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APPLICATIONS--Communication

The online world is all about communication, so it is not surprising that examples of the Internet as used for communication abound. This section highlights how computer-mediated communication on the Internet is being used in a range of context--from individual and small group interaction to mass and societal uses. I list groups studying these contexts for communication as well as examples and software.

• Individual
  • CMC-Interpersonal: list of interpersonal tools for CMC (mail, talk) (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-interpersonal.html)
  • Home Pages: a collection of personal home pages lists (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/culture-people-lists.html)
• Group
  • CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
  • CERC: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University; research, development, and demonstration of information technologies that enable collaboration (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu)
  • Collaboration: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability, entry from W3C site (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html)
  • CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and graduate students at the University of Michigan; fields represented range from computer science through business to psychology; research and graduate training focus on understanding new ways that work can be organized by exploiting computer-mediation by focusing on the interplay of technology and human factors (http://www.crew.umich.edu)
  • CWCW/Groupware: a comprehensive index of CSCW and Groupware resources on the web, including papers, products, research centers, and information on types of groupware, such as videoconferencing, workflow, and shared writing and drawing. (http://www.crew.umich.edu/~brinck/cscw.html)
  • CSCW Group: Research Group on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory (http://orgwis.gmd.de)
  • CSCW Lab: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory at the Fraunhofer-Institut fur Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany (http://www.igd.fhg.de/cscw-lab/)
  • CSCW pages: The unOfficial Yellow Pages of CSCW (http://www.tft.tele.no/cscw/)
  • Collaborative Comm: Collaborative Networked Communication--MUDs as Systems Tools, by Remy Evard (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/USER/remy/documents/cncmast.html)
  • Collaborative Design: Architecture and CAAD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (http://www.arch.ethz.ch/~dave/cmc-collab.html)
  • CRTR-U of CO: Collaboration Technology Research Group (group user interfaces, distributed editors, workflow systems, cooperativee grown information systems), University of Colorado (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/carlosm/public_html/ctrg.html)
  • Collaboration: Workshop on Wide-Area Collaboration and Cooperative Computing (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/colab/workshop.html)
  • Collaboration info: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html)
  • Computer Network Conf: A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing, by D. Reed (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1324.txt)
  • Groupware/teaching: Publications on Use of Computer Groupware in Teaching (http://vm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm/whoami.html)
  • Groupware Yellow Pages: information resources, from Consensus (http://www.consensus.com)
  • Key Centre: collaborative design in computing, University of Sydney, Australia (http://www.arch.su.edu.au/kcdc/)
  • Mediation: the first dispute resolution firm to actually provide methods which are safe, private and cost effective by the use of Internet (http://www.janzengroup.com)
  • Moderator's Page: resources for moderators of online discussion groups (http://cac.psu.edu/~mauri/moderators.html)
  • MOO Papers: Pavel Curtis' collection of MU* papers (ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/papers/)
  • MONET: Meeting on the Network multimedia conferencing system at CERC, West Virginia University (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/monet/monet.html)
  • MUD info: Multiple User Dialogue/Dimension/Dungeon FAQs, Lists, Information, Collections, Servers, Archives, Newsgroups, by Lydia Leong (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html)
  • MUD papers/Cherny: gender and discourse related MUD papers, by Lynn Cherny (http://bhasha.stanford.edu/~cherny/papers.html)
  • Mondes virtuels: a listing of information about online virtual spaces (http://www.uqam.ca/~gingras/tour/moondes.html)
  • NCW: National Center for the Workplace (NCW) Gopher (gopher://uclink.berkeley.edu:3030/1)
  • Project H: an ongoing computer-mediated collaboration, on a Comserve-sponsored hotline, of more than a hundred international researchers (http://www.arch.su.edu.au/PROJECTH/index.html)
  • SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development (http://www.eit.com/projects/share/share/share-home.html)
  • Tools: a list of Internet tools for group communication (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-group.html)
  • Web Conferencing: by David Woolley (http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/drwool/webconf.html)
• Organizational
  • Client/Server: Client/Server Coffeehouse, discussion about client-server systems in organizations (http://www.onr.com/clients.html)
  • CORPS: Computing, Organizations, Policy, and Society, study of computerization in organizations, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (http://www.ics.uci.edu/CORPS/)
  • CWIS Paper: Campus-Wide Info Systems by Judy Hallman (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/cwis/hallman.txt)
  • IOS: Interorganizational Systems (IOS) WorldNet (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch/iswnet/index.html)
  • OMT: Organization and Management Theory Division the Academy of Management, to foster communication and to serve as an information resource to Organization scholars worldwide (http://juliet.stfx.ca/people/fac/dlemke/omt.html)
• Mass

  ----- Lists

  • Campus Newspapers: Campus Newspapers on the Internet, by Jonathan Bell (http://beacon-www.asa.utk.edu/resources/papers.html)
  • Daily business: Daily sources of business and economic news (http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html)
  • Editor and Publisher: Media information sources (http://www.mediainfo.com)
  • Journalism/Comm schools: World Wide Web sites of interest to those in the fields of journalism and mass communications (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)
  • Journalism: Journalism entry from WWW Virtual Library, by John S. Makulowich (http://www.trainer.com/pub/journalism/)
  • Movies and TV: Nova's Movies and TV information (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/movies.html)
  • News Top: the top general news sources of the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/news.html)
  • SPJ: Society of Professional Journalists (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/spj/html/spj.html)
  • TV Networks: Television network information (http://www.tvnet.com)
  • Tools: a list of Internet tools for mass communication (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-mass.html)

    ----- Application Areas

  • Amateur Radio: the World of Internet Amateur (Ham) Radio (http://www.acs.ncsu.edu/HamRadio/)
  • Cable TV: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.cablelabs.com)
  • Intelsat: the leading provider of satellite telecommunications services (http://www.intelsat.int:8080)
  • Live TV: demonstration consists of live video and audio using the vsdemo VuSystem application that uses a live television source on the VuNet (http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/vs/vsdemo)
  • Persuasion: Concepts, perspectives, idea generation device, resource links, and assignments, for students and others interested in the future of advertising, public relations, and commercial persuasive communication in the context of the new electronic media (http://jamy.apr.ua.edu)
  • Satellite: The Satellite TV Page (http://itre.uncecs.edu/misc/sat.html)

    ----- Outlets/List

  • Electronic Newstand: magazines, magazines, magazines--electronic and the dead tree variety (http://www.enews.com)
  • Newslink: news resource with direct links to more than 1,000 online newspaper, magazine and broadcasting sites. (http://www.newslink.org)
  • Newspage: thousands of categorized news stories (http://www.newspage.com)
  • Broadcasters: entry from WWW VL (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html)
  • MegaMedia: a list of electronic media on the Web--film, video, radio, television, cinema and new-media sites (http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/links/links.html)
  • Radio Stations: (http://www.brsradio.com/stations/)
  • Radio Tower: a directory of live audio broadcasters over the Internet (http://www.radiotower.com)
  • TV Stations: (http://tvnet.com/tv/us/stations5.html)

    ----- Selected outlets and more information

  • BBC Networking Club: (http://www.bbcnc.org.uk)
  • C-SPAN: Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (http://www.c-span.org)
  • CBC Radio: (http://radioworks.cbc.ca)
  • CBS: (http://www.cbs.com)
  • ClariNet: complete electronic newspaper delivered via Net (http://www.clarinet.com)
  • ITR: Internet Talk Radio (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html)
  • PBS: United States Public Broadcasting Service (http://www.pbs.org)
  • NBC: (http://www.nbc.com)
  • VOA: Voice of America (USA) (http://www.voa.gov)
• Societal
  • Cyberpunk: texts for understanding technology and culture, from the English Server (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Cyber.html)
  • Friends + Partners: USA and Russia information and communication (http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/)
  • Net Revisited: The Network Nation Revisited, a bachelor's thesis examining Hiltz and Turoff's predictions for CMC on societal change, by David Belson (http://www.stevens-tech.edu/~dbelson/thesis/thesis.html)
• Surveillance and remote control
  • Anthony's List: Internet-accessible machines for vending, temperature sensors, tele-operated machinery, equipment status, cameras/video, and others, by Anthony Anderberg (http://www.dsu.edu/~anderbea/machines.html)
  • bsy's List: Internet Accessible (non-Coke) Machines, connections to many surveillance and remote sensing examples (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/iam.html)
  • Remote Sensing: entry from the WWW VL (http://www.vtt.fi/aut/ava/rs/virtual/)
  • Web Voyeur: look at stuff through the Web (http://rainier.net/~larry/web-voyeur/)
• Scientific

  Since the Web was invented by scientists, it is no surprise that scientific communication is common online. In this section, I list a few major examples of sites that are putting the Internet to use for scientific communication.

  • AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science (http://www.aaas.org)
  • CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information--worldwide scientific, technical and medical information (http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/cisti/cisti.html)
  • CAS: The Chicago Academy of Sciences (http://www.mcs.com/~cas/home.html)
  • CS Tech Reports: Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites (http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/tr/siteslist.html)
  • DoD IAC: Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) Hub Page (http://www.dtic.dla.mil/iac/)
  • EI: Engineering Information, Inc., a community of engineers sharing research, knowledge, and data (http://www.ei.org)
  • EnviroWeb: environmental information source on the Internet (http://www.envirolink.org)
  • NAS: National Academy of Sciences (http://www.nas.edu)
  • NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library; an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and educational use (http://www.ncstrl.org)
  • NSF-USA: The National Science Foundation (NSF), United States (http://www.nsf.gov)
  • OSTI-USA: The US Office of Scientific and Technical Communication (http://apollo.osti.gov/html/osti/ostipg.html)
  • Science Top: the top science information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/science.html)
  • SETN: The Science and Engineering Television Network, Inc., a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television (http://www.service.com/stv/setncall.html)