[Air-l] Pew Internet & American Life Writing Fellowship

[Philip Howard]

Dear AIR:  This fellowship is intended for ABD or senior graduate students 
who want a little extra financial support while preparing some hot research 
for submission to a journal or other scholarly publication.  Several Pew 
staffers and I will be attending the meetings in Minneapolis, so please 
feel free to approach us with ideas.
p.

Philip Howard
Sociology, Northwestern University, pubweb.nwu.edu/~pho442/
Pew Internet & American Life Project, www.pewinternet.org
ph. (773) 274-6817 / c. (202) 271-7170 / p-howard at northwestern.edu


Pew Internet & American Life Writing Fellowship
9/30/01

Through its Open Research Initiative, The Pew Internet and American Life 
Project (www.pewinternet.org) seeks to support scholarly and accessible 
research on the role of the Internet in contemporary American 
society.  This fellowship is for students who have advanced to candidacy in 
their PhD program and are in need of financial assistance while preparing 
research for submission to a scholarly journal or other publication.  The 
fellowship has three goals:

-  to support students writing about the complex roles of new media 
technologies in social life;
-  to support students writing about how new media technologies are managed 
by different economic and political actors  governments, businesses, civic 
groups and individuals  around the United States;
-  to make the research results of young scholars who critically assess the 
consequences of technology-related social, economic, political and cultural 
trends accessible to a wide audience.
-  to give young scholars access to Pew survey data.

Fellowship holders can maintain their residence of choice.  This support is 
for writing up the results from research projects that are well advanced or 
that can be supplemented with survey data collected by the 
Project.  Applicants should view this as an opportunity to turn their part 
of a well-developed dissertation argument into a focused, polished piece 
for publication as a Project Working Paper and ultimately for submission to 
a scholarly journal.  The Project will promote these pieces to a wider 
audience through its schedule of widely respected media briefs and research 
reports.

Applicants should submit a 5-page proposal that identifies the research 
questions, summarizes the status of the larger research agenda, and 
sketches an outline of the piece to be produced over the two-month 
period.  The proposal should include a reasonable time frame for completing 
the writing, suggest several individuals to act as peer reviewers, and 
identify the scholarly journals to which the piece may ultimately be submitted.

Name: Pew Internet and American Life Project Writing Fellowship
Deadline: March 1, 2002
Value: $2,000 each
Number of Fellowships:  5
Eligibility: Students in the social sciences, humanities, and related 
scientific or engineering fields. Applications are considered from students 
who have advanced to candidacy but not yet completed their Ph.D. 
program.  This grant may be held in conjunction with other forms of 
financial support.
Terms: Student must be registered and in good standing at an accredited 
university.  The student must devote 2 months to writing up research 
results in a scholarly and accessible manner.  For more details on the 
research priorities of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, see website.
Web: www.pewinternet.org
Contact: Philip Howard, Research Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life 
Project, c/o Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago 
Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60208-1330, Email:  p-howard at northwestern.edu.