Cyberculture Links

Last updated: January 2006

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• Cyberculture Bibliography
• Electronic Frontier FoundationE media watch and Consumer Advocacy group

Technology & Teaching

• Technology Source a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical published by the Michigan Virtual University, is to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
• Edge FoundationSites for discusssion of books "Digerati" and "The Third Culture,"

Cyber Culture and Individual Identity in the Digital Age:

• Rak, J. (2005). The digital queer: Weblogs and Internet identity. Retrieved, December 15, 2005, from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v028/28.1rak.pdf
• Bertram, B. C. (2003). Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies. Retrieved, December 16, 2005, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/27/f8/3a.pdf BertramÕs book covers other topics, including ÒThe Digital Divide: The New Class StructureÓ.
• Ayers, M. D. (2001). CollectiveIdentity.org: Collective identity in online and offline feminist activist groups. Retrieved, December 16, 2005, from http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06112001-151759/unrestricted/thesis_final.pdf
• Huffaker, D. (2004b). Spinning yarns around a digital fire: Storytelling and dialogue among youth on the Internet. Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 1. Retrieved October 16, 2005, from http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue9_1/huffaker/index.html.
• Nussbaum, E. (2004). My So-Called Blog. Retrieved October 22, 2005, from http://infotrac-college.thomsonlearning.com/itw/infomark/742/164/73478067w6/purl=rc1_WAD_0_A112059429&dyn=7!xrn_18_0_A112059429?sw_aep=olr_wad There may a problem with the My So-Called Blog link.
• Scheidt, L. A. (no date given) Adolescent Diary Weblogs and the Unseen Audience. Retrieved October 21, 2005, from http://www.blogninja.com/Adolescent_Diary_Weblogs_and_the_Unseen_Audience.pdf
• Subrahmanyama, K., Greenfield, P., Tynes, B. (1994). Constructing sexuality and identity in an online teen chat room. Retrieved October 16, 2005, from http://www.center-school.org/pko/documents/Constructingsexuality.pdf
• Sullivan, B. (2005). Kids, blogs and too much information: Children reveal more online than parents know. Retrieved October 20, 2005, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7668788/

Cyber Culture and Canadian Identity:

• Wilson, B., Atkinson, M. (2005). Rave and Straightedge, the virtual and the real: Exploring online and offline experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures. Retrieved December 15, 2005, from http://yas.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/3/276
• Roche, J., Maximilians, L., Chase, M. (2004). Negotiating cultures in cyberspace: Participation patterns and problematics. Retrieved December 15, 2005 from http://llt.msu.edu/vol8num2/pdf/reeder.pdf
• Canadian Heritage and Sonoptic Media & Communications. (2004). Canadian culture online: Educational resources for teachers. Retrieved December 16, 2005 from http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pcce-ccop/reacc/educational_res/educational_res_e.pdf

Web Journalism vs. Mainstream Media:

• Grimes, S. M. (no date given). All About the Blog: Young People's Adoption of Internet Technologies and the Marketers Who Love Them. University of Ottawa, Department of Communication. Retrieved October 16, 2005, from http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/970000/966500/741.html?key1=966500&key2=7233949211&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=11111111&CFTOKEN=2222222
• Roth, M. M. (2004). How journalists see the blogosphere. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/mmccoy/blogs.pdf
• Bowles, W. (2005). Lost in cyber space: Why the mainstream media are losing the credibility battle against the new Internet alternatives. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.05/Essays/03.Bowles.pdf
• Andrews, P. (2003). Is blogging journalism? A blogger and journalist finds no easy answer, but he finds connections. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/03-3NRfall/63-64V57N3.pdf
• Lasica, J. D. (2003). Blogs and journalism need each other: The transparency of blogging has contributed to news organizations becoming a bit more accessible and interactive. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/03-3NRfall/70-74V57N3.pdf

The Gendered Web:

• Arnold, J., & Miller, H. (1999). Gender and Web Home Pages. Paper presented at the CAL99 Virtuality in Education Conference: London, England. Retrieved October 16, 2005, from http://ess.ntu.ac.uk/miller/cyberpsych/cal99.htm.
• Huffaker, D. (2004a). Gender similarities and differences in online identity and language use among teenage bloggers. Retrieved October 17, 2005, from http://cct.georgetown.edu/thesis/DavidHuffaker.pdf
• Huffaker, D. A., Calvert, S. L. (2005). Gender, Identity and Language Use in Teenage Blogs [Online]. Retrieved October 15, 2005, from: http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/huffaker/papers/HuffakerCalvert2005_LanguageIdentityTeenageBloggers.pdf
• Rak, J. (2005). The digital queer: Weblogs and Internet identity. Retrieved, December 15, 2005, from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v028/28.1rak.pdf
• Shade, L. R. (2003). Review essay: Gender and the Internet. Retrieved December 15, 2005, from http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/cjc_essay.pdf
• Travers, A. (2003). Parallel subaltern feminist counterpolitics in cyberspace. Retrieved December 15, 2005, from http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdf/10.1525/sop.2003.46.2.223?cookieSet=1
• Rosser, S. V. (2005). Through the lenses of feminist theory: Focus on women and information technology. Retrieved December 15, 2005, from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/frontiers/v026/26.1rosser.pdf
• Primo, N. (2003). Gender issues in the information society. Retrieved December 15, 2005, from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001329/132967e.pdf

The Digital Divide: The New Class Structure?

• Jakobsdottir, S., Gautadottir, H., Johannesdottir, S. (2005). Life was bacalao Ð life is Internet? Should we develop aÒfishing cultureÓ mentality in schools? Retrieved October 19, 2005, from http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/235.pdf
• Windham, C. (2005). Chapter 5: the student's perspective. In D. Oblinger & J. Oblinger (Eds.) Educating the Net Generation. Retrieved October 19, 2005, from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/pub7101e.pdf
• Dudfield, A. (1999). Literacy and cyberculture. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/21/dc/01.pdf
• Walker, R. (1998). Experiments in virtual supervision. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/11/64/0e.pdf

WWW and the Third World:

• Hawthorne, S. (2004). Wild politics: Beyond globalization. Retrieved December 15, 2005, from http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~courses/PoliticalScience/661B1/documents/SusanHawthorneWildPoliticsBeyondGlobalization.pdf
• Monge-NaÕ Jera, J. N. A., Rossi, M. R., & MeÕNdez-Estrada, V. H. (2001). Internet, multimedia and virtual laboratories in a ÔThird WorldÕ environment. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://0-web10.epnet.com.darius.uleth.ca/externalframe.asp?
• Gow, K. M. (1999). A university for the rural poor in the third world. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/11/3e/b5.pdf
• Helal, A. H., & Weiss, J. W. (1995). Information superhighway: The role of librarians, information scientists, and intermediaries. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/25/db/dd.pdf
• Kitaw, Y. Y. (2004). Cultural identity and local content development on the World Wide Web: The Cyber Ethiopia initiative. Retrieved December 16, 2005, from http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/casestudies/Ethiopia.pdf

Last updated January 2006
Thanks to Brad Moser for assistance compiling this list