Subject guides: Digital Cultures: Articles & more

Scholarly Web Links

Australia Council for the Arts
Research reports, toolkits, how-to-guides, annual reports, multimedia material, and more. Subjects include Audience and cultural participation, Community Arts, Arts sector, Creative industries, Management etc
First Monday
First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.
NMEDIAC: the Journal of New Media and Culture
A peer reviewed online journal devoted to the discourses, ideologies and uses of new media technologies.
Journal of virtual worlds research
An open access peer-reviewed academic journal. Articles are free, and are offered as PDF files. Themed issues such as: 'Virtual Worlds Research, Past, Present & Future'; 'Consumer Behavior in Virtual Worlds'; and a call for the third issue on the 'Culture of Virtual Worlds'.
Digital Culture & Education
DCE is an international inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal. The journal is devoted to analysing the impact of digital culture on identity, education, art, society, culture and narrative within social, political, economic, cultural and historical contexts.
The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)
A web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its focus is social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies.
Fibreculture journal
Online academic journal out of Australia about the politics and culture of information technology and new media
Fast Capitalism
An academic journal publishing reviewed scholarship and essays about the impact of rapid information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in the 21st century.
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The free academic journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association which studies videogames. The journal provides immediate open access to its content but will sometimes require you to login with a username and password.
Space and culture : international journal of social spaces
An interdisciplinary journal covering many subject areas.

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Subject areas: cultural geography, sociology, cultural studies, architectural theory, ethnography, communications, urban studies, environmental studies and discourse analysis. Space and Culture explores and critiques everyday life in contemporary cities, environment and new media

Other Web Links

Webopedia Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions
Currents in electronic literacy (to 2015)
A free full-text ejournal published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The aim of the ejournal was to "promote and organize the discourse of electronic literacy by reviewing and assessing the present state of the field".
Digital Games Research Association digital library
DiGRA is the association for academics and professionals who research digital games and associated phenomena. It encourages high-quality research on games, and promotes collaboration and dissemination of work by its members.
Slashdot
"News for nerds": breaking stories about the computer industry, the software industry, telecommunications and the Internet.
Wired
The leading, mass market consumer magazine devoted to the new communication technologies and the digital revolution.
Animation World Network
International Journal for Digital Art History
The annual peer reviewed journal seeks to gather current developments in the field of Digital Art History world-wide and to foster discourse on the subject both from Art History and Information Science.
Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet
A unique full-text ejournal, examining new and old religions and rituals as they are expressed on the Internet.

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Some issues are themed: 'Being Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies Perspective'; 'Special Issue on Theory and Methodology'; and 'Special Issue on Rituals on the Internet'. Articles are available as abstracts, and as full-text PDF files. The journal is published from Germany, but is published in English. Example article titles include: 'Virtual Religion : An Approach to a Religious and Ritual Topography of Second Life'; 'Communicating Spiritual Experience with Video Game Technology'; 'Discovering the Invisible Internet : Methodological Aspects of Searching Religion on the Internet'; and 'Authority in the Virtual Sangat : Sikhism, Ritual and Identity in the Twenty-First Century', among many others.
Netdiver
A links page for new media art and artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers, netdiver calls itself a "design + digital culture magazine that uncovers, reviews and publishes outstanding work by the international design community".

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The emphasis is on commercial applications of digital and new media, but these are contemporary and fresh. As well as covering the latest design news and issues, the magazine has a section containing uploaded portfolios. The 'Toolbox' section has links to useful software as well as other garphic and design resources and sites of interest.