Technology

 

Links:

bullet Journal of Computer Mediated Communication: An online scholarly journal focusing on the social aspects of communication and new technologies.
bulletCentre for Computing and Social Responsibility: Addressing the social and ethical impacts of information and communication technologies through research, consultancy and education.
bulletCyberethics (Association for Information Systems)
bullet Guide to Cybersociology: As the use of technology increases by the day, more and more people are finding that they do a great deal of their socializing not face-to-face but in cyberspace across forums, communities, and other social gathering sites. It’s so common that the internet has developed its own sociology known as cybersociology.
bulletResource 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)
bulletSocial 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.
bulletTheory 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:

bulletCybernetics and System Theory
bulletInformation Theory
bulletMedia Theory
bulletTechnological Determinism (Marshall McLuhan)
bulletJames Carey
bulletCritical Theory & Cultural Studies

 

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