Technology

 

Links:

ComTechOnline: a resource dedicated to the influence of Computer-Mediated-Communication (CMC) on human interaction. 
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication: An online scholarly journal focusing on the social aspects of communication and new technologies.
Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility: Addressing the social and ethical impacts of information and communication technologies through research, consultancy and education.
Cyberethics (Association for Information Systems)
Cybersoc Internet Research, Consultancy, and Design Cybersoc is an online resource for social scientists interested in the study of the internet, cyberspace, computer mediated communication, and online communities
Doug Brent's Home Page: Materials on communication and information technologies.
Megamedia, Intramedia, and the Digital Metamorphosis: Slideshow Presentations Offered to the Academic Community, by Tyrone L. Adams University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture)
Social Informatics Home Page: 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 and the ways that the social organization of information technologies are influenced by social forces and social practices.
Social and Economic Implications of Information Technologies: A Bibliographic Pilot (NSF)
Theory of Technology (web links, Martin Ryder, U. of Colorado at Denver)

Article:

Bavelas, J. B., Hutchinson, S., Kenwood, C., & Matheson, D. H.  (1997). Using face-to-face dialogue as a standard for other communication systems. Canadian Journal of Communication, 22, 5 - 24. [Review]

Related Theories:

Cybernetics and System Theory
Information Theory
Media Theory
Technological Determinism (Marshall McLuhan)
James Carey
Critical Theory & Cultural Studies

 

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