Sociology of Cyberspace - Abstracts
Books, Bibliography, Syllabus, Journals, Sociology of Cyberspace
Visions of Excess: Cyberspace, Digital Technologies and New Cultural Politics - Stephen A. Webb Abstract: Critically situates contemporary concerns with cyberspace and digital media within a cultural dimension. It begins by undertaking ground clearing work about the nature of cyberspace and providing an analytical index of its position in relation to claims that are made about its imaginary or real status. It is argued that cyberspace is destined to attract two contradictory responses, first form being too true to life; and second for not being true enough.
Encoding/Decoding Cyberspace: Towards a Theoretical Framework for
Exploring Cultural Diversity In and Out of the Net - David Silver - University of
Maryland
The majority of scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of cyberculture has taken two
major approaches. Attempts to situate cyberspace within its proper historical and cultural
context, focusing especially on the economic and institutional considerations of the
development and subsequent flourishing of cyberspace. Building off of Stuart Hall's
Encoding-Decoding model, this presentation suggests that cyberspace is best understood
within a number of instances, including an online environments' moment of inception,
subsequent design, and application by users.
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Cyberspace and Youth Cultural Styles - Brad Warren. - Deakin
University, Australia
Youth styles, especially spectacular subcultural styles such as Punk, Goth, Raver and so
on, have been dramatically revitalised and reconfigured as a result of their ongoing
development and promulgation over the internet.
Living in virtual communities: an ethnography of human relationships in cyberspace - Denise Carter ABSTRACT: Outlines some of the issues involved in the development of human relationships in cyberspace. Building on the work of other cyberethnographers, the author combines original ethnographic research in Cybercity, a Virtual Community, with face-to-face meetings to illustrate how, for many people, cyberspace is just another place to meet. Second, she suggests that people in Cybercity are investing as much effort in maintaining relationships in cyberspace as in other social spaces. Her preliminary analysis suggests that by extending traditional human relationships into Cybercity, they are widening their webs of relationships, not weakening them. Human relationships in cyberspace are formed and maintained in similar ways to those in wider society.
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects By
Caroline Haythornthwaite
ABSTRACT: Explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity
between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as
background for exploration of these impacts.
The digital divide in Sydney : A sociospatial analysis
By Darren Holloway (University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown Campus)
ABSTRACT: In Australia, there has been limited research into the issue of the digital
divide. Even less attention has been given to the social and spatial characteristics of
this phenomenon, particularly within metropolitan areas. The findings suggest that those
individuals who are socially and economically disadvantaged have lower rates of computer
and Internet use, and that these individuals also risk exacerbating their disadvantage
status if these demand-side barriers are not addressed.
The Internet and off-world power-flows
By David Lyon (Queen's University, Canada)
Abstract: Surveillance, as the automatic electronic gleaning of personal data, has
developed rapidly on the Internet, and the process is likely to intensify with the
commercialization of such networked, computer-mediated communications. After placing this
phenomenon in the context of already existing surveillance systems, some aspects of
'cyberspace surveillance' are examined. These include employment monitoring, policing and
security, and marketing, the latter of which is the most generalized and the least
perceptible to data subjects. 'Cookies' and 'spiders' are among the newer technical
innovations mentioned, in relation to their social purposes. How apparently 'off-world'
powerflows in simulated surveillance situations actually reinforce real social
inequalities, and the vulnerability of certain social groups to constraint or control,
should be the focus of efforts to understand 'cyberspace surveillance'.
Preparing for Information-Age Conflict: Part One: Conceptual and Organizational Dimensions
By John Arqilla (US Naval Postgraduate School) and David Ronfeldt (RAND)
Abstract: Prevailing hopes for the peace-enhancing tendencies of interconnectivity must be
tempered by a realization that the information revolution augurs a new epoch of conflict,
in which new modes of armed combat and social upheaval will emerge.
The Iron Cage of the Information Society
By Frank Webster (Oxford Brooks University, UK) and Kevin Robins (University of Newcastle,
UK)
Abstract: This paper offers an analysis and critique of recent thought about the
'information society'. It identifies two phases of futurism, the first a technological
enthusiasm that characterised the early 1980s, the second, in the 1990s, which emphasises
the transformative capacity of information itself.
