Dear all, City University's School of Informatics is offering 11 full-time 3-year PhD studentships to support ongoing research on specific topics to start in October 2004 and October 2005. One of the topics is: Virtual Ethnography of Computer Mediated Communication The study of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) synthesises skills from a multitude of disciplines (e.g. ethnography, sociology, computing). Virtual ethnography (the study of online communication through the use of ethnographic techniques) has received a lot of attention and when combined with analytic techniques (e.g. social network analysis) can be a valuable synthesis of methodologies for evaluating and analysing online communities. PhD studentships are available to continue this research, especially in investigating the use of Social Network Analysis for analysing online communities. Supervisors include Dr Panayiotis Zaphiris. Candidates are expected to have at least a 2.1 Honours Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject. Conditional awards can be made if students have yet to receive their final degree classification. Each successful applicant will receive a bursary of £14,000 per annum for each year of the studentship. Studentships will start on the 1st October 2004 and, depending on availability, 1st October 2005. You can find more about this at: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/news/researchstudentship.html -- Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Center for Human-Computer Interaction Design City University London, EC1V 0HB Tel: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 Fax: +44-(0)-20-7040-8859 zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.