Communication Arts and Sciences 497B: Computer-Mediated Communication

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

• IT&Society (a web-based scholarly journal devoted to the scientific analysis of the social impact of information technology on society)
  • http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/itandsociety/
• 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/aa042098.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