "webbed environments," is an increasingly well-known resource for teachers interested in using virtual spaces. The Fall, 1997 issue has a good "coverweb" on "Gender and Electronic Discourse."
Perhaps the best-known online scholarly journal. Features a good search function.
Interesting online site, launched by Eric Crump, that explores possibilities for online collaborative writing and publishing. Focuses primarily on rhetoric and composition.
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According to the blurb on the home page of this site, "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media." EFF was co-founded by Jesse Barlow.
This node, on the Library of Congress web site, contains information about current U.S. copyright law.
An extensive site, with many related links, devoted to opposing the recent (1997) federal legislation that would extend copyright terms under U.S. copyright and intellectual property law. Thanks to Ben Henry for finding this site.
Web site of the famed Gutenberg Project, whose primary goal is to place the full text of books online.
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Self-explanatory. Check it out.
Online literary magazine started at SUNY-Albany, in which Ben Henry had a hand.
This site, created by members of this class for a class presentation, represents a theoretical hypertextual exploration of the question of identity in a technological context.
A site created by Michelle Solomon and Sharon Willensky of this class that explores the relationship between narrative and hypermedia.
A site, suggested for this list by Chris Zic, explaining various models of hypertext systems.
This site, also suggested for this list by Chris Zic, provides a good starting point for those interested in learning about cybernetics and systems theory.
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