| The Center for Social Media
showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and
action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the
public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of
Communication at American University. - centerforsocialmedia.org/about/ Social
Semiotics has, from its inception in 1991, adopted a transdisciplinary approach
to discourse, linguistics, cultural studies, communication, literature, performance, film,
television, art and music, as a way of bringing together diverse discourses within an
understanding of language as social semiotic.
Social Semiotics connects discourse analysis with contemporary theory, feminist theories,
psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a variety of approaches to cultural studies. -
taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/
The International Association for Media and History is an organization of
filmmakers, broadcasters, archivists and scholars dedicated to historical inquiry into
film, radio, television, and related media. We encourage scholarly research into the
relations between history and the media as well as the production of historically informed
documentaries, television series, and other media texts. - iamhist.org/index.html
Cognitive Cultural Studies: CogWeb is a research tool for exploring the
relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and cultural studies. It is
edited by Francis Steen, acting assistant professor in Communication Studies at UCLA. -
cogweb.net/
Strictly Film School is a
dynamic, evolving personal homage journal dedicated to the analysis of landmark world
cinema from an academic perspective: universal themes, symbols and imagery, historic
context and artistic genres. - filmref.com/index.html |