This is an umbrella
site of the Center for Digital
Discourse and Culture website. The umbrella site has many papers
that show how information and communication technology is reshaping democracy
and the way citizens interact with the government.
The Institute for
Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute
founded in 1968 at Northwestern University. Our mission is to disseminate the
findings of our research in these difficult and unsolved areas: reforming our
educational system; implementing welfare reform so that it strengthens
families and promotes positive child development; increasing citizen
participation in communities; defining the appropriate roles of federal,
state, and local governments; understanding the causes of increasing income
disparity between races and classes and developing policies to offset those
differences; involving communities in innovative responses to combat crime;
and understanding the impact of the nation's racial and ethnic diversity and
of its growing elderly population.
Conference papers
under the following themes are maintained on this server: Web as a Medium for
Communication, Social Work, Social Science Research, Electronic Communities,
Studying Cyberspace, Cyberphenomena, and others
University of
Minnesota. ICS conducts research into the social, legal, and ethical side of
computer-mediated communication. Papers under the following topics are
available: credibility of information, privacy in cyberspace, intellectual
property, international communication, and distance education.
RCCS is an
organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create
diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. The Center 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 online
projects. The link above goes to the book of the month section.
