+1 on iSchools. If you are thinking of a Ph.D., though, you should also think 10 years ahead: where do you want to _teach_ when you get your degree. Chances are, you will find that by that point you will be "a sociologist", "an economist", "an anthropologist", "a computer scientist", "an ischool person", etc. Which one of those you want to become is a decision that is not to be taken lightly. So, spend some time _now_ reading job postings for academic jobs. - yuri On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Dan Perkel <dperkel@ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
Hello Devin,
You may also want to consider the somewhat nebulous, but interesting, world of "Information Schools." (Or: Schools of Information, Schools of Information and Library Science, or Informatics Programs....and more!) A list of some of these schools--though not all--can be found in the right hand column of http://ischools.org/. The kind of work you seem interested in doing would be a really good fit for many of those programs either at the Master's or PhD level. I would advise looking carefully look through both the faculty and students in each (though the websites often don't reflect what's actually happening in the program).
There are also Sociology and Communication programs (I am guessing Polisci also) that have experts in areas you are interested in as well.
Regards,
Dan