I'm finding that the University of Surrey, in England, might be good too ^^ On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Kathleen O'Riordan < K.ORiordan@sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

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Anyone have any further suggestions as to where I/others should be looking?

there is always the posibility of outside of the USA :-) k

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Any further advice would be great...and thanks in advance. Always look forward to the daily posts!

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And if anyone has information on European programs, please post them! magda On 22-May-08, at 19:06, Kathleen O'Riordan wrote:

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Anyone have any further suggestions as to where I/others should be looking?

there is always the posibility of outside of the USA :-) k

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Any further advice would be great...and thanks in advance. Always look forward to the daily posts!

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A few more in the UK http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/research/ www.lkl.ac.uk On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Kimberly De Vries <cuuixsilver@gmail.com> wrote:

Media and Culture at Utrecht University, NL, Information and Media at University of Aarhus, DK.

--In fact Utrecht has a huge and relative to the field, a long established program.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Brian Wickhem <wickhem@gmail.com> wrote:

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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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This might be good for some folks, but could be disastrous for others. If your dream is to work at a prestigious research institution, you're more likely to attain that dream if you work closely with someone who is a respected leader in the field. Sure, you could attain your dream job if you stumble upon some new subject matter as a grad student that no one has yet claimed (ala dana boyd) and you exploit that matter adeptly. But if you don't, you're going to need to ride on coattails to join the invisible college that controls the dream jobs you're interested in. Now, if you're not aiming for a prestigious research institution, the rules are probably a bit different. On May 23, 2008, at 9:50 PM, M. Deanya Lattimore wrote:

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

While there are many different considerations, I think a list is helpful as a place to start. Perhaps we could extract the data from this thread and make a page at the AoIR site, if nothing like it exists already. Best, Kim On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Brian -

As many researchers have commented previously on this list, it is not usually paramount WHERE one attends university, but WHO one works with while there (there are of course mitigating circumstances in many cases). In that case, one would look for the foremost academic "authority on authority" rather than collecting a list of Schools.

I would name an academic currently working at a primary centre for Internet Studies in Australia at Curtin University. Matthew Allen, former President of AoIR is an authority on authority. Further, I see by his webpage that he concentrates his efforts currently on postgraduate (graduate in the US) supervision. That is a key component of your search - 1) will the bright academic in question have time to work with you and your project, and naturally, 2) will they have any funding available for you to do so?

I am not saying Matthew can answer all your needs, but here is his website:

http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm? id=MHNPFDd <http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm?id=MHNPFDd>

Otherwise, there are several key academics on the role of authority. I would name David Lyon and andrew Feenberg as two very notable academics in this area, although I am not aware of their supervisory capacities at present. There are doubtless many more.

To address your other issue, mobile communication - Marcus Foth, also on the AoIR board, has done much work on mobile communications, and he is located at the Queensland University of Technology (also in Australia).

http://www.vrolik.de/

Good luck in your search!

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That is indeed an issue. Maybe people in the programs listed could comment on the availability of funding and so on, if any of them are in AoIR. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Jasmine Pues <marimiko@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, a compilation of programs (and/or faculty) would be very beneficial, though funding's always a bit of an issue - I am currently working on an MA in Surrey, even though I am American. So situations like that tend to change things a bit.

On 5/26/08, Kim De Vries <cuuixsilver@gmail.com> wrote:

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While there are many different considerations, I think a list is helpful as a place to start. Perhaps we could extract the data from this thread and make a page at the AoIR site, if nothing like it exists already.

Best,

Kim

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com> wrote:

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Dear Brian -

As many researchers have commented previously on this list, it is not usually paramount WHERE one attends university, but WHO one works with while there (there are of course mitigating circumstances in many cases). In that case, one would look for the foremost academic "authority on authority" rather than collecting a list of Schools.

I would name an academic currently working at a primary centre for Internet Studies in Australia at Curtin University. Matthew Allen, former President of AoIR is an authority on authority. Further, I see by his webpage that he concentrates his efforts currently on postgraduate (graduate in the US) supervision. That is a key component of your search - 1) will the bright academic in question have time to work with you and your project, and naturally, 2) will they have any funding available for you to do so?

I am not saying Matthew can answer all your needs, but here is his website:

http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm? id=MHNPFDd <http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm?id=MHNPFDd>

Otherwise, there are several key academics on the role of authority. I would name David Lyon and andrew Feenberg as two very notable academics in this area, although I am not aware of their supervisory capacities at present. There are doubtless many more.

To address your other issue, mobile communication - Marcus Foth, also on the AoIR board, has done much work on mobile communications, and he is located at the Queensland University of Technology (also in Australia).

http://www.vrolik.de/

Good luck in your search!

Denise N. Rall

Denise N. Rall, PhD. Internationalisation Project Officer Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Office: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Presenter, Internet Research 9.0, 15-18 October 2008, Copenhagen, DK

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Dear AIR-ers - Thanks for everyone's perspective on graduate school, and we've had a lot of personal stories to back up our experiences, both good and bad. I found those who attend AoIR's Doctoral forums come away much more well informed about their topics and how to manage their research efforts as well. Further, there are always tips & tricks to be gleaned from other post-grads about the essential topic of "supervisor management" !!! There are plenty of blogs out there to read about the experience, I was most impressed by the blog entitled "Bitch PhD" presented at the academic blog session at AoIR in Brisbane (thanks to Jean Burgess and Mel Gregg,among others). What I found most essential is the weekly face-to-face meeting with my supervisor (eloquently stated by Jonathan Sterne). He wasn't in my discipline, but he was "willing" and he was "there". Despite some hiccups, we got there in the end. While the american system is completely different and relies on coursework, the fact remains: some supervisors like having students, and some don't! In my experience, that is the essential question, and any remaining issues can be surrmounted in other ways. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Internationalisation Project Officer Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Office: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Presenter, Internet Research 9.0, 15-18 October 2008, Copenhagen, DK Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/mail