CyberCulture



CYBERCULTURE

Spynet
What you should know about surveillance technology: Big Brother IS Watching YOU.

Abacus To The Apple: A Timeline of Significant Events
Bobbi A. Kerlin, PhD

Americans in the Information Age
Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide. Third report in the Falling Through the Net series on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America. Released July 8, 1999.

Analog to Digital Photography from ZoneZero

Andrew Feenberg, Ph.D.

A Brief Look at McLuhan's Theories

Center for Democracy and Technology

Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Computer User Self-Efficacy Scale

The Cyber Snoops. How Internet gumshoes breach personal privacy
Vince Beiser, Maclean's / June 23, 1997

The Dark Side of the Chip
Bobbi A. Kerlin, Ph.D.

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
David F. Noble, York University

Educational Technology: A Critique of Pure Reason
Greg Kearsley. A revised version of this essay was published in Educational Technology Magazine, April/May 1998.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ethics in Computing
Created by Professor Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University, this site is organized into 8 topics including 'basics' - an introduction, privacy, intellectual property, speech and social justice issues, commerce, risks, etc.

Ethics Web Sites
From De Montfort University's Center for Computing and Social Responsibility

Howard Rheingold

Virtual Community: by Howard Rheingold

Hypertext

HyperTextNow: Memex and Beyond
A site devoted to the history and future development of hypertext.

The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead
James A. Dewar

(The) Information Highway: History, Vision, Issues

Instructional Technology Connections, University of Colorado, Denver

International Society for Technology in Education

Internet Research Journal

Media and Communication Studies
A British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication. The site is organized into sixteen areas, including film studies, media influence, textual analysis, and gender, class, and ethnicity. Several of the links are preformatted searches of the Alta Vista index, providing up-to-date information on media-related topics.

Microsoft: Empire Under Siege

MIT's A Day in the Life of Cyberspace

MIT's Media Lab

MOO: An Educational Tool
A collection of online resources dealing with MUD (Multi-User Dimension) and MOO (MUD Object Oriented) environments for teaching and learning. There are links to information about the theory behind MOOs and setting up a MOO, as well as FAQs and common MOO commands. If you have no idea what a MOO is, this is a good place to start.

New Technology, Old Trap
By Stephen C. Ehrmann, PhD

Sherry Turkle: Who Am We?

Social Informatics
Research that examines the social aspects of computerization

Technological Determinism
By Daniel Chandler, UK

Technology Travesties
A humorous commentary on instructional design, by David Merrill.

World White Web