Electronic Text: some cited sites

The following Web sites were consulted or cited for one reason or another during class discussion in the Junior-Senior seminar Electronic Text (English 3960, University of Minnesota, Spring 1996); they may interest others.

• What's past is prologue:
• Prospectus for a previous, graduate-seminar version of this course
• Electronic Text: Selective Annotated Bibliography (written by students in that graduate seminar)
• Papers (written for that graduate seminar)
• Hypertext fiction on the World Wide Web
• Electronic text, humanities computing on the World Wide Web
• The Text Encoding Initiative
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline v2.4a (Robert H. Zakon, MITRE Corp.)
• Digital Culture (seminar; David Rodowick, Cornell University)
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Virginia; dissertation in process, other relevant links)
• Mankato, Minnesota (Don E. Descy, Mankato State University. "He created the fake site . . . after talking with some high-school students who, he says, weren't being sufficiently skeptical about information on the Internet. 'They just had this idea that since it came out of the computer, you can believe everything that's on there,' Mr. Descy says." Chronicle of Higher Education 19 Apr. 1996: A27.)
• Minnesota Daily Online (University of Minnesota)
• Jenny Holzer:
• Jenny Holzer, Green Table and other works, including Truisms and Survival, 1983-1985 (Stuart Collection of Sculpture, University of California--San Diego)
• Jenny Holzer, Securityland and Please Change Beliefs (AdaWeb)
• Burr Snider, "Jenny Holzer, Multidisciplinary Dweeb" (Wired 2.02)
• interview with Jenny Holzer (HotWired)
• Jenny Holzer (Utne Lens)
• James Fallows, Navigating the Galaxies (Atlantic Monthly 277.4 [April 1996]: 119-24. "New programs are trying to make sense of the uncodified information on the Internet"; many relevant links.)
• Media History Project (Kristina Ross, University of Colorado; topics include: oral culture, printing, telegraph, telelphone, journalism, photography, comics and graphics, radio, recording industry, movies, television, computing.)
• Cultures of the Book (James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennysylvania; seminar)
• Unicode Home Page (Unicode Consortium)
• Guides to the scholarly citation of electronic documents:
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (Janice R. Walker, University of South Florida; endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing)
• Citation Style for Internet Sources (Mark Wainwright)
• Citing Online Sources (Michael Quinion; includes a list of links to other guides)
• Citing e-texts (Jan Tent, The University of the South Pacific)
• Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information (Xia Li and Nancy Crane, University of Vermont; based on a forthcoming book that proposes additions to the MLA and APA documentation protocols)
• Jay David Bolter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Sherry Turkle:
• Sherry Turkle (home page)
• Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (promotional copy)
• Sven Birkerts:
• Sven Birkerts (Internet Roundtable Society)
• Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies (excerpts)
• Xanadu home page (re Ted Nelson and the fabled Project Xanadu; Andrew Pam)
• William Gibson, Yard Show (home page)
• Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (promotional copy, excerpts)
• The road behind (some classical sites):
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation (Maria C. Pantelia, University of New Hampshire)
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page (Sebastian Heath, University of Michigan)
• The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Alex Moratorio, University of California--Irvine)
• The Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Patrick Sinclair, University of California--Irvine; and Ann DeVito, University of Saskatchewan)
• VTW Net Censorship Focus (Voter Telecommunications Watch, New York, NY)
• Humanist Discussion Group ("Humanist is an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities.")
• Gopher search engine for the Humanist archives
• Richard Pryll, Lies (hypertext fiction; MIT, 1994)
• The Home Page of Mary Lebens (seminar student; includes links to directories of Gothic 'zines [compiled by Carrie Carolin] and MUDs)
• E-Zine List (John Labovitz. "This is a directory of 900+ electronic 'zines saround the world, accessible via the Web, Gopher, FTP, email, and other services. . . . 'zine' is short for either 'fanzine' or 'magazine,' depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, and tend to be irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not 'mainstream' publications--they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), are not targeted towards a mass audience, and are generally not produced to make a profit. An 'e-zine' is a zine that is distributed partially or solely on electronic networks like the Internet." Organized by keyword and also by title.)

Michael Hancher

Department of English, University of Minnesota

URL: http://umn.edu/home/mh/3960ss96.html

Comments to: mh@umn.edu

Created 10 June 1996

Revised 17 September 1996