Materializing Informatics: from Dataprocessing to Molecular Engineering
By Nigel Clark (University of Aukland, New Zealand)
Abtract: Nanotechnology or molecular engineering is a hypothetical regime of technics
based on the precision manipulation of atoms to form workable devices or useful
structures. Its proponents suggest that 'nano' could extend the manipulability of digital
information-processing to the material realm, raising the possibility that the
'information revolution' is only part of a far more encompassing set of technocultural
transformations. Nanotech may turn out to have more in common with autonomous digital
entities - such as intelligent software agents, artificial life organisms or computer
viruses - than with conventional data processing. It is suggested that the rise of
autonomous, self-argumenting or 'autopoietic' machine systems - both digital and
materialized - has radical implications for received notions of agency, perception and
subjectivity in general. The possibility of unregulated 'molecular hacking' has
frightening implications, but so too does the prospect of the monpolization of nanotech
developments by powerful social forces.
"Digital Diversity and Multiculturalism in
Cyberspace" - Ernest Wilson, Director
Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland
In today's world there is growing global diversity in the international system, and
growing cultural diversity here in the U.S., a phenomenon that I call 'double diversity'
(i.e., diversity at home and abroad). The context within which cyberspace is being
constructed. What are the political, institutional and cultural implications of the
'digitalization' of double diversity? - Keynote Address.
"The Same Old Gender Plot? Women Academics' Identities on the Web" - Jill Arnold
& Hugh Miller
The World Wide Web has provided a new way for academics to find out about others' work and
to present versions of their identity.
The Turing Game - A Participatory Exploration of Identity in Online Environments - Joshua
Berman, Ph.D. Candidate, Amy Bruckman, Assistant Professor - College of Computing, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 -
Email:{berman,asb}@cc.gatech.edu
Issues of personal identity affect how we relate to others. As online culture becomes an
increasing part of everyday culture, it becomes more and more important for us to
understand how it affects who we are. Identity in the online world is still poorly
understood by both the general public and the research community. At the Georgia Institute
of Technology, we have created an online game to help us explore and teach about these
issues. This environment, called The Turing Game, is available on the Internet, and has
been played by more than 9000 users.
The Importance of Understanding Identity In Online Environments
Online communities are becoming an increasingly important part of how we as societies
learn, work, and play. Do gender, race, or other issues affect the way students learning
them? There are researchers who believe that traditional classrooms are not
gender-equitable, that is, male students are advantaged in these spaces (c.f. American
Institutes for Research, 1998). Is the same true in online spaces? Is gender meaningful?
The Turing Game hopes to help students, teachers and families understand and address these
issues.
We are increasingly using online communities as an important part of how we work and play.
From telecommuting to company bulletin boards, employees are working, and being assessed
online (Sproull, L. & Kiesler, S., 1991).
From dating to funerals, there are increasingly important social rituals being performed
online. Often, in these most intimate of moments, trust is crucial. Can the Internet
support this kind of trust when so much about identity appears to be fluid? Play and pure
social interaction in online communities may also raise interesting issues of identity for
participants. Therefore, we have also created the Turing Game for those who play, and
grow, online.
There are common questions in all of these cases. Do men and women behave differently
online? Can you tell who is a man and who is a woman based on how they communicate and
interact with others on the Internet? Can you tell how old someone is, or determine their
race or national origin? In the online world as in the real world, these issues of
personal identity affect how we relate to others.
Georgia Institute of Technology created a game to help explore and teach about these
issues. In this environment, which we call The Turing Game, a panel of users all pretends
to be a member of some group, such as women. Some of the panelists, who are women, are
trying to prove that fact to their audience. Others are men, trying to masquerade as
women. An audience of both genders tries to discover whom the imposters are, by asking
questions and analyzing the panel members' answers. Games can be about aspects of gender,
race, or any other cultural marker of the users' choice. After each game is played, a
complete log of the game is posted to the World Wide Web for reflection by the
participants and others.
