CMC Information Sources

CMC Information Sources

December Communications (john@december.com )

16 Feb 96; Release 4.08

1996 December Communications. You may use this for any educational, personal, or non-profit purpose. For-profit distribution requires my permission.

Provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.


PURPOSE: to list information describing the Internet and computer-mediated communication technologies, applications, culture, discussion forums, and bibliographies. Areas of interest include the technical, rhetorical, social, cognitive, and psychological aspects of networked communication and information.
AUDIENCE: those getting started in understanding the Internet and CMC; for those experienced, it collects sources of information.
ASSUMPTION: you have access to and know how to use finger, ftp, gopher, telnet, email, World Wide Web, WAIS, or Usenet newsgroups.
NOTES:
1. Respect access privileges. (See Net Etiquette Guide, below.)
2. This information changes quite a bit; additions/comments welcome.
3. Use Archie, Veronica, or a Web spider to find a file if it is not at the site given here.
4. Learn to use Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, WWW, to find more information.
5. The easiest way to use this information is the HTML version through a Web browser: open the URL http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/icmc/top.html
6. See other formats useful for other purposes below, under "ABOUT this information / Formats."

Information about updates to or different formats of this document:

ABOUT this information

Notes

Formats

INTERNET

Introduction

Collections

Training

Navigating

Searching

Directories

Services

APPLICATIONS


This section lists examples and lists of examples of applications of CMC on the Internet in a variety of areas.

Commerce

Communication

Education

Entertainment

Government

Information

Multiple

Scholarship

TECHNOLOGY

Computing

Developing

Human Interaction

Multimedia

Virtual

Networks

Telecommunications

CULTURE

Art

Community

Language

People

Society

FORUMS


These are forums for interaction and information dissemination related to CMC and networking.

Academic resources in communication and related fields

Meetings and Activities

Discussion

Periodicals

Usenet

ORGANIZATIONS


These are organizations that relate to Internet, CMC, or computing, communications, telecommunications, or other related activities, through the fields of study they represent or through their activities and research.

Academic

Research

Commercial

Internet

Network

Non-profit

Standards

BIBLIOGRAPHY


This section lists useful lists of books articles, and bibliographies. For the sake of compactness, the book list here is short. For longer lists, see the online or paper bibliographies available. I've prepared a list of many books and article readings in CMC and computer networking. That file is the CMC/December bibliography, listed below.

Online

Special

Books