I picked up a book this weekend called Media Unlimited by Todd Gitlin. The book is hailed as a worthy successor to McLuhan's Understanding Media, and it certainly could be a book I use in this class sometime in the future. You can find an few blurbs and the introduction here.

Steve sent me a link that is worth checking out: Guerrila News does a lot of fancy editing and mixing to create little movies about the news. Their movies are particularly complex, but if any of you want to try a scaled down version, these pieces are funny and smart.

A photo essay of sorts, right under our noses: the Little Theaters of the Great Plains. You get to add the text if you have visited any of these theaters--cool interactive touch.

Kevin

Graffiti stuff:

From a history class at U of Toronto: positive and negative, graffiti as turf.

Women in graffiti history.

A debate about graffiti.

Look here

Here's a funny powerpoint I found: http://www.cyesis.org/student.projects/conflict_ppt/war_technology.htm

Love,
Kyle

I filtered a couple of McLuhan PowerPoint presentations on my TeachingBlog, but thought I would share another one here. This presentation actually has one slide that isn't all text!!

Jamie's examples are much more visually rich--nice contrasts!

I found another one here about Sweden that uses quite a variety of elements.

I wasn't sure if we were supposed to post a whole essay or just one slide, but I found a slide (the first one on the page) that Horn would probably like. It's very visual and even includes his arrows.

Looking at PowerPoint presentations that have been posted on the web is interesting. The author doesn't usually identify him or her self, the context seems often to be a class, but very fuzzy otherwise.

I have looked at two presentations this evening--one from a class called COM 209 at San Diego State U, I think.

The other is from a Bemidji State U Mass Comm class.

McLuhan definitely gets more play in Mass Comm than English, although the PP presentations have strong print bias!

What's happening Visual Culture people? I was searching around today for background on graffiti and stumbled upon a photoessay- like site that might be worth taking a look at. The essay even talks about icons. How fun is that?
See it here .