Online Bonds and Offline Boundaries: Teens and discussions of difference - Lynn Schofield
Clark, Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate - Center for Mass Media Research,
University of Colorado
Analyzing data from focus groups and in-depth interviews with African American and
Euro-American teens who have participated in Internet teen chat rooms, this paper examines
how teens talk about diversity and difference in their social circles, and how they
discuss what happens when they meet other young people online. W
The Digital Voice of Black Germany: Opportunities and Dangers of an Online Discussion on
Afro-German Identity - Isabell Cserno - Department of American Studies, University of
Maryland
The paper will focus on the hazards as well as opportunities of the Internet and its
electronic discussion lists for the fruitful discussion of identity for the Black German
community.
The military in the noosphere : ICT adoption and website
development in the Slovenian Ministry of Defense
By Darren Purcell (Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT: Websites are often used by governments to articulate particular views on
international affairs, and even to lobby for a particular position. The analysis is based
on a socio-semiotic approach (Hodge & Kress 1988) dependent on a well-developed
understanding of the context within which signs and symbols exist. The paper outlines the
role of the military in Slovenia, incorporates interview data with public relations staff
in and then links these to a descriptive analysis of website content. The paper concludes
that it is important for non-hegemonic states to actively contest cyberspace images in the
noosphere, if only to serve the domestic public the state needs for legitimacy. Further
directions in comparative work are proposed.
ICT and institutional change at the British Library
By Martin Harris (Department of Accounting, Finance and Management, University of Essex)
ABSTRACT: The new information and communications technologies (ICTs) have stimulated a
wide-ranging debate on the future of learning institutions in the age of the 'network
society'. Recent academic commentary has tended to equate globalized information networks
with commodification, the delocalization of learning, and threats to the public service
traditions of higher education. The findings presented in the paper do not reflect the
belief that the spread of global information networks will undermine the public service
remit of large knowledge providers such as the BL – but the evidence does show that
these providers are becoming more connected to other players in the digital environment,
with inherently complex, and potentially far-reaching implications for the production of
knowledge in the emergent 'network society'.
Data protection legislation in the United Kingdom : From development to statute
1969–84
By Adam Warren and James Dearnley
ABSTRACT: Primarily concerned with development of data protection legislation in the
United Kingdom from the late 1960s through to the enactment of the 1984 Data Protection
Act.
Building a Cyber Center with Community Art - Chris Drew - Uptown Multi-Cultural Art
Center, Chicago
This interactive presentation will invite the audience to participate in building a
"Cyber Center" devoted to diversity using an offline contribution form (see
samples enclosed). I will offer practical insights to on-line community building
activities, explaining our use of on-line volunteers and methods of including those not
yet on-line.
A "Cyber Center" is a website that is able through its content to attract a new
audience to a growing community and to sort and present the many related websites of its
extended community to its growing membership in an entertaining and useful manner. It is a
hub for a targeted audience and the sites seeking their traffic. It creates opportunities
for discourse and meeting similar to the BBS of the eighties but on a global scale using
graphics as well as text.
Keynote Address: Transnational Digital Subjects: Constructs of identity and ignorance in a
Digital Economy -
Radhika Gajjala - Bowling Green State University
What do terms like "Race" and "Gender," "Ethnicity,"
"Nationality" and "Geographic location" mean in the context of
cyberspace/cyberculture? If, as the famous New Yorker cartoon says, "on the Internet
no one knows you're a dog," why bother with theories of culture and difference when
discussing computer-mediated-communication?
The Construction of Gender and Race in a Massive Multiplayer On-Line Role Playing Game -
Mindy Miron Basi, Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The increasing popularity of games played online in real time by thousands of computer
users has brought the construction of gender roles by the players into sharp focus.
Virtually Belonging: Risk, Connectivity and Coming Out On-line - E. H Bassett and K.
O'Riordan - University of Brighton
The paper will look at the construction of identity in an online community formulated
through sexual difference. Cyberspatial communities have many components and constitute
varying levels of community.
The Post-Gender Identities as a Metaphor: Gender Construction in the Cyberspace - Jasna
Koteska - Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
The post-gender identities is a term taken from the "classical" work of Donna J.
