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| Center for Digital Democracy | ||
| The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) is "dedicated to ensuring that the public interest is a fundamental part of the new digital communications landscape. From open broadband networks, to free or low-cost universal Internet access, to diverse ownership of new media outlets, to privacy and other consumer safeguards, CDD works to promote an electronic media system that fosters democratic expression and human rights. A national, not-for-profit group based in Washington, D.C., CDD is on the cutting edge of new media developments, especially tracking the commercial media market. Through outreach to the press, policymakers, reports, blogs, investigative research and organizing, CDD plays a unique and pivotal role helping foster the development of sustainable online communities and services essential to civil society in the 21st Century." ( http://www.democraticmedia.org/ ) | ||
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| The Complete Review | ||
| This site covers over 1,430 titles, including editors' picks and bestsellers lists. It links to dozens of literary blogs, and the Review Index lets visitors search for books by author, title, genre, and nationality. The site provides its own reviews and links to read reviews published elsewhere. Other features include basic information about authors, recommendations to books similar to those being reviewed, and summaries of reviews. ( http://www.complete-review.com/main/absite.html ) | ||
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| Internet Archive | ||
| The Archive is a non-profit organization "that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format [it] includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages." One of its most interesting features is the "Wayback Machine," which provides links to older versions of a webpage. This is very useful for researchers. ( http://www.archive.org/index.php ) | ||
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| Knowledge Ecology Studies | ||
| "KEStudies is an online publication that focuses on the creation, dissemination and access to knowledge goods. It is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on a number of specialties: sciences, technologies, public policies, the laws of intellectual property, business, free speech and privacy, telecommunications and other related knowledge disciplines." It offers interviews, articles, and commentaries, as well as a searchable archive of past issues. ( http://www.kestudies.org/ojs/index.php/kes ) | ||
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| Living Internet | ||
| "This site is a free, in-depth reference about the Internet originally written from 1996 through 1999, posted on the Web on January 7, 2000, and last updated January 30, 2009. It includes more than 700 pages, receives more than 100,000 visitors a month, and has benefited from the review and input of many of the people that helped build the Internet." ( http://www.livinginternet.com/ ) | ||
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| The Museum of Online Museums | ||
| Coudal Partners is a design, advertising and interactive studio in Chicago, and it created the Museum of Online Museums "as an ongoing experiment in web publishing, design and commerce. At the Museum, visitors will find links to online collections and exhibits covering "a vast array of interests and obsessions." They can "start with a review of classic art and architecture, and graduate to the study of mundane (and sometimes bizarre) objects elevated to art by their numbers, juxtaposition, or passion of the collector." The MoOM is organized into three sections. "The Museum Campus contains links to brick-and-mortar museums with an interesting online presence . . . The Permanent Collection displays links to exhibits of particular interest to design and advertising," and "Galleries, Exhibition, and Shows is an eclectic and ever-changing list of interesting links to collections and galleries, most of them hosted on personal web pages." ( http://www.coudal.com/moom.php ) | ||
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| New York Public Library's Digital Gallery | ||
| "This website helps to fulfill the traditional mission of The New York Public Library to select, collect, preserve and make accessible 'the accumulated wisdom of the world, without distinction as to income, religion, nationality, or other human condition.' It offers broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents that 'enable individuals to pursue learning at their own personal levels of interest, preparation, ability and desire, and help ensure the free trade in ideas and the right of dissent.’" The collection includes "rare prints, vintage maps, manuscripts, posters, photographs, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, menus, cigarette cards and other artifacts. There are more than 300,000 digital images of original materials available for viewing. Access is free, and you can download images to your computer for personal or research use. The My Digital page will store your favorite discoveries along with your search history." ( http://digitalgallery.nypl.org ) | ||
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| The Pew Internet and American Life Project | ||
| "The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan 'fact tank' that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does so by conducting public opinion polling and social science research; by reporting news and analyzing news coverage; and by holding forums and briefings. It does not take positions on policy issues." The Pew Internet and American Life Project "reports on impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life." ( http://www.pewinternet.org/ ) | ||
