TECHNOLOGY-related TOPICS, ISSUES, and NEWS

[TIFLE] CMLIT/FR/GER/SPAN 589

LANGUAGES 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://linz1.net/dt/stats.html
• 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://www.interculturalrelations.com/v1i4Fall1998/f98hart.htm

INTERNET TERMINOLOGY

• 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

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

POPULAR PRESS ACCOUNTS OF DIGITAL LIFE

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

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

PSYCHOLOGY 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

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

   

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