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These sites are valid as of February 2008. However, WWW sites change all the time. Some of the sites may have been removed or changed since they were listed here.
Use your graphical Web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) and enter the appropriate URL (universal resource locator) address. The standard format is something like:
If you don't have a graphical Web browser, you can access the text components of many of these WWW sites by connecting through gopher or lynx (text-based browsers) or telnet (a direct connection to the host computer site). However, drop the initial gopher://, lynx://, or telnet://
Periodic Table of the Internet (search engines, Internet tools, site ranking, aggregators, webcomics, productivity, get stuff, operating systems, miscellaneous, blogs, social networking, podcasts, videos news): http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-23--periodic-table-of-the-internet.html
Internet and computer timelines and history:
Some books on the
history of computing:
Abbate, J. (1999). Inventing the Internet.
Campbell-Kelly, M., & Aspray, W. (1996). Computer: A
history of the information machine. NY: Basic Books.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. (1983). Reckoners:
The prehistory of the digital computer, from relays to the stored program concept, 1935-1945.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003). A history of modern computing.
Comer, D. E. (2000). A brief history of the Internet. The Internet book: Everything you need to know about computer
networking and how the internet works (3rd
Ed). (pp. 55-84).
Engelbart, D. (2000). Coevolution,
and the origins of personal computing.
Freiberger, P., & Swaine, M. (2000). Fire in the
valley: The making of the personal computer. NY: McGraw-Hill
Friedman, T. (2005). Electric dreams: Computers and
American culture. NY: NYU Press
Hafner, K., & Lyon, M. (1998). Where wizards stay up
late: The origins of the Internet. NY: Touchstone.
Kidder, T. (1982). The soul of a new machine. NY:
Kidwell, P.A., & Ceruzzi, P. E. (1994). Landmarks in digital computing: A Smithsonian pictorial
history.
Rheingold, H. (2000). Tools for thought: The history and
future of mind-expanding technology. 2nd Rev. ed.
Smith, D. K., & Alexander, R C. (1988). Fumbling the
ruture: How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer.
NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Waldrop, M. M. (2001). The dream machine: J. C. R.
Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal. NY:
Penguin
Winston, B. (1998). Media technology and society: A
history from the telegraph to the internet.
Cookies FAQ: http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq
Domain name example and explanation: http://library.albany.edu/internet/www.html
Internet Addiction: http://www.netaddiction.com http://allpsych.com/journal/internetaddiction.html
Internet Dating (guidelines): http://internetdating.net
Internet Romance: http://www.internetromance.org
Internet Politics course and links (privacy, policy, intellectual ownership, etc.): http://www.learnworld.com/COURSES/P172/P172.Links.html
Internet Search Engines, Usage Statistics,
Invisible Web (extensive links to all kinds of text and multimedia
search engines and directories, invisible web search tools, evaluations
of web resources, web usage statistics, Internet and Web history and
analyses, web tools and coding, tutorials and training, weblogs and
weblog indexes, Internet domains, other tools): http://www.podbaydoor.com/aengine.htm
Internet Statistics, Usage, Reports
(government and university reports): http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsci.html#internet
Internet Terminology, Acronyms, Definitions: http://www.webopedia.com
Internet Usage and Issues -- Survey results:
http://www.survey.net
http://www.cc.gatech.edu
http://cyberatlas.com
Pew Foundation Internet and American Life Project reports: http://www.pewinternet.org/
Netiquette Home Page (how to behave online): http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/netiquette.html
Netiquette - Posting messages online (detailed guidelines for etiquette, norms, and approaches): http://domin.dom.edu/depts/gslis/stumpers/post.htm
NetLingo (online dictionary of 100s of
Internet and computer technology terms, plus smileys, html tips, and
chatroom abbreviations): http://www.netlingo.com
Predictions! The
Imagining the Internet Predictions Database examines the potential
future of the Internet, based on a survey of 1286 networking and
technology experts, while simultaneously providing a peek back
into its history. We invite you to navigate through three useful
resource areas that: illuminate the views of stakeholders and give an
historic overview (1990 to 1995 predictions): http://www.elon.edu/predictions/default.aspx
Project WebUse (University of Maryland --
many sources of data and survey results on the Internet): http://www.webuse.umd.edu/links.htm
Resources from Dr. Eric Bucy’s
course on Social Informatics: http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/i202/i202_menu.html
Agents, Articles, Chatrooms, Games, Privacy (Garfinkel’s links),
