African American Experience in Cyberspace -- new book
New book out: -- The African American Experience in Cyberspace: -- A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History -- by Abdul Alkalimat -- Pluto Press, 294 pages, $18.95 -- 1-800-232-0223 (20% discount available, "code PL60") Ten historical stages of development and 20 aspects of society and culture comprise the chapters of this basic guide to the Black content in cyberspace. This is a research tool to speed up your access to the best most scholarly and accurate information in cyberspace. Introduction by Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: "In an era when the advances of the Internet and web technologies have threatened the very existence and relevance of books, Alkalimat, a cyberspace maven if there ever was one, has written an indispensable book for students, teachers, and scholars of the Africana experience who want to know what the Internet can do for them." Mark Kornbluh, Executive Director, H-NET, Michigan State University: "[Alkalimat's book] is not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet." Dorothy Washington, Librarian of the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University: "This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library where users want to use cyber-sources to better understand African and the Diaspora." Gloria H. Dickinson, President of ASALH: "Read this book and keep it close by your computer. This book begins a new era of research and teaching." more information at: http://www.africa.utoledo.edu/faculty/newbook.html
OPEN: CALL FOR PAPERS A special issue of M/C -- Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ Since the rebranding of Free Software into Open Source in 1998, "open" has become the buzzword for all things progressive on and off the Internet. Open Law, Open Hardware, Open Culture, Open Publishing, Open Access or Open Archives are just some of the many concepts which are being retooled to serve the more or less defined public good in the Information Society. Yet, at the same time, multinational corporations have become major actors in the Open Source Software area and commercial publishers are beginning to seriously look into Open Access model. In the background of the recent enthusiasm with "open" lurks the "Open Society" concept of Karl Popper, whose political preferences for Margret Thatcher's neoliberalism are well known. OPEN aims to take a critical look at this concept of the "open". Is it a temporary buzzword that signifies nothing but an astute sense of salesmanship? Is it an alternative social concept, or just yet another step in making capitalism ever more flexible? What is it that makes something "open" and are some projects more "open" than others? Is "open" always better than closed? How does "open" relate to areas where we might value closure, for example, personal privacy? Can we imagine an even more open concept of social, cultural and economic life? For the upcoming OPEN edition for M/C, we are inviting papers between 1000 and 2000 words that critically examine the concept of "open" from any perspective. We invite equally theoretical investigations of the concept as empirical studies of particular projects with special regard to their "openess" or "closeness". Guest Editors for OPEN: McKenzie Wark, core faculty in media and communication, Lang College, New School University, and guest scholar, American Studies, New York University <mw35@nyu.edu> Felix Stalder, Lecturer in Media Economy at the New Media Department, Academy of Art and Design, Zurich, head of research at Openflows.org and co-moderator of the nettime mailing list. <felix@openflows.org> Article deadline: 19 March 2004 Release date: 21 April 2004 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ For more about M/C http://www.media-culture.org.au/about.html Submission guidelines http://www.media-culture.org.au/submission.html -------------------------- http://felix.openflows.org
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