Haraway, The Manifesto for the Cyborgs, 1991, about the late twentieth century identites
as a recognition of the world without gender. The construction of gender in the Cyberspace
and the resulting identities.
Surfing in Public: Race, Public Access, and the Internet Experience - Elizabeth Tunstall -
Sapient Corporation
This paper addresses the relationship between the public access of the Internet for many
blacks, Hispanics. and Native Americans in Chicago s Lakeview Area and their experiences
of the Internet content.
"'Black like virtual me': student reactions to online cultural diversity" -
Nicolas Proctor - Simpson College
During the fall of 1999, two of my sections of the first half of the American History
survey used the web to role-play people of various ethnic backgrounds. This was as part of
a web-based historical simulation that was an extension of my interest in having students
write about various historical issues from the "historical first person." This
simulation took this approach one step further by assigning students various multicultural
roles and allowing them to interact with one another in a historical context throughout
the course of the semester.
The Revolution Will (Probably) Not Be Digitized: An Overview and Analysis of MP3 and the
Recording lndustry - Vincent Stephens - University of Maryland at College Park
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the technology and its related controversies, including high profile court cases and record industry responses. This paper also introduces several issues relevant to the integration of MP3 including the recording industry's historic relationship with recording technology and consumers and the "real world" impact this technology will have in how the public listens to music and accesses developing Internet-related technologies with a particular focus on the "digital divide."
21st Century Project - Research and education program on science and technology policy, with a particular emphasis on the Internet, information policy, telecommunications, and the social and political trends tied to emerging new technologies. - Cyber Sociology - utexas.edu/lbj/21cp/
Acacia Initiative - The idea of Acacia emerged at the 1996 Information Society and Development Conference to ensure that their voices would help shape the Global Information Society. - idrc.ca/acacia/
Berkman Center for Internet and Society - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Cyber Sociology - cyber.law.harvard.edu/
CDDC - Center for Digital Discourse and Culture - The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) is a college-level center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the College of Arts and Sciences. Working with faculty in the Virginia Tech Cyberschool, the CDDC provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis. - cddc.vt.edu/index2.html
Center for Information Technology and Society - UCSB - Its mission is to promote leading-edge research about the human dimensions of information technology. - www.cits.ucsb.edu/
Center for Social Informatics - To support research into information technology and social change. Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization -- including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change, the uses of information technologies in social contexts, and the ways that the social organization of information technologies is influenced by social forces and social practices. - slis.indiana.edu/csi/
CFI - Center for Internet Research: University of Aarhus, Denmark - The Centre for Internet Research was established 18 September 2000 with the aim of encouraging research in the social and cultural implications and functions of the internet. - imv.au.dk/cfi/eng/about/
CIRA - Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit - CIRA promotes community access to ICT resources. - cira.org.uk/
CIRCIT - Centre for International Research on Communicaiton and Information Technologies - Aims to provide timely and relevant research and education on the effective development, implementation and use of communication and information technologies in Australia and internationally. - circit.rmit.edu.au/
CRITO: Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations - The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) is a multidisciplinary research unit at the University of California, Irvine. CRITO conducts theoretical and empirical research to answer a broad array of questions related to the use, impact, and management of information technology in organizations. - crito.uci.edu/
CSTT - Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University, UK - "The fundamental aim of the Centre is to foster first-class research and teaching in the social theory of technology and organisations. It is especially concerned with themes that foreground the special nature of contemporary technology-organisation systems." - keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/home.htm
Cultural Studies of Science and Technology This page is devoted to the cultural studies of science and technology, i.e. the understanding of the mutual relations between culture and science and technology. cs.cmu.edu/~phoebe/cult-stud-sci.html
Curtin University of Technology Internet Studies Program: Curtin University of Technology - Curtin University of Technology's Internet Studies joins similar emerging programs around the world to meet the needs of society for a scholarly response and critical contribution to the Internet's challenge. - smi.curtin.edu.au/internet/internet.html
Cyber / media / culture project: University of Bergen - cyber/media/culture is a multidisciplinary project at the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen. The CMC project aims to provide an environment for cooperation and growth, gathering researchers and practitioners in the broad field of humanistic cyberstudies. - cmc.uib.no/
Cybersociology is a non-profit multi-disciplinary webzine dedicated to the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace, cyberculture and life online. socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/
Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University - Due to the recent development of world-wide network and very large databases, our society will change drastically. The major purpose of the Department is to conduct research and education for problems caused by such dynamic society utilizing various computer science-based technologies including distributed artificial intelligence and databases. Network security and intellectual property are also included. - web.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~soc/index-e.html