Infoglut, Interface examples, Mtaphors, Pivacy, Webcams, Webdesign,
Biometrics, Digital Divide, Sample Sites, Linkbacks, Projects
Top-Level Domains
-- InterNIC FAQs : http://www.internic.net/
Top-level domains: http://www.icann.org/tlds/
Trolling: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Internet_troll
Urban legends, hoaxes and rumors on and about
the Internet and the World Wide Web: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/;
see also HoaxBusters: http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HoaxBustersHome.html
Internet demographics and use:
Audience analysis and
measurement of Internet usage: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/
Center for the Digital Future at USC
Annenberg: http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/index.asp
CEOs’ site on Computers Systems
Support Policy: http://www.cspp.org
Educational resources and
diagnostic tool on community readiness for networked world: http://www.readinessguide.org
ICTs in developing world:
http://www.bridges.org
Pew
Internet and American Life Project reports: http://www.pewinternet.org/reports.asp
Surveys about Internet use:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/
World Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
META-SEARCHING
SITES
[General
Information on Search Engines] [Specific
Metasearch Engines]
[Search Engines for
Newsgroups, Discussion Lists and E-Zines]
Some general search suggestions (from Michael Kent and Sylvia Mueller):
These two sites provide good tutorials on searching:
http://www.askscott.com/index.html
http://www.josts.net/tec3012/bool.htm
About.com's WebSearch articles: http://www.websearch.about.com/internet/websearch
All about developing Personal Web Pages: http://personalweb.about.com/internet/personalweb/
Comprehensive listing of all search engines, directories, and web
publishing sites:
http://www.allsearchengines.com
For comparisons of various search engines and tutorials on
searching:
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web
http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Netguides/strategies.html
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com (news and comparison
tables)
http://www.ub2.lu.se/desire/radar/lit-about-search-services.html
Research Buzz (information and research on search engines and databases): http://www.researchbuzz.com/
This site provides an updated evaluation of meta-search engines:
http://www.searchiq.com/directory
Relationships among the major search engines (which supply, and which receive, primary and secondary search results): http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm
All-in-One Search Page: http://www.AllOneSearch.com
AllTheWeb (includes multi-media, scientific sites): http://www.alltheweb.com
Centrapoint: http://www.centrapoint.com
Copernic (searches over a dozen search engines at once, can search on the downloaded pages): http://www.copernic.com
Debriefing (ranks returns by relevance, deletes duplicates, provides related keywords): http://www.debriefing.com
Excellent one-stop meta-search engine, separately for Web,
Usenet, and
FTP sites:
http://www.dogpile.com
FirstGov (search engine for US government sites): http://firstgov.gov
Highway 61 (results ranked by number of sources): http://www.highway61.com
Infozoid (good for complex searches): http://www.infozoid.com
Invisible Web: http://www.profusion.com
(While it does provide meta-searches, it emphasizes other search
engines and sites with specific links, rather than general search or
site results.)
Metacrawler (ranks results; provides in-process results; customizable search options): http://www.metacrawler.com
Metor (select search engines; sets of specialized search topics): http://www.metor.com
Netscape's meta-searcher: http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html
ProFusion (complex Boolean operators; best control over search aspects; can save settings): http://www.profusion.com
SearchCom: http://www.search.com
Search Engines Galore World (listing of nearly all existing search engines, plus many specialized search engines, by topic and by country): http://www.topsytes.com
Vivisimo: http://www.vivisimo.com
[Search Engines for and Descriptions of Blogs, Newsgroups, Discussion Lists, Social Bookmarks, Community Photos, E-Zines, Trolling]
Agonistics (a language game): http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/Agonistics/Artport/index.html Agonistics is a game played by sending email messages to an online discussion. The goal of the game is to win points, move to the center of the circle, and get your words displayed on the left of the screen. Players are randomly assigned a face. Players win points by engaging in dialogue with other players. When a player wins points, the player’s face is moved towards the center. The faces of players in dialogue are moved together. When a player in a dialogue group posts a message that addresses a theme the group is discussing, the theme is shown and a sentence from the player’s message is highlighted at the top of the screen. Players who are not in dialogue with others never have their words highlighted.
