LibGuides: Media and Popular Culture: Digital Culture & Online/Social Media

Web Resources

Boing Boing
Boing Boing finds interesting Internet bits and sites -- a mix of tech, culture, and fun
Boy Genius Report
Exhaustively covers the rapidly growing world of mobile devices/cell phones/personal digital assistants.
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology is a nonprofit public policy organization and one of the leading Internet freedom organizations working at the critical edge of policy innovation.
Center for Internet and Society
The Center for Internet and Society is a leader in the study of the law & policy around the Internet & emerging technologies.
Digital Cultures & Digital Diversity - Cultural Politics
Overview of subcultures and issues related to digital culture.
Digital Natives
Digital Natives focuses on the key legal, social, and political implications of a generation "born digital" - those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm.
First Monday
A peer reviewed online journal devoted to the discourses, ideologies and uses of new media technologies.
Internet Society - Internet Issues, Technology, Standards, Policy, Leadership
The Internet Society's mission is to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
An open access peer-reviewed academic journal. Articles are free, and are offered as PDF files. Themed issues such as: 'Virtual Worlds Research, Past, Present & Future'; 'Consumer Behavior in Virtual Worlds'; and a call for the third issue on the 'Culture of Virtual Worlds'.
Mashable
Social Media news blog covering cool new websites and social networks
Official Google Blog
Insights from Googlers into their products, technology and the Google culture
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
News, articles, tips, commentaries, and reviews on Microsoft technology -- Windows, gaming, mobile, servers, software -- and Microsoft competitors
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Rough Type
Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by author Nicholas Carr. It’s mainly about technology, culture, and economics, though it wanders into other areas at times.
slashdot
"News for nerds": breaking stories about the computer industry, the software industry, telecommunications and the Internet.
The Official Microsoft Blog
This official Microsoft Blog aims to cover and add context around the top level news from the company and industry.
The Verge
The Verge's mission is to offer breaking news coverage and in-depth reporting, product information, and community content via a unified, modern platform.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
TUAW is your source for Apple news, tips, reviews and how-tos.
Wired
The leading, mass market consumer magazine devoted to the new communication technologies and the digital revolution.
Yochai Benkler - Wealth of Networks
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

Selected Print Resources

Born Digital by John Palfrey; Urs Gasser
Call Number: Main 302.2310835 P175b

ISBN: 0465005152

Publication Date: 2008-08-26
Everything is Miscellaneous : The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
Call Number: Main 303.4833 W43e

ISBN: 0805080430

Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online by Howard Rheingold; Anthony Weeks (Drawings by)
Call Number: Main 025.042 R342n 2012

ISBN: 0262017458

Publication Date: 2012-03-16
Networked: The New Social Operating System by Lee Rainie; Barry Wellman
Call Number: Main 006.754 R135n 2012

ISBN: 0262017199

Publication Date: 2012-04-27
Social Networking by Kenneth Partridge
Call Number: Main 302.30285 So132p 2011

ISBN: 0824211103

Publication Date: 2011-02-01
The Googlization of Everything by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Call Number: Main 338.47004 V191g 2011

ISBN: 0520258827

Publication Date: 2011-03-08
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Call Number: Main 612.80285 C23s 2010

ISBN: 0393072223

Publication Date: 2010-06-07
Up for Grabs- The Future of the Internet by Harrison Rainie; Janna Anderson; Susannah Fox
Call Number: Main 302.231 R135f

ISBN: 1604975172

Publication Date: 2008-08-01

Library carries v1 & v2
YouTube by Jean Burgess; Joshua Green; Henry Jenkins (Contribution by); John Hartley (Contribution by)
Call Number: Main 303.4833 B912y

ISBN: 0745644783

Publication Date: 2009-05-12