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culture This page highlights some recent writing about culture in the digital environment.     overviews Preceding pages of this guide have pointed to some of the more interesting writing about culture and the internet. Three other resources are Internet Culture (London, Routledge 99), edited by David Porter, The Cybercultures Reader (London, Routledge 00) edited by David Bell & Barbara Kennedy and Sara Kiesler's Culture Of The Internet (Mahwah, Erlbaum 97).     centres For big c Cyberculture or even just 'culture' with a dash of the digitals explore the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) and the Center for Digital Discourse & Culture (CDDC).     cultural portals The Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology & the Arts sponsored the very expensive but sadly unimaginative Australia's Cultural Network (ACN): what might have included innovative exhibitions involving numerous institutions - breaking down the traditional demarcations - ended up as an parochial version of Yahoo.    philosophical studies We've noted masterpieces of dot com baroque such as de Kerckhove's strange The Skin of Culture: Investigating The New Electronic Reality (London, Kogan Page 97).  For a walk on the wild side consult Jonathan Rosen's The Talmud & The Internet (New York, FSG 00), a sort of 'How Proust Can Change Your Life' for the digitally perplexed, and the gutsier The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry (London, Routledge 99) by Gordon Graham. James O'Donnell's incisive Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge, Harvard Uni Press 98) is of value in thinking about virtuality, ideas and writing.     next page (commerce)