Richard E. Bjork Library: Digital Studies: Public Web Resources

Digital Studies Research Websites

Communication Currents [NCA] Working from recently published NCA journal articles and emerging research and perspectives, Communication Currents explains scholarly information in straightforward language geared for broad audiences.
Media News [NPR] National Public Radio's media-related news items.

	Gimp GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.
	Sigil Sigil is free, open-source editing software for e-books in the EPUB format. Sigil supports code-based editing of EPUB files, as well as the import of HTML and plain text files.

FourthEstate.org The Fourth Estate promotes public interest journalism as a resource and force of good in a democratic society. The organization boasts thousands of members working to advance and advocate for a strong and responsible free press and the public’s right to trustworthy news and information.
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) The IFJ, the world's largest organisation of journalists, represents 600,000 media professionals from 187 trade unions and associations in more than 140 countries.
National Communication Association (NCA) NCA serves the scholars, teachers, and practitioners who are its members by enabling and supporting their professional interests in research and teaching.
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.