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article

Vanishing Jobs. "Will there be a job for me in the new Information Age?"

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1995/09/rifkin.html

1995

Rifkin Jeremy

"Will there be a job for me in the new Information Age?"

This is the question that most worries American voters…

article

Net Censors Active in China. OpenNet Initiative study reveals extensive Internet censorship in China, but also a few surprises.

http://www.redherring.com/Home/11815

2005

Cubarrubia Eydie

It’s not unusual to purchase an international news magazine in China and have big black marks running through stories that the government considers sensitive—Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen Square, to name a few. But a study published this week found Internet readers may not even see the story or the publication itself.

Research Association

EFF "Net Culture & Cyber-Anthropology" Archive

http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/

USA

From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

Research Association

Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

http://www.sunyit.edu/

USA

Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is a multidisciplinary program that approaches the study of science, technology and society at the points of their convergence using historical, philosophical, and sociological approaches. State University of New York Institute of Technology.

Research Association

Netsociology

http://www.netsociology.org/home.htm

Italia

NetSociology Università di Lecce (sito dismesso)

Research Association

Etnografia.it

http://www.etnografia.it/

Guigoni, Alessandra

Italia

Etnografia - Scrivere le Culture @ Net costituisce il sito personale di Alessandra Guigoni. sto sito troverete alcuni miei articoli scaricabili (in pdf) per lo spirito del copyleft; si prega di citare l'autrice e la referenza completa che compare in calce all'articolo. Altri articoli correlati o su argomenti affini sono disponibili previa richiesta all'autrice.

Research Association

http://www.sociedaddigital.org/

Uruguay

La Sociedad Digital® es una organización civil no gubernamental destinada fundamentalmente a la investigación de la Sociedad de la Información y sus efectos políticos, económicos, comerciales, sociales, culturales y educativos. (SITO DISMESSO)

Research Association

Cybersoc.com

http://www.cybersociology.com/

UK

Cybersoc is an online resource for social scientists interested in the study of the internet, cyberspace, computer mediated communication, and online communities

Research Association

Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory Web

http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/

USA

Like the Victorian and Postcolonial Literature webs, this collection of interlinked materials, which by April 1998 has grown to include some 7,000 documents and images, began as an Intermedia web that supported courses taught at Brown University. In 1992 all materials were transferred to Eastgate Systems's Storyspace and then, in 1995, to html.

Research Association

Act Lab

http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/

USA

A unique group of international and interdisciplinary artists, teachers, techies, and hackers. We situate our work at the hotly contested intersections where technology, art, and culture collide. Our uniqueness comes from our unusual courses, our custom multimodal studio specifically designed for ACTLab work, the special qualities of our community and participants, the guiding vision of our directors, visiting artists and lecturers, and our students' broad spectrum of interests and projects.

Research Association

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

USA

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
RCCS was originally founded by David Silver in 1996 at the University of Maryland, where it received generous support from the Department of American Studies.
For a low volume announcement list regarding RCCS events and updates, please subscribe to cyberculture-announce.

books

Il mondo digitale

http://www.laterza.it/internet/speciali/2000/il_mondo_digitale/index.htm

2000

Ciotti Fabo - Roncaglia Gino

Italia

Il libro è indirizzato al mondo della scuola e dell’università, ma anche a tutti i lettori di ogni età interessati a conoscere più da vicino i vari aspetti della rivoluzione tecnologica e culturale che stiamo vivendo.

books

Internet 2004 - Laterza

http://www.laterza.it/internet/

2004

Calvo M., Ciotti F., Roncaglia G., Zela M.

Italia

Uno dei manuali più completi e aggiornati sul mondo Internet

news

Seminari - "Visualità e narrazione" e "Cultura visuale: un curriculum internazionale"

http://www.cybercultura.it/pdf/visualita.pdf

news

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival,

http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/

Call for Entries for Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, including experimental non-fiction and animation work, deadline extended to June 15

news

Critical Engagements with Professor Mark Poster Saturday July 3rd Sunday July 4th

