Cultural Politics

    DIGITAL CULTURE RESEARCH CENTERS & JOURNALS

Below is a set of links to research centers and professional associations that do significant work in digital culture studies, as well as some online journals that frequently feature work on digital culture.

Featured Site

• Association for Progressive Communications. Covers a wide range of social issues in computing, from diversifying the industry to e-waste to the web traffic in women. Their mission is " to empower and support organisations, social movements and individuals in and through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to build strategic communities and initiatives for the purpose of making meaningful contributions to equitable human development, social justice, participatory political processes and environmental sustainability".

Research Centers and Professional Associations

• Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital).
• Association of Internet Researchers. Major academic network.
• Benton Foundation. Research and philanthropic organization dedicated to bridging the digital divide and "computing in the public interest."
• Berglund Center for Internet Studies.
• Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. Useful site especially for the complex legal issues surrounding cyberspaces. Sponsored by the Harvard Law School.
• Best Online Resources for Women and Minority Jobs in Tech. A very useful list of professional development sites.
• Center for Computer Games Research.
• Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
• Center for Digital Information. Focused on policy-related research.
• Center for Women and Information Technology. Seeks to address women's under-representation in IT from a variety of perspectives.
• Coalition to Diversify Computing. Aims to expand the number of men and women of color in computer science.
• Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center. Includes a listing of their online courses.
• Culture Digitally Important resource for scholarly discussion of digital culture across disciplines.
• Cultures of the Digital Economy. Research unit at Anglia University, UK.
• Digital Cultures Research Centre. Researchers from West of England.
• Digital Opportunity Channel. Wide ranging set of resources on all aspects of digital diversity.
• Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. HASTAC, for short, is a major research and education project on digital humanities scholarship and social action.
• Infoscape Research Lab. from University of Toronto site specializing in social media research.
• Institute of Network Cultures.
• International Center for New Media. Austrian non-profit dedicated to improving Net as educational and social resource.
• Lisbon Internet and Networks International Research Programme.
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
• Minnesota Journalism Center. Formerly Institute for New Media Studies.
• New Media Studies. Cultural studies resources for new media analysis.
• Oxford Internet Institute.
• Pew Center for the Internet and American Life. A major, ongoing research project on the social impact of the Internet. Best place to get current statistical and qualitative information on general cultural trends in web use.
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Excellent resource from important cyberculture theorist David Silver. Covers all aspects of cyberculture. While deactivated, the site still Includes very useful bibliographies, book reviews, course links, interviews with cyber theorists/critics, and more.

Online Digital Culture Journals

• American Communication Journal.
• ATOPIA (archived).
• Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. Includes a number of ground breaking essays on cybercultures.
• Canadian Game Studies Association.
• Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine.
• Crossings: Electronic Journal of Art and Technology.
• CTheory. Social theory of technocultues.
• Cybersociology Magazine.
• Cyborg Subjects, available only as a print anthology.
• Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).
• Electronic Book Review. Focused on electronic literature.
• Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture.
• Fast Capitalism. Charting the global political economic impact of ICTs.
• First Monday. Excellent wide-ranging digital culture studies.
• Game Critics.
• Game Studies.
• Games and Culture.
• Gamology.
• Information Research. An International Electronic Journal.
• International Journal of Computer Game Technology.
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.
• Ludology.
• M/C: Media & Culture.
• Neural.it
• Observatorio. Multilingual journal of old and new media studies.
• Postmodern Culture. New media in wider context of postmodernity.
• Teknokultura. A Spanish collaborative cyberculture magazine.
• Vectors. Addresses digital culture issues while creatively using the multimedia capacities of the web.
• Video Game Studies.
• Watercooler Games (archive).
• Writing Technologies. New media literacies in context of historical writing systems.
• Long Road Excellent site analyzing indigenous uses of new technologies, intellectual property rights and related issues.
• Journal of Online Behavior
• SIMILE: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education