Resources

A list of media and cultural studies links and sources. Send additions, updates, and corrections to kyle@kylesbarnett.com.


Archives, Centers, Museums, Labs
American Film Institute
Berea College Special Collections and Archive
BGSU: Popular Music Library/Schurk Sound Archives
British Film Institute
British Library
Columbia College: Center for Black Music Research
Country Music Hall of Fame
EMI Archive Trust
Hagley Museum and Library
Indiana University: Archives of Traditional Music
Indiana University: Moving Image Archive
Library of Congress: American Folklife Center
Library of Congress: Recorded Sound Reference Center
Macquarie University: Centre for Media History
Museum for Broadcasting Communication
NY Public Library: Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives
Paley Center for Media
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Smithsonian Institution
UCLA: Film and Television Archive
University of Chicago: Chicago Jazz Archive
University of Colorado: Media Archaeology Lab
University of Liverpool: Institute for Popular Music
University of Maryland Broadcasting Archives
University of North Carolina: Southern Folklife Collection
University of Texas: Harry Ransom Center
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research

Blogs
Amandafesto
Amanda Lotz’ media industries’ blog about television after TV.
Andrew Bottomley
New blog on podcasting/radio/streaming audio.
Continuum
Ina Archer’s film preservatiion blog with a focus on Black cinema.
Eric D. Harvey
Media studies scholar/Pitchfork contributor’s music-and-media blog.
Excavated Shellac
Jonathan Ward’s ethnomusicological take on music of old.
Film Studies For Free
Catherine Grant’s long-running film studies blog and archive.
Griffonage
Patrick Feaster’s experiments in historical media.
It’s Her Factory
Robin James on philosophy/pop music/sound/feminism.
Kevin John Bozelka
Wonderful film/popular music takes from this scholar/critic. Mapping Access
A disability, design, and media blog.
Mediated Signals
Stephen Canner’s “creative discography” leads to broader topics.
Super Bon!
Posts from sound & cultural studies scholar Jonathan Sterne.
SWLing Post
Kenneth Witherspoon’s shortwave radio community.

Copyright

Copyright Cortex
Creative Commons: Scholars’ Copyright Addendum Engine
International Communication Association Code of Best Practices for Scholarly Research in Communication
Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement on Fair Use Best Practices in Teaching for Film and Media Educators

Digital Research & Digital Humanities
Arclight
Eric Hoyt and Charles Acland’s media history data mining & visualization project.
Cities and Memory
A global collaborative field recording & sound mapping project.
Critical Commons
A curatorial community built around media.
Fulcrum
An open-source publishing platform with work from a variety of university presses.
Humanities Commons
The Modern Language Association’s digital humanities platform.
Media Commons
A digital network for media research.
Media History Digital Library
Open Access Button
A way to request access to paywalled scholarship.
Open Library of Humanities
A charitable organization that publishes open-source scholarship.
PodcastRE
Jeremy Morris’ archive of podcasting culture.
World Library Project
A joint project of the LIbrary of Congress and UNESCO featuring collection of the world’s rare documents.

Journals and Forums
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 
American Music
Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies
Black Camera
Camera Obscura
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Celebrity Studies
Communication, Culture, and Critique
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Convergence
Creative Industries Journal
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Cultural Studies
Feminist Media Studies
Film & History
Film Criticism
Film Quarterly
Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Framework: Journal of Cinema and Media
Genders
GLQ
Global Media and China
Global Media and Communication
In Media Res
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Journal of African Media Studies
Journal of British Cinema and Television
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Journal of Communication
Journal of Film and Video
Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
Journal of Media Business Studies
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Popular Film and Television
Journal of Popular Music Studies
Journal of Radio & Audio Media
Jump Cut
Latin American Music Review
M/C Journal
Media, Culture and Society
Media History
Media Industries
The Moving Image
New Media and Society
Participations
Popular Communication
Popular Music
Popular Music and Society
Popular Music History
Porn Studies
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Radio Journal
Screen
Studies in French Cinema
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
Teaching Media Quarterly
Television and New Media
Tropics of Meta
Vectors
Velvet Light Trap
Volume! French Journal of Popular Music Studies

Organizations/Conferences
AMIA
ARSC
Console-ing Passions
Flow
IAMHIST
IASA
IASPM
Orphan Film
Radio Conference
Radio Preservation Task Force
Society of Cinema and Media Studies
Women in Recorded Sound

Podcasts
Aca-Media
ESCpod
Late Era
New Aural Cultures
Radio Survivor
The World of Sound
You Must Remember This

