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WEBCAST TODAY: Silicon Harlem Next Gen Tech Virtual Summit – Advancing Humanity
by Joly MacFie 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Silicon Harlem has ever known how to put on a show, and the 'Virtual Summit' format has allowed them to outdo themselves in 2020. From the opening blasts of Vint Cerf, and Jessica Rosenworcel, to the closing pairing of Larry Irving with Gale Brewer, there is no let up! The only minus is that it's all packed into one day, they could have run this out to three! ISOC Live posted: "On Friday October 16 2020 Silicon Harlem will hold the 7th Annual Next Gen Tech Conference online. This year's 'Virtual Summit' theme is “Advancing Humanity”. Innovation must be focused on the humanistic applications of the advanced technologies emerging " [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ah2020>On *Friday October 16 2020 Silicon Harlem <http://www.siliconharlem.net/>* will hold the *7th Annual Next Gen Tech Conference <https://bit.ly/31euFjs>* online. This year’s ‘Virtual Summit’ theme is “*Advancing Humanity*”. Innovation must be focused on the humanistic applications of the advanced technologies emerging around the world. *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ah2020 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ah2020>* *AGENDA https://silicon-harlem-virtual-summit.eventcreate.com/ <https://silicon-harlem-virtual-summit.eventcreate.com/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/31euFjs <https://bit.ly/31euFjs>* *TWITTER @SiliconHarlem <https://bit.ly/342uoC7> #ah2020 <https://bit.ly/3k4Jtsy>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/siliconharlem/live/ <https://www.facebook.com/siliconharlem/live/>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live/ <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live/>* (AI Captions) *https://www.youtube.com/siliconharlemnetwork/live <https://www.youtube.com/siliconharlemnetwork/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ah2020_ <https://archive.org/details/ah2020_>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12837/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Children's digital practices in the Pacific region
by Amanda Third 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Dear all I write to let you know that, yesterday, in partnership with Plan International Australia and ChildFund Australia, the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University released a new report on children’s and families’ digital practices in three Pacific nations: Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. In terms of context, you may know that the Australian Government has funded a new submarine cable to bring high speed connectivity to the ‘Blue Continent’. As the region prepares for the cable to be switched on, there is a flurry of activity to make sure that Pacific nations are prepared to maximise the benefits and minimise the potential harms associated with rapidly increased uptake. This report contributes to those efforts. Indeed, the study – which deployed child-centred, creative and participatory, qualitative methods – was undertaken to inform Plan International’s and ChildFund’s development of a suite of online safety and digital literacy resources for implementation in the region, beginning in Solomon Islands. You can find the full report here: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/1760221/Pacifi… Warm wishes Amanda Professor Amanda Third Professorial Research Fellow | Institute for Culture and Society Co-Director | Young and Resilient Research Centre Research Stream Co-Leader | Centre for Resilient & Inclusive Societies Faculty Associate | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard M: +61420364758 | E: a.third(a)westernsydney.edu.au<mailto:a.third@westernsydney.edu.au> Building EM, Western Sydney University Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Australia

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Objet : Publication of a new collective book on qualitative digital research methods (in French)
by Myles, David 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Dear colleagues. My apologies for the broken link. Here is the correct one: https://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/methodes_de_recherche_en_contexte_nu… Also, please note that this book is an initiative of the Laboratoire sur la communication et le numérique (LabCMO). For more information, please visit: www.labcmo.ca<http://www.labcmo.ca>. Sincerely, David

