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These sites are valid as of September 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.
Introduction
to
all aspects of the Internet -- Internet 101: http://www.internet101.org
Best of the Web –
Internet (a VERY helpful resource on many
aspects of computing and the Internet, from companies and education to
history and
usenet):
http://botw.org/top/Computers/Internet/
Cookies FAQ: http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq
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
Pew Foundation Internet and American Life Project reports: http://www.pewinternet.org/
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
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/
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://cyber.law.harvard.edu/.readinessguide
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.cia.gov/library//publications/the-world-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/
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.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com (news and comparison
tables)
Research Buzz (information and research on search engines and databases): http://www.researchbuzz.com/
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
Copernic (searches over a dozen search engines at once, can search on the downloaded pages): http://www.copernic.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://www.usa.gov
Metacrawler (ranks results; provides in-process results; customizable search options): http://www.metacrawler.com
SearchCom: http://www.search.com
Vivisimo: http://www.vivisimo.com
[Search Engines for and Descriptions of Blogs, Newsgroups, Discussion Lists, Social Bookmarks, Community Photos, E-Zines, Trolling]
Discussion lists, by term or category: http://www.tile.net
Ezines: Reviews 1,000 - 1,500 each issue: http://www.factsheet5.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
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
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://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):
City & Town
Information (Info on people, real estate,
weather & more in 1000s of
Email Address
Search (Find email - corporate, government,
individual - addresses from directories and social networks; learn
about email
scams, phishing spam and more; find out how to contact Senate and
Congress
representatives; links to other free email tools; conduct reverse email
searches; learn about types of email servers): http://emailaddresssearch.com
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
NationMaster (a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease): http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
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.spike.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
Online personalized greeting cards: http://regards.com
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.commerce.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
Government Information: http://www.fedworld.gov
U. California, Riverside Links to Government Sites: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govpub/
History and Archives: http://www.archives.gov/index.html
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]
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
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
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
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.mayoclinic.com
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 Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/default.htm
National Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Information: http://www.ncadi.samhsa.gov
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.cardinal.com
InteliHealth (comprehensive, with symptom flowcharts and animated heart demo!): http://www.intelihealth.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://pdrhealth.com/home/home.aspx
WebMD (many newsletters, medical history, news and commentary): http://www.webmd.com
World AIDS Day: http://www.worldaidsday.org 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
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
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/
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.m-mc.org/hcmn/index.php
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.thenationalcampaign.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 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
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: 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
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.
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. .
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.
Women’s Economic Agenda Project: http://www.weap.org 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
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
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://advertising.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.editorandpublisher.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:
How Americans Communicate: http://www.natcom.org/research/Roper/how_americans_communicate.htm
Library and Information Sciences resources and WWW links:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/lib_info/lib_info.shtml
http://www.llrx.com/extras/sla.htm
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/index.htm
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Links to style,
structure, evidence, paper mechanics, historical present, finding a
