Development of a searchable open resource

In 2004, our only publication option for our bibliographic review was static book form. Now in 2025, our goal is to make our review available as an online open academic resource, and to share the corpus of materials we discovered as a dynamic searchable online resource that will grow as interested users contribute relevant work over time. We have therefore compiled the rich summaries of each work into an institutionally hosted online resource: Culture and Communication in Digital Worlds[6].

This open online resource is hosted using a WordPress instance implemented by The University of British Columbia[7] in Vancouver, Canada. The FacetWP[8] plugin was employed to offer users advanced searching and filtering of entries using multiple categories, including keywords, topics, focussed codes and major themes. Users are also invited to submit new entries to this collection, with the goal of sustaining and growing it as a dynamic and collaboratively developed resource.