Links to Cultural Awareness Sites
These links are offered as a sampling of potential windows into the various ideas and events that reflect and influence our lives in North American and beyond.
News
http://news.google.com
Perspectives on world and national news from around the globe. Features
the ability to read about the same story or topic from the angle of different
newspapers.
http://aldaily.com
A service of the Chronicle of Higher Education. It links to information
from several news sites, magazines, columnists, book review sites, and
culture sites.
http://www.drudgereport.com
Links to Associate Press articles, national and international newspapers,
and individual reporters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Excellent source for world news.
http://www.theatlantic.com/
The Atlantic Monthly online. Cultural commentary.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/
Good source for independent media.
http://www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html
Directory of global newspapers.
High-tech Culture
http://www.wired.com/
Wired Magazine. News related to technology.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Plain-English encyclopedic explanations of all things tech, from general
computing terms like broadband to the more obscure jargon you come across
in product manuals.
Pop Culture
http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/
"Visual movie reviews, with explorations into the deeper more profound
meaning behind film, music, and pop culture."
http://www.dickstaub.com/index.php
Links to movie, music, and book reviews from a Christian perspective
http://allmusic.com
A comprehensive encyclopedia of popular music from hip hop to folk to
jazz to alternative rock.
http://www.theooze.com
Captures the pulse of the emergent church community, a new Christian movement
recognizing and responding to a transitioning culture from modern to postmodern.
The Ooze strives to connect with digital culture and the online community
of people.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/chapters/index.html
First chapters of books from the New York Times Bestseller List.
http://www.imdb.com
The Internet Movie Database. Provides synopsis, reviews, trailers, and
news for movies on and off screen.
http://www.marshillreview.com/
Mars Hill Review. Full length essays, in-depth studies of issues having
theological import and interviews of writers, teachers and artists. Features
original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and critical reviews of film, books,
music and other texts that remind us of God.
Statistics
http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex.html
Each month, the Harper's Index provides a statistical snapshot of the
world's economic, political, and cultural climate.
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=home
The Barna Group. Social & Christian statistics.