voice, nominalizations, etc.): http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu
Online Courses and Resources for Communication, Library and Information Science, Journalism: http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture
Online surveys (listing, summaries, links): http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Online_Surveys
Rutgers Library Internet Resources for Communication,
Journalism and Media Studies: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/communications/communications.shtml
Excellent introductory tutorial to using Library Resources (specifically,
Rutgers University Library, but this is quite general) for
Communication Research
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (over 1,220 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks): http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (Oxford Internet Institute) (ways of measuring the impacts that their online scholarly resources are having: content analysis, focus groups, interviews, referrer analysis, user feedback, audience analysis, analytics, bibliometrics/scientometrics, log file analysis, surveys, webometrics): http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/tidsr/kb/questionnaires-/-survey
University
of California, Santa Barbara Library Internet Resources
for Communication:Article Indexes and Databases site:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/databases
Communication research site (organizations, mailing lislts,
publications): http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/communic.html
Communication journal list:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/guides/commserials.pdf
Some communication journals are available full-text online:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/ejournals
Webmaster Communication Links Depository (over 400 categorized links relevant to communication faculty and students): http://www.cios.org/encyclopedia/comlinks/webindex.htm
Website associated with Wimmer & Dominick's Mass Media Research book (exercises, advertising, associations, focus groups, internet researhc, journalism, journals, media careers, media industry research, movies, newspapers, public relations, radio, reference, research tips & sources, sampling error, science, statistics courses, statistics sources, television, U.S. data): http://www.wimmerdominick.com
Writing errors in English: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors
STATISTICS AND RESEARCH
METHODS
[Online TextBooks] [Course
Syllabi] [Online Datasets] [Online Programs and Simulations]
[Online Tutorials] [Glossaries]
[Other Interesting Resources]
| Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle. 2005. Introduction to social network methods. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside (published in digital form at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/ ) | Very
comprehensive, easy to read and use, coverage of network analysis
techniques, based on UCINET and NETDRAW.  |
| Website, bibliographies, message archives, intercoder reliability calculator, content analysis software | |
| SticiGui© Text: Table of Contents | Great introduction to basic statistical concepts |
| StatNotes | A truly superb and readable explanation of
all sorts of statistical methods and concepts -- qualitative and
quantitative, statistics, theoretical frameworks, and more |
| HyperStat Online | Introductory-level hypertext Statistics book, covering descriptive statistics, Chi-square, ANOVA |
| Statsoft.com | An online hypertext textbook on elementary statistics, with a search engine for terms and concepts |
| Davidmlane.com Text
Book Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics |
An online fundamental statistics textbook, along with links to other online textbooks and projects |
| Statnotes: An Online Textbook | A comprehensive online stats textbook
(from basic statistical tests, through structural equation modeling,
and some
coverage of qualitative research), with a guide to writing up
research |
| Methods of Inquiry | 17:194:514 SCILS, Rutgers University |
| Communication Research Methods | 04:192:300 SCILS, Rutgers University
Bill White's site includes practice exam questions; a list of important research-related concepts in the course introduction; an excellent guide to using physical and online library sources for research information; links to other research course syllabi; and links to other statistical discussions and tutorials. |
| The Data and Story Library | An online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods |
| Chance | The chance project was founded by NSF (1992-1996) to develop instructional materials for a course called Chance. This provides a variety of intriguing datasets for analysis. |
| The Exploring Data Web Site
Queensland, Australia |
The datasets in
the Web site are labeled with the statistical method explored with the
data. Great for exercises!!! |
| Survey Documentation and Analysis
University of California, Berkeley |
A great site: General Social
Survey, American National Election, and other datasets, with
customizable retrieval of subsets of data, with codebooks prepared for
SPSS, SAS and other programs; also provides online programs for basic
analysis of these data |
| UK Data Archive | The UK Data Archive is the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. You can also search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data. |
| Animated Statistics Demonstrations Fayetteville State University |
Animated demonstrations, online exercises with solutions: basic statistics conepts and computations. |
