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The Anthropology of Cyberspace __ "Over the past five years, the Internet has been transformed from a arcane communication system for the military and scientific elite to a massively popular medium. Its phenomenally rapid growth will shortly make it as common as the telephone or TV set as a household appliance. While the spread of these older media have had many important consequences for contemporary life, the Internet has introduced a much more powerful and versatile communication and information infrastructure that some social theorists believe will have a revolutionary impact on societies across the globe." Many articles and links about the subject. - From University of Manitoba - http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/courses/478/

EFF: Homepage __ "EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights." You will find a ton of information about many aspects of online culture, rights, controversies and more. - illustrated - From Electronic Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
Electric minds | virtual community center __ An online community discussing the anthropology of online communities. A lot of worthwhile material. - From Electric Minds - http://www.abbedon.com/electricminds/html/vcc_landing.html

Ethnicity in a Globalizing World: Borders, Boundaries, and Virtual Communities __ "In a globalizing world, traditional ethnic and national boundaries and borders are becoming less relevant to the study of cultural variation. A growing number of anthropologists and sociologists point to the delinking of territory and culture. Others raise the issue of whether the compression of time and space that has accompanied globalization has fostered, even in the remotest areas, an awareness and some degree of mediated experience of the world at large." - From Victor Da Rosa, Gerald L. Gold, Paul Lamy - http://www.geocities.com/gerr_gold/Ethnicityglobalw.htm

JoSS: Journal of Social Structure __ "The Journal of Social Structure (JoSS) is an electronic journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). It is designed to facilitate timely dissemination of state-of-the-art results in the interdisciplinary research area of social structure. It publishes empirical, theoretical and methodological articles." - From JoSS - http://www.cmu.edu/joss/

The Journal of Online Behavior __ An online journal "dedicated to the empirical study of human behavior in the online environment" - From Behavior OnLine, Inc - http://www.behavior.net/JOB/

Netizens - On the History and Impact of the Net __ "This page contains links to Michael Hauben's and Ronda Hauben's on-line Netbook, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. This netbook presents the history and impact of various aspects of the Net: the Internet, ARPANET, Usenet, etc." - From Columbia University - http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies __ This website contains resources for people interested in the study of cyberculture. It has an annotated bibliography, and "contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, a monthly book review." - From RCCS - http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre __ "The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may be better viewed as instances of a participatory genre, rather than as community." - From Thomas Erickson/Apple Research Laboratories - http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/VC_as_Genre.html

University of Maryland, Human-Computer Interaction Lab __ "From the Internet to robotics, technology is changing the way people live and learn. As new technologies become ever more critical to people's lives, it is important to design them to support people in their roles as learners, explorers, and workers." You will find an enormous amount of information. - From University of Maryland - http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
 
Virtual Communities __ An excellent resource for cyberanthropology including the full text of the website owner's Masters Thesis and links to additional material. - From Dave Coon - http://www.davidcoon.com/virtual_.htm

Virtual communities __ Learn why there is a need for the study of virtual communities. "We are entering a time when technological development seems to overwhelm us all in almost every area of our lives. One of the most expansive fields is the new global communication network known as Cyberspace or the Net. Cyberspace makes new ways to meet, to communicate, to work, to shop, and to live possible. It is a development which will take time to understand and to include in our everyday conception of what it means to live in a society and in a world." - From Umeå University, Sweden - http://www.informatik.umu.se/nlrg/whyhow.html
 

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