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Selected Reference Resources for Technology & Culture (2nd Floor)

Reference materials provide quick answers on a variety of subjects. The UNF Library's Reference Collection should have specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks for nearly any subject you want to cover. The following materials are particularly useful for gathering information on technology and society. You should also use the library's catalog to search for more specific areas. For example, if you are looking into the impact technology has had on social interaction, try looking for the keywords "technology" and "social interaction" in the WebLUIS advanced search screen. You can also limit the search to the Reference Collection by choosing Reference from the Location pull-down option.

Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Q125.A765 1994

Berinstein, Paula. Statistical Handbook on Technology. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999.
T21.B47 1999

Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
QH332.C66 2001

Cutting Edge: an Encyclopedia of Advanced Technologies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
T9.C96 2000

Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001.
QA76.15.D5258 2001

Durbin, Paul T. Dictionary of Concepts in the Philosophy of Science. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Q174.7.D87 1988

Erb, Uwe. Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2001.
Q179.E64 2001

Hall, Carl W. Laws and Models: Science, Engineering, and Technology. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2000.
Q40.H35 1999

Hurt, Charlie Deuel. Information Sources in Science and Technology. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
Q158.5.H87 1998

International Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Q121.S34 2000

Macaulay, David. New Way Things Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
T47.M18 1998

Newton, David E. Social Issues in Science and Technology: an Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
Q175.5.N49 1999

Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000-2001.
Q175.46.S35 2000

Sebastian, Anton. Dictionary of the History of Science. New York: Parthenon Publishing Group, 2001.
Q124.8.S43 2001

Volti, Rudi. Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
Q121.V65 1999

Selected Recent Books on Information Studies & Information Technology (3rd & 4th Floors)

Calcutt, Andrew. White Noise: an A-Z of the Contradictions of Cyberculture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
QA76.9.C66C33 1999 3rd Floor

Cavallaro, Dani. Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson. London: Athlone Press, 2000.
PS3557.I2264Z64 2000 4th Floor

Children, Technology, and Culture: the Impacts of Technologies in Children's Everyday Lives. London: Routledge/Falmer, 2001.
T47.C45 2001 3rd Floor

Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
HM851.C85 2001 4th Floor

Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
ZA3250.U6C93 1996 3rd Floor

Dery, Mark. Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. New York: Grove Press, 1996.
QA76.9.C66D47 1996 3rd Floor

Emerging Cyberculture: Literacy, Paradigm, and Paradox. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000.
QA76.9.C66E44 2000 3rd Floor

Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
N72.T4I48 1996 4th Floor

Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997.
T58.5.J64 1997 3rd Floor

Lienhard, John H. Engines of Our Ingenuity: an Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
T14.5.L52 2000 3rd Floor

Michael, Mike. Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity. London: Routledge, 2000.
HM846.M53 2000 4th Floor

Morse, Margaret. Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
HM258.M689 1998 4th Floor

Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology. Bloomington: Indiana Unviersity Press, 1998.
HQ1075.S475 1998 4th Floor

Social Learning from Broadcast Television. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1998.
HQ784.T4S63 1998 4th Floor

Technology and American History: a Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
T21.T426 1997 3rd Floor

Technoscience and Cyberculture. New York: Routledge, 1996.
T14.5.T4464 1996 3rd Floor

Tofts, Darren John. Memory Trade: a Prehistory of Cyberculture. North Ryde, N.S.W.: Interface, 1998.
HM851 .T65 1998 4th Floor

Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture, and Change. London: Routledge, 1999.
HM221.V32 1999

Web.studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age. London: Arnold, 2000.
P94.6.W43 2000

Women@Internet: Creating New Cutlures in Cyberspace. London: Zed Books, 1999.
HQ1178 .W67 1999 4th Floor

Wood, Andrew F. Online Communication: Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
HM851.W66 2001

Research Databases - Find articles in journals, magazines, etc.

The following are just a few of the indexes that will cover articles dealing with technology and culture. Depending on the focus of your project, other indexes and databases may also provide valuable sources. For example, if you were trying to examine whether participation in chat rooms can become addicting, you might very well find a psychology index or database useful. If you wanted to investigate technology in its social context you might want to use a sociology research database. In short, go into the project with the idea that no one source will give you all the answers and then review the Library's database list for good candidates. Please note: To use the online databases listed below from off campus, you must first log in using your library number (listed at the bottom right corner of your Osprey card). To enable off campus access and return to this page, click here.

Applied Science & Technology Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Communication Abstracts P87 .C59733 (Index/Abstract)
Library Literature (WilsonWeb)
Omnifile Full Text Mega (WilsonWeb)
Readers Guide to Periodical Literature AI3.R48 (Index/Abstract)
Readers Guide Full Text
Research Library (ProQuest)
Science Direct

INTERNET SITES

Following are selected Web resources available on the World Wide Web. You will find many other sources by doing a search in one or more of the major search engines. Please remember, though, to carefully evaluate materials you retrieve on the Web. Materials may or may not be authoritative.

Art | Technology | Culture. Available: http://digitalmedia.upd.edu.ph/digiteer/index2.html

Center for Democracy and Technology. Available: http://www.cdt.org/

CTHEORY, an International Journal of Technology, and Culture. Available: http://www.ctheory.net/home.aspx

Cyberculture: An Electronic Forum for the Discussion of the Implications of Subjectivity and Community in Cyberspace. Available: http://cyberculture.zacha.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Available: http://www.eff.org/

MIT. Invention Dimension. Available: http://web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html

Technology and Culture. Available: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/

Technology and Culture Forum at MIT. Available: http://web.mit.edu/tac/

Voice of the Shuttle. Cyberculture. Available: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2710

Wired News. Available: http://www.wired.com/

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