Online Archives
http://september11.archive.org
Collection of archived documents
commissioned by the Library of Congress to preserve
digital materials covering the events of September 11,
2001. This collection contains more than 5 terabytes
of data gathered from 9/11/2001 to the present.
http://www.interactivepublishing.net/september
Screenshots of online news sites.
http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html
Archive of television news broadcasts
from around the world in the period following the attacks
of September 11th.
http://www.c-span.org/terrorism
C-Span video archive of America's
response to the September 11th attacks and their aftermath.
http://www.gannett.com/go/wtc-pentagonterrorist/index.html
An archive of newspaper front
pages following the September 11th attacks.
http://AttacksOnUSA.org
A collection of facts, news,
websites, multilingual & international discussion
forums, and more related to the tragedy of 11th September,
2001.
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/audio.htm
A compilation of links to audio/video services that
monitor current events. It focuses on news/public affairs
services that are available in English. The site is
hosted by George Washington University.
http://www.academicinfo.net/usa911.html
September 11th resources compiled by Academic Info.,
a non-profit organization.
http://209.58.150.225/cse/September11links.htm
John's Hopkins Univeristy
Center for Strategic Education's "September 11
and the Aftermath" information archive compiled
by Senior Fellow William Arkin.
Online Resources
http://designforum.aiga.org/content.cfm?CategoryID=2
AIGA Design Forum > Design
Responds to Disaster. A section including articles,
artwork and commentary about September 11th and its
aftermath.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/interactives.html
CNN.com index of maps and interactive
resources from September 11th onward.
http://www.mediamap.com/resources/sept11_media.asp
September 11th journalist's resources,
focusing on analysis of coverage.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/index.html
A special report by The Onion
on the media's coverage of the September 11th Attack
on America.
http://poynter.org/special/colorproject/index.html
Color, Contrast & Dimension
in News Design, designed and produced by Anne Conneen
and published by Poynter.org.
http://www.newslab.org/biblio-1.htm
NewsLabs Annotated Bibliography
of Television News Research.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media
The Media Watch section of Jim
Lehrer's News Hour program.
http://www.yil.com/features
"9.11: The Net Becomes a
Lifeline," A Collection of Articles published in
the November 2001 issue of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
http://www.economist.com/library/articlesBySubject/
A listing of articles published
by the Economist about the September 11th Attacks on
America and their aftermath.
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict/
A resource for trying to understand
the role of media in covering the September 11th attacks
and their aftermath.
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered
Time Magazine photo essay "Shattered."
A collection of photographs by photojournalist James
Nachtwey of Manhattan after the September 11th attacks.
http://io.media.mit.edu/manifesto.html
The MIT Media Lab's Information:
Organized Manifesto, 15 May 2001.
http://walter.www.media.mit.edu/people/walter
Walter Bender's web page. (Walter
Bender is head of the MIT Media Lab.) Especially interesting
at this site are the sections, "Jack Driscoll's
seven criteria for news" and Walter Bender's "seven
news services for community."
Web Sites
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/
Published by the Comparative
Media Studies Department at MIT. Launched on September
17th, 2001. It is, in their words, "an on-line resource
and study guide, designed to spark discussions and reflections
about the media's role in covering the events of 11
September 2001 and their aftermath."
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/
Website companion to the Frontline program "Hunting
Bin Laden."
http://www.wnyc.org/new/talk/onthemedia/otmindex.html
On The Media radio show
web site.
http://www.poynter.org
Online journalism resources from
Poynter.org.
http://www.newslab.org
NewsLab.org - News about TV News
http://www.mediaed.org
A non-profit educational organization devoted to media
research and the production of resources to aid educators
and others in fostering analytical media literacy.
http://www.buzzflash.com
Online news and information source. The convergence
of news media on the web.
http://www.fair.org
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a national media
watch group that has been offering criticism of media
bias and censorship since 1986.
http://www.phillyimc.org
Independent media center of Philladelphia,
PA, offering alternative news and analysis.
http://www.villagevoice.com
The Village Voice online.
http://manovich.net
Author and scholar Lev Manovich's
web site devoted to new media research
Online Journals
http://www.mediajournal.org/
The International Journal on
Media Management. It is published by the Institute for
Media and Communications Management of the University
of St. Gallen, Switzerland and is dedicated to investigating
the development and management of new media and innovations
in worldwide communications.
http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence/
Convergence, an on-line journal
of research into new media technologies. It focuses
on addressing the creative, social, political and pedagogical
issues raised by the advent of new media technologies.
Articles & Excerpts
Barker, Martin and Petley, Julian,
eds. "Introduction: From bad research to good
a guide for the perplexed," Ill
Effects: The Media Violence Debate (New York: Routledge,
2001).
Bazin, Andre. "The Myth of Total
Cinema" and "The Ontology of the Photographic Image,"
What
Is Cinema? (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1967).
Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard.
"Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation," Remediation
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998).
Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Aristocracy
of Culture," Distinction
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1984), pp. 11-96.
