Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies

Links

Resources

 Project Gutenberg

Collection of public domain books in English

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

 Projekt Gutenberg

Collection of public domain books in German

http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/

 MIT Open Courseware

Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/...

 Scribd

sharing of books and papers

http://www.scribd.com/

 UbuWeb

great archive for art, film and music

http://www.ubu.com/

 Network Visualization

List of tools for visualizing social networks

http://www.lars-kirchhoff.de/go/research...

 The golden list of new media    
 titles

a choice of important titles ranging from books, music, movies and games a student of new media should be familiar with.

http://mtschaefer.net/entry/golden-list-...

 Institute for Network Cultures

Platform for internet culture related studies and research

http://networkcultures.org/

 IssueCrawler.net

Tools for visualizing issue networks, analyzing search results and representing in maps, spheres, tag clouds

http://issuecrawler.net/

 Digital Methods Initiative

Tools for researching phenomena of digital culture

http://www.digitalmethods.net/

 Free Base

An open database consisting of data on a wide range of topics

http://www.freebase.com/

 Gephi

an open application for graph visualization

http://gephi.org/

 Wikileaks

a whistle-blower platform for publishing documents

http://wikileaks.org/

 World Bank Open Data

Access to data sets of world development indicators

http://data.worldbank.org/

Journals, Blogs, ...

 Grand Text Auto

cumulated posts on digital culture

http://grandtextauto.org/

 First Monday

Peer reviewd journal on the internet

http://firstmonday.org/

 Techné

Journal for Philosophy of Technology

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/...

 Surveillance and Society

The international, interdisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal of Surveillance Studies

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/...

 Montage AV

Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation

http://www.montage-av.de/archiv.html

 Ars Technica

Blog on the state of "the art of technology"

http://arstechnica.com/index.ars

 iDC blog

Institute for Distributed Creativity

http://distributedcreativity.typepad.com...

 Images for the Future

Research blog of the project Images for the Future (Beelden voor de toekomst)

http://research.imagesforthefuture.org/

 Neural

media art, hacktivism, emusic

http://www.neural.it/

 BLIK

the Utrecht's media students magazine

http://www.blikonline.nl/

 Grand Text Auto

cumulated posts on digital culture

http://grandtextauto.org/

 Freedom to Tinker

Ed Felten's blog on technology and policies

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

 Digital Icons

Online journal on the impact of new media in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia

http://www.digitalicons.org/

 Interdependent Thoughts

Ton Zijlstra's blog on open data

http://www.zylstra.org/blog/

 Mapping Online Publics

Exciting research by Axel Bruns and his team

http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/

 CMS Comparative Media Studies

Weblog of the MIT-based comparative media studies program

http://cms.mit.edu/

Sites and People I Like

 New Studies Utrecht

New Media Studies at Utrecht University

http://www.newmediastudies.nl/

 Else If Then

Kim de Vries on culture, media and other stuff

http://kdevries.net/blog/

 Vonautomatisch

two rogue designers in posh Vienna developing websites and bobo wallpapers

http://www.vonautomatisch.at/

 Brave New What?

Jesse Darlin' on hypotopia and whatever

http://bravenewwhat.org/blog/

 Pleintekst

Florian Cramer on media art, technology and politics

http://en.pleintekst.nl/

 Sister0

Nancy Mauro-Flude

http://sistero.org/

 Openflows

Felix Stalder on open source and media technology

http://felix.openflows.com/html/left.htm...

 Jaromil's Musings

Jaromil on software & politics

http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/

 Joris van Hoboken

Research blog on search engines, policies & civil rights

http://www.jorisvanhoboken.nl/

 formatLabor

Till Nikolaus von Heiseler

http://www.formatlabor.net/

 Niemandsland

Christoph Höschele, artist

http://www.niemandsland.net/

 Working Notes

Ben Peters on communication & media studies

http://benpeters.blogspot.com/

 Media Mob

a group blog on media - the emerging ones and the ones aging

http://media-mob.blogspot.com/

 Libidot.org

Katrien Jacobs' web blog on gender, technology and pornography

http://libidot.org/blog/

 Paris by Mouth

awesome site for culinary adventures in Paris

http://parisbymouth.com/

 Mercedes Bunz

Musings on technology & society by Mrs Bunz

http://www.mercedes-bunz.de/

 Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff on media, technology and economy and how they shape our lives

http://www.rushkoff.com/

 Volker Grassmuck

Grassmuck on free culture, commons, open access & licensing

http://www.vgrass.de/

 Gilad Lotan

Gilad Lotan from Social Flows on visualization

http://giladlotan.com/

 Cosmic Rays

fascinating blog by astrophysicist Christine Corbett Moran

http://cosmicrays.wordpress.com/

 Occupy Research

Research blog on the ongoing collaborative effort to map the occupy movement

http://montera34.com/occupyresearch/

2000 - 2022 Mirko Tobias Schäfer

made with Müller