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Abersystwyth, The Unviersity of Wales, offers interesting pages on media. Semiotics for Beginners could be a valuable reference.

 

Arcosanti : An urban laboratory? is Paolo Soleri's site. You can find the school of thought that explain the Arcology Theory, i.e. the integration of a compact three-dimensional urban form in order to prevent urban sprawl and the consequent consumption of land, energy, and time.

 

A LT-X is a non-profit organization, partly sponsored by the Alt-X Digital Arts Foundation. The site offers ebook downloads or as Print On-Demand books, MP3 audio feeds, and essays; an online gallery; online fiction; ...

 

Amerika, Mark: on altx.com, his theoretical writings investigate virtual reality and hypertextual consciousness.

 

ANYU Press, directed by Steve Maikowski, was founded in 1916 with "the mission to publish contribution to higher learning by eminent scholars" and aims "to include the transformation of the intellectual and cultural landscape". On their site you can visit Sister Stories by Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce, an hypertext translation of Nahuatl texts in English.

 

Audio Poetry online: EPC Sound & Radio Arts, LitStation : Filling station for the mind by Jim Finnegan, Harper Audio! Archive, DIA Center: readings in contemporary poetry, The Cortland Review: Online Literary Magazine in RealAudio, PENNsound - maybe the most extensive of all, UbuWeb sound, The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, poets.org (from the Academy of American Poets) Audio.

 

 

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Barger, Jorn’s weblog, recognized by many as one of the founders of blogs.

 

Barleby.com's mission is to provide free access to the most comprehensive selection of reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction works on the web..

 

Benjamin, Walter: a site dedicated to his work with contributions in different languages, designed and maintained by Scott J. Thompson. Marxists.org offers The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. A quick outlook on Benjamin hosted by The European Graduate School, the site offers similar pages on interesting authors..

 

Besser, Howard, Professor at UCLA, writes about Digital Preservation of Moving Image Material on the site of the University of California.

 

Birkerts, Sven's The Gutenberg Elegies; The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. This site offers a selection taken from part ii, 8 Into the Electronic Millennium; 9 Perseus Unbound; 10 Close Listening.

 

Blogwhat Wikipedia says on Blogs.

 

Blood, Rebecca:

In her essay: “weblogs: a history and perspective”, written in September, 2000, she draws quite an interesting history of blogs.

 

BookRags, founded in 1999, by James Yagmin and David Lieberman is an educational website with over 4 million pages of content divided under: Literature Guides, Criticism/Essays, and Biographies. Of interest the Notes on As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

 

Mark Brady's Blogging: personal participation in public Knowledge-building on the web Chimera Working Paper Number: 2005, 02.

An exhaustive paper in .pdf for "chimera" an outline on blogging trying to outline “the lessons that can be learned from collaboration and research in the blogosphere with a view to how they can be applied to academic and commercial research”.

   

 

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Cameron, Richards, the National Institute of Education and the Nanyang Technological University : Hypermedia, Internet communication, and the challenge of bringing literacy in the electronic age.

 

cbc.ca offers a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Within the present topic, interesting are the clips with Marshall McLuhan.

 

Chimera is a post-disciplinary research institute of the University of Essex , the Institute for Socio-technical Innovation and Research. Social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, anthropologists, psychologists, HCI practitioners and interface designers specializing in “socio-technical” research and consulting in order to study the use of information and communication technologies; to direct it to an understanding of people; and provide strategies and policies in the public and commercial domain.

 

 Classics in the History of Psychology is a very exhaustive site you should be interested in one of the main luminaries in this discipline. The site was developed by Christopher D. Green at York University, Toronto, Canada. The search feature on the index page will scan all the documents related to the chosen topic.

 

Concordances at the University of Dundee, shows a practical way to use hypertext. Selected work by Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, Hopkins is available for study; a link to an outside commercial site brings to software for concordances.

 

Contemporary Critical Theory is the page of Tim Spurgin, member of the English Department at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Quite interesting are the many references to Derrida, and several links to other theory pages.

 

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English, a project funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore.

