Cyberculture and the Digitization of Knowledge (Yale Research Guide for Mass Media and Popular Culture)

Google: Cyberculture

Includes links on cybercensorship, cyberethics, gender, cyperpunk, hypermedia, politics of the Net, journals, and other resources.

Hypermedia Research Centre

A research group composed of academics, artists, artisans, designers and writers, based at the University of Westminster in London, England. The site includes information on theory, manifestos, and links to other resources.

Linkage: The Pug guide to the underground web

Authors and avators, the best of the bizarre, cyber-lit, cyberpunk, Goth, music, po-mo, zines, and more.

NewMediaStudies: Web culture, design and reviews a go-go

Sections on debates, web site design, "rubbish," and more.

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (University of Washington)

The site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, an extensive annotated bibliography, and two full-length book reviews each month.

Techno Culture

A large collection of links to online articles/discussions relating to cyberculture and technology. Provided by the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University.

Voice of the Shuttle: Cyberculture

Includes links on cybercensorship, cyberethics, gender, cyperpunk, hypermedia, politics of the Net, journals, and other resources.

Evaluating Web Sources: Truth and Non-Truth

Evaluating Web Sites

Criteria for recognizing and evaluating Web sites.

Evaluating Web Resources

Checklists for recognizing and evaluating advocacy, marketing news, informational, and personal Web pages. Also includes examples, bibliographies, and links to other sites on Web page evaluation. By Widener University Library.

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources

Examples of good and bad information on the Web, discussions of criteria for evaluating Web sites, and a bibliography. By Susan E. Beck, New Mexico State University Library.

A Primer on Digital Literacy

Discusses criteria, tools, and case studies. Adapted from the book Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster (John Wiley & Sons, 1997) [CCL Stacks TK5105.875 I57 G5297X 1997].

Searching the Internet Effectively

Provides guidance on developing strategies, using directories and search engines, and criteria for evaluating Internet resources.

"Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters" by Lucas D. Introna and Helen Nissenbaum

Draft of article in Information Society 16.3 (2000): 169-85, arguing that search engines raise not only technical issues but also political ones In PDF format. The final, published version is available through the citation in Business Source Premier.

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources

A quick checklist of criteria for evaluating Web pages. There is also a page on discipline-based Web sites. By UCLA College Library.

Selected E-zines, Online Cultural Projects, and Related Web Sites

Broken Saints

"An online graphic novel that uses Macromedia’s Flash to tell a creepy and thought-provoking story." Related in style to sophisticated graphic novels, Broken Saints has won many awards. Best viewed with a high-speed Internet connection.

CafeZeitgeist

Writings, courses, art, news and links, by Lance Olsen.

DesVirtual

A set of multimedia Web essays by Giselle Beiguelman, including like The Book after the Book, <content = No Cache> and wopart. In English and Portuguese.

Digital Guild

The Digital Guild supports projects to develop production, presentation and training for artists in the use of digital technology across all platforms. Its objective is to produce and present a range of arts projects utilising the latest digital technology developments and which address critical contemporary issues of social and cultural concern.

Disappearing Rain

This site is a large work of hypertext fiction. Synopsis: "The only trace left of Anna, a freshman at the University of Berkeley California, is an open internet connection in her neatly furnished dorm room. Join the four generations of a Japanese-American family as they search for Anna and discover credit card conspiracies, ancient family truths, waterfalls that pour out of televisions, and the terrifying power of the internet."

Electronic Literature Organization

ELO facilitates and promotes the writing, publishing, and reading of literature composed specifically for electronic media, including new forms of literature which utilize the capabilities of emerging technologies. The site includes a directory to examples of electronic literature in all genres, plus information on symposia, events, awards, and tools.

First Monday

One of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure. Articles follow the political and regulatory regimes affecting the Internet, and examine the use of the Internet by analyzing economic, technical, and social factors. It appears on the first Monday of each month. You can request notification when each issue appears.

Lexia to Perplexia

A philosophical manifesto ... of sorts. From the description: "Lexia to Perplexia began as an observation of the fluctuating and ever-evolving protocols and prefixes of internet technology as applied to literary hypermedia.... [T]he final work is more fictive than critical, and more an example than a critique.... The User/Reader of this piece encounters a number of screens that appear simple upon access. As the User/Reader interacts with the presented objects -- images, textual fragments, various UI permutations -- the screens are made more."

Mute

Mute is an e-zine aimed to develop a critical take on technoculture in its global and European dimensions.

La Spirale.org: Digital Mutants Ezine

Interviews, articles, fiction and other materials. In English and French.

TextArc: An Alternate Way to View a Text

"A TextArc is a visual represention of a text--the entire text (twice!) on a single page. Some funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary, it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning." Includes Hamlet and Alice in Wonderland.

Selected Humanities Computing Groups and Centers

Association for Computing in the Humanities

ACH is an international professional organization for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials.

Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Rutgers University)

The CETH site includes a directory of electronic text centers in the US and abroad, a humanities computing bibliography, introductions to using SGML, XML, and other resources, and information on CETH's projects and workshops.

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia)

IATH provides scholars in the humanities with time, tools, and techniques to produce lasting contributions to the human record in electronic form. It is also a core member of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)

NINCH is a diverse coalition of organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment, by educating policymakers and the public, enabling collaborative projects, organizing various working groups, and publishing reports.

Scholarly Technology Group (Brown University)

STG focuses on three related areas: document architecture and markup systems; humanities computing and textbase development; and networked and multimedia communication and publishing. One of its best-known activities is the Women Writers Project. It is also a core member of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).