http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/

UK

Seminario - A seminar to be held at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Saturday July 3rd – Sunday July 4th, under the aegis of the Social and Cultural Movements Research Group. The purpose of this seminar is to capitalise on the presence of Mark Poster in the UK, on a visit to give the closing plenary address at the 2nd International Conference of the Social and Cultural Movements Group, on the theme of ‘Imaging Social Movements’. The idea behind the seminar is to explore Poster’s recent thinking and publications, focused on his analysis of The Mode of Information, (What’s the Matter with) the Internet, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy. The seminar will involve a maximum of six or seven papers, with a reply by Poster concluding the seminar. The seminar will have limited numbers in order to keep it manageable for discussion and debate. The papers and Poster’s reply will be published as a special edition of a journal. Delegates at the 2nd International Conference of the Social and Cultural Movements Group will be charged a nominal fee to cover subsistence costs. For further information, contact: Paul Reynolds Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences Edge Hill College St Helens Road Ormskirk Lancs L394QP reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk

researcher

Poster Mark

http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/

USA

I teach at the University of California, Irvine in the History Department, the Department of Film and Media Studies, and the Critical Theory Emphasis. I have courtesy appointments in the Department of Information and Computer Science and the Department of Comparative Literature. Some of my recent publications are: What's the Matter with the Internet? (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), The Second Media Age (Blackwell, 1995), The Mode of Information (Chicago Press, 1990) and Cultural History and Postmodernity (Columbia University Press, 1997). A collection of pieces old and new with a critical introduction by Stanley Aronowitz is published as The Information Subject (G & B Arts International, 2001). I continue my study of the social and cultural theory of electronically mediated information with a forthcoming work entitled Information Please: Culture and Politics in a Digital Age (Duke University Press, 2006). A full bibliography of my works may be found at this site .

magazine

Webology

http://www.webology.ir/index.html

Iran

Webology is an international peer-reviewed journal in English devoted to the field of the World Wide Web and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on the Web and new information technologies. Special topic issues are also often seen.

magazine

American Communication Journal

http://www.acjournal.org/index.htm

USA

Commissioned by the American Communication Association's Board of Directors at the 1996 Annual Convention in historic Charleston, South Carolina, The American Communication Journal is a completely online, blind-reviewed publication, dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts. Appreciating the diversity of research agendas and methodologies in the study of communication, the Co-Editors and Editorial Board of ACJ welcome submissions on any topic related to the discipline

magazine

Culture Machine

http://www.culturemachine.net/

UK

Culture Machine is a series of new experiments in culture and theory. Culture Machine is currently taking the form of an international electronic journal. Acting as additions or supplements to the e-journal are the Culture Machine Reviews section and the Culture Machine InterZone.

magazine

Telema - attualità e futuro della società multimediale

http://www.fub.it/?modulo=Quaderni

Italia

Nell'estate del 2002 prende il via la collaborazione della Fondazione Ugo Bordoni con Media Duemila, attraverso la coedizione de "I quaderni di Telèma", un inserto a carattere prevalentemente monografico.

paper

Money, Community & Social Change

http://uazu.net/money/lietaer.html

2003

Lietaer Bernard

Lietaer is the author of nine books on money and finances, including "The Future of Money" (Random House, 2001), The Mystery of Money (Riemann Verlag, 2000) and a book for kids, called 'The World of Money' (Arena Verlag, 2001). Formerly professor of international finance at the University of Louvain, Lietaer is currently a fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Beginning this fall, he will be a professor at Naropa University. Here, Lietaer shares his views on the shortcomings of our conventional currency system, the benefits of creating a complementary currency, and ways to effect lasting social change.

paper

The cluetrain manifesto. The End of Business as Usual

http://cluetrain.com/book/95-theses.html

1999

Locke Christopher, Levine Rick

A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies.

paper

The Possibilities of Transnational Turkish Television

http://www.photoinsight.org.uk/text/aksoy/aksoy.htm

2000

Aksoy Asu

UK

Dr Asu Aksoy is a research associate at the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is currently working on Turkish migrant identity and the impact of Turkish satellite television for Tiurkish identity in Europe. This project is part of the ESRC's Transnational Communities Programme. For more on this Programme and the research visit Transnational Communities website at www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk.

paper

Review: Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (NY: Routledge) 2002

http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/Text/Reviews/Nakamura.html

