[Air-l] CMC and Virtual Ethnography Studentship - City University, London

[Panayiotis Zaphiris]

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 at soi.city.ac.uk
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri

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