Digital Nations: MIT Media Lab - Digital Nations aims to address major social challenges (improving education, enhancing health care, supporting community development) through the innovative design and use of new technologies. The consortium's ultimate goal is to empower people in all walks of life to invent new opportunities for themselves and their societies. - dn.media.mit.edu/
Digital World Research Centre (DWRC), University of Surrey - The Digital World Research Centre (DWRC) investigates the relationships between people, society and digital technologies. - surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/
eDevelopment: MIT Media Lab - We study new e-commerce, communication, and system software that are appropriable and appropriate to developing areas. - edevelopment.media.mit.edu/
Edinburgh Social Informatics Site - Social informatics is the interdisciplinary study of the design and uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that takes account of their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. Social Informatics refers to the body of knowledge about, and the use of information technologies as influenced by institutional arrangements, social forces and organisational practices. - bim.napier.ac.uk/esis/esis_home.html
GLOCOM - Center for Global Communications: International University of Japan - GLOCOM was established in 1991 as a social science research institute specializing in the study of information society as well as Japanese society. - glocom.ac.jp/top/message.e.html
Grad Programs for Social Networkers - Graduate programs that offer training or empahsis in Social Network Analysis - heinz.cmu.edu/project/INSNA/schools.html
Harvard Information Infrastructure Project - Harvard Information Infrastructure Project (HIIP) moves into its second decade, the information revolution continues to penetrate every aspect of daily life around the globe, affecting everything from national security to personal privacy, from economic competitiveness to democratic participation in governance.
Health Privacy - The Health Privacy Project is dedicated to raising public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level. - healthprivacy.org/
History of Science at UCLA - The History of Science Program at UCLA offers graduate students the opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in the history of science, medicine, and technology.
HomeNet Project - HomeNet is a field trial at Carnegie Mellon University whose purpose is to understand people's use of the Internet at home. Starting in 1995, we have provided families with Internet service and are carefully documenting how members of the family use online services such as electronic mail, computerized bulletin boards, online chat groups, and the World Wide Web.
Hypermedia Laboratory - University of Tampere (UTA) - The mission of the Hypermedia Laboratory in the University of Tampere Computer Centre is to coordinate research on the various fields of science for hypermedia, digital media and media production by offering resources for the use of the departments of the University.
Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs and Virtual Realities uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/digitalmedia/
Information and Communications: Social Informatics Group: MMU - The SI Group has the following objective: To advance understanding of selected areas of information society policy community informatics the impacts of ICTs on learning. Cyber Sociology - mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/dic/research/sigroup.htm
Internet Culture Cyber Sociology - carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/culture.html
IPI - Internet Policy Institute - The IPI is the nation's first independent, nonprofit research and educational institute designed to provide objective, high-quality analysis and outreach on the key issues affecting the global development and use of the Internet. The IPI is nonpartisan and does not lobby or otherwise actively advocate or represent the interests of Internet companies, user groups or others. Instead, it provides a forum where a range of voices can be heard, and where there can be vigorous debate and consensus building.Cyber Sociology - internetpolicy.org/
IPPSR - Institute for Public Policy and Social Research - Welcome to the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research! IPPSR is the nonpartisan public policy network at Michigan State University. Our staff is dedicated to connecting legislators, scholars, and practitioners through applied research, lively policy forums, and political leadership instruction. Cyber Sociology - ippsr.msu.edu/
ISAIT - Institute for the Social Assessment of Information Technology. Cyber Sociology - isait.vt.edu/
ISC - Internet Studies Center - The Internet Studies Center at the University of Minnesota addresses compelling questions surrounding the social, ethical, legal, and rhetorical aspects of the Internet. The Center is based in the Rhetoric Department but is an interdisciplinary effort drawing on faculty from around the University and industry partners. - isc.umn.edu/index.html
Ishida Laboratory: Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University. Cyber Sociology - lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
ISR - Institute for Social Research - The Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan is the nation's longest-standing laboratory for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Cyber Sociology - isr.umich.edu/
JRC - Joint Research Centre - The Joint Research Centre is the European Union's scientific and technical research laboratory and an integral part of the European Commission. Cyber Sociology - jrc.cec.eu.int/default.asp
Media Laboratory Asia - Media Lab Asia is located in India and plans to model the MIT Media Lab for purposes of International Development in the region. Cyber Sociology - medialabasia.org/
Modern culture and media: Brown University - The Department of Modern Culture and Media was founded to bring together the two things named in the Department's title: Modern Culture on the one hand, and Media on the other. Specifically, this Department exists in order to provide a place for the study of the mass media--especially film, photography, print journalism, and television--in relation to modern society itself and to such other cultural products as modern literature, art, and philosophy.
