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European Research

Media@LSE, LSE Its members are involved in a range of projects covering the themes of ICTs and Democracy, the Digital Economy, Literacies, Cultural and Community and Ethics. Specific research areas have included political communication, new media regulation and governance, electronic commerce, digital divides, Internet literacy, media and minorities, young people and media environments, mobile telephony, media user networks, IT and civic space and surveillance, security and privacy.

Digital World, Surrey The Surry centre has conducted research on mobile telephony amongst other things

CRIC, Manchester This is an ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition. Although many of the publications focus on firms, some focus on consumption, the home and topics such as e-Commerce.

Research Centre for Social Sciences, Edinburgh This centre is known for its work on the social shaping of technology. There is a publication list for this field at http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/technology/SSICTref.html

EMTEL The 'European Media Technology and Everyday Life’ network is an EC funded network. It first existed from 1996-1999, when 6 biannual meetings on different themes each led to EMTEL working papers. In its new form (funded 2001-4), the 6 partners are each conducting research on different themes.

HOIT The Home Orientated informatics and Telematics network has so far organised 3 conferences, in 1998 (Amsterdam), 1994 (Copenhagen) and 2000 (Wolverhampton).

Designing the User This is the web-site of two German historians of technology which has the details of a network of people interested in the consumption of 20th Century technology as well a report on a workshop organised in December 2001

Telenor publications This site contains Telenor’s research publications, including Richard Ling’s papers. Many are in English and downloadable.

e-Living e-Living is an EC project involving a longitudinal survey of ICTs in Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway and the UK. The group has also published a state-of-the-art review.

Digiplay Intiaitve This is a site dedicated to research on computer games, gamers and the gaming industry, organised by the Centre for Research inInnovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester and the Department of Psychology at the University for Central Lancashire.

North American institutions and programmes

Pew Internet and American Life Project This site has downloadable reports that have analysed a US database on Internet use.

The HomeNet Project

Centre for Communication Policy Internet Study, UCLA This site has downloadable reports that have analysed a US database on Internet use.

Stanford Institute for the Quantitative study of Society (SIQSS) Internet and Society study This site has a downloadable report that has analysed a US database on Internet use.

Barry Wellam Homepage This site provides many downloadable papers from the work of Barry Wellman and colleagues on social networks and computer networks/the Internet as well as other topics such as the Digital Divide.

Resource Centre for CerculturalStudies Since 1997 the RCCS has been publishing detailed book reviews in this field - now averaging several per month.

Silicon Valley Culture Project This site relates to 15 years of ethnographic studies in the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of SiliconValley.

NOAH project The 'National Outlook for Automation in the Home' project is organised by Alladi Venkatesh and this site lists the publications that can be downloaded.

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