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History of the Internet and the Web

• Browser Emulator- see what it was like to browse the Web over a decade ago.
• The Computer Chronicles- download episodes of this public access TV show broadcast from 1983-2002. Many of the clips shown in lecture were found in these archives.
• GUI Gallery- view screenshots of various graphical user interfaces from the 1970s to today.
• A response to the Web 2.0 Video - The Machine is using us...-Mike Swanson
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web - Lisa Safransky, 302
• Archive.org: A digital library of movies, music, text, and old versions of web sites - Brian Wells (301)
• For a good example of how hypertext is used in a web page, check out www.letsrun.com -Z. Bruns

Representations of the Internet in Popular Culture

• View some Internet commercials from MCI, WorldCom, Ebay, and Cisco. (1997 - 2007) Requires Quicktime.

Web Design, Aesthetics, Semiotics, Visual Culture

• Favorite Web Site Awards collects links to hundreds of "cutting edge" web sites

Identity and Virtual Community

• See the Practicum Project Collaboration Page for the Virtual Community group
• Online Communities: Design, Theory, and Practice is about online communities. - Lisa Safransky, 302
• The Influence of the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction is about how others online perceive you based on your avatar. - Lisa Safransky, 302
• This an interesting blog post I found on Yahoo! Tech about Second Life. I never realized just how complex the whole thing is. It is definitely blurring the lines between real and unreal. Check it out sometime. --(Erin, 303, Fall06)
• This BBC article was just brought to my attention: Second Life Ploy for Paris Gardens Its a really interesting use of Second Life, with ramifications in the real world. - Germaine (thanks to Todd Brogan for the tip)
• CMC has articles and news about computer mediated communication. - Lisa Safransky, 302

Democracy and the Digital Divide

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Media Conglomeration and the Internet

• BEWARE MEDIA CONSOLIDATION (article, access through UW system) - Lisa Safransky, 302
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Blogging, Social Networking, Web 2.0

• An interesting NYTimes article about a social network design firm and its future. -Aaron O'Brien

Regulation and Policy

• Three Degrees of Internet Regulation (article, access through UW system] - Lisa Safransky, 302
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Intellectual Property and Participatory Culture

• Salon.com:  Letters about Intellectual Property. I just remembered a compelling argument I once came across way back in middle school. It was about digital rights management and how it forces people to often repurchase music they already own on an older or different format. Find the letter that starts with "In all the recent hoo-ha..." by Murray Altheim. -- Theo Graphos, 302
• Going along with what we've been talking about with IP matters and Star Wars, a local filmmaking group has had insane success with cultural production in its parody (?) Chad Vader. Over 5 million downloads on YouTube. Check them out at www.splu.net. It might be too late this semester, but they'd make an interesting guest lecture sometime - (Kevin, 305, Fall06)
• Classic case of history repeating itself: Antipiracy  Code, Once a Secret Spreads on the Web
• Here is a recent news article on Digital Rights Management and how iTunes is being pushed to change their policies and prices (Zach B, 303): http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131686-c,copyright/article.html

Online Gaming

• Something on professional gaming. TSquared on Wikipedia specializes in Halo 2 and yes, he actually gets paid to play video game online. A snippet of his interview. Nik (302)
• I am sure you saw this on the news but we should also have it on our class wikipage; PlayStation 3 hectic debut. Believe it or not, the gaming culture is part of our popular culture. I wonder about the online capabilities of PS3, did anybody get one? Nik (302)
• Massive Multiplayer games are a billion dollar industry (BBC) - Brian Wells (301)
• WoW gold farming in China (New York Times) - Brian Wells (301)

Remediation

• An article about Identity & Remediated Space by Anna Dempsey. She specifically did a case study of new media art & new media artists. Art can be a way a medium can be highlighted, relevant to what we learned about hypermediacy. Nik (302)
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TV and Film in the Age of the Internet

• ABC Episodes Online - Brian Wells (301)
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Mediated Spaces

• Great site to create mobile phone blog for free - Jenn S. (301)
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