Photography

I'm still six weeks or so away from my end-of-semester vacation to Budapest and I've already compiled a mental list of the must-haves. I'll be packing a week's worth of clothes, those 99-cent toiletries you find hidden in the back corner of a pharmacy, a few cynical books on media theory (yes, I read them for pleasure), my running sneaks, two iPods, a travel guide book, avocado flavored lip balm and, most, importantly, my camera. And all this got me thinking about the last few class discussions we've had in Mark Crispin Miller's Media Criticism course.  Read More »

Talking on the phone with my sister several weeks ago, she began enumerating the reasons she shouldn't join Facebook. This was hardly necessary. I am fairly certain that the mother of three young kids has very little time for updating her Facebook status or playing Photo Hunt. Still, I tried to play along:

"You could upload pictures of your kids," I offered weakly. Little did I realized I had hit the issue squarely on the head.  Read More »

The Library of Congress recently joined the photo sharing website Flickr. So far, "The Commons" pilot program has added 3,100 photos available free of charge and have tagged them as without any "known copyright restrictions." The goal, according to the program's Flickr page, is to provide a "... a model that other cultural institutions would pick up, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by  Read More »