What is cyberculture? Is cyberspace a "place" or a state of mind? Is it an evolving community? Who hangs out in cyberspace? Where can I find some of the best chat rooms online? These resources offer some hints!

(P.S. Want another perspective on cyberculture? Drop by my electronic journals and magazines collection and check out some of my e-zines!)

The English Server's Cybertechnology and Culture Resources

Voice of the Shuttle (Humanities Research): Cyberculture Resources

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

UCLA Center for the Study of Online Communities

Ethics and the Internet: Duke University Technology Course and Research Archive

Vices and Virtues: An Online Community

24 Hours in Cyberspace

The Well: The Ultimate Cyberconference Website

The Cyber Times Newsletter

CyberWire Dispatch Newsletter

Cybersoc: Robert Hamman's Research on Cyberspace (including MA Thesis)

Net-Tribes: Cyberculture on the Web

Salon: Culture E-zine

Salon--Table Talk (Web Conference Site accompanying Salon)

Cafe Utne (Utne Reader Online)

Swoon Magazine Forums (Have some fun!)

Net Noir: "The Soul of Cyberspace for the Afrocentric Web crawler"

alt.culture home page

Cyber Culture E-zine

Webstock '96 Home Page



Chat Sites

One of the hottest new areas in Internet life is the chat site: Websites that permit visitors to interact with one another online using various features for "chatting" about their favorite topics. Many of the better chat sites provide multiple "chat rooms" based on subject and capacity. Here is an introductory listing of best chat sites, as recommended in the June 1997 issue of Yahoo Internet Life magazine:

Talk City

The Park

Yahoo! Chat

MSN ChatWorld

Firebird's Forest

Web Broadcasting System

The Globe

MSNBC News Chat

The Palace

Minds Palace


Here are some other special cyberspace meeting spots:

CyberFriends: Online Meeting Place

American Singles Website (great meeting place!)

One-and-Only Internet Personals

WebPersonals.com

Yahoo Searches: Personals Sites

CyberLove Cafe: Love, Dating, and Romance Resources and Meetings

Single Search National

The Internet Personals

kiss.com: International Dating Online

Web Match

Campus Singles


All about webgrrrls and their friends

Lynda's Home Gurrl Page

Grrl Enterprises

Cyber Grrl

geekgirl: "The world's first cyberfeminist hyperzine" from Australia

Webgrrls Unite!

NrrdGrrl's Speakeasy

Wombats: Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society

Leanne's Distraction

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