Portal on the New Society

General Research

Our General Research section on Information Society provides you with various links to research centers, think tanks and institutions and gives you an overview of the development of the Information Society, in general.

19.04.2005 · Research Group on the Global Future

A research program from Brunel University. "Virtual Society?” features articles about different social aspect of the Internet, such as the future of universities and the digital divide.

Pew Internet and American Life Project. Creates funds and research on the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, political life and so on. The reports corner collects information and news about Internet and society from other news sources and sites.

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.

The Aspen Institute offers studies and strategy papers on structural changes in the 21st century and their political implications.

The Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communication: The Center's mission and objectives are to develop a common discourse among media scholars, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and policy makers; and to research, compare, analyze, and interpret older and newer media.

The Center for the Study of the Information Society: The Center is a unique, interdisciplinary forum of researchers and advanced graduate scholars. It is a home to academics from various disciplines. They meet to discuss various aspects of the information society, the technology that makes it happen, and the interactions between society, information and technology.

Information Society Technologies: The IST priorities for the EU's research are the technological development and demonstration (RTD) activities. These priorities have been identified on the basis of a set of common criteria reflecting the major concerns of increasing industrial competitiveness and the quality of life for European citizens in a global information society.

The Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): The Program attempts to increase understanding of the human-built world. In this world, science and technology have broken through the walls of industry and of the laboratory to become an inextricable and determining element of nature, culture, and history.

Initiative of the city of Stockholm in partnership with the European Commission. Various IT-projects, concerning e-government, new economy, culture and entertainment are presented on this site.

Surveys and information site of NUA, an Internet consulting and development company. News and information about all social aspects of the application of new media.

The site of the Projektgruppe Kulturraum Internet hosts texts and commentaries on a great variety of topics related to the Internet, new society, cyber culture and identity, for example, "Die erträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins: Subjektivität und Sozialität in der Netzwelt”.

Glocom - research institute of the International University of Japan specializing in the study of the Information Society. The institute’s platform.

MediaCom - research institute of the Keio University specializing in the research of mass communication. A current project is examining the role of new media in strengthening civil society.

Joint page of the Institute of Communications Studies and New Media Studies of the University of Leeds. Informative site on cyber culture and communications theory with many links to other sites.

Homepage of Henry Jenkins, researcher on media and its social and political impact.

The Mercury Center’s technology site is mainly providing technology news.

Consortium to further development and usage of technological technology. Offers online classes for visitors and features a summary of the institution’s achievements in exploiting technology for education to date.

Tele-studies project of the Technical University Berlin.

The homepage of Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT. From there you can access all of her publications that are available online.

gipfelthemen.de – ein Projekt von politik_digital.de und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen. gipfelthemen.de reports on topics concerning the UN World Summit on Information Society.