JOURNALS, LINKS, & RESOURCES:
If you’re looking to dig deeper into the world of pop culture,
find other online journals, or discover resources to help set a fire under
your activist impulses, the links below should help get you started.
So, what are you waiting for--let your cursor do the walking!
JOURNALS ON POPULAR CULTURE
Adbusters
Magazine:
<http://www.adbusters.org>
This is the online site for the Canadian “Journal of the Mental
Environment,” featuring online articles, advertising parodies, and
culture jamming resources
Bad
Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life:
<http://www.eserver.org/bs/>
An archive of online essays on a variety of political and cultural
topics
Bitch:
Feminist Response to Pop Culture:
<http://www.bitchmagazine.com>
As the title suggests, this is a Grrrl’s-eye view on the world of
commodification, gender politics, and popular culture.
Not as comprehensive as the print version, but still has several
articles archived and available.
Boston
Review:
<A HREF="http://bostonreview.mit.edu/">
Color
Lines: Race, Culture, and Action: <http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/ArcColorLines.html>
Counterblast:
<http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/counterblast/frames.html>
Cultronix:
<http://eserver.org/cultronix/>
Cultural
Studies: <http://www.unc.edu/depts/cultstud/journal/forthcoming.htm>
Cultural
Studies from Birmingham: <http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/bccsr/>
Images:
A Journal of Film and Popular Culture:
<http://www.imagesjournal.com>
Journal
of Religion and Popular Culture:
Lumina:
<http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/limina/main.html>
PopMatters:
The Magazine of Global Culture:
<http://PopMatters.com/>
Popular
Music: <http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=pmu>
Popular
Music and Society: <http://www3.niu.edu/popms/>
Post
Modern Culture: <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html>
Public
Culture: <http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-pub-cult/>
WATCHDOGS AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM
About-Face:
<http://www.about-face.org/> a san francisco-based non-profit group, “about-face combats
negative and distorted images of women in the media”
Adbusters:
<http://adbusters.org/home/>
Corporate
Accountability Project:
<http://www.corporations.org/index.html>
Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting:
<http://www.fair.org>
Guerrilla
Girls:
<http://www.guerrillagirls.com>
A community of artists and activists, “Fighting Discrimination
with Facts, Humor, and Fake Fur”
Human
Rights Watch: <http://www.hrw.org/index.html>
International
Action Center:
<http://www.iacenter.org>
“Information, activism, and resistance to U.S. militarism, war,
and corporate greed, linking with struggles against racism and oppression
within the United States”
League
of Revolutionaries for a New America:
<http://www.lrna.org> the
League is dedicated to uniting “the strivings of the people against
injustice with the consciousness needed to guarantee the outcome that is
in the interests of all humanity”
McSpotlight:
<http://www.mcspotlight.org>
“McSpotlight is created by the McINFORMATION NETWORK, an
independent group of volunteers working from, at the last count, 22
countries on 4 continents. The
McInformation Network is dedicated to compiling and disseminating factual,
accurate, up-to-date information - and encouraging debate - about the
workings, policies and practices of the McDonald's Corporation and all
they stand for. The Network also highlights opposition to McDonald's and
other transnational companies.”
Michael
Moore:
<http://www.michaelmoore.com/>
Website of the critically acclaimed director of Bowling for Columbine and author of Stupid White Men. Provides
a variety of links and resources to social, cultural, political activism.
Open
Secrets:
<http://www.opensecrets.org>
Public disclosure of funds raised and spent to influence federal
elections.
Operation
Clambake:
<http://www.clambake.org>
an online group dedicated to investigating and debating the
celebrity-touted religion of Scientology
Peace
Action:
<http://www.peace-action.org/>
The nation’s largest grassroots peace group, working for peace
and disarmament.
Public
Citizen:
<http://www.citizen.org>
“A national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by
Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the
executive branch and the courts. We fight for openness and democratic
accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress
in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social
and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and
environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable
prescription drugs and health care.”
