Research+Centers

Centers conducting research on the social economic and political aspects of information and communication technologies:

**Bergland Center for Internet Studies** Pacific University, Oregon, USA [|http://bcis.pacificu.edu] University of Salzburg. Germany [|http://www.icts.sbg.ac.at] Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany http://www.zim.lmu.de/english/index.html **Center for Internet Studies** University of Washington http://www.cis.washington.edu/index.html **Digital World Research Centre (DWRC)** School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey http://www.dwrc.surrey.ac.uk/ **e-Horizons Project** A virtual centre linking the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) at the University of Oxford http://www.e-horizons.ox.ac.uk/
 * Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S) **
 * Center for Internet Research and Media Integration (CIM)**

**Information Systems and Innovation Group at LSE** http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/

**Internet Centre** Imperial College, London, http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/ **Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)** Open University of Catalonia http://www.uoc.edu/in3/eng/index.html
 * focuses on Internet applications and technology, but also conducts research on economic, social and legal issues

**Netvision Institute for Internet Studies** Tel Aviv University, Isreal [|http://www.niis.tau.ac.il]

**Oxford Internet Institute (OII)** University of Oxford http://[|www.oii.ox.ac.uk]

**Pew Internet and American Life Project** http://www.pewinternet.org/

School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/
 * Singapore Internet Research Center**

**Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI)** A collaboration of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton [|http://www.webscience.org]

Centers anchored in studies of the Information Society, Social Informatics :

**Center for the Study of the Information Society (InfoSoc)** University of Haifa http://infosoc.haifa.ac.il/main_eng.htm University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber.php **Center for Research on Technology and Organizations (CRITO)** University of California, Irvine http://www.crito.uci.edu/
 * Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (Ciber)**

**Interdisciplinary Informatics Hub (IIH)** Science and Engineering faculty at Queen Mary, University of London [|http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk]

**Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics** A virtual centre linking researchers across several departments at Indiana University http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/ University of Michigan http://www.si.umich.edu/
 * School of Information**

**Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU)** Department of Sociology, University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/

Centers more focused on Internet Law, Policy and Regulation: **Berkman Center for the Internet and Society** Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ **Center for Information Policy** College of Information Studies University of Maryland http://cip.umd.edu/ **Information Society Project** Yale Law School http://research.yale.edu/isp/ **Media Center** New York Law School http://www.nyls.edu/pages/107.asp **Samuelson Law** Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/samuelson/ **Center for Internet and Society (CIS)** Stanford Law School http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

Centers more focused on Studies of Science, Technology and Society, including ICTs :

**Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Emerging Technologies (CITE)** University of Montreal, Canada [|http://www.cite.umontreal.ca] **INRIA** French National Institute for Research on IT http://www.sop.inria.fr/index_en.shtml> **Institute for the Study of Science Technology and Innovation (ISSTI)** Research Centre for Social Science, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh (RCSS) http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/centres/researchcentre/1 **James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization (JMI)** Said Business School, University of Oxford http://www.martininstitute.ox.ac.uk/jmi/ **Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET)** MIT [|http://poet.mit.edu] **Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU)** Department of Sociology, University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/org/satsu

Centers more focused on Application Areas, such as Learning and Education or Government:

**Futurelab, UK** http://www.futurelab.org.uk/ **Center for Technology in Government** University at Albany, State University of New York [|http://www.wtg.albany.edu] Centers more focused on Human Computer Interaction: **Augmented Human Interaction (AHI) Laboratory** Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/ahi/ Centers more focused on Technology, Standards and Innovations: **Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science (CRI)** Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation http://cri.haifa.ac.il/ **California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calt2)** http://www.calit2.net/ **Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)** UC Davis http://citris.ucdavis.edu/ **Center for Internet Research** ICIR, Berkeley http://www.icir.org/ **MIT Media Lab** http://www.media.mit.edu/ **MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence** http://itel.mit.edu/ **Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC)** Oxford University Computer Laboratory http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ Networks and Integrated Projects involving Individual Researchers and Centers: **ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, (CCi)** Australia[|http://www.cci.edu.au] **Association of Internet Researchers** http://www.aoir.org/ **Communications Innovation Institute** MIT, Cambridge, UCL and BT Research http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/cii/ **e-Society Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council** University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/res/e-society/ **European Network for Communication and Information Perspectives (ENCIP)** http://www.encip.org/ **National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)** University of Manchester http://www.ncess.ac.uk/ **The Surveillance Project** Queensland University, Canada http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance/
 * Cambridge-MIT Institute funded interdisciplinary collaboration between Engineering, Computer Science, Policy Study, Management Science and Economics departments
 * links projects and centres focusing on the role of advanced Internet and Grid technologies in research,