Study - Groups - Computer-Mediated Communication Information Sources

Organizations and institutions studying computer-mediated communication

• AIMS: Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies; a cross-disciplinary experience for students of all majors to merge digital theory and development with their respective areas of interest; at Miami University of Ohio
• AoIR: Association of Internet Researchers; international association for students and scholars in any discipline in the field of of Internet studies
• Berkman Ctr: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School; aims to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions
• C2i2: Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at the Univeristy of California--Los Angeles; an interdisciplinary research center examining technology, racial and economic justice, and technology; works to strengthen democracy through culture-making and public policy work; home to the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power
• CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship; service for scholars involved in human communication research
• Communication: Communication organizations; involved in the study of human communication
• CMC RG: Computer Mediated Communication Research Group; studies the science of how computer networks can make people cooperate; Stockholm University and KTH Technical University, Sweden
• CNI: Coalition for Networked Information; supports the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity
• CRA: Computing Research Association; an association of academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies
• Kling Ctr: Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics; School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; dedicated to support research into information technology and social change; Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization
• MIT Comm Forum: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Communications Forum; an ongoing conversation about emerging communications technologies
• NMC: New Media Consortium; brings forward-thinking learning organizations and high-tech companies to collaborate
• Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute ; multidisciplinary, based at Oxford, studies the impact of the Internet on society; debates about how the Internet could and should develop
• Pew: The Pew Internet & American Life Project; researches the impact of the Internet on people, communities, the workplace and civic life
• Stanford Ctr: Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society; studies the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry; part of the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford
• TCFIR: The Center for Internet Research; a transdisciplinary research organization investigating Internet technology and human experience; information technology, computer science, humanities, ethics, psychology, commerce, politics, public policy, anthropology, semiotics, sociology, andragogy, and pedagogy

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