 

CSLI : Center For The Study Of Language And Information at Stanford University, an Independent Research Center founded in 1983 by Stanford University, SRI International, and Xerox Parc (now PARC). Geoffrey Nunberg's essay: The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction is featured on this site.

 

CTheory.net is an e-journal in theory, technology, culture, publishing articles, interviews, event-scenes and reviews of key books, editors: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker; on the editorial board: Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, Bruce Sterling, ... supported by the University of Victoria.

 

Cyberart Database - Cyberarts/Cyberculture Research Initiative (CCRI) is promoted by the University Scholars Program at the National University of Singapore with the aim of studying digital and virtual esthetics, creative impact of new technologies and collaborations between art and life sciences.

 

Cyberartsweb: Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory. This site is maintained by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History at Brown University . A great supporter of hypertext, his sites: Hypertext and Literary Theory, as well as Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and Critical Theory pivot on the development of new technologies. Interesting are also his sites dedicated to Victorian and Postcolonial Literature, first opened in 1998. For Hypertext & Hypermedia consult this page.

 

CYBERJOURNALIST.NET, a blog dedicated to Journalism with an extensive blogroll on journalistic blogs. As stated under About CyberJournalist.net, it offers “tips, news and commentary about online journalism, citizen’s media, digital storytelling, converged news operations and using the Internet as a reporting tool.” It was founded in 2000 by Jonathan Dube, and online and print journalist.

 

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Digital LIterature : from Text to Hypertext and Beyond, is the thesis of Raine Koskimaa at Jyvaskyla University. To be consulted for the thorough research and quantity of references.

 

 

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Eastgate publishes hypertext, fiction and non-fiction, and Hypertext NOW, various pages dedicated to the study of hypertext.

 

EFF - The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a donor-funded nonprofit organization, it protects freedom on the internet.

 

The Electronic Labyrinth is a site meant to study hypertext as a passage beyond linear writing. The Authors are: Christopher Keep, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario, Tim McLaughlin, writer in Vancouver, Robin Parmar, media artist and information architect in London, Ontario . You can consult the page on Hypetext Terminology; Re-thinking the Book; Writing and Reading Electronic Hypertexts; Literary Formats: From Manuscripts to Electronic Texts; The Non-Linear Tradition in Literature; Software Environments; Guide to Publications; Death of the Author; Readerly and Writerly Texts;

 

The Electronic Literature Directory is a collection of digital texts: Hypertexts, Reader Collaborations, Other Interactions, Recorded Reading/Performance, Animated Texts, Other multimedia; Prominent Graphics; Generated Texts. Directors: Robert Kendall, Nick Traenkner; Editorial Assistant Evelyn Wang; Contributing Editors: Fran Ilich, Nick Montfort, José Luis Orihuela, Rob Swingart, Susana Tosca.

 

The Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, is one of the most beautiful outcomes of the internet. Their twin mission is "to create an online archive of standards-based text and images in the humanities; to build and support user communities adept at the creation and use of online resources". One of the many interesting pages: British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions.

 

Eliot, T.S.'s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as an hypertext resource; page designed by Peter Stoicheff, Tim Drake, Sherry Van Hesteren, Corey Owen and Jon Bath; updated by Joel Deshaye and Dave Mitchell at The Department of English, University of Saskatchewan.

 

e-merl.com: new experiments in fiction offers Webcomics, Hypercomings and Print Comics, Hyperfiction, site maintained by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, lecturer in new media design at the Univrsity of Hertfordshire.

 

Erickson, Tom, designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group, offers a variety of essays, and workshop-related materials, of particular interest: The World Wide Web as Social Hypertext.

 

Experiment, Das, movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel (2001), writing credits for both novel and screenplay to Mario Giordano, based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971.

 

 

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Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War is a site maintained by R. J. Rummel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii.

 

Freud, Sigmund's Psychopathology of Everyday Life. All twelve chapters are easily available; you can also find: .

 

From Gutenberg's Galaxy to Cyberspace: the Trnasforming Power of Electronic Hypertext is a well-structured site on key-words that belong to new media, edited by Jean S. Mason, Associate Professor at Ryerson University, Faculty of Communicaiton & Design.

