Some useful websites for emerging media and communications:
- Creative Commons - a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. "Share, Remix, Reuse -- Legally."
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - defending freedom in the digital world.
- Media Commons - a digital scholarly network.
- On the Media- "Explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad." Features articles and podcasts on the latest topics in the media world.
- TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design): Ideas Worth Spreading -- watch, listen, and discuss inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
- Women's Media Center (WMC) - making women visible and powerful in the media
- Virtual Revolution : How 20 Years of the Web Has Reshaped Our Lives - by the BBC
Other resources
- CNET - technology product reviews and prices, software downloads, and tech news.
- In Media Res - a Media Commons project. Promoting an open, ongoing dialogue amongst scholars and the public on contemporary approaches to media studies.
- Mashable - the social media guide. Social media, news, and web tips.
- ReadWrite - web apps, technology trends, social networking, and social media.
- TechCrunch - cutting edge news, opinion, articles, video and more on technology, business, social media and more.