Relevant Periodicals: Selected Articles from 1993-97*

Yes, this page needs updating -- I hope to get to it soon

(listed by title -- those bulleted are required)

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Boardwatch *

Oldest Net magazine with roots in the hacker subculture, includes "Legally Online," a monthly column by Lance Rose

Business Week

Popular weekly with excellent coverage of Information Age commerce and merchandising

Chronicle of Higher Education

Academe This Week provides one-sentence summaries of articles in the current issue, strong coverage on issues involved with computer-aided instruction and technology as a pedagogical tool

c|net * (The Computer Network)

Advertiser-supported newsmagazine in both the publishing and broadcasting sense, c|net combines media with a Webbish communal spin, running topical features such as "Future of the Net," Dec. 14, 1995, with 26 contributions from visionaries including Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and maybe you, since users can leave comments in formats of their own choosing, download cool shareware, and more -- audio and video clips generally are available as well

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine

Interdisciplinary and well-regarded CMC e-zine published and edited by John December -- see "Wizards, Toads, and Ethics: Reflections of a MOO Administrator," by Wes Cooper, Jan. 1, 1996 (as well as the entire Jan. Issue on free speech and the Net), and "The Ethics of Web Site Engineering," by Chris MacDonald, July 1, 1995

Cyberwire Dispatch

Current hard-hitting articles by Brock N. Meeks on issues related to this course (e.g., Exon Bill, cyberporn, terrorism) -- Meeks also writes Muckraker, a biweekly column for HotWired: see "It Ain't Over Till It's Over," Dec. 25, 1995, on the Internet Day of Protest (see also "Impassioned Cyber-Journalist Writes It -- And Publishes It -- His Way," by Elizabeth Weise)

Economist

Respected British business and finance magazine with a global perspective, takes a long view on technology and Information Age ventures -- see The Accidental Superhighway: A Survey of the Internet, in particular "Lawless: Too Many Loopholes in the Net?", July 1, 1995

Information Society

Multidisciplinary refereed journal "concerned with the effects of the information revolution on individuals, organizations, and society," published quarterly

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Online academic journal with special issues on CMC topics -- see the special issue, Communication and the Design of Virtual Environments, currently being edited by Frank Biocca and I

Journal of New Media: Technology, Society, Culture

New journal coming in mid-1996 that will combine social science, cultural studies, and public policy perspectives on new information and communication technologies and media

Journals Page

From Voice of the Shuttle, includes scholarly, general arts and culture, and computer-related periodicals and cyberzines

New Yorker [reserve]

Venerable weekly that periodically includes first-person accounts by John Seabrook that capture the zeitgeist of communicating today -- Seabrook currently is on sabbatical, writing about his online adventures

New York Times *

All the news that's fit to digitize: see CyberTimes -- see also the New York Times Syndicate, with Computer News Daily, and features and columns, including Bill Gates's bimonthly column

Postmodern Culture

Published since 1990, "an electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism" from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at UVA, along with CTheory, the leading technoculture scholarly journal -- see PMC's Related Links

Presence

MIT quarterly that appeals to "mechanical and electrical engineers concerned with teleoperators; computer scientists, high-tech artists, media people, and others interested in virtual environments; and psychologists involved in the study of human-machine interfaces and sensorimotor / cognitive behavior"

Release 1.0

Widely read industry newsletter published by EFF chair, Esther Dyson -- see "Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age," manifesto by Dyson, Gilder, George Keyworth, and Toffler, Aug. 22, 1994 (see also an interview with Dyson, who was voted 1995 Netizen of the Year by the Global Network Navigator, Nov. 1995)

Speed

Hip new journal from the art studio department of UC Santa Barbara on technology, media, and society, with special issues on interdisciplinary topics, oriented toward popular culture and theories of the visual

Technology Review

Published at MIT, bimonthly journal on technology, engineering, and public policy that looks seriously at its socio-economic use -- in addition to the current, Jan. 1996 issue, which has a number of interesting articles relevant to this course, see, for example, "Law and Order Comes to Cyberspace," by Edwin Diamond and Stephen Bates, Oct. 1995 (a particularly nice feature is that the articles are hyperlinked to additional relevant sources of information)

Tech Web

From CMP Publications, which includes many of the leading trade magazines, such as Communication Week, Interactive Age, and Windows Magazine

Time * and Newsweek

These popular news weeklies cover the Middle American version of cyberculture, often taking strange turns, such as Time's controversial Cyberporn issue, July 3, 1995 (see HotWired's Interview with Elmer-DeWitt, July 4, 1995) -- Pathfinder, Time Warner's site, is running a regularly updated page, The Net Protests Against Online Censorship, with links to articles and resources on cyber censorship, including a handy Protest-O-Matic, perfect for deskbound revolutionaries

Newsweek was slightly ahead of the curve, distributing news on CD-ROM since 1993 (see Newsweek InterActive) -- with ABC News and parent company, the Washington Post, Newsweek is now providing ElectionLine

Vanity Fair [reserve]

Glossy monthly lifestyle magazine regularly runs lengthy features on the celebrities making headlines and players behind the scenes of the recent infotainment mergers

VRML World

Formerly VR World, this weekly MecklerMedia publication covers "VR-related, 3D interactive virtual worlds on the Internet" -- see their coverage of the Fall Virtual Reality World '95 Conference and Exhibition, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 1995

Wall Street Journal

Leading business and finance daily offers a number of online services, including Walt Mossberg's Personal Technology column

Web Review *

Bimonthly launched in July 1995 by GNN with good reporting on Web topics, seems calm in comparison with Wired -- see "Java, Java, Java: Is It the Future or the End?," Nov. 22, 1995 (and for a rebuttal, see "New Simpler Java Script Program To Help Web Builders," Dec. 2, 1995, article in the NYT Syndicate) -- see also MecklerMedia's WebWeek

Wired *

Essential guide to cyberculture, the archives of which can be accessed through HotWired, although if you bypass the splashy graphics of the print version you partly miss the point -- see the back page, which features a monthly e-mail message from Nicholas Negroponte, collected into Being Digital (1995) -- see also Scenarios: The Future of the Future, Fall 1995

Ziff-Davis Publishing

Many popular user magazines, such as MacWeek, PC Magazine, and Windows, can be accessed here -- see their updated list of the Top 100 Web Sites

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