IRC Communication Research Resources

Other Resources

• German IRC pages (Includes a useful technical section in English)
• IRC Statistics (IRC usage statistics service)
• new2chat.com
• The Virtual Community Chapter Six: Real Time Tribes
• Yahoo!'s IRC listings

IRC newsgroups:

• alt.irc
• alt.irc.announce
• alt.irc.questions
• alt.irc.ircii
• alt.irc.bots
• alt.irc.opers
• alt.irc.ops.kiss.my.ass
• alt.irc.corruption
• alt.irc.undernet
• alt.irc.hottub
• alt.irc.recovery

CMC and Cyberculture sites:

• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
• SocioSite: Cyberspace and Web Sociology
• Computed Mediated Communication Information Sources
• Synchronous Computer Mediated Communication Resource Site
• Rheingold's Brainstorms (includes a comprehensive bibliography)
• Social Informatics
• CTheory
• Cybersoc
• Resource Centre for Cyberculture Studies
• CyberStudies Web Ring
• CyberReader 2/e (Last updated 1998)
• When Harry@geocities.com meets Sally@hotmail.com: Communities and Relationships via CMC (last updated 13 Jan 1998)
• CMC E-Texts (last updated 09/04/95 but has hundreds of links)
• High Noon On The Electronic Frontier