Library and Resources

Dictionary of Online Terminology

• Webopedia

Cyber-Studies:

• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
• http://mediahistory.umn.edu/compute.html
• Communication Studies/Digital Media
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical theory
• Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
• Center for the Study of Online Community
• NewMediaStudies.com

Electronic Journals:

• Journal of Online Behavior
• The Information Society
• Information, Communication & Society
• Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• Postmodern Culture

On-Line Research:

• W3 Search Engines
• Libraries Online
• The HelpWeb
• Dummies Guide to the Internet

Web Sites

• Teamwave http://www.teamwave.com/
• Livenet http://livenet.it.uts.edu.au
• Placeware http://www.placeware.com/
• Active Worlds http://www.activeworlds.com/
• Groove http://www.groove.net/
• KnowledgeForum http://www.knowledgeforum.com
• Woods Bagot http://www.woodsbagot.com/
• Access Grid http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/

CMC TOPICS, ISSUES, and NEWS

LANGUAGES, CMC, and the INTERNET

• Matt Wells and David Teather. English may not be the language of the Internet. The Guardian, 28 Aug 2000.
  • http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,360018,00.html
• Global Internet Statistics by Language
  • http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3
• Web Languages Hit Parade: A Survey of Language Use from the Babel Project (old but interesting)
  • http://www.isoc.org:8080/palmares.html
• Jennifer Lee. In China, Computer Use Erodes Traditional Handwriting, Stirring a Cultural Debate. NY Times, 1 Feb 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/01/technology/01LOST.html?0201ci
• William B. Hart. Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication. The Edge. 3 Jan 1999.
  • http://kumo.swcp.com/biz/theedge/iccmc.htm

POPULAR PRESS ACCOUNTS OF DIGITAL LIFE

• Nicolaus Negroponte's columns in WIRED Magazine
  • http://www.media.mit.edu/people/nicholas/Wired/

CELLULAR PHONES, PAGERS, AND THE WIRELESS WORLD

• Jakob Nielsen. Mobile Phones: Europe's Next Minitel?
  • http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010107.html
• Alan Brender. Thanks to Cell Phones, Japanese Students Swap E-Mail Even in Class
  • http://chronicle.com/free/2001/01/2001011601t.htm
• Douglas Century. A World Divided Into Two-Way-Pager Camps
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/living/14NOTI.html?pagewanted=all
• Frank Derfler, Jr. Crossed Signals: 802.11b, Bluetooth, and HomeRF
  • http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2470132,00.html

PSYCHOLOGY, CMC, and the INTERNET

• Kraut, R., Lundmark, V., Patterson, M., Kiesler, S., Mukopadhyay, T., & Scherlis, W. (2000). Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being? American Psychologist, Volume 55, Number 12.
  • http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp5391017.html
• Michael Fenichel, Storm A. King, Steven E. Stern, Kimberly Young, John Suler. (2000). Healthy and Pathological Internet Use. Behavior OnLine Chate Events, October 24, 1999.
  • http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/transcript99-4.html
• On-line Clinical Work discussion group on OnLine Behavior's web site
  • http://www.behavior.net/cgi-bin/ls2.cgi?config=onlineclinical&uid=nC1M8.user&new=0

SPAM

• Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2001
  • http://www.suespammers.org/us/hr95-20010103.shtml
• New crackdown on spam
  • http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/01/mailbox.htm
• Internet Fraud Complaint Center
  • https://www.ifccfbi.gov/

MEDICAL and CLINICAL USES OF CMC

• Freudenheim, Milt. Digital Doctoring
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/technology/08HAND.html?pagewanted=all
• The Detwiler Group Report on Health Websites
  • http://www.detwiler.com/html/presentations/Detwiler_report_200101.pdf
• Doctor Group Unveils Online Communications Policies, Reuters Health, 2000.
  • http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010109/hl/www_1.html
• Patients Look to Net to Help with Medical Care
  • http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/healthcare/article/0,,10101_564911,00.html
• Pew Internet Project (2000). The Online Health Care Revolution: How the Web helps Americans take better care of themselves.
  • http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=26
• Behavior OnLine, the gathering place for Mental Health and Applied Behavioral Science Professionals
  • http://www.behavior.net/

FANTASY SPORTS

• Alan Barra. A Flood of Sites that Make Every Fan a Steinbrenner. NY Times, April 18, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18BARR.html?searchpv=site01

B2B & EMPLOYEE TRAINING ON-LINE

• Susan Stellin. Employee Training, Without the No-Doz. NY Times, April 18, 2001
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18STEL.html?searchpv=site01
• Joseph Treaster. Moving the Accountants Out of the Building and Onto the Web. NY Times, April 18, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18TREA.html?searchpv=site01