| Statistics.com | Information about statistics software, as well as about statistics analysis, data analysis and short courses in statistics. Free software, and online calculators. |
| http://dfreelon.org/utils/recalfront/ |
ReCal ("reliability calculator"): It calculates the following: percent agreement; average pairwise percent agreement (for 3+ coders); Scott’s Pi; Cohen’s Kappa; Fleiss' Kappa; Krippendorff’s Alpha; Accepts any range of possible variable values; Can calculate reliability for multiple variables at a time (2 coders only); Displays all possible pairwise percent agreements, making it easier to root out rogue coders (3+ coders only); Results should be valid for nominal data coded by any number of coders. |
| Java Applets
NWP Associates |
Including Z-score and normal distribution, ANOVA, T-test, and much more |
| Case
Studies Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics |
Examples of real
data with analyses and interpretation |
| Simulations/Demonstrations
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics |
Java applets that demonstrate various statistical concepts |
| A Venn Diagram Tutorial | Interactive Venn Diagrams tutorial |
| Dr. B's Data Gallery
Arizona State University |
Different ways of graphing data |
| Interactive Tutorial
UCLA |
An online, hypertext, interactive statistics tutorial |
| TexaSoft.com | A wide range of online interactive statistics tutorials, providing definitions, formula, examples, online computations, and questions -- really excellent and clear, even if you don't use the online software |
| Survey Section
Iowa State University |
Site about surveys |
| Animatedsoftware.com | Nice online statistics glossary |
| Statistics and Survey Research Glossary | By the Division of Science Resources Studies, National Science Foundation |
| Web Resources for the Social Sciences | Massive sets of
links for various social science fields |
| The
Globally Accessible Statistical
Procedures Initiative University of South Carolina |
Designed to make statistical routines easily available via the WWW. Interesting! But most of them are not related to the scope of 604. |
| Business
Statistics |
Publications, resources, courses, discussion groups |
| How Students Learn Statistics | A Chance article |
| Teaching Aids | Teaching aids used in the Chance project, including some interesting articles |
| STATS Statistical Assessment Service | Examines the way that scientific, quantitative, and social research are presented by the media |
CMC tools, from interpersonal through group and organizational:
http://www.december.com/net/tools
http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html
CMC Magazine and CMC Studies Center: http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/
CMC books: http://www.december.com/cmc/info/
First Monday (Peer reviewed journal on (and about) the Internet; excellent, brief book reviews): http://firstmonday.org/issues/index.html
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/
The site contains a collection of
scholarly resources, including university-level courses in
cyberculture, events and conferences, an extensive annotated
bibliography, and two full-length book reviews each month. Also: (Journals
on CMC and Internet Studies, Key books
in CMC and
Internet Studies, Movies and TV programs about CMC and cyberspace,
Other online
resources and materials): http://rccs.usfca.edu/default.asp
Michael
Beisswenger's multi-language CMC/Chat
bibliography: http://www.chat-bibliography.de/
ORGANIZATIONAL
COMMUNICATION, DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS, INFORMATION SYSTEMS,
MANAGEMENT
Online and library resources for business/finance/management questions: http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/guides/business
A great source for concepts, measures, and citations to
information systems research:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~newsted/real.htm
Academy of Management home page: http://www.aom.pace.edu
American Management Association's home page -- includes online courses, career tips, time management, writing skills: http://www.amanet.org
Center for Information Technology and Society (University of California, Santa Barbara): http://www.cits.ucsb.edu
Definitions (simple) of Technology (complex): http://www.webopedia.com/
Dilbert cartoons, satirizing organizations
and management: http://www.dilbert.com
Error Messages from Computers and Internet, in Haiku form!: http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html
An organizational "root cause" diagnostic program: http://www.root-cause.com
Social Capital Gateway (resources
for the study of social capital): http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/
SPIDER website (Social Psychology of Information [and
cultural] Diffusion – Educational Resources): http://www.hs.ttu.edu/hd3317/spider.htm
This is a very rich website, with sections on bibliographies (knowledge
networks, memetics, social networks, cultural studies), network linkage
charts (oracle of Bacon, Amazon.com Baconizer), concepts (persuasion,
conformity, contagion, cultural evolution diffusion, dynamic social
impact, imitation and social learning, memes, scale-free networks, six
degrees separation, social
norming, tipping points), current events relating to information
diffusion, dictionaries of slang and terminology, measuring “what’s
hot” (such as public opinions buz index, common baby names by year..),
popular examples of cultural diffusion (such as yogi berra-isms,
commonly misheard song lyrics), professional associations, research
projects, network diffusion in health, networks research, and websites
of relevant published books (including one on the diffusion of
using statistical information in professional baseball!).