Buckingham, David. "Popularity,
Postmodernity and the Public Sphere" and "Creating
Citizens: News, Pedagogy and Empowerment," The
Making of Citizens: Young People, News and Politics
(London: Routledge, 2000)
Carey, James W. "A Cultural
Approach to Communication," Communication
as Culture: Essays on Media and Society (Boston:
Unwin Hyman, 1998), pp.13-36.
Carter, Bill and Rutenberg, Jim.
"Viewers Again Return To Traditional Networks,"
The New York Times,
15 September 2001, p.A14.
Elliott, Stuart. "Trying to
Dispel the Notion that Ads and Bad News Don't Mix,"
The New York Times,
26 October 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.nytimes.com].
Fisher, Marc. "Meeting the Challenge:
Under wrenching circumstances, the American news media
covered the horrific events of September 11 impressively
and vailantly." American
Journalism Review, October 2001. [Accessed online
at http://ajr.org/ajrfishoct01.html].
Fiske, John . "Prologue: "The
Juice is Loose," and "Introduction,"
Media
Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1994), pp. xiii-19.
Garcia, Mario. "What Color Means
in the Daily Press." [Accessed online at http://www.mariogarcia.com/resources/colortip.html].
Gauntlett, David. "The Worrying
Influence of 'Media Effects' Studies," in Barker,
Martin and Petley, Julian, eds. Ill
Effects: The Media Violence Debate (New York: Routledge,
2001), pp.47-61.
Geertz, Clifford. "Thick Description:
Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," The
Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books,
1973), pp. 3-30.
Gilbert, Matthew, "Eyesore,"
The Boston Globe Magazine,
2 December 2001, p. 9.
Glasner, Joanna. "Net Slows
in Wake of Attacks," Wired,
11 September 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46706,00.html].
Habermas, Jurgen. "The Public Sphere,"
in Mukerji, Chandra and Schudson, Michael eds., Rethinking
Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1991), pp. 398-404
Harper, Christopher. "Journalism
in a Digital Age," 17 May 1998. Lecture transcript
from the Democracy
and Digital Media Conference held at MIT on 8-9
May 1998. [Accessed online at http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/index_harper.html].
Hawley, Noah. "Brand Defined,"
Business 2.0, June
2000. [Accessed online at http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,13726,FF.html].
Heller, Steve and Pettit, Elinor.
"Chris Pullman on Design for Television,"
Design
Dialogues (New York: Allworth Press, 1998), pp.50-57
Herrmann, Stefan. "Do we learn
to read television like a kind of language?"
May 2000. [Accessed online at http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/sfh9901.html].
Huesca, Robert and Dervin, Brenda.
"Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to
Competing News Narratives," 31 October 1999. Paper
presented at the Media
in Transition Conference at MIT on 9 October, 1999.
[Accessed online at http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/index_huesca.html].
Hume, Ellen. "Resource Journalism:
A Model for New Media,"17 May 1998. Lecture transcript
from the Democracy
and Digital Media Conference held at MIT on 8-9
May 1998. [Accessed online at http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/articles/index_hume.html].
King, Brad. "Tech Sites Pick
Up the News," Wired,
11 September 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,46716,00.html].
Kramer, Staci D. "Accessibility
in Times of Crisis : How news sites have managed their
information after 9/11," Online Journalism Review,
25 October 2001. [Accessed online at http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=654].
Kramer, Staci D. "DIY News:
News Web sites offer tools for assembling free-ranging
newscasts," Online Journalism Review, 7 November
2001 [Accessed online at http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=660].
Manovich, Lev. Database As
A Symbolic Form, 1998. [Accessed online at http://manovich.net
within the Articles section].
Mariano, Gwendolyn, CNET news.com.
"NBC Loosens Hold on Local TV Sites," The
New York Times, 29 October 2001. [Accessed online
at http://www.nytimes.com].
Mayfield, Kendra. "Chronicling
Attacks on the Web," Wired,
4 October 2001. [Accessed online at http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47184,00.html].
Mayfield, Kendra. "News That's
Fit to Download," Wired,
1 November 2001. [Accessed online at http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,48051,00.html].
Mayfield, Kendra. "Wayback Goes
Way Back on Web," Wired,
29 October 2001. [Accessed online at http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47894,00.html].
McCracken, Grant. "Meaning, Manufacture
and Movement in the World of Goods," Culture
and Consumption (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1990).
McCullagh, Declan. "Osama Has
a New Friend," Wired,
10 October 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47450,00.html].
McLaughlin, Thomas. "Theory Outside
the Academy," Street
Smarts and Critical Theory (Madison: UW, 1996).
McLuhan, Eric and Zingrone, Frank
eds. "Playboy Interview" The
Essential McLuhan (New York: Harpercollins, 1996).
Mears, Jennifer. "Content delivery
networks carry the heavy load: News sites credit Akamai,
others with keeping sites available after Sept. 11 tragedy,"
Network World,
24 September 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0924carrier.html].
Menand, Louis. "Culture Club:
The short, happy life of the American highbrow,"
The New Yorker,
15 October 2001, pp.202-210.
Potter, Deborah. "Cluttering
the View: Commentary on TV News Graphics," NewsLab
(article originally published in the American
Journalism Review, June 2001). [Accessed online
at http://www.newslab.org/packaging-1.htm].
