Portal on the New Society

Documents/Journals

Here you can find different E-Zines, Journals and Articles that monitor and discuss the changes in society, culture and technology.

19.04.2005 · Research Group on the Global Future

The Information Society Journal from the Indiana University, monitoring changes in society and culture due to information technologies. The "Editorial Letters” feature various articles about the Internet and the individual, net-identity etc.

The Cyber sociology Magazine is intended as a forum for the discussion of the social scientific study of cyberspace. It features articles on cyber culture, cybersex, online communities, grassroots politics online, religion online and tech-spiritualism.

Electronic Journal of Sociology.
Articles relevant to the context of new society:

"Social Psychological Dimensions of Electronic Communication”.

"Power and Powerlessness in the Global Village”.

"Information and Communication Technologies in University Teaching and in Teacher Education”.

"Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future?”.

"Cyber McCarthyism”.

TechNation is a weekly Public Radio program focusing on the impact of Technology in our lives.

A German netzine on cyber culture, covering latest news in IT developments as well as their impact on society. Special focus on politics in TelePolis.

Online magazine on cyber culture, attempting to understand the new "electronic consciousness” created by new technologies. Offers commentaries and audio-visual works.

Online version of a German magazine concentrating on news, and application of developments in the new media, mainly Internet, portable phones etc.

Publishing network, which offers a wide variety of articles, interviews and book reviews.

Bibliography about cyber culture, virtual communities, community networks and virtual identities.

Three downloadable surveys on e-commerce.

Current surveys on Internet users and usage in Germany.

Sociological resource site with information on the Information Society. Documents from various authors concerning all kinds of issues from cyber society and e-communities to cyberspace, virtual reality and communication theory. It also offers links to research centers worldwide.

Graduation thesis on the importance of the Internet for children in the age from 6 to 13 years, containing data on the spread of the Internet among youngsters in Germany.

Special on the Information Age from the German weekly "Der Spiegel”.

Talk of the WWW-creator and W3C-director Tim Berners-Lee to the LCS 35th Anniversary celebrations, Cambridge Massachusetts, April 14, 1999.

"Notes on the Notion of Information”.
Article by Scott Lash on the differences of "Information Society” compared to the concepts of "Postmodernism” and "Risk Society”.

Homepage of John Suler.
Includes many articles on the Internet and psychology.

Homepage of McKenzie Wark.
Offers articles on cyber culture, art and media politics in Australia and the United States, as well as papers of the project "Virtual Cultures”.

"Postmodern Virtualities”.
Essay from Mark Poster about a postmodern culture and the developments in communications technologies.

Mailing list providing loads of articles concerning cyber culture, cyber politics etc.

Article about the effects of IT on real-world communities.

The Portal to cultural studies and popular culture on the Internet by Sarah Zupko offers many links to journals, articles and theorists.

Observatory on the Information Society by UNESCO:
The Observatory provides a portal on Information Society issues with a large pool of links, leading to countries all over the world.