Elon's "Imagining the Internet" Web site has been named a 2007 Webby Awards Honoree. The Webbys are considered the Internet's equivalent to the Oscars awarded for excellence in the film industry. Fewer than 15 percent of the more than 8,000 international entries were chosen for honors. Details...
Imagining the Internet, an informational and educational online site produced and maintained by Elon University’s School of Communications with support from the Pew Internet Project, has been named a 2007 Webby Awards honoree in the “science” category. Other science honorees selected this year include Scientific American, IEEE, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the BBC. The Webbys are considered the internet’s equivalent to the Oscars, awarded for excellence in the film industry.
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The Imagining the Internet site was selected in a blind-review process conducted by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences from more than 8,000 overall international entries. Fewer than 15 percent of the sites entered were distinguished as honorees. Only the top five nominees move on in the competition. They are Hubble Site, Nova ScienceNow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Earth Guide and Race: Are We So Different? Winners will be announced in May and honored at a ceremony in June.
Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast is an ongoing Elon University initiative that is partially funded by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. It is directed by Janna Anderson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and was built out of contributions by nearly 100 Elon University students, alumni, faculty, staff and advisory board members.
The site is a multi-section resource containing thousands of pages. It includes special explanatory sections on the future and past development of communications networks; a searchable database of thousands of early 1990s predictions about the future of the internet; two major international surveys about the future of communications; KidZone and Teachers’ Tips sections; a Voices of the People area, in which anyone anywhere can share his or her predictions about the future of communications; and video and audio interviews with dozens of people from all over the world that reveal their hopes and fears, including talks with Vint Cerf, George Gilder, Esther Dyson, Douglas Engelbart, Vernor Vinge, and other leaders.
To see the names of the many contributors to the site and read more about its genesis, go to http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/about.xhtml.
The Webby Awards is the leading international award program honoring excellence on the internet. It was established in 1996. The comprehensive judging process is overseen by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Among the headliners honored at last year’s Webby Awards were: Dr. Robert Kahn, a co-creator in the building of the internet; Pulitzer winner Thomas Friedman; music legend and internet music entrepreneur Prince; Mark Cuban, online broadcast originator and owner of the Dallas Mavericks; and Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, co-founders of MySpace.com.
The Academy (http://www.iadas.net/) is an intellectually diverse organization that includes members such as internet innovator Cerf, Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser, “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, Virgin Atlantic chairman and founder Richard Branson, and The Weinstein Company co-founder Harvey Weinstein. Members also include writers and editors from publications such as The New York Times, Wired, Details, Fast Company, The Los Angeles Times and Vibe.