Teaching
BFI Classroom for Teachers
Popular Music Pedagogy
Teaching Media
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Resources




Archives, Centers, Museums, Labs
American Film Institute
Berea College Special Collections and Archive
BGSU: Popular Music Library/Schurk Sound Archives
British Film Institute
British Library
Columbia College: Center for Black Music Research
Country Music Hall of Fame
EMI Archive Trust
Hagley Museum and Library
Indiana University: Archives of Traditional Music
Indiana University: Moving Image Archive
Library of Congress: American Folklife Center
Library of Congress: Recorded Sound Reference Center
Macquarie University: Centre for Media History
Museum for Broadcasting Communication
NY Public Library: Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives
Paley Center for Media
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Smithsonian Institution
UCLA: Film and Television Archive
University of Chicago: Chicago Jazz Archive
University of Colorado: Media Archaeology Lab
University of Liverpool: Institute for Popular Music
University of Maryland Broadcasting Archives
University of North Carolina: Southern Folklife Collection
University of Texas: Harry Ransom Center
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research

Blogs
Amandafesto
Amanda Lotz’ media industries’ blog about Television after TV.
Andrew Bottomley
New blog on podcasting/radio/streaming audio.
Continuum
Ina Archer’s film preservatiion blog with a focus on Black cinema.
Excavated Shellac
Jonathan Ward’s ethnomusicological take on music of old.
Film Studies For Free
Catherine Grant’s long-running film studies blog and archive.
Griffonage
Patrick Feaster’s experiments in historical media.
It’s Her Factory
Robin James on philosophy/pop music/sound/feminism.
Kevin John Bozelka
Wonderful film/popular music takes from this scholar/critic.
Mapping Access
A disability, design, and media blog.
Mediated Signals
Stephen Canner’s creative discographic research that opens up to much broader topics.
Open Media Studies
Super Bon!
Posts from sound & cultural studies scholar Jonathan Sterne.
SWLing Post
Kenneth Witherspoon’s shortwave radio community.

Copyright and Media Studies
Copyright Cortex
Creative Commons: Scholars’ Copyright Addendum Engine
International Communication Association Code of Best Practices for Scholarly Research in Communication
Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement on Fair Use Best Practices in Teaching for Film and Media Educators

Digital Research & Digital Humanities
Arclight
Eric Hoyt and Charles Acland’s media history data mining & visualization project.
Cities and Memory
A global collaborative field recording & sound mapping project.
Critical Commons
A curatorial community built around media.
Fulcrum
An open-source publishing platform with work from a variety of university presses.
Humanities Commons
The Modern Language Association’s digital humanities platform.
Media Commons
A digital network for media research.
Media History Digital Library
Open Access Button
A way to request access to paywalled scholarship.
Open Library of Humanities
A charitable organization that publishes open-source scholarship.
PodcastRE
Jeremy Morris’ archive of podcasting culture.
World Library Project
A joint project of the LIbrary of Congress and UNESCO featuring collection of the world’s rare documents.

Journals and Forums
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 
Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies
Black Camera
Camera Obscura
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Celebrity Studies
Communication, Culture, and Critique
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
Convergence
Creative Industries Journal
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Cultural Studies
Feminist Media Studies
Film & History
Film Criticism
Film Quarterly
Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Framework: Journal of Cinema and Media
Genders
GLQ
Global Media and China
Global Media and Culture
In Media Res
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Journal of British Cinema and Television
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Journal of Communication
Journal of Film and Video
Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
Journal of Media Business Studies
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Popular Film and Television
Journal of Popular Music Studies
Journal of Radio & Audio Media
Jump Cut
Latin American Music Review
M/C Journal
Media, Culture and Society
Media History
Media Industries
The Moving Image
New Media and Society
Participations
Popular Communication
Popular Music
Popular Music and Society
Popular Music History
Porn Studies
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Radio Journal
Screen
Studies in French Cinema
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
Teaching Media Quarterly
Television and New Media
Tropics of Meta
Vectors
Velvet Light Trap
Volume! French Journal of Popular Music Studies

Organizations/Conferences
AMIA
ARSC
Console-ing Passions
Flow
IAMHIST
IASA
IASPM
Orphan Film
Radio Conference
Radio Preservation Task Force
Society of Cinema and Media Studies
Women in Recorded Sound

Podcasts
Aca-Media
ESCpod
Late Era
New Aural Cultures
Radio Survivor
The World of Sound
You Must Remember This

Teaching
BFI Classroom for Teachers
Popular Music Pedagogy
Teaching Media
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Resources