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CULTURE

Human creativity and experience is alive online. Instead of talking about just bits and bytes, many people are intensely involved in artistic expression, information, and communities online. The links in this section will help you see the human side of online communication.

Art

• Art Top: the top art information resources on the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/art.html)
• CIS-AH: Center for Integrative Studies - Arts and Humanities (http://web.cal.msu.edu)
• FineArt Forum: List of Art Related Web Resources (http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/art-resources/)
• NWHQ: New World Headquarters--free expression and the distribution of artistic ideas, independent artists supporting independent artists (http://www.knosso.com/NWHQ/index.html)

Community

• Information
  • Avis Thesis: The Role of Community Networks, by Andrew Avis, a thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts graduate program in Communication Studies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August, 1995 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/GNST/theses/avis/thesis.html)
  • Civic Networking: WWW Guide to Community Networking, by Catherine Kummer (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/ILS/community.html)
  • Community Nets/Baker: This site is a technical site oriented at researchers or individuals with an interest in community networks; includes articles, helps track developments in community networks as well as in related fields of computer-mediated communication and information and telecommunications policy. It is especially focused on policy and governmental aspects of community networks, as well as tracks some 60 plus Virginia based community networks, by Paul M.A. Baker, AICP Research Fellow The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University (http://ralph.gmu.edu/~pbaker)
  • Community Nets/McGee: information about community networks, by Arthur R. McGee (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/am/amcgee/community/)
  • CPSR Community Net info: (http://www.cpsr.org/dox/community.nets.html)
  • Free-Nets Home Page: Free-net information, presented as a public service by Peter Scott, at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries (http://duke.usask.ca/~scottp/free.html)
  • Free-Net List/Gopher: (gopher://gopher.tamu.edu/11/.dir/freenet.dir)
  • Free-Net List/Hytelnet: (http://www.cc.ukans.edu/hytelnet_html/FRE000.html)
  • NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network (ftp://nptn.org/pub/)
• Virtual

  ----- Some instances of virtual communities.

  • Blacksburg electronic village: (http://www.bev.net)
  • CIAO!: British Columbia, Canada (telnet://ciao.trail.bc.ca)
  • Cleveland Free-Net: the world's first community Fee-Net (telnet://visitor@freenet-in-a.cwru.edu) Login as : visitor
  • Digital City: de Digitale Stad, Amsterdam, Netherlands (telnet://dds.hacktic.nl)
  • EnviroFreenet: an online community of people who are concerned about the earth (telnet://envirolink.org)
  • Internet Town Hall: a service of the Internet Multicasting Service (http://www.town.hall.org)
  • Oceania: The Atlantis Project; new country in development--you may get Constitution and Laws, passport info, free subscription to newsletter Oceania Oracle, and more (http://oceania.org)
  • Silicon Valley: Silicon Valley Public Access Link Community Page (http://www.svpal.org)
  • Trailer Park: home pages for the homepagesless (http://www.cybernetics.net/users/phrantic/marty.htm)
  • Virtual City: Virtual City Network Project (http://virtual.net/VirtualCity/)

Language

• ABU: L'Association des bibliophiles Universels (http://www.cnam.fr/ABU/principal/ABU.v2.html)
• ACW: Alliance for Computers and Writing (http://english.ttu.edu/acw/)
• ALEX: find and retrieve the full-text of documents on the Internet from such archives as Project Gutenberg, Wiretap, the On-line Book Initiative, the Eris system at Virginia Tech, the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University, and the online Oxford Text Archive (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html)
• Babel: A glossary of computer-oriented abbreviations and acronyms (http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel.html)
• Book collection: electronic books, reference, special collections (gopher://psulias.psu.edu/11[_shelves])
• Citation: Bibliographic References for Computer Files in the Social Sciences, A Discussion Paper, by Sue A. Dodd (ftp://ftp.msstate.edu/pub/docs/history/netuse/electronic.biblio.cite)
• Computer Writing: Computer Generated Writing resources, by Marius Watz (http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/c-g.writing/)
• Computer Jargon search: search the jargon file on WWW (http://web.cnam.fr/bin.html/By_Searchable_Index?Jargon_File.html)
• Computer Jargon: The Jargon File (the definitive compendium of hacker slang) (ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu/jargon-README)
• Computing Dictionary (gopher): The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (gopher://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk)
• Computing Dictionary (web): The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk)
• CMC Glossary: Compiled by Collins and Berge, from St. John's University (gopher://sjumusic.stjohns.edu:1070/11/%40uni%3acmc.glossary)
• CMT: The Center for Machine Translation (CMT) at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; advanced research and development in natural language processing, with a focus on multi-lingual machine translation (http://www.mt.cs.cmu.edu/cmt/CMT-home.html)
• CPET: Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (ftp://guvax.georgetown.edu/cpet_projects_in_electronic_text/)
• CSLI-Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University (http://csli-www.stanford.edu)
• CTI-Oxford: Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford: mail ctitext@vax.ox.ac.uk
• eText-Caltech: the eText (electronic hypermedia textbooks) group at Caltech (http://www.etext.caltech.edu)
• Electronic Text archive: copy of archive services on etext.archive.umich.edu (gopher://fir.cic.net/00/0-README)
• Electronic Text: Catalogue of projects in electronic text, Center for Text and Technology (ftp://guvax.georgetown.edu/cpet_projects_in_electronic_text/)
• ETC-UV: Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html)
• Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts, by Richard A. Lanham (ftp://press-gopher.uchicago.edu/pub/Excerpts/lanham.txt)
• Gutenberg Project: a project to give away online texts, hundreds of titles (http://www.gutenberg.net)
• Hacker's Dictionary: a searchable index of Hacker's Jargon (http://iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/Cjargon)
• Human: human languages page, cataloging human-language resources and making those resources available to the Web community through a concise index (http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html)
• IBIC: Internet Book Information Center (http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html)
• Internet Glossary: Internet-specific terms defined (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi18.txt)
• Internet Wiretap: electronic books and information (ftp://wiretap.spies.com/About/)
• Internet Wiretap Gopher: electronic books and information (gopher://wiretap.Spies.COM)
• ITK: Instituut voor Taal- en Kennistechnologie, Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/itkhome.html)
• Jargon: Jargon File Resources, browse or download the file in different forms (http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html)
• LETRS: Library Electronic Text Resource Service (gopher://gopher.indiana.edu:1067/11/letrs/gopher)
• Natural Language: Natural Language Software Registry, summary of the capabilities and sources of language processing software available to researchers (http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/cl/registry/ed_note.html)
• NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary (http://www.netlingo.com)
• Online books: an index of hundreds of online books, collections of online books and documents (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/books.html)
• OWL: Purdue Writing Labs' Online Writing Lab (OWL): mail owl@sage.cc.purdue.edu Subject: owl-request
• Oxford Archive: Oxford Text Archive (ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota/)
• Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge, by Steven Harnad (ftp://infolib.murdoch.edu.au/pub/jnl/harnad.jnl)
• Scholar: Natural Language Processing On Line (gopher://jhuniverse.hcf.jhu.edu/11/.HAC/Journals/.SCHOLAR)
• Smiley Dictionary, from EFF's Extended Guide to the Internet: (http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eeg_286.html)
• Writer's Resources: Internet Writer Resources, Compiled/Edited/Maintained by L. Detweiler (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/writing/resources)

People

• Aspects
  • APA: American Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org)
  • Cognitive/Psychological sources: information sources on the Internet about academic programs, periodicals, network resources, and many other online resources, by Scott Mainwaring (http://www-psych.stanford.edu/cogsci/)
  • CyberAnthropology: a page of resources for online anthropology, by Steve Mizrach (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/cyberanthro/newhome.html)
  • GA Tech--Cognitive: Cognitive Science at Georgia Tech (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cogsci/cogsci.html)
  • HCRL-Open U: Human Cognition Research Laboratory, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (http://hcrl.open.ac.uk)
  • Mental Health Net: a comprehensive guide to mental health; includes resources, discussion lists, and other information; check for discussion of research and theory on the psychology of the Internet (http://www.cmhc.com)
  • Humanities Top: the top humanities information resources on the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/hum.html)
  • Webaholics: resources that will get you hooked to the Web; includes a Forms interface to add entries to a Webaholics support group (http://www.ohiou.edu/~rbarrett/webaholics/ver2/)
• Lists -- directories, home pages

  ----- Meta

  • AddMe: add yourself to home page collections, all in one easy form (http://www.addme.com)

    ----- Major general collections

  • GeoCities: web homesteads available in themed collections (http://www.geocities.com)
  • Galaxy's Net Citizens: (http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Community/Net-Citizens.html)
  • Housernet: a directory of home pages; you can search the database by marital status, age, and gender (http://www.housernet.com)
  • People Page: large collection of personal home pages, listed alphabetically (http://www.peoplepage.com)
  • People Place: find people by name, country, interest; you can add a link to your home page (http://www.tiac.net/users/domvon/index.htm)
  • People-Yahoo: Entertainment--People, personal home pages collection, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/People/)
  • Personal Pages World Wide: a meta collection of institutional collections of personal pages worldwide, from the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.utexas.edu/world/personal/index.html)
  • The Student Center: student home pages on the Web (http://studentcenter.infomall.org/homepages/)
  • Who's Online: a collective database of a non-commercial biographies of people on the Net (http://www.ictp.trieste.it/Canessa/whoiswho.html)
  • Who's Who: Who's Who on the Internet, or, The Complete Home Page Directory of Internet Personalities--Kirk Bowe's Who's Who on the Internet(sm), from CityLive! Magazine (http://web.city.ac.uk/citylive/pages.html)
  • WhoWhere? Homepages: a comprehensive service for locating people and organizations on the Web; this is a vast collection--you can look up personal homepages by email address, phone number and address, or company name, or look at a yellow pages directory, by profession or name (http://homepages.whowhere.com)
  • World Alumni Net: an automated alumni e-mail registry and bulletin board for colleges and high schools all over the world (http://www.alumni.net)

    ----- Specialized collections

  • CMC People: people interested in the study of CMC, from the CMC studies center (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/people.html)
  • COS: Community of Science, identify and locate researchers, inventions, and facilities at US and Canadian universities by interest and expertise (http://cos.gdb.org)
  • Communications Scholars: (http://alnilam.ucs.indiana.edu:1027/sources/dirpage.html)
  • HCI People: people interested in human-computer interaction (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/HCI/bin/people)
  • Internet People: Who's Who in the Internet, Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi9.txt)
  • WBW: World Birthday Web, you can record your birthday and link to your home page, by Tom Boutell (http://www.boutell.com/birthday.cgi)

    ----- See also

  • INTERNET--Searching--People: lists a variety of services to lookup or locate people or organizations (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-searching-people.html)

Society

• ACM SIGCAS: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (gopher://gopher.acm.org/11[the_files.sig_forums.sigcas])
• Anonymity FAQ: Anonymity on the Internet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/net-anonymity/)
• CCSR: Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/CCSR/)
• CCH: Centre for Computing in the Humanities (gopher://alpha.epas.utoronto.ca/11/cch)
• Computer Underground: The Social Organization of the Computer Underground, an MS Thesis by Gordon R. Meyer (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Papers/meyer)
• Coombs Papers: science and humanities papers, bibliographies, directories, theses abstracts and other high-grade research material (gopher://coombs.anu.edu.au)
• Culture/Tech: a collection of texts exploring relationship of technology and culture (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Cyber.html)
• Cyber-Culture-Yahoo: Society and Culture-Cyber-Culture (http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cyber_Culture/)
• Cyber papers/EFF: collection of cyberspace-related papers, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Publications/CuD/Papers/)
• Cyberspace: The New Frontier, by The Laboratory for Applied Logic at the University of Idaho (http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/lal/cyberspace/cyberspace.html)
• Cyberpunk FAQ: from the Usenet newsgroup alt.cyberpunk (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/cyberpunk-faq)
• Cypherpunk Topics: information pulled off of many sources, mostly sci.crypt and the cypherpunks mailing list (ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/phantom/cpunk/README.html)
• Cypherpunks gopher: clipper, DC Nets, digital cash, protocols, other info (gopher://chaos.bsu.edu)
• Cypherpunks home page: PGP, remailers, rants, various crypto-tools, newspaper clippings, and a good deal of other things (ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/cypherpunks/Home.html)
• MetaNet Gopher: management, organizational change and development, education, the arts and the humanities, the impact of technology on society, the future, law, health, the environment, public policy, reinventing government (gopher://gopher.tmn.com)
• English Server: examine the possibilities of collaborative, community-run communications (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu)
• EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center--civil liberties relating to online communication (http://www.epic.org)
• Fourth World: Indigenous Peoples' Information for the Online Community (http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/fwdp.html)
• Future Culture: FutureCulture FAQ, or Cyberography, is maintained by Andy Hawks: mail future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu Subject: send faq
• Future Culture: information about Net culture, media, virtual communities, cyberpunk, memetics (http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/futurec/)
• Gender Issues: Gender Issues in Computer Networking, by Leslie Regan Shade (ftp://alfred.carleton.ca/pub/freenet/93conference/papers/leslie_regan_shade.txt)
• Gender/Spertus: Ellen Spertus' Writings on Gender and Science/Engineering (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/gender.html)
• Global/Women: Global Fund for Women, an international grantmaking organization (http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw/)
• IEEE SSIT: The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jherkert/index.html)
• Internet demographics: a survey by Texas Internet Consulting (ftp://ftp.tic.com/survey/)
• McGee collection: Art McGee's collection on culture and society issues--Activism, African, community, development, gender, indigenous, Latin (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/am/amcgee/)
• Net Ethics: Ethics and the Internet (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1087.txt)
• Net Etiquette Guide: by Arlene H. Rinaldi (ftp://ftp.lib.berkeley.edu/pub/net.training/FAU/)
• Netiquette: guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette), by S. Hambridge (ftp://ftp.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi28.txt)
• Netizen: a section of Hotwired which deals with issues of civic live online (http://www.netizen.com)
• Netizen Anthology: The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net--an anthology, Ronda Hauben, Michael Hauben (http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html)
• Networking: Networking on the Network, by Phil Agre: mail rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: archive send network
• Privacy: The Internet Privacy Coalition; to promote privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography (http://www.privacy.org)
• Privacy: archive about network privacy, from usenet group alt.privacy (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.privacy/)
• Privacy center (EPIC): Electronic Privacy Information Center, public interest research center in Washington DC (http://www.epic.org)
• Privacy forum: materials for the Privacy forum, including all Privacy Forum Digest issues and materials (gopher://vortex.com/11/privacy)
• SeniorNet: senior citizen's network on America On Line (voice): phone 415-750-5030
• Togethernet: online information and communication network for sustainable planetary future (gopher://gopher.together.uvm.edu)
• Usenet Oracle: (http://www.pcnet.com/~stenor/oracle/)
• Women's wire: resources by/about/for women (http://www.women.com)
• UWI Cultural Play: UWI's Web's Edge/UnderWorld Industries' Cultural Playground (http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi.html)