GENERAL LINKS
Computer Museum History Center
http://www.computerhistory.org/
This comprehensive source of information on computer history is most notable for its thorough timeline that contextualizes events in computer history within larger cultural shifts.
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp/
This site provides access to a global network for book historians and online collections of rare manuscripts and documents.
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps
http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/printech.html
A history of the printing press, which is part of a larger hypertext about the "development of the printed book."
The Information Age and the Printing Press
http://www.rand.org/publications/P/P8014/
This site is part of RAND, a nonprofit institution focused on researching and analyzing domestic policy.
Neal Gabler
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1298/gabler/
This issue of Bold Type, Random House’s online magazine, offers an interview with Neal Gabler and an excerpt from his book Life: The Movie (1998).
Beyond the Information Revolution
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm
This article by Peter Drucker in the Atlantic Monthly argues that the greatest impact technology will have on our culture will be a result of e-commerce.
Media in Transition
http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this site provides a central space for investigating the possibilities and effects of emerging new media through forums, dialogues, articles, science fiction, and archives.
SELECTION LINKS
Barbara Kruger, Untitled
Artcyclopedia: Barbara Kruger
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kruger_barbara.html
The Artcyclopedia entry for Kruger includes links to online exhibits, archives, and other information about the artist.
Text Appeal: Barbara Kruger’s Word-Image Art
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/49/art-frank.shtml
In the October 9, 1999, issue of LA Weekly, Peter Frank reviews a Barbara Kruger retrospective at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
PAIR
Robert Pinsky, On Television
Matt Groening, The Simpsons
Favorite Poem Project
http://www.favoritepoem.org
This project, created by Robert Pinsky in his capacity as poet laureate, features the favorite poems of a wide array of Americans. Visitors to the site are invited to add their own selections as well.
The Simpsons
http://www.foxworld.com/simpsons
An interactive tour of Springfield and the people who live there on the official Simpsons site.
RETROSPECT: TIME Magazine
A Tribute to Time Magazine
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/march98/time_3-27.html
From the PBS online news hour archives, a transcript of essayist Roger Rosenblatt's tribute on the occasion of the magazine’s 75th anniversary in 1998.
PORTFOLIO: David Carson
Art and Culture: David Carson
http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=252
Overview and links for the life and work of David Carson.
Sven Birkerts, The Fate of the Book
Open eBook (OEB) Initiative
http://www.openebook.org
News, specifications, and information about eBooks.
Microsoft Reader
www.microsoft.com/reader
This site describes Microsoft Reader, new software from Microsoft that promises to make onscreen reading as pleasurable and as easy as reading on paper.
Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/ht/contents2.html
This site contains selections from Hypertext, an academic and theoretical study of the subject by George P. Landow.
Page versus Pixel
http://www.feedmag.com/95.05dialog1.html
This online debate between Sven Birkerts and three other commentators in FEED magazine represents the pros and cons of both text and hypertext.
Is Cyberspace Destroying Society?
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/aandc/trnscrpt/birkerts.htm
Atlantic Unbound presents the transcripts of a lengthy online conference with Sven Birkerts from May 30, 1995.
The Message Is the Medium
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/aandc/gutenbrg/wschirev.htm
A thoughtful article by Wen Stephanson responds to the points Birkerts makes in The Gutenberg Elegies (1994).
Pop-Up Video, Donna Summer, "She Works Hard for the Money"
Spin the Bottle, Inc.
http://www.spinthebottle.com
The web site for the creators of Pop-Up video includes "Pops They Stopped" and other features.
Steven Johnson, Links
FEED Magazine
http://www.feedmag.com/
Steven Johnson is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of FEED magazine.
Hyperizons
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
Authored by Michael Shumate, this site is dedicated to original hypertext fiction. It won the 1995 Excellence on the Web award.
Serious Hypertext: Eastgate
http://www.eastgate.com/
Eastgate is the pioneer site in hypertext–fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. It is also a place where hypertext technologies are developed.
Reading, Scholarship, and Hypertext Editions
http://www.stg.brown.edu/resources/stg/monographs/rshe.html
A monograph by John Lavagnino, of the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University. It was published in 1996 by TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship.
Suck
http://www.suck.com
On Suck, text/hypertext changes every day. This is a good place to find more examples of the kinds of linking that Johnson describes as valuable in "Links."
LOOKING CLOSER: The Ethics of Representation
Pictoralist Photography
http://www.stock-photography.cc/features/little/
http://www.kbnet.co.uk/rleggat/photo/history/pictoria.htm
These two sites give some background on pictorialism, an early movement in photography that emphasized the emotional, artistic quality of the finished photo rather than the accuracy of the depiction of the photographic subject.
Ethics Chair Criticizes Newsweek Photo
http://spj.org/news/971126.htm
Steve Geimann, chair of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee, wrote this reaction to Newsweek's cover photo of the McCaugheys.
Photography in the Age of Falsification
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.htm
This three-part article by Kenneth Brower in Atlantic Unbound focuses on the ethical and technological issues of photo-doctoring.
EthicNet
http://www.uta.fi/ethicnet
This databank for European codes of journalistic ethics includes a listing of the official codes for over twenty countries, providing an opportunity to see what different societies regard as the most pressing ethical issues.
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