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Publication of a new collective book on qualitative digital research methods (in French)
by Myles, David 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, This message is primarily addressed to the French readers on this list (English message will follow). C’est avec un immense plaisir que nous vous annonçons la parution de l’ouvrage collectif Méthodes de recherche en contexte numérique : une orientation qualitative aux Presses de l’Université de Montréal. L’ouvrage sera disponible au Québec en version papier à compter du 19 octobre et dès maintenant en libre accès (PDF et E-pub) sur le site des Presses<https://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/methodes_de_recherche_en_contexte_nu…>. En voici un bref résumé : « Ce livre fait le point sur les avancées et les enjeux de la méthodologie qualitative en contexte numérique. Il offre un panorama des méthodes de recherche les plus récentes pour l’étude des phénomènes en ligne par les sciences sociales – communication, sociologie, anthropologie. Cet ouvrage foisonnant présente des textes allant des fondements épistémologiques aux méthodes visuelles pour l’étude d’objets numériques, en passant par les stratégies ethnographiques, la collecte et l’analyse de traces d’activités en ligne. Au-delà du manuel, l’ouvrage se distingue par son actualité, sa cohérence entre la théorie et la pratique ainsi que par sa résonance interdisciplinaire ». English message: It is our pleasure to announce the publication of the collective book Research Methods in Digital Contexts: A Qualitative Orientation (in French) with the University of Montréal Press. The paper format will be available in Québec on October 19 and the PDF/E-pub versions are now freely available on the PUM website<https://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/methodes_de_recherche_en_contexte_nu…>. Cordialement/Sincerely, David Myles Également au nom de/Also on behalf of Mélanie Millette, Florence Millerand & Guillaume Latzko-Toth

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WEBCAST TODAY: Why National Cybersecurity Awareness Programmes Often Fail
by Joly MacFie 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

This is underway. Again, captions will be added in the archive after a transcript has been made. If you want AI captions now, go to the FB Simulcast <https://www.facebook.com/CyberSecSIG/live/> ISOC Live posted: "Today, October 15 2020 at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) The Internet Society Cybersecurity Special Interest Group (CyberSecSIG) hosts 'Why National Cybersecurity Awareness Programmes often Fail'. This, the 4th Webinar in the Global Cyber Forum series, as part of " <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecsig4> [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecsig4> Today,* October 15 2020* at *12:00 EDT* (16:00 UTC) The *Internet Society Cybersecurity Special Interest Group <https://cybersecsig.org/>* (CyberSecSIG) hosts ‘*Why National Cybersecurity Awareness Programmes often Fail <https://cybersecsig.org/webinarOct15>*‘. This, the 4th Webinar in the *Global Cyber Forum series <https://cybersecsig.org/events/>*, as part of *Cyber Security Awareness Month <https://www.cisa.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month>*, will be presented by *Dr Eva Nagyfejeo* of the *Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre* <https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/cyber-security/> (GCSCC) at Oxford Martin School, and chaired by *Dr Enrico Calandro*, Co-Director at *Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa <http://www.c3sa.uct.ac.za/>* (C3SA). *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecsig4 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecsig4>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/352N9Vp <https://bit.ly/352N9Vp>* *TWITTER @CyberSecSIG <https://bit.ly/CyberSecSIG>* #BeCyberSmart #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #CyberAware @EvaNagyfejeo @EnricoCalandro @C3SA_UCT *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live>/* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/cybersecsig4 <https://archive.org/details/cybersecsig4>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12828/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Participatory online politics and the future of e-democracy (DG.O 2021)
by Zach Bastick 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi everyone, If you are working on democracy, governance, and the internet, I am pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to our conference track for DG.O 2021. The track is focused on futuristic, alternative, and radical perspectives on how the internet can support or harm the ways in which we govern society. All accepted papers will be published and included in the ACM digital library and the DBLP bibliography system. In addition, we are planning a special issue in a leading journal for our specific track. The deadline for submitting papers is January 20, 2021 – and be sure to submit to the correct track (Track 6 Beyond Bureaucracy: Participatory Online Politics and the Future of E-democracy). The full call for papers is below. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions! Regards, Dr. Zach Bastick Researcher in Digital Government European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL), France *Call for Papers* Track 6: Beyond Bureaucracy: Participatory online politics and the future of e-democracy Track chairs: Zach Bastick (ESPOL) and Alois Paulin (Siemens) 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2021) June 9-11, 2021, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Description: This track explores innovations in e-government and e-democracy that place the citizen at the center of governance. While traditional lines of inquiry at the intersection of politics and technology focus on enhancing or supporting existing political institutions, there is an underexplored opportunity for citizens to use technology to control government more directly. Internet optimists have long anticipated new, digital models of self-governance. These include representative, direct, liquid, and anarchic models. On the other hand, critics have argued that technology cannot safely or desirably support greater citizen involvement. This track serves to explore these more futuristic potentials of technology for governance. The track covers all aspects of direct, futuristic, radical, exploratory, and critical approaches to digital governance. These include the (un)desirability of using technology to support self-governance; challenges to self-governance through technology; theoretical and empirical proposals; assessments of technologies to support models of governance (AI, IoT, blockchain, 5G, platforms); the impact of developing digital phenomena on self-governance (misinformation, bots, digital collective intelligence); and the ethical, technological, social, and political implications of existing and potential future models of public governance. In short, the track is specifically interested in how the latest technological developments and theories can enable new or renewed political structures and processes. More generally, we will explore questions such as: What might a digital political future look like? How might we control or steer providers of societal functions and deliver societal functions through technology? How can digital governance occur collaboratively and enable public values to emerge? What digital issues should policymakers, platforms, designers, internet users and citizens consider when imagining the future of democracy? Suggested topics include: 1. Algorithmic governance and politics 2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and policymaking 3. Governance of online communities and virtual organizations 4. Collaborative, community-led or inclusive online government 5. Human, crowd, and machine intelligence in the service of democracy 6. Governance and bots, misinformation, and algorithmic obscurity 7. The (un)desirability of governance through technology 8. Representative democracy, liquid democracy, crypto-anarchism, direct democracy 9. Ethics and morals in digital governance 10. Participatory budgeting 11. Collaborative, bottom-up or grass-roots digital responses to COVID-19 We solicit papers on a wide range of perspectives and approaches and encourage both theoretical and empirical contributions. Papers are to be submitted at the following website by January 20, 2021: http://dgsociety.org/dgo-2021/call-for-proposals/

