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Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute

A burgeoning number of researchers are focusing on the network of networks called the Internet and its social, political and economic aspects. A virtual network of centres for Internet research is emerging as well, which includes units with a variety of perspectives on Internet studies. The following list provides general categories of centres with illustrations of each. Comments on the categories and suggestions of centres that should be included or excluded should be directed to Bill Dutton at Director at oii.ox.ac.uk

1. Internet Studies (research on the social economic and political aspects of information and communication technologies, such as the Internet)

Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S), University of Salzburg www.icts.sbg.ac.at

Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington http://www.cis.washington.edu/index.html

Digital World Research Centre (DWRC), School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey http://www.dwrc.surrey.ac.uk/

e-Horizons Institute, a virtual centre linking the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) at the University of Oxford Internet Institute http://www.e-horizons.ox.ac.uk/

Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Open University of Catalonia http://www.uoc.edu/in3/eng/index.html

Netvision Institute for Internet Studies, Tel Aviv University www.niis.tau.ac.il

Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford www.oii.ox.ac.uk

Singapore Internet Research Center, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/

Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) a collaboration of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton www.webscience.org

2. Centres anchored in studies of the Information Society, Social Informatics, including:

Center for the Study of the Information Society (InfoSoc), University of Haifa http://infosoc.haifa.ac.il/main_eng.htm

Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (Ciber), University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber.php

Center for Research on Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University of California, Irvine http://www.crito.uci.edu/

Interdisciplinary Informatics Hub (IIH) in the Science and Engineering faculty at Queen Mary, University of London http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk [Launched in January 2007]

Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, a virtual centre linking researchers across several departments at Indiana University

School of Information, University of Michigan http://www.si.umich.edu/

Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of Sociology, University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/

3. Centres more focused on Internet Law, Policy and Regulation, such as:

Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/

Center for Information Policy, College of Information Studies University of Maryland http://cip.umd.edu/

Information Society Project at Yale Law School

Media Center, New York Law School http://www.nyls.edu/pages/107.asp

Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/samuelson/

Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

4. Centres anchored in Telecommunication, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, with major interest in the Internet, such as:

Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California http://www.annenberg.edu/

Annenberg School for Communication at USC http://ascweb.usc.edu/home.php

Centre for Society, Technology and the Media (STeM), based in the School of Communication at the Dublin City University http://www.stem.dcu.ie/

Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University www.citi.columbia.edu

Media and Communication Department, LSE (Media @ LSE) http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/Default.htm

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) http://rccs.usfca.edu/

Sarai, Delhi, India http://www.sarai.net/

5. Centres more focused on Studies of Science, Technology and Society, including ICTs, such as:

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Emerging Technologies (CITE), University of Montreal, Canada www.cite.umontreal.ca

James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization (JMI), Said Business School, University of Oxford http://www.martininstitute.ox.ac.uk/jmi/

Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET) at MIT http://poet.mit.edu

6. Centres more focused on Application Areas, such as Learning and Education or Government, such as:

Futurelab, UK http://www.futurelab.org.uk/

Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York www.wtg.albany.edu

7. Centres more focused on Human Computer Interaction, such as:

Augmented Human Interaction (AHI) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/ahi/

8. Centres more focused on Technology, Standards and Innovations

Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science (CRI), http://cri.haifa.ac.il/

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calt2) http://www.calit2.net/

Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), UC Davis

Center for Internet Research at ICIR, Berkeley http://www.icir.org/

MIT Media Lab

MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence
http://itel.mit.edu/

Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), Oxford University Computer Laboratory http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/

9. Networks and Integrated Projects involving Individual Researchers and Centres, including:

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, (CCi), Australia. www.cci.edu.au

Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org/

Communications Innovation Institute, Cambridge-MIT Institute funded interdisciplinary collaboration between Engineering, Computer Science, Policy Study, Management Science and Economics departments at MIT, Cambridge, UCL and BT Research

e-Society Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council, which is coordinated at the University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/res/e-society/

European Network for Communication and Information Perspectives (ENCIP) http://www.encip.org/

National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) links projects and centres focusing on the role of advanced Internet and Grid technologies in research, and is centred at the University of Manchester http://www.ncess.ac.uk/

The Surveillance Project at Queensland University, Canada www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/

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