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Search FAU Library's Online Catalog for Books

Interesting Books

Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything. Tapscott, Don, 2006.   

Call Number: HD69.S8 T37 2006, Boca Campus

 

Active learning through drama, podcasting and puppetry. Fontichiaro, Kristin, 2007.   

Call Number: LB1537 .F64 2007, Jupiter Campus
 

The state of play : law, games, and virtual worlds. Balkin, Jack M. and Beth Simone Noveck, 2006.

Call Number: K3705.V53 S73 2006, Boca Campus

Hypermedia learning environments : instructional design and integration. Kommers, Piet A.M., Scott Grabinger, and Joanna C. Dunlap, 1996.
Call Number: LB1028.55 .H96 1996, Jupiter Campus

Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media. Tremayne, Mark, 2007.
Call Number: Electronic Resource, just click on link.

Selected Library Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  
  Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.

• Elsevier Science Direct
  1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines (Group-wide login is no longer necessary to access this database).

• InfoTrac OneFile  
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

• INSPEC  
  Includes Physics Abstracts, Computer and Control Abstracts, and Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. The largest English language file of bibliographic information and abstracts on the world's output of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings. Includes some books, reports, and dissertations.

• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

• Proquest Dissertations and Theses
  Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

• WorldCat
  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 48 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.

• Google Scholar
  Why?  Because A LOT of information on new media is not in academic journals yet.  I wouldn't use just Google, unless you are looking for primary source materials on a particular group or product.

Selected Websites

Organizations

The New Media Consortium: http://www.nmc.org/

Games for Change: http://www.gamesforchange.org/

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

Pew Internet and American Life Project: http://www.pewinternet.org

Center for the Digital Future: http://www.digitalcenter.org/

Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design: http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/

Reports

Pew Internet and American Life Project Reports: http://www.pewinternet.org/reports.asp

The Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/horizon/

Uncovering the social impacts of Facebook on a college campus by Vanden Boogart, and Matthew Robert: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/181

Publishing the Future:  Scholarly Communication in an Information Age:  Conference 2003: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ScholCom/111103archive.htm

Other Interesting Sites:

New Media Expo Conference Site: http://www.newmediaexpo.com/conference.htm

Second Life Herald: http://www.secondlifeherald.com/

Second life Metaverse Messenger: The Metaverse Messenger - Secondlife News Newspaper

3D hyperbolic graphs of the Internet Topology: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/topology.html

BlogPulse Trend Search: http://www.blogpulse.com/trend

The Chronicle of Higher Education:  The Wired Campus Blog:  http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/

The Dead Media Project: http://www.deadmedia.org/

Internet Archive WayBack Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Multimedia Professor Ed Lamoureux's personal list of links:  http://com.bradley.edu/faculty/lamoureux/website2/netbooks.html

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