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Last Updated: Mar. 21, 2000
It's been a while ...
(3/21/00) About a year since my last entry here ...
but I think the site's been well received, if the emails I've been getting
are anything to go by. I'm still checking in on the site, and hope to be
adding more stuff in the near future. Watch this space ...
And from previous years:
As for the first
full year of the site (1998): it's been pretty darned good, I'd say.
Although I didn't put up a counter till April, my best guess is that there
have been at least 6,000 visits to the site this year. Of course that's
small beer in the world of the Web, but it's pretty important to me.
Thanks to all of you who have visited or frequented the site over the past
year. My best wishes go out to you. I hope you got something out of
trawling through these pages.
If you're returning
after a while you'll notice that the author index has been revamped somewhat.
New look, new font, new links, even some new information. For example, the
new entry on Edward Said is part of kiss's
foray into post-colonial studies, among other things. Look for more of
that in 1999. I'll also be working on upgrading the subject index and
other parts of the site in the new year. Keep checking this page and the
comprehensive
index for
new entries and updates. I'm also desperate to get a search engine
and discussion group up and running early in 1999, when I can find
time in between my race to pass my Ph.D. generals. Both these interactive
devices are long overdue. Finally, I might even put up a second diet of
quiz questions. The first lot was definitely popular.
Comments, quips, slams,
salutations, please to Dougie
Bicket,
who can be reached at dbicket@u.washington.edu
(can't promise
I'll get back to you quickly right now ...)
Apart from the
general improvements, I've keep a regular diary of the more substantive
additions I've made:
- Sept. 26: Just
for kicks I've added a Stuart
Hall-O-Rama, full of the great man's
opinions on lots of other cultural theory Big Names.
- August: The
online webzine
Feed
highlighted kiss of the panopticon on its front page. Receiving
special attention from the editors was the kiss Trivia Quiz, which led
to me being snowed with submissions. Thanks everyone for trying it out
and sending me comments (and sorry if I haven't got back to you yet).
Anyway, things are moving onward and upward.
- Aug. 8. Lot's of
bits'n'pieces being worked on, but the newest addition to the site is
(at long last!) a proper Site Map. I've also been working on
a couple of new Special
Topics
areas that involve the roles of technology: Technology in the
Classroom
and Techology in
Society.
- June 30. I've
been doing some general tidying up of the site, but the major changes of
late include somework done on the quiz
section,
and some messing about with newsgroups.
- June 9. Today's
task has been to update the comprehensive
index and
the glossary.
- June 1. So what
is new media literacy anyway? Click here to find out with our newly
revamped core concepts section.
- May 9: As part of
the development of the site toward new media literacy, there is now a
special web page designed as a gateway to the site's new media literacy
project.
Please check it out.
- May 2: Over the
past few weeks I've been steadily working away at the site. Some notable
changes include a revamped core
concepts
section, which now has a stronger orientation toward new media
literacy.
- April 11: Apart
from some general prettifying of the site, I've added a section on the
Talking
Heads and
their well-known track "(Nothing But) Flowers". Why? Click and
see. There's even a sound clip attached.
- March 21: I've
made some updates and new entries -- including one on
Alan Turing, which includes a helpful
QuickTime movie clip.
- Feb. 17:
Continuing to improve the look and content of the Special
Topics
section, as well as the site generally. (I'm still working out a lotta
kinks here, folks -- bear with me!)
- Feb. 11: Updated
some of my Feminist-oriented theory sections, including expanded
entries on Feminist
theory,
Donna
Haraway,
cyborgs, and related
issues.
- Feb. 8: Added a
new Special
Topics
section on WALTER BENJAMIN and "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". (It's still under
construction, but most of the content is in place.)
- Jan. 19: Working
on converting the quiz
section
into a Forms format. It's still a work-in-progress but please check it
out.
- I've started adding ![]() and ![]() tags to
relevant sites in the index. This will make it easier
for returning viewers to check out what's been added and/or
updated.
- Jan. 16: Updated
the Derrida entry with some new
information and explanations.
- The special
topics
section, which goes into greater detail about cultural theory issues and
debates that particularly interest me, continues to expand, slowly. I've
added a new special topic: Post-colonialism: What's it
all about, then?. Beware, it's still under
construction, but please check it out.
- Other topics such
as The Nature of the
self help
to pull together, themetically, information which is otherwise spread
all over the site and beyond.
- The site facelift
continues, making it (I hope) aesthetically more pleasing. The type is
bigger, the link colors less garish, and the pretty pictures more
plentiful.
- The comprehensive
index has
been expanded by about two dozen entries, with more on the way.
- The
bibliography has been expanded (honest) though it needs some more
work.
- The site was
given a favorable review in October's Scout Report for Social
Sciences.
The least I could do is to ask you all to check them out.
Comments, quips,
slams, salutations, please to Dougie Bicket,
who can be reached at
dbicket@u.washington.edu
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