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| Annotated links to material on Egyptian hieroglyphs, a picture based writing system consisting of phonograms and ideograms. Resources cover the learning and decipherment of hieroglyphs, together with translators, Hieroglyphic fonts, and software. | |
| Refereed journal covering all aspects of social psychology. | ||
| Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of communication studies. | ||
| A free transcribing service whereby blind, and sighted, users are able to send letters in Braille in over 19 languages by entering a postal address and message. A member directory is provided to encourage individuals with an interest in Braille to meet and communicate. | ||
| Magazine that reports about people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices, study, and applications related to human communication and interaction in online environments. | ||
| Provides an insight into means of written communication used in various African regions. Users are invited to click on an interactive map to investigate systems in operation in Northern, Eastern, Western, Central and Southern Africa, or, alternatively, to choose from a selection of syllographic, alphabetic, pictographic, petrographic, chromatographic, or philosophical systems. Information provided includes articles on the development and composition of systems, and samples of the handwritings themselves. | ||
| Service which transcribes print, electronic, or taped materials into Braille documents for blind people. Describes the arrangement of dots in Braille with some examples of letters and contracted words, and outlines the methods for conveying numbers, music, and computer notation. | ||
| Service which transcribes print, electronic, or taped materials into Braille documents for blind people. Describes the arrangement of dots in Braille with some examples of letters and contracted words, and outlines the methods for conveying numbers, music, and computer notation. | ||
| HomeNet is an ongoing study of how ordinary families use the Internet. | ||
| A national professional organisation of scholars, students, and practitioners created to enhance and promote the academic and professional study, research, knowledge, criticism, teaching, exchange, and application of the basic principles of human communication. | ||
| A tutorial and reference resource supporting the study of communication theory and history. Includes citations, glossaries, focus sections on specific topics including paradigmatic and syntagmatic analyses, and questions on semiotics, culture, codes, speech and mass communication. | ||
| A non profit organisation aimed at getting youths up to age 15 involved in a global dialog. | ||
| Dictionary of gestures, signs, and body language cues from the Centre for Nonverbal Studies which aims to advance the study of human communication in all forms excepting oral means. Draws on the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and semioticians to provide a compendium of brief essays on the way people say things without speaking. | ||
| Guide to basic communication and media theory, covering communication models, empathy as a communication skill, fidelity of transmission, learning and communication, meaning and communication, perception semiotics and social systems. | ||
| Searchable directory of postcodes and addresses in the UK. Service is free but limited to 50 successful searches per day | ||
| Subject centre aiming to establish and support a network of academic practitioners, identify and promote information on good practices of learning, teaching and assessment, and create opportunities for professional development in the field of art, design, and communication. | ||
| Promotes basic research in the field of group processes, including formal organisations, political groups, families, social categories and societies, with special interest in the discovery and analysis of general principles underlying group processes across diverse empirical settings, and the interplay between individual and group levels of analysis. | ||
| Scholarly, peer reviewed journal, published four times a year. Focuses on computer-mediated communication, and the pedagogical issues surrounding the use of computers and technology in educational settings. | ||
| Introduces the key concepts of semiotics, defined as the study of signs and symbols, as a means of communication, in relation to their physical referents. Signs, modality and representation, paradigms and syntagms, codes, and articulation are among the topics covered. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to speech therapy and communicative disorders. | ||
| A log of activities which took place in a workshop (April 1998) to investigate the possible use of MUDs and MOOs for supporting distance learning. The term 'MUD' stands for 'Multi User Dimension', and it is a tool typically used by games players to invent characters and play games with other Internet users. MOO means a MUD is based on an object oriented database that keeps track of the environment, and what people can do with it. | ||
| An examination of the numbers from one to ten in a range of native writing systems. Covers monosyllabic scripts such as Chinese, syllabic scripts like Japanese and Cherokee, modified syllabaries including Sanskrit and Thai, consonantal scripts such as Arabic, the Greek, Russian, and Fali alphabets, featural systems like Korean, and sign. The numbers from one to ten are also presented in over 4500 languages. | ||
| National postal and retail service, incorporating the Royal Mail, Parcelforce, and Post Office Counters Ltd. It is one of the UK's leading businesses and employs over 190,000 people. | ||
| Description of the main principles of technorealism, including the view that information is not knowledge and that the Internet provides a range of new opportunities for people, communities, businesses, and government that may be empowering or enlightening, yet also dimensions that are malicious, perverse, or ordinary. | ||
| Paper discussing developments in knowledge networking as a result of computing and communication technologies such as digital libraries and collaboratories. | ||
| Provides news items about the ethical, legal and societal challenges brought about by new technologies. Offers information on national and international changes within the Information Society with four main themes, Privacy and Confidentiality, Content Regulation, Multilingualism, and Access to Public Domain Information. | ||
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