Potter, Deborah. "More Choices?
Not Really," NewsLab (commentary originally broadcast
by On
the Media, 12 December 1998). [Accessed online at
http://www.newslab.org/mergers-1.htm].
Potter, Deborah and Lang, Annie.
"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Storytellers,"
NewsLab (article originally published by RTNDA
Communicator magazine, October 1999). [Accessed
online at http://www.newslab.org/habits-1.htm].
Pryor, Larry. "The Emperor Has
Beautiful Clothes," Online Journalism Review, 5
November 1998. [Accessed online at http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?id=54].
Rainie, Lee. "The
Commons of Tragedy: How the Internet was used by millions
after the terror attacks to grieve, consol, share news,
and debate the country's response ," A Pew
Internet & American Life Project, 10 October 2001.
Rainie, Lee. "How
Americans Used the Internet After the Terror Attack,"
A Pew Internet & American Life Project, 15 September
2001.
Rorick, George. "Visualizing
Terrorism: A Graphic Case Study," Poynter.org (article
originally published in the Poynter Report, Fall 2000).
[Accessed online at http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/030701.htm].
Rosaldo, Renato. "The Erosion of
Classic Norms," Culture
and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1989), pp.25-67.
Rutenberg, Jim. "At MSNBC, a
Young Anchor for Younger Viewers," The
New York Times, 29 October 2001. [Accessed online
at http://www.nytimes.com].
Saul, Anne. "Newspapers' Brand
Strength Gives Online Information Credibility,"
Gannett, July 1999. [Accessed online at http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/99/july/nw0702-1.htm].
Shedroff, Nathan. "Taxonomy
of Communications" [Accessed online at http://www.nathan.com/projects/current/communications.html].
Shepard, Stephen B. "Editor's
Memo: The Best Global Brands," Business
Week Online, 6 August 2001. [Accessed online
at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_32/b3744027.htm?$se].
Thorburn, David. "Television
as an Aesthetic Medium," Critical
Studies in Mass Communication, June 1987, pp.
161-173.
Yang, Catherine. "Media Ownership:
Why Bigger Is A Big Mistake," Business
Week Online, 1 October 2001. [Accessed online
at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_40/b3751045.htm?$se].
"Explosive Matchbox," The
Economist, 11 October 2001. [Accessed online
at http://www.economist.com].
"Inundated CNN.com strips graphics,
boosts bandwidth," ITworld.com,
11 September 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/IDG010911cnn/].
"Media Mind Their Ad Revenues,"
The Economist,
29 October 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.economist.com/agenda/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=835862].
"The Network's Not Working:
Short of a war, what can revive the fortunes of CNN?"
The Economist,
2 August 2001. [Accessed online at http://www.economist.com].
"Screen Test: Will media groups
be buoyed or damaged by covering a war?" The
Economist, 27 September 2001. [Accessed online
at http://www.economist.com].
"Using Graphics in Continuing
Coverage," NewsLab, October 2001. [Accessed online
at http://www.newslab.org/terrorgraphic-1.htm].
Books
Bagdikian, Ben H. The
Media Monopoly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000).
Barry, Ann Marie Seward. Visual
Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in
Visual Communication (Albany: State University of
New York Press, 1997).
Bonnici, Peter and Proud, Linda.
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with Photographs (Switzerland: RotoVision SA, 1998).
Bourdieu, Pierre. On
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Chomsky, Noam. 9-11
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Chomsky, Noam and Herman, Edward
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1973).
Gardner, Howard. Intelligence
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(New York: Basic Books, 1999).
Hartley, John. Tele-ology:
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Helfand, Jessica. Screen:
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Heller, Steven. Design
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Lavin, Maud. Clean
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Leslie, Jeremy and Blackwell, Lewis.
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(Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1997).
McCloud, Scott. Understanding
Comics: The Invisible Art (New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc., 1993).
A great example of an author
explaining a medium, in this case comics, by using the
medium to illustrate the subject matter.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding
Media: The Extension of Man (Cambridge: MIT Press,
1999).
Philo, Greg. Seeing
& Believing: The Influence of Television (New
York: Routledge, 1990).
Postman, Neil. Amusing
Ourselves to Death (New York: Penguin Books USA
Inc., 1985).
Sturken, Marita and Cartwright, Lisa.
Practices
of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
The book focuses on ways in which
images are used and understood by viewers across a variety
of medium.
Radio
Programs
http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2001/10/1001b.shtml
October 1, 2001 NPR show,
the Connection. Program titled "Journalists in
the Arab World" focused on how the western world
is seen through the Arab media.
http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2001/10/1003a.shtml
October 3, 2001 NPR show,
the Connection. Program titled "Battlefield Journalism"
focused on how foreign correspondents are trying to
report on the situation in Afghanistan after the events
of September 11, 2001 "as access to Afghanistan
is extremely limited and prospects for openness from
the military are slim."
http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2001/10/1023a.shtml
October 23, 2001- NPR show, the
Connection. Program titled "Patriotism and the
Press."
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