Adbusters
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 60,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Their work has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.
Center for Media Literacy
The Center for Media Literacy (CML) is an educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources nationally and internationally. Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content, CML works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture.
CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
A collaboratively produced introduction to the field of Digital Humanities. The guide is a project of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), a new working group aimed at building connections and community among those at CUNY who are – or would like to be – applying digital technologies to research and pedagogy in the humanities.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. They work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
FemTechNet Videos on Vimeo
A network of scholars, students, and artists working together through research and education in the humanities and in technology.
Future of the Book
A small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.
HASTAC
HASTAC is an alliance of more than 13,000 humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning.
Learning by Design
This project is premised on the notion that children have diverse learning needs and ways of knowing and that these are in many respects vastly different from their parents and grandparents. In an era of ubiquitous information and communications technologies there is a need for children to make sense of a multiplicity of communication channels, media types and technologies. There is also a need to immerse them in multimodal meaning-making environments, involving oral, written, visual, audio, gestural, spatial and tactile modes.
DH Toychest: Digital Humanities Resources for Project Building curated by Alan Liu
Guides, tools, and other resources for practical work in the digital humanities by researchers, teachers, and students. Curated by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Media Ecology Association (MEA)
A not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community.
MediaSmarts
A Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy. Their vision is that children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens. They have been developing digital and media literacy programs and resources for Canadian homes, schools and communities since 1996.
Miriam Posner’s blog. “How did they make that?”
Miriam Posner coordinates and teaches in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California, Los Angeles. This page on her blog was created for her students tell to provide them with some idea of what they might do in digital humanities and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of tools and technologies available for you to use.
Monoskop
A wiki for collaborative studies of art, media and the humanities.
New Learning: Transformational Designs for Pedagogy and Assessment
Documenting an evolving body of research and thinking in the fields of literacy, pedagogy, and educational technologies.
Rethinking Schools
A nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism. Their magazine, books, and other resources promote equity and racial justice in the classroom. They encourage grassroots efforts in our schools and communities to enhance the learning and well being of our children, and to build broad democratic movements for social and environmental justice.
robotofuturesbook
A companion blog for the book Robot Futures by Illah Nourbakhsh. An endeavor by Illah Nourbakhsh to identify and blog about stories in popular media that relate directly to the issues presented in the book, from the robotic hyper-analysis of human shopping behavior to new robot-human relationships, telepresence advancements and the like. Since I attempt near-future predictions in the book, it is only fair that I point at recent advancements that support or contradict how these predictions might play out over the next few decades.
Technology Review
Online journal whose mission is to equip thier audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology.
Why Women’s History Needs to Go Digital
Blog post written by Michelle Moravec whose current project, The Politics of Women’s Culture, uses a combination of digital and traditional approaches to produce an intellectual history of women’s culture as it developed among activists, artists and academics in the 1970s. She is particularly interested in the intersections between history and art done publicly.
