Course Links for The Internet

General Internet and Cyberculture Readings

• High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. A great collection of links to articles.
• Barbara Duncan's List of Papers and Research on Cyberculture.
• A great set of links to Internet and Cyberculter papers assembled and maintained by Daniel Chandler of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, or Fail? by Jan Fernback and Brad Thompson.
• Sociology of Cyberspace Links.
• A collection of links to courses on cyberculture. Many, many links to interesting course pages.
• A nice collection of cyber culture resources.
• k.i.s.s. of the panopticon. This site, run by Dougie Bicket at the University of Washington is "a quick, user-friendly, one-stop shopping guide to new media literacy, as well as cultural/critical theory and its relationship with communications and new media, including the Internet." Definitely worth checking out!
• A large, nicely organized list of social science links.
• Hyperlinks to/on the work of Donna Haraway.
• Technological or Media Determinism, an essay by Daniel Chandler.
• The Internet as a Social Phenonemon, a senior project by Chris Hardie.
• whatis.com. A great place to look up brief definitions of lots of internet, computer, and cyberculture terms.
• Kids and Media @The New Millennium, a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation about young people's media use.

People

• Individual People:
  • Tim Berners-Lee
  • Barbara Duncan
  • Michael Joyce
  • Donna Haraway. (by popcultures.com, not by haraway herself.)
  • Larry Latour
  • Paul Levinson.
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Nicholas Negroponte
  • Howard Reingold
  • Mitchel Resnick
  • Richard Stallman
  • Sherry Turkel
  • Langdon Winner
• Lists of People
  • A list of technoprophets complied by Wendy Robinson.
  • A long list of students and professors in cyberstudies.

Intellectual Property, Open Source Software, etc.

• Opensource.org. Lots of info on open source software.
• The GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation

(Semi)-Technical Info

• Internet Traffic Report
• Webmonkey
• Webopedia. Definitions for lots and lots of internet and computer terms.
• Finding Info on the Internet: A Tutorial. Highly recommended!!!

Virtual Communities

• Virtual Data Sources. Pointers to many sites that should be helpful as you look for virtual communities to join.
• Usenet News on deja.com.
• Help in Finding a Humanities-Oriented [Email] List.
• onelist.com. Tons and tons of email groups.

Paul Levinson

• An Interview with Paul Levinson on the Ann Online website. Contains links to several real audio clips of Levinson reading from his book.
• Check out the reviews of The Soft Edge at amazon.com.

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

• Reviews of Rich Media, Poor Democracy from amazon.com.

Computers, The Internet, and Education

• CyberTimes Education Index from The New York Times.

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