Blogdex (the weblog diffusion index): Listings and analysis of most connected ideas on blogs: http://blogdex.net
Blogs: Massive directory and search engine (top 50, updates,
random; by category, language, country, alphabetical): http://portal.eatonweb.com;
also see http://www.blogwise.com
Discussion lists, by term or category: http://www.listz.com
Ezines: Reviews 1,000 - 1,500 each issue: http://www.factsheet5.com
Feedster (search engine for feeds by keyword and/or URL, listings, podcast shows or episodes, news, blogs, media feeds; top 500 blogs): http://feedster.com
Flickr (sharing photographs online): http://www.flickr.com/ IceRocket (searches blogs, web, news, images, phone pictures, multimedia; provides trends in posts and topics over time; links to posts; blog tag/category search): http://trend.icerocket.com/IRCs
(Internet Relay Chat): http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html
Library serials, newsletters, etc: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/
MOO
commands: http://www.du.org/places/du/cc/basicmoo.html
Online role-playing (MUDs, MOOs,
MUSHs, webrings and e-zines about online role-playing): http://www.onlineroleplay.com/Text-Based_MUDs/
Super social MOOs: http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/~rachel/moolist/social.html
Omgili is a search engine designed to index web-based discussion forums, based on terms in the title, topic (subject) or replies of the discussion: http://omgili.com/help.html
Social bookmarking (develop online shared favorites/bookmarks with others): main directory and tools site http://del.icio.us/webuse/social-bookmarking; article: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
Technorati (searches blogs by text in posts, links to a given blog post, and post tags/categories): http://www.technorati.com/
TextArc: http://www.textarc.org/ An entire text is arranged in an arc, stepping clockwise, starting at 12:00. Lines are drawn around the outside, words around the inside. Words that appear more often are brighter. Words used more than once in the text are drawn only once, at their average position. Rays are drawn from a specific word to everywhere else in the text that it appears. Averaging helps show the viewer where a word is used. A curved line can connect the words in the order they appear in the text. This is just for fun, showing how the TextArc space relates to the original linear space of the text. A particular word can be highlighted in the arc and an overlay full-text window. Lines containing a specific word are drawn in green around the arc, in the text window, and even in the scrollbar. A concordance shows how many times each word is used. Words can be looked up in a Thesaurus and drawn in red.Webcam sites, including a “random camsite”:
www.camcentral.com
[Evaluating Internet/Web Design, Websites and
Information]
Bad
website design and style: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/badtext.htm
Bad webpage design: http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Bad/frameset.htm
Digital Thread’s web
design site: http://digitalthread.com/
Good sites: A rubric for evaluating student sites: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/srutledg/goodsites8.html
Interactive
tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources: http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
Principles
of good and bad website design: http://www.jeffglover.com/ss.php
Thinking
critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA): http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
Webpage design and style: http://www.worldwidewebdesign.com/style/text.html
Web style guide: http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
Webby Awards for best designs in 20 categories: http://www.webbyawards.com
Evaluating and citing online materials:
http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/examples.htm
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/webcritique.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Automatic citations, in various formats, for blog posts:
http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress/2006/03/30/academic-citations
Evaluating the quality of health sites:
(from Wilson, P. (2002). How to find the
good and avoid the bad or ugly: A short guide to tools for rating
quality of health information on the internet. British Medical Journal, 324(7337), 598-602):
Bigfoot (email address finder): http://www.bigfoot.com
City & Town
Information (Info on people, real estate,
weather & more in 1000s of
Internet address finder (university, AOL, Compuserve email):
http://www.iaf.net
Switchboard (online phonebook): http://www.switchboard.com
University directories -- home pages of universities: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
WhoWhere (personal home pages, email, phone, mailing): http://www.whowhere.com
Allexperts: online volunteers answer most any question you could
think of: http://allexperts.com
Happy Hampster dancing: http://www.hampsterdance.com/hdancing.html
The weather: http://www.weather.comMSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com
Movie reviews, databases, online films
| http://www.imdb.com | http://www.film.com |
| http://www.eonline.com | http://www.reel.com |
| http://www.hollywood.com | http://www.oscars.org |
| http://www.ifilm.com | http://www.mrqe.com |
Movie listings for your zip code: http://www.movielink.com
What happened on this date in history (history, birthdays, TV, sports, music): http://www.on-this-day.com
Discovery Channel Online: http://www.discovery.com
Entertainment
guide for major cities: http://citysearch.com
Central page with links to amazing Medieval pages, such as
illuminated manuscripts:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
Financial
calculators
(over one hundred (by the looks of it) finance-related calculators):
www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/
MoveOn (transforming politics
through online groups): http://www.moveon.org