Technology/innovation management: http://www.aomonline.org
Technology Review (MIT's coverage of emerging technologies):http://www.technologyreview.com
Telework/telecommuting: http://www.gilgordon.com
Quality Management links: http://www.quality.org
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, MEDIA OWNERSHIP, PRIVACY,
COPYRIGHT
Action Coalition for Media Education:
http://www.acmecoalition.org
AT&T Brief History: http://www.att.com/history
Benton Foundation: Public Interest and Communication Policy: http://www.benton.org
BuzzTracker (shows requency of major news stories by location in world): http://www.buzztracker.org/
Center for Democracy & Technology: http://www.cdt.org
Center for Public Integrity
(tracking broadcast, cable and telecommunications industries): http://www.openairwaves.org/telecom/
Commission on Online Child Protection: http://www.copacommission.org
Communications Decency Act of 1997 (Historical record of opposition to): http://www.ciec.org
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (Telecommunications and Computer Issues): http://www.cpsr.org/issuesConsumer Federation of America (see Communications link – Cable, Communications Policy, Internet, Media Concentration, Phones): http://www.consumerfed.org
Consumer Project on Technology (esp., intellectual property rights): http://www.cptech.org/ip/
Copyright and Intellectual Property:
Country links - for basic stats about dozens of countries: http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Cyberspace Atlas: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/historical.html
Digital Divide:
DMOZ Organization: Computer and Technology Law:
http://dmoz.org/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Computer_and_Technology_Law/Internet/E-Commerce/
E-Rate Tutorial: http://www.state.nj.us/njded/techno/teleact
E-Rate: American Libraries Office for Information Technology Policy Statement: http://www.ala.org/pio/factsheets/erate.html
E-Rate Department of Education Fact Sheet: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/comm-mit.html
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (identifying and critiquing media bias and censorship): http://www.fair.org
Federal Communications Commission: http://www.fcc.gov
Federal Trade Commission Privacy Initiatives: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html
FindLaw’s Cyberspace Law: http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/10cyberspace/index.html
First Monday (an online reviewed journal of interesting media policy articles, emphasizing the Internet): http://www.firstmonday.org
Freedom Forum (many links and resources): http://www.freedomforum.org
The Freedom Network (see Media Bias, Internet Privacy, Online Intellectual Property): http://www.isil.org
Free Speech Sites:
Future of Music Coalition (collaboration among university, intellectual property law, music, policy makers, public policy, technology professionals): http://www.futureofmusic.org
How It Works (provides explanations of just about everything technological): http://www.howstuffworks.comInternet Politics course and links (privacy, policy, intellectual ownership, etc.): http://www.learnworld.com/COURSES/P172/P172.Links.html
IP Justice (an International Civil Liberties organization, focusing on international treaties, directives, and other trade agreements that address intellectual property rights or impact freedom of expression guarantees): http://www.ipjustice.org/about.shtml
Junk/spam news, issues, programs: http://www.junkbusters.com/Law and Policy for Cyberspace: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html
McGannon Communication Research Center (emphasizing media policy): http://www.fordham.edu/Academics/Office_of_Research/Research_Centers__In/Donald_McGannon_Comm/The Media History Project (orality, literacy, printing, journalism, photography, telegraphy, radio, telephony, sound recording, film, comics, television, digital media; full-text archives; hypermedia timeline): http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu
Mobile and Wireless Telephony history, explanations, resources: http://www.privateline.com/index.html
Motion Picture Association of America: http://www.mpaa.org
$100 Million Movies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/daily/movies/100million/article.htm
Multimedia Intellectual Property Law: http://www.timestream.com/stuff/neatstuff/mmlaw.htmlNational Association of Broadcasters: http://www.nab.org
(see Information Resource Center FAQs for Basic Information on the
Broadcast Industry): http://www.nab.org/irc/Virtual/faqs.asp
National Cable & Telecommunications Association (see
Legislative & Regulatory Affairs): http://www.ncta.com
National Telecommunications and Information Administration: http://www.ntia.doc.gov
New Media: Professor Carey's (Columbia U. Business School) Resources on New Media (especially usage of and demand for new media): http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jcarey/B9201-028/navigator.htm
News: Technology Industry and Policy: http://news.cnet.com
News: Technology News from Silicon Valley: http://www.siliconvalley.com
News: Wireless Communication Industry News and Products: http://www.internetnews.com/wireless
NewsMap (shows headlines of major news stories sized according to coverage, and color-coded by type oc content, and selected by country): http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Newspaper Association of America: http://www.naa.org
Privacy: 
Stories/Legal Cases Involving Online Free Speech and Privacy Issues:
Telecommunications Policy Links: http://users.erols.com/dgalbi/telpol/link.htm
UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy Cyberspace Law Bibliography:http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/bib.html
Voice of America: http://www.voa.gov
World Intellectual Property Organization: http://www.wipo.org
Net Content Filtering: Labels and tags for use in content filtering: http://www.w3.org/PICS
Napster Case and
Rival Services:
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