2003

Kali Tal

There’s a story behind this essay. David Silver, who runs the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, requested that I review Nakamura’s book for RCCS. I’d reviewed a couple of books for Silver before, and we were on friendly terms. I agreed, but the review was more negative than he expected. He at first agreed to publish it with a couple of revisions. I made them and resubmitted. Then Silver reversed himself at the last minute. I finally withdrew the essay when he requested yet another revision, with very fuzzy parameters, and no assurance that it would be accepted even then. He doubtless has his own explanation for the rejection, but I think it was a failure of nerve—this is sure to be a controversial piece and not everybody likes to take heat.

paper

Cybercultural Politics. Political Activism

http://www.unb.br/ics/dan/Serie212empdf.pdf

1996

Ribeiro Gustavo Lins

Brasile

Globalization, the information era and non-governmental organizations are highlycomplex, much debated topics that may be considered as causes and results of many changes in political, social, cultural and economic contemporary life. I want to explore the entwinement of these issues to shed light on the emergence of another dimension of political and cultural life, the emergence of the virtual-imagined transnational community that can be better understood through an analysis of cybercultural politics.

paper

Do Electronic Mass Media Have Negative Effects On Indigenous People?

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/media-effects-indians.html

1998

Mizrach Steve

USA

The media do not cause indigenous people to acculturate to the dominant society, and actually help them resist acculturation.

paper

Recherche ethnographique et communautés virtuelles: Entretien avec Alessandra Guigon

http://www.espritcritique.fr/0405/entretien01.html

2002

Guigoni Alessandra

FR

L'ethnographie appliquée aux relations sociales et aux réseaux sur Internet, par sa pratique concrète d'immersion dans le milieu social, essaie de décrire l'histoire et le ressort des communautés virtuelles, analysant des espaces construits par les individus sociaux en même temps que leurs discours et leurs pratiques.

paper

Cyborgasms Cybersex Amongst Multiple-Selves and Cyborgs in the Narrow-Bandwidth Space of America Online Chat Rooms

http://cybersoc.blogs.com/cyborgasms.html

1996

Hamman Robin

UK

Cybersex in online chat rooms is defined here as having two forms: 1) computer mediated interactive masturbation in real time and, 2) computer mediated telling of interactive sexual stories (in real time) with the intent of arousal. Both of these forms of cybersex are found on America Online. Ethnographic methods are used in researching and writing this paper.

paper

Computer-Mediated Communication and Community: Introduction

http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/jones.html

1995

Jones Steve

USA

This excerpt is the introductory chapter from the book CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community from Sage Publications (Newbury Park, CA).

paper

Il reale e il virtuale - Intervista a Franco berardi (mediamente)

http://www.mediamente.rai.it/home/bibliote/intervis/b/berardi.htm

1995

Franco Berardi Bifo

Franco Berardi, quali sono, secondo te, le regole che governano il mondo reale e quello digitale?

paper

Networks, Netwars and the Fight fot the Future

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/ronfeldt/

2001

David Ronfeldt e John Arquilla

Netwar is an emerging mode of conflict in which the protagonists - ranging from terrorist and criminal organizations on the dark side, to militant social activists on the bright side - use network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. The practice of netwar is well ahead of theory, as both civil and uncivil society actors are increasingly engaging in this new way of fighting. David Ronfeldt e John Arquilla

paper

Envisioning Cyberspace: The Design of OnLine Communities

http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/eanders.html#abstract

1996

Anders Peter

New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture

The development of the World Wide Web into an active, visual social environment poses unique opportunities for the design professions. Multi-user Domains, social meeting places in cyberspace, are mostly text-based virtual realities which use spatial references to set the stage for social interaction.

paper

Ethical Issues in the Ethnography of Cyberspace

http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/925/1/170

2000

Hakken David

The project of developing an anticipatory anthropology of the future reveals unique ethical opportunities. For example, the increased importance of performance means there is a substantial potential for a substantive "resocialing". of work in organizations, just as the decline of Modernism opens space for collective, situated ethics as opposed to individualized categorical imperatives.

paper

Digital Code and Literary Text



2004

Cramer, Florian

This paper is based on the general (yet disputable) assumption that the theoretical debate of literature in digital networks has shifted, just as the poetic practices it is shaped after, from perceiving computer data as an extension and transgression of textuality (as manifest in such notions as ''hypertext'', ''hyperfiction'', ''hyper-/ multimedia'') towards paying attention to the very codedness - i.e. textuality - of digital systems themselves. Several phenomena may serve as empirical evidence

paper

The Construction of Identity in the Personal Homepages of Adolescents

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/strasbourg.html

1998

Chandler D.