Music Groups: Visualization/zoomable network map of related musicians/groups: http://musicplasma.com
National Gardening Association: http://www.garden.org
Music Vine (it represents a selected music artist in a sphere (color related to sound and size related to popularity), related artists (distance among spheres indicates affinity), and lines (related to same genre, fan base, sound): http://www.mp3.com/musicvine
Online personalized greeting cards: http://regards.com
Salary surveys and relocation calculator:
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html
Possibly the most amusing, artistic, interactive and technically intriguing multi-media web site (you really need a very fast connection to allow all the cool demonstrations and games to work): http://www.zefrank.com
Dept. of Commerce: http://www.doc.gov
Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Check out the "Core Documents of Democracy" (legislative,
regulatory, office of president, demographic, economic, miscellaneous)
Government and business
statistics:
http://www.census.gov
http://www.business.gov
http://www.fedstats.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/fsbr.html
(Check out the "Social Statistics Briefing Room" or "Federal Statistics
Briefing Room")
Government Information: http://www.fedworld.gov
U. California, Riverside Links to Government Sites: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govpub/
History and Archives: http://www.nara.gov
Legislative Information: http://thomas.loc.gov
Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov
HEALTH
INFORMATION
[General Health Information Indexes] [Government & Nonprofit] [Commercial]
1Up Health (comprehensive and authorative information and news on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgery, injuries, nutrition, medications, and poisons. Focuses on family and community health): http://www.1uphealth.com
Government HealthIT (this site includes many resources on international, EU, and multinational health systems. In particular, it lists a comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across 30 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries): http://www.govhealthit.com/resources/international.asp
Healthopedia.com (a medical and health consumer information resource for over 1,500 health topics, 70 health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications): http://www.healthopedia.com
Medical Matrix: http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp
The National Communication Association has example health
communication syllabi, and is collecting comments on each of them, for
the purpose of
developing a model syllabus and possibly curriculum:
http://www.natcom.org/InstrResour/health/homepage.htm
Yahoo! Health List: http://www.yahoo.com/Health
Table of contents of a new, comprehensive book on health information sites: http://bmaxwell.home.mindspring.com/htoc.html
American Association for Cancer Research: http://www.aacr.org
American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Home Page: http://www.ahcpr.gov
American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org
American Public Health Association: http://www.apha.org/
Benton Foundation Health Site: http://www.benton.org
Bureau of Justice Assistance, Combating Violent Crime and Substance Abuse: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA
Cancer Information and Resources: http://www.cancerguide.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Violence Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm
National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/default.htm
Combined Health Information Database: http://www.chid.nih.gov
Interactive Patient Service, Discussions, Decision-making: http://chess.chsra.wisc.edu
Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov
Health on the Network Foundation, Supporting Quality Health Information, with Some Innovative Search Tools: http://www.hon.ch
Healthfinder -- A Gateway to Consumer Health and Human Services
Information:
http://www.healthfinder.gov/default.htm
Healthopedia (a medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications): http://www.healthopedia.com/
The Mayo Clinic, with Speciality Links: http://www.mayohealth.org
MedLine Plus (a government resource for many links, dictionaries, organizations, directories, libraries, and clearinghouses for answers to health questions): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
National Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Information: http://www.health.org
National Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.nida.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health-Health: http://health.nih.gov
National Institutes of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov
NetWellness: A Health Site Jointly Supported by Three Universities: http://www.netwellness.org
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.os.dhhs.gov
Cancer Information: http://www.oncolink.com
Dr. Koop's (the Former U.S. Surgeon General): http://www.drkoop.com
TM Health Online: http://www.health.com.my
HealthAtoZ The Source For Health and Medicine: http://www.healthatoz.com
HealthScout: http://www.healthscout.com
Healthtouch®-Online for Better Health: http://www.healthtouch.com
InteliHealth (comprehensive, with symptom flowcharts and animated heart demo!): http://www.intelihealth.com
MedConnect: http://www.medconnect.com
Medscape: http://www.medscape.com
Merck Manual of Medical Information (interactive, multi-media encyclopedia): http://www.merckhomeedition.com
Online Drug Index and Pharmacy: http://www.rxlist.com
Physican's Desk References (family guides): http://consumer.pdr.net
ThriveOnline: http://www.thriveonline.com/medical/index.html
WebMD (many newsletters, medical history, news and commentary): http://www.webmd.com
Live and Let Live World AIDS Campaign: http://www.unaids.org/wac/2002/index_en.html This site focuses on a campaign to alleviate the stigma and discrimination associated with AIDS. Includes PSA’s, posters, services, and counseling hotlines.
UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org/en/events/campaigns.asp This site is sponsored by the United Nations Program on AIDS. This campaign actively seeks to bring world attention to HIV/AIDS issues. The site features links to information regarding organization of activities, conferences, and other initiatives.
Health Action AIDS Campaign: http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/aids/index.html This campaign mobilizes health professionals to support a comprehensive AIDS strategy and advocates for funds to combat the disease. It develops ways for US health professionals to support colleagues and activists around the world. Additionally, this campaign researches the connection the connection between human rights and HIV/AIDS.
Global Union HIV/AIDS Campaign: http://www.global-unions.org/displaydocument.asp?DocType=Campaign&Index=991210267&Language=EN This campaign advocates raising the profile of AIDS as one of the central issues for national trade unions. The site features related links, FAQ’s, and contact information.
World AIDS Day: http://www.worldaidsday.org/wad/ This campaign is co-coordinated by UNAIDS, and it encourages people to “Wear the Red Ribbon” on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004. This campaign addresses the stigma and discrimination associated with AIDS, and it encourages people to break the silence and barriers to effective HIV/AIDS prevention.
Health Gap -
Stop
AIDS: http://www.healthgap.org/camp/04stopaids.html
This site encourages people to endorse the platform that
AIDS activists will deliver to 2004
AFT- Africa
AIDS
Campaign: http://www.aft.org/africa_aids/overview.html
This campaign promotes effective education and prevention
campaigns in
2.
Anti-Drug
Campaigns
Harvard
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign: http://www.mediacampaign.org/ The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is a multi-dimensional effort to educate and empower youth to reject illicit drugs. The campaign uses a variety of media to reach parents and youth, including TV ads, educational materials, Web sites, and publications. The Campaign's messages reach Americans wherever they live, work, learn, and play. The site includes news issues, early intervention tips, and ways to get involved.
FreeVibe.com: http://www.freevibe.com/ This site is sponsored by the National Youth Anti-Drug Campaign. It is geared toward a younger audience with flashy designs and easy to navigate links. It includes facts about a number of drugs, phone numbers to call for help, personal stories, news tidbits, and online quizzes about drugs.
Partnership
for a
Drug Free
Parents: The Anti-Drug: http://www.theantidrug.com/ This site is sponsored by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, and it targets parents. It includes drug information, advice for parents, signs and symptoms of drug abuse, tips on how to know your child is using, and community support.
3.
Anti-Poverty
Campaigns
B.C.
Government and
Service Employees’
Catholic Charities: http://www.diocesepb.org/charities/fc11042003b.htm This site features an article about the organization Catholic Charities and its support for an anti-poverty campaign. An excerpt from the article states, “The Diocese of Palm Beach has been recognized by the national Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for its strong support of the campaign’s anti-poverty mission.”
Anti-Poverty Committee: http://apc2.resist.ca/welfare_campaign The Anti-Poverty Committee is an organization of poor and working people, who fight for poor people, their rights and an end to poverty by any means necessary. They state, “The poor face constant attack under the capitalist system and these attacks have only intensified under the BC Liberal government. APC is committed to fighting the brutal policies of the BC Liberals through direct action, mass mobilization, and casework.” This specific site is dedicated to ensuring welfare for all.
