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Universities & Research Centers

01.11.1998 · Research Group on the Global Future

Berkeley Multimedia Research Center
http://www.bmrc.berkeley.edu/

The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC) at the University of California, Berkeley, is an interdisciplinary group of artists, educators, professionals, and scientists who are experimenting with interactive multimedia technology in professional practice, scholarship, and education. On the website one can find find many information such as research papers, mulitmedia presentations or teaching materials. BMRC also co-develops multimedia content with UC Berkeley faculty members as part of ongoing projects to create advanced learning environments.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
http://cyber.harvard.edu/

Through its sponsorship of research and teaching, as well as national and international conferences and business and academic initiatives, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School focuses on a range of worldwide legal, political and business issues raised by existing and new forms of information technology. The Center furthermore intends to inaugurate a global cyber school. The Berkman Center's newsletter, The Filter, gives you a take on the most pressing public interest-oriented Internet issues through the eyes of leading experts, scholars, and researchers. Read the issues online and subscribe. Subscribe also to the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (selected articles are available on its website) - it provides an insight into the legal implications of emerging technologies.

Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon University has emerged as one of the top private research institutions in the US dealing with the powers and consequences of a digital world. Visit the homepage of the HomeNet Study, which is a research project studying what people do with the Internet and how it affects their lives. The results of the study have been extensively discussed in the net community.

The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/

CITI is an independent university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. Founded in 1983 at Columbia University, it is one of the first research center for communications economics established at a US management school. Its focus: analyzing the complex problems associated with managing communications enterprises, systems, and policy in environments of rapidly changing technology and regulation.

GLOCOM
http://www.glocom.ac.jp/

The Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) affiliated with the International University of Japan is a social science institute specializing in the study of the Japanese reaction to the information age. Companies, study groups and clients support the project; however, the digital revolution seems to be taking a little longer in Japan. Read the the document Japan and International Society in the Age of Information Revolution.

Hypermedia Research Centre
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk

The Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster in London is a collective of artists, artisans, writers, academics, designers and other assorted persons trying to find the time to develop hypermedia as an artform. Read the articles of the HRC which are a valuable contribution towards the theoretical analysis of digital convergence and cyber-culture. Among the founding members of HRC are Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron who are well-known critics of the Californian Ideology.

McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca

The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology is part of University of Toronto with a mandate to encourage understanding of the impacts of technology on culture and society from theoretical and practical perspectives, and thus to continue the work initiated by Marshall McLuhan.

mcm institute for Media and Communications Management
http://www.mcm.unisg.ch

The institute focuses on the management of new media. Its research is dedicated to the management of the media industry, electronic commerce, knowledge media, enterprise knowledge, and computational media. It hosts high-level conferences on media, communications, and management, e.g. the mcm forum 1998. The institute was established in January 1998 with the support of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation.

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/

Leading US university, dealing with all fields of technology research (biotechnology, information technology, environmental technology, robotics, etc.); provides many abstracts and other research news as well as useful links. Go to the projects 'Media in Transition' and 'Media Communications Forum'.

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

This is certainly one of the best websites to learn about cyberculture. The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Maryland is an online, non-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects. Currently, the site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, and an extensive annotated bibliography, and a monthly book review.

University of California at Berkeley
http://www.berkeley.edu/

Silicon Valley and Microsoft in Seattle constantly need a fresh input of knowledge workers on the West coast of the US. The University of Berkeley in San Francisco is a good reservoir for this purpose. It is especially known for its work on doing business in cyberspace. Visit the Information Economy Resources of Prof. Hal R. Varian, co-author of the book 'Information Rules - A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy' to learn about the economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues. The School of Information Management and Systems and the Fisher Center for Management & Information Technology concentrate on the networked economy.

University of Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu

Leading US university in the field of information technology located in the foothills of the San Francisco peninsula. Visit the different centers at Stanford like for example The Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO) which focuses on the interplay between work, technology, and organization. The Center for Information Technology develops advanced information technology - computer technology appropriate to the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form. The Stanford Law and Technology Policy Center provides information that helps policymakers understand longer-term technology law issues.