Dear Kushchu, Language@Internet is an open access journal that regularly has good articles that take a sociolinguistic approach to Facebook data (though last year their output seems to have dipped a bit). At Lancaster we have several staff researching in the area of language and digital media (David Barton, Julia Gillen, Karin Tusting, Mark Sebba, myself) and also a number of PhD students already looking at facebook and other social networks - and we have a new MA in Digital Literacies, which means there are also research training opportunities for PhD students working in this area. Further information is available here: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/phd/ Best, Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 2 May 2013, at 13:18, "Prof. I. Kushchu" <ik@mgovernment.org<mailto:ik@mgovernment.org>> wrote: Dear Colleagues A bright student, (a linguist by training and currently completing a Masters thesis about socio-linguistics approaches to the use of language on Facebook), asked me for research and PhD programs for further studies -Not very much related to my expertise, unfortunately. Any suggestions for such programs in the intersection of linguistics and social media? Bests wishes Kushchu ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik@mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/