The INTERNET and REGIONS OF THE WORLD

• Internet Changing Latin America. The Associated Press. NY Times, April 20, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/AP-Latin-America-Internet.html?searchpv=aponline

THE WORLD (WIDE) WEB CAMS

• Webcam World.com
  • http://webcamworld.com/
• Web Cams of the World (slow to load)
  • http://www.livewebcam.com/
• Amazing Live Webcams, from camscape.com
  • http://www.camscape.com/
• Live Web Cams: UC Berkeley
  • http://www.berkeley.edu/webcams/

WEB CAMS AND SELF-SURVIELLANCE

• Simon Firth. live! FROM MY BEDROOM. Salon.com, 01/1998.
  • http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/01/cov_08feature.html
• Katharine Mieszkowski. Candy from strangers. Salon.com, 8/13/2001.
  • http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/13/cam_girls/index.html
• Jennicam, life online (one of the original life-as-spectacle cams put up by Jennifer Ringley)
  • http://www.jennicam.org/

ON-LINE FINANCE AND STOCK TRADING

• Patrick McGeehan. For the Stock-Weary, Online Bond Trading. NY Times, April 18, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18MCGH.html?searchpv=site0

  The Jonathan Lebed Case

• James J. Cramer. There's No Defense for Jonathan Lebed. TheStreet.com, 3/2/01.
  • http://www.thestreet.com/pf/comment/wrongrear/1326876.html
• Robert Kowalski. 10th Grader Charged with Securities Fraud. TheStreet.com, 9/20/00.
  • http://www.thestreet.com/pf/stocks/brokerages/1090004.html
• Stacie Zoe Berg. Fraudulent Stock Schemes Still Vexing Investors, SEC. 12/16/00.
  • http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/investing/1216049.html
• Michael Lewis. Jonathan Lebed: Stock Manipulator, SEC Nemesis -- and 15. NY Times, February 25, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine/25STOCK-TRADER.html?printpage=yes
• Gretchen Morgenson. Teen Settles Stock Manipulation Case. NY Times, September 21, 2000.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/21/technology/21TEEN.html
• Neil MacFarquhar. Named a Market Swindler at 15, He Likes Wrestling, the Mets and Penny Stocks. NY Times, 9/22/2000.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/22/nyregion/22FRAU.html
• Daniel Kadlec. Crime and Misdeminors.Time Magazine (time.com), October 2, 2000, Vol 156, No. 14.
  • http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,55712,00.html
• Peter Carbonara. The Kid and the Con Man. Money.com. 2001.
  • http://www.money.com/money/depts/investing/kid/index.html
• Jonathan Lebed Index Page
  • http://www.gaddisannotations.net/jr/jlebedindex.html
• S.E.C. Desist order September 20, 2000, against Jonathan Lebed
  • http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/33-7891.htm
• S.E.C. press release September 20, 2000, about the Jonathan Lebed case
  • http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2000-135.txt

INTER-CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL CMC

• Promoting Cross-border Communication in an International Web-based Graduate Course
  • http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/2000/2/01/index.asp
• CULTURA: French-American telecollaboration project at MIT
  • http://web.mit.edu/french/cultura/
• Kramsch, C., & Thorne, S. (forthcoming). Foreign Language Learning as Global Communicative Practice. In David Block & Deborah Cameron (eds.), Language Learning and Teaching in the Age of Globalization. London: Routledge.
• William B. Hart. Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication. The Edge. 3 Jan 1999.
  • http://kumo.swcp.com/biz/theedge/iccmc.htm

CMC AND FOREIGN / SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION

• Scholarly Activities in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Development, Pedagogical Innovations, and Research. CALICO.
  • http://www.calico.org/CALL_document.html

PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) TECHNOLOGIES: BLOGGING

• Rebecca Mead. You've Got Blog How to put your business, your boyfriend, and your life on-line. The New Yorker Magazine. November 13, 2000.
  • http://www.rebeccamead.com/2000_11_13_art_blog.htm
• Holly J. Morris. Blogging burgeons as a form of Web expression. U.S. News. January 15, 2001.
  • http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010115/nycu/blogging.htm
• Leander Kahney. The Web the Way It Was. Wired News. Feb. 23, 2000.
  • http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34006,00.html
• Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex.
  • http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,45546,00.html
• James Grimmelmann. Peer-to-peer Terrorism. Salon.com. Sept. 26, 2001.
  • http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/26/osama_bin_napster/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY

• Tom Berson. Cryptographic Abundance. Technology Review, January/February 2002.
  • http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/insight0102.asp

CMC JOURNALS, RESOURCES, and TOOLS

CMC INFORMATION AND INTERNET TERMINOLOGY

• A broad array of CMC Information Sources from John December
  • http://www.december.com/cmc/info/
• Internet Terms Glossary, by David Gauntlett and David Silver (taken from Web.Studies: Rewiring media studies for the digital age)
  • http://www.newmediastudies.com/module/glossary.htm
• An On-line Dictionary of On-line Terms and Lingo at Netlingo.com
  • http://www.netlingo.com/
• Glossary of Internet Terms
  • http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
• Webopedia
  • http://webopedia.internet.com/
• Jargon Watch from WIRED Magazine: Amusing acronyms and technology society terms that are merging into common use (at least in some areas):
  • http://www.xmission.com/%7Edtubbs/jargon/jw.html

CMC and INTERNET JOURNALS, LISTS, and RESEARCH

• Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater News Service (listserv providing current information on Internet and political issues)
  • http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
  • RRE archive of links (since 1998): http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/urls.html
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/
• New Mass Media
  • http://www.newmassmedia.com/
• Behavior Online
  • http://www.behavior.net/
• Journal of Online Behavior
  • http://www.behavior.net/JOB/
• Information, Communication, and Society, an international journal
  • http://www.infosoc.co.uk/
• The Information Society, and international journal
  • http://www.slis.indiana.edu/tis/
• The Social Informatics homepage
  • http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/SI/
• Asynchronous Learning Networks
  • http://www.aln.org/index.htm
• Kairos, a journal for teachers of writing in webbed environments
  • http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
• Journal of Interactive Media in Education
  • http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/
• Educational Technology and Society
  • http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical

CYBERSPACE STATISTICS AND CYBER-GEOGRAPHY

• An Atlas of Cyberspaces, from the folks at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.
  • http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
• Cyberatlas, Internet statistics and market research
  • http://cyberatlas.internet.com/
• Nielson/NetRatings
  • http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/

CMC TOOLS

• A variety of Software Tools
  • http://beetle.la.psu.edu/tifle/software_tools.html
• On-line Listing of Synchronous CMC/Chat Tools
  • http://www.justfreestuff.com/chat.html
• Information on Instant Messaging
  • http://netconference.about.com/internet/netconference/cs/imresources/
• Tutorial: Instant Messaging 101
  • http://netconference.about.com/internet/netconference/library/weekly/OC042098.htm

MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHs

• MOO information page
  • http://www.itp.berkeley.edu:80/MOO.html
• CafeMOOlano (the primary MOO we will use in Spcom 497B)
  • http://moolano.berkeley.edu:7000/
• LinguaMOO Information Page: A good site for educational MOO information and resources
  • http://lingua.utdallas.edu/
• MUDS and MOOs: An Overview, by Leslie Harris

Course Topics

Topic 1
Pivotal Terms In The Study Of Human Communication
Cognition-Message - Medium/Technology-Message-Culture

Topic 2
Cognition-Managing Information and Knowledge

Concepts

Agents        Artificial Intelligence    Cookies
        

Topic 3
The Nature of the Message

Pivotal Terms

digitiization (atoms to bits)

E-Mail    Electronic Bulletin Boards (BBS)

Topic 4
The Message: Form and Context
Strategies For Effective Web Site Development

Pivotal Terms
Hypertext

Topic 5
The Nature of the Audience and the Medium-Cognition Relationship

Topic 6

The Nature of the Medium and Technology
Inside The Mind Of  Nicholas Negroponte
CyberTrends - John M McCann Duke University
             Technologies that drive the Digital Revolution
             The Digital Dawn ... the beginning of the Digital Age
             Digital Age Media

Concepts-Technology

Bandwidth    
Compression    
Streaming Video/Audio    
WWW (World-Wide Web)
Law of the Microcosm

TOPIC  7
THE WEB PAGE AS A COMMUNICATION MEDIUM

Danish Internet guru, Jakob Nielsen's personal Web site with his view on usability and strategic Internet development. Author of some of the most important articles within the field, which are freely available from the site. see  Top Ten Mistakes of Web Management article http://www.useit.com/  (Bi-weekly updates)

The Contexts of Computer-Mediated Communication

Topic 8
Journalism in Computer-mediated Environments

Topic 9
Public Relations in Computer-mediated Environments

Topic 10
Journalism in Computer-mediated Environments

Topic 11
Advertising in Computer-mediated Environments

Topic 12
Television in Computer-mediated Environments