Anti-Poverty Week: http://www.antipovertyweek.org.au/apw2003.html This site features the list of events and speakers that are part of Anti-Poverty Week this year. Included on the site are links to related information, contact information, and ways to get involved.
Catholic
Campaign for
Human Development: http://www.charitywire.com/charity35/
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is the domestic
anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic bishops. Its
mission
is to address the root causes of poverty in the
OCAP-
Ontario
Coalition Against Poverty: http://www.ocap.ca/
OCAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in
4. Consulting/Professional Organizations
The Ad
Council: http://www.adcouncil.org The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization
gets professionals
from the advertising and communications industries to volunteer their
time and
resources to develop public service campaigns.
The Ad Council produces, and promotes these public service
campaigns for
non-profit organizations trying to improve public and social health and
wellbeing. The Ad Council is and has been the leading producer of
public
service advertisements since 1942.
Berkeley
Media Studies Group: http://www.bmsg.org/
The
Goodwill
Communications: http://www.goodwillcommunications.com/gc_default.htm Goodwill Communications is a full-service public
service advertising consulting
firm. They assist clients in developing,
distributing, and marketing, and evaluating their communication
campaigns. Also, Goodwill Communications
is the sponsor
of the Public Service Announcement Research Center noted above.
Health
Communication Materials
Network: http://www.hcmn.org/
The
Monitoring The Future (surveys of
health beliefs):
http://monitoringthefuture.org/
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (conducts a web survey for teen pregnancy prevention day each year): www.teenpregnancy.org
The Prevention Communication Research
Database
(PCRD) (a project of the Office of Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
(ODPHP), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is a searchable
collection of audience research – such as attitudes, beliefs -- related
to
designing prevention messages conducted or sponsored by HHS agencies): http://www.health.gov/communication
The
Social
Change Online: http://media.socialchange.net.au/
The Social
Marketing
Institute: http://www.social-marketing.org/index.html The Social Marketing Institute was created to advance
the science and
practice of social marketing. Social marketing
is defined as “the
use of commercial marketing concepts and tools in programs designed to
influence individuals' behavior to improve their well being and that of
society.” The Institute develops social marketing campaigns based on
marketing
practices. The institute is involved in
carrying out and disseminating research, training and educating
organizations,
and sponsoring academic research.
TV Access: http://www.tvaccess.com/PSAResearch/ TV access is a firm that aims to help clients with
effective and
efficient dissemination of public service communications.
In addition to information about their
clients and services, the site presents a “PSA research” area that
features
surveys about trends in cable and television Public Service
Announcements.
5.
Environmental
Campaigns
The Clean Car Campaign (a cooperative effort to reduce the problems created by inefficient and over-polluting automobiles; emphasizing fuel economy, reducing emissions, and purchasing vehicles made from recyclable non-harmful material): http://www.cleancarcampaign.org
Cooperative Bank - Customers Who Care: http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/ethics/ecology_campaigns.html This site raises funds for a number of environmental causes such as safer chemicals, waste and recycling, food for thought, and biodiversity.
Environmental
Defense (Campaigns and
resources for environmental protection): http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm
Fish and Kids (Marine Stewardship Council's campaign to increase awareness of sustainable seafood issues, increase availability of sustainable seafood menu options, and provide a credible way of tracing the products from boat to plate; targeted primarily to school kids and their adult caretakers; with social networking components): www.fishandkids.org
Friends of the Earth Campaign: http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/ This site includes links to a number of campaigns supported by this group, including campaigns regarding global trade, biodiversity, safer chemicals, waste, climate, real food, and transport. Also feature ways to get involved.
Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/about/campaign.php This organization runs many different environmental campaigns. The website features a history of the organization, details about the campaigns being conducted all across the globe, ways to join and support the organization, job opportunities, and contact information. See their current anti-whaling campaign (in-house produced media and polished, darkly humorous and/or quirky environmental clips pulled from all corners of the web): http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/greenpeace-tv/?MM_URL=gptvbanner150
(RED)
Campaign
(using consumption to provide 50% donations to the Global Fund to
purchase
anti-retroviral medicine for people with AIDS in
Save the Northern Spotted Owl Campaign (sponsored by the Wilderness Committee, a citizen-funded wilderness preservation organization in Canada, intended to generate donations, stimulate writing letters to elected officials, provide recent developments, show video clips, describe the history of the owl and recovery strategies, and how to get involved through volunteering and joining Facebook.com): http://www.wildernesscommittee.org/campaigns/wildlife/spotted_owl
Time’s Up
Campaign: http://www.times-up.org/enviro.php
This site is sponsored by a nonprofit environmental
organization located in NYC. Some of its
campaigns include saving community gardens, reclaiming public space,
and
advocating auto free streets and parks.