   

 

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Gadfly Online is an online magazine (1998-2006) that offers a selected variety of articles and essays, interesting is The Strange Afterlife of Marshall McLuhan by Tim Cumming.

 

Gibson, William's Official Site

The Washington State University offers a Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984). Interesting reviews of his Pattern Recognition are Dennis Danvers' on Blackbird; and Frederic Jameson's Fear and Loathing in Globalization on the New Left Review.

 

The Guardian Unlimited has dedicated since May 20, 2004 a section to blogs. Here is the brief announcement signed Jane Perrone notifying the decision with a short introduction.

 

 

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Homolaicus.com offers a collection of essays and litterature in Italian, editor Enrico Galavotti. Here you can find The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni.

 

Hyperizons : Hypertext Fiction is a page of Special Collection Library of Duke University maintained by Michael Shumate, Manuscripts Archivist and Original Cataloger. You can find fiction, and critical essays.

 

Hyperland is a video by Douglas Adams by popefucker.corps (49 min.). Quite funny and ironical, it broadly depicts the history of hypermedia.

 

HyperLife: A Life in Hypertext is a site by Nowick Gray, writer.

See his pictures here.

 

Hypertext and Hypermedia was originally compiled by Scott Stebelman, now updated and enhanced by Dr. Seth Katz and Jim Bonnett at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. It is structured on links to specific sites, hypertext in cross-cultural studies.

 

Hypertedt --- Literary Resources, a collection of interesting references maintained by Jack Lynch, Associate Professor in the English Department of Rugers University - Newark.

 

Hypertext Project is supported by the University of Virginia, under the broader site of American Studies. From Henry Adams to WPA : Guide to the Old Dominion, many are the interesting entries.

 

Hypertexts: on the Poets' Corner under Link - Literary Links I dedicated a section to Interaction: electronic_art_poetry; other interesting hypertexts: Ezra Pound's Canto LXXXI on the site of Greensboro, the University of North Carolina; James Joyce's Calypso hosted by Rugers Newark University; and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land on tripod.com.

 

 

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Ideal Speech by Justin Johnson, Fullbright Researcher at Tsinghua University, Beijing, is dedicated to Discourse Analysis, environmentalism, and Chinese language.

 

IATH - The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, established at the University of Virginia in 1992, sponsors different humanities research projects in anthropological linguistics, architectural history, history of science, British literature, and film, among the many. One of their many projects wants Dante's Inferno in its original "vulgare", the hypertext version offers some beautiful pictures.

 

The Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology hosts on Visible Language Directory: The Art of Memory by Janine Wong and Peter Storkerson.

 

The Iowa Review, editor David Hamilton since 1977 hosts a variety of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. An interesting work featured is five by five, a collaboration of Dan Waber and Jason Pimble; or Heart Pole by David Knoebel; and Mar Puro by Aya Karpinska,

 

 

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Jacket, site founded and maintained by John Tranter, Associate Editor: Pam Brown. In electronic terms, Jacket's size is nearly five hundred megabytes in sixe, with over seven thousand files (including images) in over six hundred directories and subdirectories.

James, Henry's Daisy Miller is featured as an Illuminated text, illustrations from drawings by Harry W. McVickar taken from an 1892 edition; prepared and annotated by Eric Eldred, who is in the process of transferring some of his Web pages to other sites, including this one. The page is supported on the site of the State University of New York at New Paltz. For those who are interested in Henry James, the same University hosts an exhaustive page.

 

Jensen, Mallory, author of Emerging Alternatives on CJR Columbia Journalism Review. The author traces a brief but useful outlook on the first steps of the blog.

 

JEP, the Journal of Electronic Publishing, published by the University of Michigan Press, is dedicated to Scholarly Publishing on the net.

 

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Kottke, Jason ’s blog: a pioneering blogger who began his blog in March 1998; see also Kottke, Jason on Wikipedia

 

 

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Lavender, Bill, poet and professor at UNO, University of New Orleans . An excerpt from his: Guest Chain is one of the best poem I recently read, as interesting is his Dream Journal.

 

Lexia to Perplexia hosted by the University of Iowa, by Talan Memmott is a creative in-depth pshychological, sociological and personal study.

