Deals with a variety of Internet related issues including copyrights, the digital divide, Internet governance, and telecommunications. Has links to legislation and other important sites.
News updates from around the world concerning information technology, privacy and security. Articles deal with DNA databases, web monitoring, employee privacy. Links to other resources concerned with personal privacy and security on the Internet.
Provides survey and demographic information on access to the internet, as well as data on underserved populations and areas. Created by the US Department of Commerce.
A more-or-less weekly digest/newsletter/journal of debates, news, research, and discussion of legal, social, and other issues related to computer culture.
Research project for the study of the web from an epistemological standpoint: relevance, authority and epistemic deference, democratization of knowledge, distributed cognition.
The mission of W.H.O.A. is to educate the Internet community about online harassment, empower victims of harassment, and formulate voluntary policies that systems can adopt in order to create harassment-free environments.
Cincinnati, Ohio has put public documents online at courtclerk.org, and this has had a divisive impact on the community. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] (September 5, 2002)
Pop-up windows have earned the scorn of readers, who say they find the ads' multiplying images annoying. iVillage, a network of Web sites for women, says it is heeding its readers' complaints and plans to eliminate most pop-up advertising by Sept. 30, 2002 on all its sites. (July 29, 2002)
Conducted on the Personneltoday.com website during May 2002 among 544 personnel managers and officers employing an average of 2,500 staff. An analysis of the results was carried out by NSM research company. [PDF] (July, 2002)