Researchers and journalists have highlighted radical transformations of identity in chat systems and anonymous e-mail, but the more subtle potential of the ‘personal homepage’ on the World-Wide Web tends to be overlooked. This new multi-media online genre can be defined as addressing the question ‘Who am I?’ Young people constitute the vast majority of those who have such pages on the Web, and exploring this same question is central to the identity work of adolescence. Websites are frequently signposted as ‘under construction’, but the construction involved is at least in part that of their makers’ identities. The medium and the genre have particular features which may play a part in phenomenological shifts in the sense of self, leading some webpage authors to experience the Web as possessing particular potency as a means of self-presentation. This is related to the involvement of the medium in changing relations between public and private. Writing which is ‘personal’ is at the same time automatically published for a worldwide readership, and it is not uncommon to encounter intimate diaries and journals within publicly-accessible homepages.

paper

Gender Swapping on the Internet

http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/gender-swapping.txt

1993

Bruckman, Amy S.

paper

L'alba dei network organizzati

http://www.cybercultura.it/testi/lovink_rossiter2005.html

2005

Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

A un primo sguardo il concetto di "network organizzati" sembra un ossimoro. In termini tecnici, tutti i network sono organizzati. Ci sono fondatori, amministratori, moderatori e membri attivi che svolgono dei ruoli. Si pensi anche ai primi lavori sulla cibernetica e alla cibernetica di "secondo ordine" di Bateson e altri.

paper

A Skeptical View of Computing

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/9697fall/node1.html

1996

Does daily life require computers, digital networks? They're irrelevant to cooking, driving, visiting, negotiating, eating, hiking, dancing, speaking, and gossiping. You don't need a keyboard to bake bread, play touch football, piece a quilt, build a stone wall, recite a poem, or say a prayer. Virtual communities chatter about cybersex, cybersluts, and cyberporn, but the real thing isn't there.

paper

The Skeptic

http://www.edge.org/digerati/stoll/index.html

1990

Stoll, Cliff

"When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. I'm ignoring anyone else in the room. The nature of being online is that I can't be with someone else. Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my community."

paper

De-Sovietization of Knowledge: Efforts to Promote Economic Development Through ICT in ex-Soviet Countries

http://www.cybercultura.it/pdf/2004_miscione_soviet.pdf

2004

Miscione Gianluca

The process of innovation relies heavily on the promotion of organization. It means that economic development promotion goes through the creation of social relations able to facilitate and sustain economical interchanges. Those organized relations are to be fostered within and between social agencies. To achieve that, the challenge is not only to address optimal and ideal combinations of economical resources and social factors, but to mobilize capabilities towards ends, and to make social relations foreseeable and reliable, too.

paper

The Semantic Web A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21

2001

Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila

A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities

paper

Telemedicine and Knowledge between Medical and Development Discourses

http://www.cybercultura.it/pdf/Miscione_telemedicina_2005.pdf

2005

Miscione Gianluca

Development and Globalization: Organizing Rhetoric and Power 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference ‘Development’ -a normative concept whose meaning is deeply rooted in the idea of progress- is a widely legitimated field of activity, and became highly ramified, as there are economical, human, social, cultural, political developments, depending on which element is stressed more.

paper

Postmodern Virtualities

http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html

1995

Poster Mark

USA

(This essay appears as Chapter 2 in the book The Second Media Age (Blackwell 1995)

paper

KNOWLEDGE, CYBERSPACE, AND ANTHROPOLOGY

http://www.knowledgenet.org/papers/01aaapaper01.pdf

2001

Hakken, David

Among the most important transformations in the discipline of anthropology over the last hundred years are changes in our conception of what constitutes anthropological knowledge. In the wake of the adoption early in the Twentieth Century of ethnographic fieldwork as something of a methodological standard in social and cultural anthropology came an implicit recognition of the cultural relativity of knowledge, that what counts as “known” varies from cultural to culture. Over the century, this recognition co-existed more or less uneasily with the Malinowskian and both earlier and later forms of commitment to a “science” program in the discipline.

paper

La mente umana e le nuove tecnologie di comunicazione.