 

Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry, site founded and edited by Karl Young, poet, translator, and publisher. As the colophon recites, it is an anthology dedicated to alternative means of presentation as well as pluralistic forms and subjects. With over 60 complete books, wide sections are dedicated to the Lettriste Pages, Latin American literature, Fluxus, minimalism, ...

 

 

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Marcuse, Herbert: this site, made by Harold Marcuse, Associate Professor at the University of California and grandchild of Herbert, is dedicated to the political theorist and to his family.

 

Marlow, Cameron’s .pdf paper on Audience, structure and authority in the weblog community.

 

Marxists Internet Archive is a volunteer based non-profit organization that dedicated this site to the study of the main philosophers and authors that can be ascribed within a Marxist thought. Authors like Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Bataille, Michel Foucault and The Archaeology of Knowledge, Friedrich Nietzsche and Beyond Good and Evil (1887), Carl Gustav Jung and The Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology, and many more are easily available.

 

McLuhan, Marshall. Many are the sites dedicated to his work and memory. See The McLuhan Program, the McLuhan Studies, and The Agenbite of Outwit at Toronto University. This site is interesting for biographies, and links.

 

Merholz, Peter, quoted among the founding fathers of a blog: a most interesting site dedicated to human-computer interaction.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared "blog" the name of the year, besides being an excellent online tool for consultation.

 

Milton, John's Works can be read online at the site supported by Dartmouth College. The Milton Reading Room was created thanks to a grant from the same College, together with State Farm Companies Foundation in conjunction with the New England Colleges Fund.

 

the modernist journals project MJP is a multi-faceted project dedicated to the study of the rise of modernism through periodical literature, from 1892 to 1922. Supported by Brown University, the site started in 1995, it was joined by the University of Tulsa in 2003. Directors: Robert Scholes for Brown University and Sean Lathan for Tulsa University. Access is given to Blast edited by Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957); to an exhaustive and essential Artist Database; to various Essays, and several Books, see: Bernard Shaw and The Sanity of Art : An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate..

 

 

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Nelson, Ted, Visiting Fellow at The Oxford Internet Institute; Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton.

Also on The Electronic Labyrinth

 

 

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O’Donnell, James, Provost at Georgetown University. His publications cover the history and culture of the late antique Mediterranean world, philological, philosophical, and Medieval studies. An interesting site to browse is his A Private Library. To be visited is also his site: Avatars of the Word with some interesting links accompanied by the reproduction of Dürer's Jerome and Holbein's Erasmus, as Worlds of Late Antiquity hosted by Penn University.

 

 

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Paik, Name June, one of the main representatives of Fluxus Art. His official Website is meant to introduce the audience to his work. Under "contact" you can find the email of Kenzo Hakuta, Video Director and Website Administrator, and of Dorothy Nam, Media and Event Coordinator in Korea. Or you can contact Nam June Paik Studios in New York. The artist left us a few years ago.

 

PITAS.COM

Pitas.com

 

 

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Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, a non-profit organization founded by David Silver in 1996 at the University of Maryland, supported by the Department of American Studies. Aiming to an open dialogue its aim is to foster a cyberculture.

 

Rorty, Richard: his homepage on the Stanford University site; the page offers Bibliographies, Reviews of his books, and of books reviewed by him; Interviews with Rorty; and his Curriculum Vitae.

 

Ruggiero, Greg, editor of The City Lights Open Media Series, co-founded by poet/painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953. dadamo.com offers several interesting links.

 

 

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Andrew SmalesDiaryland

On Salon.com you can find what can be defined a historical document since it is dated December 10, 1999. Written by Todd Levin who praises the numerous possibilities offered by Diaryland, as opposed to other sites like Tripod with blinking ads, or Open Diary with less sophisticated templates.

Andrew Smales is also the creator of Pitas.com, the precursor of blogger.com:

Pitas.com

 

Schmidt-Biggermann, W.: Encounters of the Future. This speech was written in 1998 for the meeting The Age of Information and National Libraries. It develops from The ancient times, mention is given to Avicenna and head of fantasy, ratio, and memory, to reach our present times.