The site offers links to information regarding educational
seminars and
demonstrations.
World Wide Campaign: http://www.earthday.net/goals/us-clean-cars.stm This site is sponsored by the Earth Day Network. It outlines the objectives for their campaign, including holding sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, and mini vans to the same air pollution standards as cars, improving the fuel efficiency of new cars, and building a stronger market for renewable fuels and for clean hybrid vehicles.
6.
Evaluations/Case
Studies
Avoiding the Boomerang: Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Antidrug Public Service Announcements Before a National Campaign: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/2/238 This article reports on a study examining the perceived effectiveness of 30 antidrug public service announcements. The study concludes that evaluative research is necessary to prevent broadcast of Public Service Announcements that could have a negative impact.
NIDA News
Release:
Research Shows TV PSAs Effective in Reducing Teen Marijuana Use: http://www.nida.nih.gov/MedAdv/01/NR1-31.html This press release posted on the National Institute on
Drug Abuse
website reports on recent findings that show that television public
service
announcements designed for teens can significantly reduce their
marijuana
use. The original study is published in
The American Journal of Public Health, but it is interesting to see how
it is
covered in this Press Release format.
The
7. Health
Campaign
Websites
Advocates
for Youth: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/
Advocates
for Youth is an international campaign that aims to help young people
make
informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual
health.
The website offers information to help achieve a more positive and
realistic
approach to adolescent sexual health.
The campaign aims to help society become more comfortable with
talking
about sex.
5-a-Day
Campaign: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/cdic/cpns/ca5aday/
This website gives information about the “5 a day”
campaign. The campaign educates people
about the importance of eating 5 or more servings per day of fruits and
vegetables. The National Cancer
Institute commissioned the campaign. See
also http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5aday/campaign/. This site is sponsored by the
MTV Fight For Your Rights
Campaign: http://www.mtv.com/onair/ffyr/protect/
National
Campaign to
Prevent Teen Pregnancy: http://www.teenpregnancy.org This is the website for a national campaign to prevent
teen
pregnancy. The site includes information
for a wide range of target groups including teens, parents,
professionals,
policymakers, and press. Information is included about the problem of
teen
pregnancy, how to prevent it, as well as info about what to do to help
the
campaign and events.
The National Youth Anti-Drug
Media Campaign: http://www.mediacampaign.org/
READY -- US Department of Homeland Security (to raise awareness of and preparedness for disasters, including both terrorist events and natural disasters; sections for regular citizens, businesses, and kids): http://www.ready.gov
School Network for Absentee Prevention (SNAP) (from the Healthy Schools, Healthy People program by CDC, USDHHS, and SDA, this is targeted at improving the hand-washing behaviors of the middle school community, with information, statistics, resources, a SNAP Toolkit for implementing local campaigns, and ways everyone associated with school can become involved): www.itsasnap.org
VERB (multimedia, interactive campaign designed by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention -- www.cdc.gov/ -- to increase and maintain physical activity among tweens -- children aged nine to 13 years old): www.verbnow.com
8. Human
Rights
Campaigns
Clear Path International (part of
larger effort to provide
services to landmine accident survivors and their families, and inform
public of
huge number of landmines still active from past conflicts (www.cpi.org).
Here, placed Frisbees that look like landmines all over
Human Rights Campaign: http://www.hrc.org/ This site details the goals of this campaign which include working for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights. The site includes links to information regarding issues, legislation, and policy, as well as ways to get involved.
Women’s Human Rights: http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/index.do This site is sponsored by Amnesty International, and details their campaign to end discrimination and violence against all women. The site includes articles, news, issues, and ways to support and get involved with the campaign.