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| Pew Research Center Topics: Publications on Internet and Technology | ||
| This section of the Pew Research Center's online offerings provides selected Pew Research Center reports from 2005 on "on the social and political impact of the internet and other technology trends." ( http://pewresearch.org/topics/internetandtechnology/ ) | ||
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| Podcast Bunker | ||
| The Podcast Bunlker promises visitors that it "evaluates each feed for audio quality and content and only lists the best stuff" and describes itself as "the Web's best source of talk radio for your iPod. Features include the "Top Twenty Podcasts" of the week, local news podcasts, podcasting tips and tools, technology news, and even weather podcasts. It has a "Quick Guide" for a full list of recommended programs and thirty-second previews. ( http://www.podcastbunker.com/ ) | ||
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| SavetheInternet.com | ||
| This is the web site for a coalition of "more than a million everyday people who have banded together with thousands of non-profit organizations, businesses and bloggers to protect Internet freedom. The Coalition believes that the Internet is a crucial engine for economic growth and free speech. We are working together to urge Congress to preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet, which ensures that the Internet remains open to new ideas, innovation and progress. . . . [we are] working together to ensure that Congress passes no telecommunications legislation without meaningful and enforceable Network Neutrality protections.'” ( http://www.savetheinternet.com ) | ||
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| Webby Awards | ||
| "The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities." ( http://www.webbyawards.com/ ) | ||
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| FilmsDocumentaries | ||
| Hacking Democracy (2006) | ||
| Nominated for an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism, this HBO-produced documentary explores electronic voting industry, focusing on the Diebold corporation. "Ultimately proving our votes can be stolen without a trace, Hacking Democracy culminates in the famous 'Hursti Hack'; a duel between the Diebold voting machines and a computer hacker from Finland--with America's democracy at stake." ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/ ) | ||
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| Feature Films | ||
| Hackers (1995) | ||
| A child prodigy computer genius and hacker is arrested by the United States Secret Service for writing a computer virus. He is convicted and banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. When he finally gets on the Net again, he comes across a corporate computer expert 's sinister plot to unleash a truly dangerous computer virus that could destroy the economy. He and his teenage hacker friends must use their talents to stop him, all the while avoiding being caught by either Secret Service agents or the evil computer genius. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ ) | ||
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| Jumpin' Jack Flash (1996) | ||
| Whoopi Golberg plays Terry, a bank employee who uses the Internet to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she intercepts a coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, she finds that it is from a British agent trapped in Eastern Europe. Unable to communicate with anyone else, the agent relies on Terry to outmaneuver both the CIA and the KGB to foil and international plot and save his life. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091306/ ) | ||
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| The Matrix (1999) | ||
| In the Twenty-Second Century, a computer hacker joins a group of cyber-guerilla fighters who are battling the powerful, all-encompassing computer network that controls the Earth, unknown to the human beings whose minds are trapped in a massive computer simulation as they dream that they are free and supply the computers with their energy. This is the first film of a trilogy. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ ) | ||
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| The Net (1995) | ||
| A shy, reclusive computer expert is victimized by cyber-forces who steal her identity for reasons she can't at first figure out. Then she discovers a terrorist organization that has been hacking into the nation's computer systems and conducting major terrorist attacks. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/ ) | ||
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| War Games (1983) | ||
| A teenage computer genius uses the Internet to hack into what turns out to be the Pentagon's defense system. He inadvertently connects into a top-secret super-computer that controls the entire American nuclear arsenal nuclear, when its challenges him to what believes to be a game between America and Russia, he starts the countdown to missile launches. The Pentagon's experts are unable to convince the computer that it is just a game, and the boy must find the computer's creator. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/ ) | ||
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| You've Got Mail (1998) | ||
| A romantic comedy about two business rivals who loathe each other but, unwittingly, fall in love over the Internet. This movie used the trend of people searching for intimacy on the Internet to update the plot of a classic film made in 1940, The Shop around the Corner, about two employees in a Budapest store who hate each other but who, unaware, are secret pen pals. As pen pals, they find themselves falling in love. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/ ) | ||
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