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There is a vast array of materials available on the web which will be of interest to students. I've collected a number of relevant links (by no means exhaustive) and listed them by categories below. If students have suggestions for additional links, please send them to me via e-mail.

This page was last updated on August 1, 1999.

Introduction to the Internet

Tour of the Internet
http://whatis.com/tour.htm

Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

History of the Internet
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml
http://members.magnet.at/dmayr/history.htm

Future of the Internet
http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1998/swol-04-internet2.html
http://www.internet2.edu/
http://www.ngi.gov/

 

Virtual Communities

Some places to start finding a virtual community
http://www.well.com/
http://clubs.yahoo.com/

On-line book on virtual communities
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

 

Electronic Commerce

A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce ‚ Report to President
http://www.iitf.nist.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm

Taxing the Net
http://www.techreview.com/articles/mj96/newman.html
http://www.house.gov/chriscox/nettax/

General
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Electronic_Commerce/

 

Privacy Issues

General
http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/
http://www.well.com/user/abacard/privacy.html
http://www.pff.org:80/encry.html
http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/%7Edenning/crypto/Future.html

Privacy "Test"
http://www.consumer.net/Analyze/

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/pgp.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~rjswan/pgp/
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html

Anti-Spam Campaigns
http://www.cauce.org/
http://www.ao.net/waytosuccess/nospam.html

Junk Email Defense
http://www.junkemail.org/
http://www.ultranet.com/~gmcgath/selfdefense.html

Intel's New Threat to Privacy
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/

 

Censorship and Sex on the Internet

General Commentaries
http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Internet_Decency_Debate/
http://www.spectacle.org/freespch/
http://metalab.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1995/aug/schmeiser.html

Sexual Addiction
http://www.sexaddictionhelp.com/general.html
http://www.sca-recovery.org/

"Kitty Porn" Page (Humor)
http://www.west-teq.net/~blainel/kitties/

 

Access to the Internet

Govt Report on Access Problems
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fallingthru.html

Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use
http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/race/science.html

Other Commentaries
http://www.bionomics.org/text/resource/articles/universal_disservice.html

http://www.benton.org/Library/Low-Income/

 

Gambling on the Internet

Legal Issues
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Gambling/Internet_Gambling/Legal_Issues/

FAQ
http://www.netbet.org/faq.html

 

Organizations Related to Virtual Politics


Electronic Privacy Information Center
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Center for Democracy and Technology
American Civil Liberties Union

These pages are relevant for the Spring 1999 semester.
Any questions or problems with these pages should be sent to Professor H.

Topics:
•Introduction
•Virtual
  Communities

•E-Commerce
•Privacy
•Censorship
  & Sex

•Access
•Gambling
•Organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       
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