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Cultural Studies and Theory
American Popular Culture: Based out of Washington State University, APC offers links to online resources and articles providing critical analysis of American culture. http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html
Ctheory: “CTHEORY is an international journal of theory, technology, and culture, publishing articles, interviews, event-scenes and reviews of key books.” http://www.ctheory.net/
Culture and Communication Reading Room: Australia’s Murdoch University’s culture and communication site offers links to essays, articles and online resources. http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/
Cultural Landscapes: Information and discussion about cultural landscapes from the Cultural Landscape Institute. http://www.icls.harvard.edu/
Culture Machine: Culture machine promotes new work and its ejournal provides links to interactive texts and essays on culture and theory. http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/
Cultural Studies Central: A gathering spot and clearinghouse for all things cultural on the web. http://www.culturalstudies.net/
Enculturation: An online refereed journal "devoted to theorizations of rhetoric, writing, and culture." The journal has an academic focused and accepts submissions in all media forms suitable for web-based publication. This includes text based articles, hypertexts, and multimedia projects. http://enculturation.gmu.edu/about.html
Free Culture: One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, Lawrence Lessig focuses on "the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies."In this companion site to his book FREE CULTURE, he examines the diminishment of the public domain of ideas, and how short-sighted interests can damage the ecosystem that fosters innovation: http://www.free-culture.cc/index.html
Free Culture Wikipedia: Html version of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture text with links to further online reading. http://www.easylum.net/freeculture/
Illuminations. The Critical Theory Website: Frankfurt School of Thought provides an online research resource that hosts articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory. The site also provides links to other websites and related sources. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
M/C Journal: M/C Journal is "a place of public intellectualism analyzing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture." It is blind peer-reviewed, open to submissions as well as internet responses. Each issue centres around a one word theme and edited by editors who have a special interest in that theme, and each issue has a feature article engaging with the theme in detail, followed by several shorter articles. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
Postmodern Culture: An electronic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Virginia and Vassar College, PMC provides access to scholarly works combining interdisciplinary thought for academic and non-academic readers. An entirely web-based journal, in addition to text PMC publishes images, sound, animation, and video. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html
Shift: "Where Technology and culture collide," Shift is an online only magazine dedicated to merging contemporary culture and technology. http://www.shift.com/
Theory .org : “Social theory for the fans of popular culture. Popular culture for the fans of social theory.” http://www.theory.org.uk/
Voice of the Shuttle: A comprehensive resource page to literary, media and cultural studies websites. http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Web Archive in Visual Anthropology (WAVA): “WAVA is an archive resource for people interested in the anthropology of visual communication. It features out-of-print and unpublished materials useful for teaching and research. We have secured permission to place works on the web so that interested parties can download and use them. WAVA was created and is maintained by the faculty and graduate students in the graduate program in the anthropology of visual communication at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA USA.” http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/
Wired: Online edition of the widely dispersed magazine on pop culture and digital technology magazine. http://www.wired.com/
World Cultures: An online class on world cultures from Washington State University. Resource section has good collection of links. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/