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Why Transhumanism and Digital Humanities should be integrated !
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi to you all, Sorry for self publicity! Here is my new paper where I explained the need for harhomising Transhumanism with Digital Humanities. Thanks for reading in advance! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344658421_Digital_Knowledge_Integr… [https://i1.rgstatic.net/publication/344658421_Digital_Knowledge_Integration…]<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344658421_Digital_Knowledge_Integr…> (PDF) Digital Knowledge Integration (DKI): When Transhumanism (H+) Meets Digital Humanities (DH)<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344658421_Digital_Knowledge_Integr…> PDF | To a large extent, the world has come to embrace digitalization which currently permeates all human endeavors and life. However, the process of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate www.researchgate.net Waliya, Yohanna Joseph Enseignant et chercheur à l'université de Calabar. Auteur de La récolte de vie, Quand l'Afrique se lèvera etc. Mail: waliyayohannajoseph(a)unical.edu.ng Mobile:+2348038940016. web: https://unical-ng.academia.edu/WALIYAYOHANNAJOSEPH https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yohanna_Waliya http://vispo.com/guests/waliya/

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15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

*** First Call for Papers *** 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 12-14, 2021, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstract submission deadline (recommended): January 15, 2021 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2021 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned with the special theme "Information Science and global crisis". Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are challenging Information Science to help building effective management solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and communication. The diversity of crises' causes, the quality of the collected data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the relevant research challenges. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Web-Based Applications and Services · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities · Educational Technologies · Digital Humanities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos and Research Projects @RCIS tracks will complement the main conference. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2021. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 29, 2021. We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author names are included in the paper itself under the paper title. IMPORTANT DATES · Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 15, 2021 (AoE) · Regular paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Conference: May 12-14, 2021 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France · Anna Perini, FBK, Italy

