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The paper will allow a glance at the developing of networked communication from 1996 on, when INST has placed its first pages on the web and started offering training for the use of Internet tools for communication and information. To complement these classes at a range of partner institutions in several of countries, collections of commented links for literature and cultural scholars have aimed at providing an overview of selected resources on the web.
TRANS, Internet journal for cultural studies, published by INST, was started in 1997 to serve for the publication of papers held at INST's conferences. It proved as an important platform for transdisciplinary communication. The acceleration and openness of the publishing process have made TRANS a highly estimated and well-known resouce for researchers and interested people.
To allow broad participation at the dicussion an Online Research Cooperation was started in 1999 to prepare a conference on "International Cultural Studies". This ORC enabled scholars who did not have the possibility to attend the conference to keep pace with the discussion and to add their own papers and ideas. The main contributions to the ORC were provided in English, French and German.
The paper will try to give an overview on the development, management
and use of INST's website, focusing on TRANS and the ORC. Benefits and
possibilities for the development of the mentioned information and communication
tools are discussed.
