The course reading list includes articles which are available online (in some cases only online).   The following are additional resources relevant to the themes of the course which you may find useful.  If you know or come across other sites and resources please email to the digimediama email group.

Check our own Media Studies web guide at:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/CULCOM/Digimedia/mediawebsites.htm

The Library also has as subject resource and many online journals and bibliographies as well as the books, periodicals and audio-visual collection: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library

The Centre for Cybercultural Studies provides book reviews, bibliographies, syllabi and other resources: http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/

If you feel you need help with the technology or terminology of new media, then there are a number of good websites which are useful.

Whatis?com (http://whatis.techtarget.com/) is a huge database of explanations of technical terms, with hyperlinks to useful articles, websites and news items.  For example, if you came across the expression ëTiVOí and are not sure what it is you can type it into the search feature and get back a concise explanation together with a link to a product review which leads on to information on Replay TV and Ultimate TV ­ two other kinds of Personal Video Recorder.

Webopedia (http://www.webopedia.com/)  is a similar service, but better on computer-related terminology than broader media.  It also has links to related topics.

A rich collection of articles explaining all kinds of technologies is How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/)

The Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia (http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/articles.html) has longer articles for more in-depth treatment, biographies of key individuals and company profiles.

FirstMonday is a peer reviewed journal with a great deal of useful material for this course.  Check out the article index at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/articleindex.html

The Convergence Center at Syracuse University has published some reports on digital convergence.
http://dcc.syr.edu/report.htm

Article on Creating Convergence by Peter Forman and Robert Saint John
http://www.augsburg.edu/ppages/~tanboonj/finalweb/page1.htm#
or
http://www.sciam.com/2000/1100issue/1100stjohn.html

Digital America
http://www.ce.org/digitalamerica/default.asp
A site provided by the US Consumer Electronics Association which contains product and technology overviews with an extremely useful History section.

A view of convergence from the advertisersí point of view:
http://www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/spring_01/adv391k/hjy/adv391k/1st_seminar/introduction.html

Marshall Soules on Digital Convergence
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/media113/converge.htm

Media Visions Journal
A web magazine by media journalist Ken Freed
http://www.media-visions.com/

The Register ­ an online journal for IT professionals
http://www.theregister.co.uk/

E-media ­ interesting article on convergence and the future of media from an Australian viewpoint.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/emedia1/default.htm

Samís Digital Television Report is a comprehensive account of the development of digital TV and a sharp critique of what has been happening in the USA.
http://www.teleport.com/~samc/hdtv/

Center for the Study of Technology and Society, Convergence Web Site.  This is one of the best places to get an overview and up to date information about digital convergence.
http://www.tecsoc.org/convergence/convergence.htm

DTI/CMS White Paper on A New Future for Communications
http://www.communicationswhitepaper.gov.uk/

BBC website on the Communications Revolution
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/revolution/index.shtml

Bibliographies

A comprehensive bibliography on the Internet is at
http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/intbib.htm 

Another useful bibliography on the Internet is at
http://www.webpan.com/msauers/bibliography.html

This is a huge bibliography on New Media, but there does not seem to be much published after 1997
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/bib/biba-d.htm#A
 

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