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a favorite site for those who cherish philosophical studies, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, The American Philosophical Association/Pacific Division, The Canadian Philosophical Association, and the Philosophy Documentation Center. Interesting is the page dedicated to Theodor Adorno,

Supreme Court NominationBlog

This blog is meant to record the proceedings in the court with Coverage of the Hearings, Nominations, the statements of the President, and clarifications on the Constitution.

 

Swift, Jonathan's Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal, and selected poetry on a site maintained by the University of Toronto English Library, a project of the Department of English and the Faculty of Arts and Science, created by I. Lancashire, C. Douglas, and D. G. Jerz.

 

 

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Tate Papers, supported by the Tate Gallery, is a section dedicated to essays on the history of art; of interest: New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age by Charlie Gere.

 

The New York Times’s selection of blogs, directly available here.

 

The Textual Tesseract Project was created for the New Media graduate English seminar at UC Berkeley, fall 2003, "an attempt to map a subset of the infinitely complex textual network [...] to utilize the capabilities of hypertext to make visible - experiential in time and space - intertextuality at its most basic level, that of the word.

 

Thoreau, Henry's work on The Thoreau Reader, page editor: Richard Lenat; the page is part of the EServer web publishing project at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

 

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UbuWeb is a site dedicated to visual, concrete, sound poetry, and has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. Founded in 1996 by Kenneth Goldsmith who is the Publisher, Andrew Stafford is the Editor of Aspen Magazine; Craig Dworkin, the Editor of Anthology of Conceptual Writing; Jerome Rothenberg is the Editor of Ethonopoetics; Brian Kim Stefans, the Editor of /ubu Editions; and Otis Fodder the Curator of 365 Days Project.

The University of Ontario, Department of Computer Science offers an interesting page dedicated to hypertext and C programming resources: alt.hypertext FAQ; maintained by Jamie Blustein, Professor at the Faculty of Computer Sciences, Dalhousie University.

The University of Vermont features by Frad Abraham and David Houston: Electronically Mediated Communications: Are bifurcations in Consciousness and Culture being driven by the 'Tribes of the Internet'?

UNO, University of New Orleans, offers an MFA low residency program. Among the many pages dedicated to online studies: What is cyberliterature?

 

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Vaugham, William, a .pdf paper on the History of Art in the Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities, hosted by Zeitenblicke an ezine of the University of Köln, directors Dr. Michael Kaiser and Philippe Metzger.

 

Vergano, Cristina, a page dedicated to her creative work on Figure of Speech.

 

Voice of the Shuttle is a site credited to Alan Liu, Professor at the English Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, together with a Technical Development Team, and Editorial Assistants. Many are the sections starting from General Humanities Resources, Postindustrial Business Theory, Anthropology, Archeology, Architecture, ... of great interest is the following site: Modern (Brit. & Amer.) with a wonderful selection of Modern Authors.

 

 

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Web del Sol: The House of Blogs

 

Weishaus, Joel: his creative hypertext work is hosted by Portland State University.

 

The Well, originally the Whole Earth 'Letronic Link, online since 1985, is a community gathering authors, programmers, journalists, activists and others who swap info. Of particular interest is the following page: Poetics and other prose, a range of essays on hypertext and poetry.

 

WESS WEB - Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature is an interesting site that lists Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Classical & Modern Greek, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse and Modern Icelandic, Portuguese, Provencal, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish Literatures. The site is maintained by James Campbell for the University of Virginia.

 

Wikipedia is the ever fastest growing encyclopedia thanks to the contribution of an uncountable number of free contributors. Here is the page of the founder, Jimbo Wales, and of Essjay, Administrator, Bureaucrat, ...

On The New Yorker, among the many, an interesting article on Wikipedia, when it was founded, who works behind the scenes: Know it all by Stacy Schiff.

 

Winona State University's site is entirely dedicated to Hypertext.

 

 

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Xanadu, or better, Project Xanadu is Ted Nelson's website. It traces the original idea of hypertext and the work done to accomplish it.

 

 

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Zimmerman, Mark offers Online Emotional Intelligence Courses with an interesting choice of Authors.

 


 

 

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