http://www.mediamente.rai.it/HOME/bibliote/intervis/d/dekerckh.htm

1995

Derrick De Kerckhove

Gli effetti delle nuove tecnologie sul nostro modo di pensare.

paper

Rapporto sulla IpTV

http://www.fub.it/?modulo=Apprdet&ident=83&archivio=3

2007

Il dinamismo registrato nel settore degli audiovisivi su internet rappresenta la risposta delle imprese del settore della convergenza al verificarsi di alcune condizioni di carattere tecnologico, economico e sociale, quali la crescente disponibilità di accessi in larga banda, lo scenario competitivo che spinge i network e gli access providers a offrire nuovi servizi ad alto valore, l'evoluzione dello stile di fruizione degli utenti disposti a pagare per servizi di tipo simil-televisivo e sempre più abituati a un consumo on demand, etc.

paper

Broadband Internet: The Power to Reconfigure Access

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/OIIFD1_200308.pdf

2003

Dutton William H., Sharon Eisner Gillett,

Oxford Internet Institute, UK

Since the dawn of the 21st century, government and industry initiatives to stimulate the diffusion of broadband links to the Internet have generated debates over the social and economic impact of this advance in technological capacity. This paper, based on a forum held at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), highlights the critical role that broadband Internet can play in reconfiguring access to people, services, information and technologies. The long-term societal implications of reshaping access for individuals, communities.

paper

The Presentation of Self in WWW Home Pages

http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper21.htm

1998

Miller Hugh and Mather Russell

Identity is socially mediated (Gilligan, 1982), and much of that mediation is through language (Harre, 1989). It follows that as new social processes and new ways of using language emerge, it may be possible to develop new aspects of identity. It has been suggested, for instance by Gergen (1991, 1992), that the developing communication technologies of the last twenty years have had profound implication for our sense of self.

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Does Internet and Computer 'Addiction' Exist? : Some Case Study Evidence

http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper47.htm

1998

Griffiths Mark

It has been alleged that social pathologies are beginning to surface in cyberspace, i.e. technological addictions. To date there is very little empirical evidence that computing activities (i.e. internet use, hacking, programming) are addictive. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the typical 'addict' is a teenager, usually male, with little or no social life and little or no self confidence. This paper concentrates on five case studies of excessive computer usage. It is argued that of the five cases, only two of them are possibly 'addicted' using addiction components criteria. The excessive usage in the majority of cases was purely symptomatic and was where the internet/computer was used to counteract other deficiencies.

paper

Links and Power: The Political Economy of Linking on the Web

http://jilltxt.net/txt/linksandpower.html

2002

Walker Jill

Search engines like Google interpret links to a web page as objective, peer-endorsed and machine-readable signs of value. Links have become the currency of the Web. With this economic value they also have power, affecting accessibility and knowledge on the Web.

paper

What Are We Thinking About When We Are Thinking About Computers?

http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/routledge_reader.html

1999

Turkle Sherry

Computers offer themselves as models of mind and as "objects to think with." They do this in several ways. There is, first of all, the world of computational theories. Some artificial intelligence researchers explicitly endeavor to build machines that model the human mind. Proponents of artificial life use computational processes capable of replication and evolution to redraw the boundaries of what counts as "alive." And second, there is the world of computational objects themselves: everything from toys and games to simulation software and Internet connections

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I LIMITI DELLA STRUTTURAZIONE DELL’INFORMAZIONE IN RETE: pratiche e Semantic Web

http://www.cybercultura.it/pdf/miscione_semanticweb.pdf

2005

Miscione Gianluca

Nella crescente centralità attribuita al knowledge management nell’organizzare i flussi di comunicazione, i sistemi informativi hanno guadagnato un ruolo centrale come modo dell’innovazione, in virtù della capacità di migliorare la circolazione dell’informazione e quindi efficienza ed efficacia delle attività organizzate. Più specificamente l’adeguata implementazione di sistemi informativi è vista come il modo per astrarre -per quanto possibile- il sapere esplicito e implicito dalle attività degli attori e renderlo disponibile per altre attività, anche in altri contesti. Quindi le tecnologie dell’informazione sono implementate per essere archivio e strumento di amministrazione delle conoscenze. Tale concezione è incentrata sulle tecnologie piuttosto che sulle attività degli attori sociali; le tecnologie astraggono sapere come informazioni per renderle poi trasmissibili.

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