Multidisciplinary Studies: North Carolina State University - The mission of the Division of Multidisciplinary Studies (MDS) is to teach undergraduate and graduate students at North Carolina State University, carry out research, and serve the university and the wider community beyond the campus in the area of interdisciplinary studies. Cyber Sociology - ncsu.edu/chass/mds/
Multimedia and Society - unites.uqam.ca/cyberculture/cadres_menu_principal.html
Office for History of Science and Technology: University of California Berkeley - Existing on the Berkeley campus since 1973, OHST promotes research and discussion in the history of science and technology through international exchanges, conferences, colloquia, research facilities, and administrative assistance. Cyber Sociology - ohst7.berkeley.edu/
OII - Oxford Internet Institute - The Oxford Internet Institute is being established by the University of Oxford as an independent and multidisciplinary Internet research centre which will focus on the social, economic, legal and ethical impact of the Internet. Cyber Sociology - oii.ox.ac.uk/about.shtml
Power and Powerlessness in the Global Village: Stepping into the "Information Society" as a "Revolution from Above". Electronic Journal of Sociology (1999) ISSN: 1198 3655. Cyber Sociology - sociology.org/content/vol004.003/globvlg2.html
PROGRAM ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & SOCIETY: North Carolina State University - The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies is the home for three programs of study focusing upon Science, Technology, and Society (STS). Cyber Sociology - www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/psts.html
Projektgruppe Kulturraum Internet - This CD ROM documents the work of the Projektgruppe Kulturraum Internet. It accompanies and completes the final report on our research project on "Net culture and network organization", which was begun in January 1996. Cyber Sociology - duplox.wz-berlin.de/
Psychology of Online Virtual Relationships: soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as98/nakagawa/report1.html
RCCS - Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies - The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects. Cyber Sociology - com.washington.edu/rccs/
Review of The information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture,by Manuel Castells. Cyber Sociology - gse.uci.edu/markw/info-age.html
School of Interpersonal Communication: Ohio University - The School of Interpersonal Communication is part of the College of Communication at Ohio University. The School offers the Bachelor of Science in Communication, Masters of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Cyber Sociology - inco.ohiou.edu/
Science & Technology Studies: Cornell University - Cornell University offers both undergraduate and graduate education designed to promote and deepen understanding of science and technology. Drawing on faculty and courses in history, philosophy, sociology, and politics of science and technology, the Department of Science & Technology Studies provides an integrated approach to addressing issues that we must engage today and in the future. Cyber Sociology - sts.cornell.edu/CU-STS.html
Science and Technology Dynamics: University of Amsterdam - The Department was created as a center of excellence for science and technology studies by a joint effort of the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch government in 1982. In 1987, it was given the right to award its own M.Sc. Cyber Sociology - chem.uva.nl/sts/uk/
Science and Technology Studies: Rensselaer - We are anthropologists, philosophers, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and historians. Some of us rely on fieldwork for our research, others are immersed in developing social theory, still others use the classroom itself as a laboratory. Cyber Sociology - rpi.edu/dept/sts/
Science Studies at Edinburgh University - The Science Studies Unit was formed in 1966 to develop a programme of teaching and research on social aspects of science. It is an interdisciplinary group, combining expertise in philosophy, history and sociology, mostly though not exclusively within a sociology of scientific knowledge perspective. - ssu.ssc.ed.ac.uk/
Science Studies, Univ. of Californa, San Diego - The Science Studies Program at UCSD was established in 1989. At present, the Program involves sixteen core faculty members and twenty-two graduate students from the Program's "home" departments of communication, history, philosophy, and sociology. - helix.ucsd.edu/~scistud/index.html