Features a variety of links and resources.
Sweatshop
Watch:
<http://www.sweatshopwatch.org>
“A coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights,
women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed
to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.”
YES!:
<http://www.futurenet.org/index.htm>
NEWS SOURCES
CounterPunch:
<http://www.counterpunch.org/>
Guerilla
News Network:
<http://www.guerrillanews.com>
GNN is “an underground news organization . . . [whose mission] is
to expose people to important global issues through guerrilla programming
on the web and on television.”
Independent
Media Center:
<http://www.indymedia.org>
An online, democratic collective of independent media organizations
Idaho
Independent Media Center <http://idaho.indymedia.org/>
Mother
Jones: <http://www.motherjones.com/>
PopPolitics:
<http://www.poppolitics.com/>
The
Atlantic Online: <http://www.theatlantic.com/>
The
Nation: <http://www.thenation.com/>
Utne
Magazine: <http://www.utne.com/>
World
Press Review:
<http://www.worldpress.org>
The online site for the print publication compiling articles from a
variety of international newspapers
Z
Magazine:
<http://www.zmag.org> The
print version, in their own words, is “an independent monthly of
critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the
U.S.” In the same vein,
their online vehicle “offers information through diverse watch areas and
sub-sites, translations, archives, links to other progressive sites, a
daily commentary program, and much more.”
OTHER RESOURCES
AdFlip:
<http://www.adflip.com>
An online archive of advertisements
PopCultures:
<http://www.popcultures.com>
An enormous site offering information on cultural theorists,
theories, and other resources
Introductory
Guide to Critical Theory: <http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/index.html
PopCultures
Archive:
<http://www.popcultures.com/articles.htm>
searchable by subject, including Advertising, Feminism, Consumerism
and the Culture Industry, Film, Television, Masculinity, etc.
Merchants
of Cool:
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/>
The accompanying site for the PBS Frontline
special
www.theory.org.uk:
<http://www.theory.org.uk/main.htm>
Center
for Media Literacy: <http://www.medialit.org/>
University
of Iowa Department of Communication Studies: <http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/>
A great resource for links.
Popular
Cultural Association/American Culture Association: <http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca/>
Multicultural
Song Index: <http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/arts/songs.html>
The
Authentic History Center: <http://www.authentichistory.com/index.html>
K.I.S.S.
of the Panopticon:
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO & SURROUNDING COMMUNITY
American
Civil Liberties Union of Idaho:
<http://www.acluidaho.org/>
Human
Rights Campaign:
<http://www.hrc.org/stateaction/idaho/index.asp>
“Working for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equal
rights”
Idaho
Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence:
<http://http://www.idvsa.org/>
“Our mission is to provide education, assistance, and support to
individuals, programs and organizations dedicated to ending sexual assault
and domestic violence.”
Idaho
Human Rights Commission:
<http://www2.state.id.us/ihrc/ihrchome.htm>
Information and resources pertaining to laws and rights as they
apply to issues of sexual harrassment, workplace discrimination, and more.
Idaho
Media Project:
<http://www.idahomediaproject.org/>
“A grassroots media organization that monitors corporate media,
and conducts community media training.”
Idaho
Migrant Council:
<http://www.rivda.org/Workforce/ID_Migrant_Council/
id_migrant_council.html > “[P]rovides
employment and training services for low income families and low income
migrant and seasonal farmworkers
Idaho Progressive Student Alliance:
<http://www.idahopsa.org/>
"Empowering students, changing our world."
Student
Union Cinema Series: <http://www.sub.uidaho.edu/cinema/cinema.asp>
Click to find out what films are playing this semester--a variety
of features from around the world.
Women
of Color Alliance: <http://www.wocaonline.org/>
Its mission is “to bridge the gap of miscommunication and
mistreatment of People of Color in the state of Idaho” by a variety of
educational and social efforts.
