[Air-l] OII Summer Doctoral Programme Moves to China in July 2005

[William Dutton]

Dear Colleagues

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII), in association with the Chinese 
Academy of Social Sciences, plans to hold its 2005 Summer Doctoral 
Programme (SDP) in Beijing from 7-21 July.

The SDP is designed to support advanced doctoral students engaged in 
dissertation research on the economic, political, legal and other 
social aspects of the Internet and related information and 
communication technologies. The Beijing SDP will not only be of greater 
value to students from Asia, but also students from around the world 
who wish to better understand the growing role of Asia, and China in 
particular, in shaping the development of the Internet and its social 
implications.

The programme will be conducted in partnership with: The Annenberg 
School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; The Berkman 
Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School; the Center for 
the Digital Future at the Annenberg School at the University of 
Southern California; the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland 
University of Technology; the School of Informatics at SUNY Buffalo; 
the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of 
Hong Kong; and the Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang 
Technological University. All of these institutions will contribute to 
the teaching faculty.

A press release, with more information about this year’s programme in 
Beijing, is available at: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/?rq=sdp Please feel 
free to post this release, or pass it on to other colleagues as 
appropriate.

I would encourage doctoral students who are interested in this 
programme to e-mail the OII at sdp at oii.ox.ac.uk to register their 
interest and to begin speaking with their advisors about the potential 
value of this programme to the successful completion of their 
dissertations.

Thanks to the support of the Higher Education Funding Council for 
England and OII’s collaborating partners, a limited number of bursaries 
(scholarships) will be available. I would greatly appreciate your help 
in bringing this opportunity to the attention of doctoral students who 
might benefit from working with other advanced doctoral students and 
researchers in the field of Internet studies.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Bill Dutton

Director
Oxford Internet Institute