Science, Ethics, and Society: California Institute of Technology - The option in Science, Ethics, and Society (SES) provides students with a broad historical and philosophical education in the social, economic, ethical, and political issues that have arisen in the modern world in connection with the advance of science and technology. - hss.caltech.edu/ses/index.html
Science, Technology & Society: University of Wollongong - STS studies in depth the origins, nature and social impacts of science, medicine and technology. Cyber Sociology - www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/index.html
Science, Technology and Culture Studies Group - The Science, Technology and Culture Studies (STCS) group is dedicated to exploring different approaches to the intersections of science, technology and culture. Cyber Sociology - humanitas.ucsb.edu/users/sharp/stcs.html
Science, Technology, & Society: Claremont Colleges - The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program of the Claremont Colleges is an intercollegiate, interdisciplinary program through which students may pursue an integrated study of the history, philosophy, and social dimensions of science and technology. Cyber Sociology - hmc.edu/www_common/sts/stswelc.html
SI - Research Group on Social Informatics: Tutkimus - The Social Informatics Research Group shares an interest in the role of ICT's in changing or reenforcing patterns of worklife, community life, and the character of institutions. - info.uta.fi/tutkimus/si/
Sociable Media Group: MIT Media Lab - The Sociable Media Group investigates issues concerning society and identity in the networked world. Cyber Sociology
Social Informatics Minor: Bradley University - The minor is designed with the following objectives: - to provide students with the conceptual tools and strategies to critically analyze the new technologies and the impact of computerization on society, human interaction, and the human psyche. - bradley.edu/las/soc/soc/si.html
Social Networks Research Centers - heinz.cmu.edu/project/INSNA/research.html
Sociological and Ethnographic Research of cyberspace. Cyber Sociology - cybersoc.com/
Sociological Research Online, 1997 Schroeder , R. (1997) 'Networked Worlds: Social Aspects of Multi-User Virtual Reality Technology' Cyber Sociology - socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/4/5.html
Sociology of On-Line Gambling. The legal issues involved with on-line gambling are both troubling and complex, and at times it is uncertain what can be done. Cyber Sociology - people.virginia.edu/~cpb5t/legal.html
STAC: Media Studies: Georgia Tech - The revolution in computer and digital technology has transformed the art and the science of communication, making media studies one of the most dynamic and rewarding fields Cyber Sociology - lcc.gatech.edu/stac/media.html
STS: Edinburgh - The University of Edinburgh is one of the leading UK centres for research into the social character as well as the social and economic implications of science and technology. Cyber Sociology - ed.ac.uk/~rcss/stsed/stsed_home.html
STS: Virginia Tech - STS at Virginia Tech is a cooperative venture of the Science and Technology Studies faculty in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Departments of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. Cyber Sociology - cis.vt.edu/sts/
Studies in Internet Culture By Debbie Firkus Theorist Jean Baudrillard describes the internet as a kind of cybernetic terrain that works to undermine the symbolic distance between the metaphorical and .. Cyber Sociology - uwm.edu/People/dfirkus
Studies of Science and Technology: University of Minnesota - Graduate minor in Studies of Science and Technology (SST) for students pursuing the M.A., M.S., or Ph.D. degrees. Studies of science and technology is a rapidly expanding field that seeks to understand the conceptual foundations, historical development, and social context of science and technology. Cyber Sociology - sst.umn.edu/
Surveillance Project - The outcome of this research project will be improved knowledge of how surveillance works and also how resistance or containment is generated, at the international, institutional, technological, and social-personal level. Cyber Sociology - qsilver.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/intro.htm
Technology and Policy Program: MIT - Welcome to the Technology and Policy Program (TPP) website at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. TPP educates men and women for leadership on the important technological issues confronting society. Cyber Sociology - mit.edu:8001/courses/tpp/
The CyberAnthropology Page is dedicated to research on cyberculture, and the formation of new cultures and cultural practices in cyberspace. Cyber Sociology - fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cyberanthropos.html
