--- title: Digital Culture & Internet description: This topic examines the social, cultural, and political dynamics of the internet and online networks. Learners will understand how digital connectivity shapes community formation, public discourse, privacy, and the dissemination of information in the modern world. category: humanities subcategory: cultural-studies difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/digital-culture-and-internet --- # Digital Culture & Internet This topic examines the social, cultural, and political dynamics of the internet and online networks. Learners will understand how digital connectivity shapes community formation, public discourse, privacy, and the dissemination of information in the modern world. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Fibreculture Journal An open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research on digital media, networks, and internet culture, organized into themed issues. Useful for reading current scholarly arguments and research methods in digital media studies and network culture. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.fibreculturejournal.org/ **Tags:** digital-media, internet-studies, media-theory, academic-journal ### 2. Rhizome A New York nonprofit and affiliate in residence at the New Museum that commissions, exhibits, and preserves born-digital art. Its Net Art Anthology and ArtBase archive let you trace how internet art and network culture developed since the 1990s. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://rhizome.org/ **Tags:** net-art, digital-preservation, internet-culture, new-media-art ### 3. aoir.org AOIR.org is the website for the Association of Internet Researchers, a professional community focused on the study of digital communication and internet research methods. It offers information about membership and events, along with ethics guidelines, publications, and resources for conducting ethical internet research. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://aoir.org **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies ## Courses ### 1. Internet History, Technology, and Security The impact of technology and networks on our lives, culture, and society continues to increase. The very fact that you can take this course from anywhere in the world requires a technological infrastructure that was designed, engineered, and built over the past sixty years. To function in an information-centric world, we need to understand the workings of network technology. This course will open up the Internet and show you how it was created, who created it and how it works. Along the way we will meet many of the innovators who developed the Internet and Web technologies that we use today. What You Will Learn: After this course you will not take the Internet and Web for granted. You will be better informed about important technological issues currently facing society. You will realize that the Internet and Web are spaces for innovation and you will get a better understanding of how you might fit into that innovation. If you get excited about the material in this course, it is a great lead-in to taking a course in Web design, Web development, programming, or even network administration. At a minimum, you will be a much wiser network citizen. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/internet-history **Tags:** internet-history, computer-networking, internet-security, web-technology ## Books ### 1. The Second Self **Author:** Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle's ethnographic study of how children, hobbyists, and programmers relate to computers in the early personal computing era. Shows how computers shaped thinking about mind, identity, and machines, offering a foundational framework for the psychology of human-computer relationships. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671606026?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies ### 2. Life on the Screen **Author:** Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle's study of identity in online spaces such as MUDs, chat rooms, and simulation software. Explains how people experiment with multiple selves online and how computing shifted ideas about mind and self; a foundational text in internet studies. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/185799888X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/digital-culture-and-internet