I´d like to know where I can find information on research about Internet in German & French. Can someone inform me?
Hi, as far as I know, there are very few french speaking full text ressources, open mailing lists, and even directories about Internet researches and Internet researchers. I assume that it's firstable a cultural problem. French researchers don't have the reflex, the time or perhaps the idea to publish their work on Internet and to build up an interdisciplinary community. That's make a big difference with Great Britain, USA or Germany. In the Net Researchers directory you certainly know (http://netzwissenschaft.com/wiss.htm), there are only two french people... that's all. http://www.devinci.fr/iim/jch/ http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/ The CIRASI could have been a valuable way to find french speaking researchers. It is the "Collectif interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les aspects sociaux d'Internet" (Interdiscplinary group on the social aspects of Internet :http://lajoie.uqam.ca/cirasi/cirasi.html). A good initiative but with a very low activity now. Idem for the Commposite (http://commposite.uqam.ca) which intended to gather young researchers. No activity. Regarding some Think tanks or publications (not always Internet centered) you could look at FING (Fondation pour l'Internet nouvelle génération) : http://www.fing.org/ L'équipe Réseaux savoirs et territoires from the Ecole normale supérieure (http://barthes.ens.fr/) Les Cahiers de médiologie (http://www.mediologie.com/) Groupe de recherche sur les médias (http://grm.uqam.ca/index.html) Revue Terminal (http://www.terminal.sgdg.org/) Revue Réseaux : http://www.editions-hermes.fr/rev_accueil.asp?id=17 Quaderni : http://panoramix.univ-paris1.fr/CREDAP/quaderni/ Les Cahiers du numérique : http://www.editions-hermes.fr/rev_accueil.asp?id=28 Regarding research teams we could speak among others of RIAM (Réseau de recherche et innovation en audiuovisuel et multimédia (http://www.cnc.fr/riam/) INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) : http://www.ina.fr/recherche/doctorants/ But they don't give access to their researches. Even France Télécom R&D http://www.rd.francetelecom.fr/ is very pusillanimus (Mr Thomas, we could speak of that in private if you like). And the very well known INRIA (Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatisme) have a very technical view of the Internet. I really hope I have forgotten really valuable and open ressources. And if I gain some technical support I would be pleased to build up such a directory for french speaking researches. -- Serge Courrier Freelance journalist Internet Section Editor for Science & Vie magazine Paris, France