The Digital World Research Centre (DWRC) offers a new way of investigating the impact of new technologies on organisational life, the individual and society. Cyber Sociology - surrey.ac.uk/dwrc
The Ethics of Research in Cyberspace Robert Alun Jones - Professor of Sociology, History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois. Cyber Sociology - usyd.edu.au/su/social/papers/jones.htm
The HIIP has provided a neutral, interdisciplinary forum for addressing a wide range of emerging policy issues relating to information infrastructure, its development, use, and growth. Current research areas include electronic commerce, the Internet and governance, economic and policy issues to ensure widespread availability of advanced communications access technologies in traditional high-cost areas, information policy in the Asia-Pacific region, and information policy and the information society. Cyber Sociology - ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/
The Implications of Electronic Information The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge [1] Richard A. Lanham Professor. Cyber Sociology - cni.org/docs/tsh/Lanham.html
The Research Committee on Sociocybernetiics. Cyber Sociology - unizar.es/sociocybernetics/brisbane.html
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Cyber Sociology - com.washington.edu/rccs/
Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace - Abstracts - Cyberspace, Virtual Reality and The End of History By Stephen Webb Department of Sociology, University of Derby. Cyber Sociology - pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Cybspasy/SWebb.html
Theory, Culture and Society Centre - Theory, Culture & Society Centre Faculty of Humanities The Nottingham Trent University. The Theory, Culture & Society Centre has focused its research around technological culture; globalization consumption and leisure; the body, health and the life course; postcolonial issues; and critical theory. Cyber Sociology - tcs.ntu.ac.uk/home.html
Thesis on whether internet creates or contributes to democracy. Cyber Sociology - wr.com.au/democracy/index.html
TIPI - Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute - The Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) was established in May 1996 by the University of Texas at Austin, in response to the unprecedented opportunities in Texas associated with telecommunications. These TIPI faculty associates assist in the design and implementation of the policy analysis and research initiatives of the Institute. They also are encouraged to seek grants and contracts in the relevant and important areas of telecommunications policy. Cyber Sociology - utexas.edu/research/tipi/
UC Irvine Graduate Program in Social Networks. Cyber Sociology - aris.ss.uci.edu/socnet/socnet.html,
UCLA Center for Communication Policy - The UCLA Center for Communication Policy is a forum for the discussion and development of policy alternatives addressing the leading issues in media and communication. Communication policy at its core begins with the individual and the family. The Center conducts and facilitates research, courses, seminars, working groups, and conferences designed to have a major impact on policy at the local, national, and international levels. Cyber Sociology - ccp.ucla.edu/index.asp
Ukranian network of Information Society - Institute's activity is targeted at creation of a basis for development of the Information Society, its fundamental elements - e-government, e-commerce, e-elections. Cyber Sociology - e-ukraine.org.ua/eng/institute.htm
Virtual Society? The Social Science of Electronic Technologies - Virtual Society? addresses issues identified by many Foresight sector panels. Investigating the future development of new technologies and social activities is recognised as crucially important to wealth creation and the quality of life. Virtual Society? draws together research efforts to form a UK research sector in the now strategic field of the social context of new electronic technologies. Cyber Sociology - virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/
How do we perceive other people on-line? What does a virtual crowd look like? How do social conventions develop in the networked world? Cyber Sociology - smg.media.mit.edu/
ZEF - The Center for Development Research. ZEF is an international and interdisciplinary research institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn which commenced its research activities towards the end of 1997. Cyber Sociology - zef.de/start/start.htm
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