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/campaign/ This site was created by Amnesty International, an organization that designs campaigns to protect human rights worldwide. Some of the campaigns include preventing violence against women, fighting the death penalty, torture, and working to secure refugee rights and international justice. This site features links and information about all of these campaigns.
Women’s Economic Agenda Project: http://www.weap.org/about/mission.html This campaign demands justice for poor women and their families. Their organization works to this end by assisting women achieve a livable wage by providing technical training, emotional support, and linkage to resources. Site includes a mission statement, contact information, and links to related information.
Students for
a Free
Project Underground: http://www.moles.org/ This campaign works to support the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploration. Includes news stories, a newsletter, information about campaigns currently being conducted, and way to get involved.
9.
Nutrition
Campaign
Websites
1% or Less Campaigns: http://www.cspinet.org/nutrition/1less.htm This site describes a health education program aimed to reduce the amount of total and saturated fat consumption of communities by encouraging adults and children to switch from drinking whole or 2% milk to 1% or fat free milk. Includes initiatives, handbook, and how to start a campaign in your own community.
Health, Nutrition, and Diet: http://www.cspinet.org/nutrition/ This site is sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. It features steps to improve your diet, and it discusses potential policy initiatives to be undertaken for this cause.
Nutrition
and
Physical Activity: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/aces.htm
This site is sponsored by the
10.
Overviews
of
Public Communication Campaigns
Public
communication
campaign evaluation: An environmental scan of challenges, criticisms,
practice
and opportunities (May, 2002): http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hfrp/content/pubs/onlinepubs/pcce/pcce.pdf Prepared for the communications consortium media
center, this document
defines public communication campaigns and distinguishes between two
different
types: individual behavior change versus public will campaigns. The document goes on to consider the
challenges of campaign evaluation, the different types of evaluation,
and the
different perspectives that exist in the field of evaluation of such
campaigns.
Theory and future directions for evaluation and research are also
explicated.
11.
Social Marketing
The Communications Network (Formed
to help foundations and other philanthropies
communicate more
effectively): http://www.comnetwork.org/
Community-based Social Marketing (an online guide which illustrates how to use community-based social marketing to design and evaluate programs to foster sustainable behavior; searchable databases of articles, downloadable reports, graphics, and case studies on fostering sustainable behavior; and a listserv for sharing information and asking questions of others.): http://cbsm.com
Interactive Smart Chart 3.0 (an online tool that can help you make and assess strategic decisions if you are: Just starting the communications planning process, Evaluating a communications effort already in progress, Reviewing a communications effort you've already completed): http://www.smartchart.org
Osocio
(dedicated to social advertising and non-profit campaigns. Osocio is
the
central online hub for advertisers, ad agencies, grassroots, activists,
social
entrepreneurs, and good Samaritans from around the globe): http://osocio.org/
The SPIN Project (building
communication capacity of non-profits): http://www.spinproject.org/
Tools of Change -- Proven Methods for Promoting Health, Safety and Environmental Citizenship (planning guide, tutorials on theoretical and media applications, case studies, etc.): http://toolsofchange.com/English/firstsplit.asp
UK National Social Marketing Center
(tutorials, case
studies, resources, documents, etc.): http://nsms.org.uk
COMMUNICATION, MEDIA, INFORMATION SCIENCE, WEB-BASED
RESEARCH
About
Public Relations (a free PR Internet resource complete with more
than 1,500
links to PR resources, articles, and websites for the PR consultant,
corporate
communicator and student. Included are resources for corporate, crisis,
employee and marketing communications; ethics; How-to; Internet PR;
investor
relations; media directories; professional development; publications;
research;
writing and recent articles on the profession): http://publicrelations.about.com
Books and Publishing: http://www.bookwire.com
CommunicationResearch.Org (Vast set of links to research methodology tutorials, research writing, research funding sources, communication theories, Internet issues, communication journals, archives, communication associations, and teaching resources): http://www.communicationresearch.org
Editor and Publisher Interactive: http://www.mediainfo.com
Education Index's links to Communications Resources (media, news, film, public speaking, interactive features, cybermovies, writing, e-zines, media museums, media-specific search engines, media associations, photo documentaries, etc.): http://www.educationindex.com/comm/
Graduate Research/School Tips: