Study - Groups - Computer-Mediated Communication Information Sources

Organizations and institutions studying computer-mediated communication

• Pew: The Pew Internet & American Life Project; researches the impact of the Internet on people, communities, the workplace and civic life
• New Media: New Media Consortium; brings forward-thinking learning organizations and high-tech companies to collaborate
• MIT Comm Forum: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Communications Forum; an ongoing conversation about emerging communications technologies
• Cibersodiedad: Observatorio para la CiberSociedad; forum for discussing cyberspace issues
• Kling Ctr: Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics; School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; dedicated to support research into information technology and social change; Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization
• Berkman Ctr: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School; aims to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions
• Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute ; multidisciplinary, based at Oxford, studies the impact of the Internet on society; debates about how the Internet could and should develop
• Stanford Ctr: Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society; studies the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry; part of the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford
• IMS: Center for Interactive Media Studies; a cross-disciplinary experience for students of all majors to merge digital theory and development with their respective areas of interest; at Miami University of Ohio
• CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship; service for scholars involved in human communication research
• CMC RG: Computer Mediated Communcation Research Group; studies the science of how computer networks can make people cooperate; Stockholm University and KTH Technical University, Sweden
• CNI: Coalition for Networked Information; supports the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity
• CRA: Computing Research Association; an association of academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies
• CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work; a research unit within the School of Information at the University of Michigan; focuses on the design of new organizations and the technologies of voice, data, and video communication that make them possible
• Communication: Communication organizations; involved in the study of human communication

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