I would caution against picking a school based on the people teaching there; with the academic climate as it is, professors are moving from school to school and even completely out of academia in large numbers. I started my graduate program where I did because I was *in love with* the work of five wonderful scholars who were there; three years after I started, four of them were gone or leaving. My entire research agenda had to be rewritten three times before I could take my comprehensives because I didn't want to "follow" the one teacher I could have followed to a new program. It's coming up on ten years now and I'm still not done, but should finish in the fall. I don't believe there's any good way to pick a program; I think the best advice is just do your grad work as quickly as possible, whatever gets you done, and then get out to do the work you love. If I'd done that, I'd be home by now. By researching and trying so hard to find "the perfect school," I only shot myself in the foot. (But I've had the privilege to work with some amazing people.) :-) Deanya James Howison wrote:
I think that research like that would also be very welcome within the Information Schools (iSchools):
http://www.ischools.org/oc/schools.html
(I notice that you have Rutgers iSchool on the list, but there are many others, like Syracuse, where I am, that I know would welcome such work.)
Of course, the main goal should be to identify a researcher (or better yet a small group of co-located collaborators) whose research work is close to your interests and whose research style you respect.
--J
On May 22, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Brian Wickhem wrote:
Hello fine scholars and researchers,
I'm currently looking around for Ph.D tracks and scholars for graduate school (fall '09). I'm most interested in how new media is being used to challenge authority: digital music, memes, mobile communications.
After a good amount of research, I created this short list of programs that seem to be a good fit, thought it might be nice to spread it around for future students' benefits:
USC (Anneberg School) UC Davis (Communications) Northwestern (Media, Technology and Society) Northwestern (Technology and Behavior Studies) Washington (Communications) NYU (Media, Culture, and Communications) Utah (Communications) U of Illinois at Chicago (Communications) Iowa (Communication Studies) UC San Diego (Communications) Michigan State (Communications Arts and Sciences) Cornell (Science and Technology Studies) Michigan (Communications Studies) Georgia Tech (Language, Literature, and Communications) UC Santa Barbara (Communications) Georgetown (Communication, Culture, and Technolgy) Rutgers (School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies) Virginia Tech (Science and Technology Studies) MIT (MediaLab) (really only a good one if you have experience in hardware/computer programming, though...)
Anyone have any further suggestions as to where I/others should be looking?
Any further advice would be great...and thanks in advance. Always look forward to the daily posts!
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