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Call for book chapters
by Hakikur Rahman 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Call for Book Chapters: Greetings! This is the final call to accept a few book chapters (due to the Corona pandemic, the submission date has been extended), for the following book: *Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management**.* Information and communication technology (ICT), is an enormous field encompassing virtually all technologies of the contemporary society that can store, retrieve or transmit signals electronically, and making the world almost virtual to the user. ICT has opened up an extensive window of novel communication methods and techniques, allowing the user to contact and communicate with others more or less instantaneously, and for less money and over greater distances than ever before. It has eventually transformed the entire communication practices of the planet. Use of ICT has been ranging from education, health, security, space technology, agriculture, communication, human development, knowledge management and social media among enormous applications of the technology. *Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management* is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the widespread integration of technological innovations around the globe and examines how human-computer interaction affects various aspects of people’s lives. Featuring emergent research from theoretical perspectives and case studies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, students, practitioners, and academicians. *Topics Covered* - ICTs and citizen participation - ICTs and commerce - ICTs and culture - ICTs and education - ICTs and ethics - ICTs and gender equality - ICTs and governance - ICTs and health - ICTs and human development - ICTs and human empowerment - ICTs and human rights - ICTs and knowledge management - ICTs and international cooperation - ICTs and political development - ICTs and poverty alleviation - ICTs and rural development - ICTs and social change - ICTs and social media - ICTs and social networks - ICTs and socio-economic development - ICTs and the environment - ICTs and urban development - Knowledge for human development - Policy making with regard to ICTs for development If you have any completed research, or near completion, you can take this opportunity to publish your work in this book. Please submit your full book chapter by October 30, 2020 for the review process. You may limit the word count to 10000 words for a full book chapter. The book will be published by the IGI Global, USA ( www.igi-global.com) . For any other questions or queries, please contact me. Thanking you, Hakikur Rahman Editor, *Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management* IGI Global, USA*.* Email: email(a)hakik.org

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Funded Fall 2021 PhD student opportunities: School of Information Sciences, Illinois (due Dec 1 2020)
by Jodi Schneider 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

A great place for Internet-related research! -Jodi We invite applications to our world-renowned and highly interdisciplinary doctoral program at the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois. Our students have backgrounds in a broad range of fields, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, computing, and artificial intelligence. Our students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty who have a global reputation for research excellence in a range of overlapping areas: ARCHIVES & DIGITAL CURATION: information preservation; data curation; data provenance ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE: information management; machine learning; natural language processing; data mining; data governance; information visualization; privacy, security and trust; reproducibility DIGITAL HUMANITIES: cultural analytics, distant reading, computational music analysis, digital history HEALTH, MEDICAL & BIOINFORMATICS: learning health care systems, clinical informatics, biomedical ontologies, implementation science, health in social media, privacy in health, health devices, global health, evidence based medicine, semantic representations in medicine HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: computer supported cooperative work; design and evaluation of information systems and services; mobile computing; user experience INFORMATION ORGANIZATION & ACCESS: information literacy; information retrieval; foundations of information; knowledge representation and ontologies INFORMATION, CULTURE & SOCIETY: community, cultural, and social informatics; diversity and social justice; information policy; science and technology studies; youth services LIBRARY TECHNOLOGIES & SERVICES: digital libraries; education of information and professionals; libraries and librarianship SCIENCE OF SCIENCE: knowledge representation and ontologies; bibliometrics, infometrics and scientometrics SOCIAL COMPUTING & COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE: crisis informatics; computing for social good; social networks; FATE (fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics) For a comprehensive list of research areas, see: https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/areas For more about our faculty visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty The School's flexible program prepares students with the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and public sector settings. Accepted students are guaranteed four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and service assistantships, which include tuition waivers and stipends. We also offer travel support. We especially encourage students from historically and statistically underrepresented minority groups to apply. Our PhD program in Library and Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral program in the U.S. with 270 graduates. Recent graduates are now faculty members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu, Google, and AbbVie, and academic library professionals at the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. APPLICATION For more information about the application process, please visit: https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-s… Application deadline is Tuesday, December 01, 2020, at 11:00 p.m., Central Time. For additional information about our PhD program, see https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-s… For questions, please contact Prof. Michael Twidale, PhD Program Director, at ischool-phd(a)illinois.edu

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