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[Merlyna Lim]

More fellowships from the Annenberg Center... for graduate students.

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Graduate Fellowships:
The Meaning of the New Networked Age

We invite applications for six graduate fellowships from advanced 
graduate students to take part in a major multi-disciplinary research 
initiative to explore the "The Meaning of the New Networked Age: 
Innovation, Content, Society, and Policy." The ACC theme is intended to 
convene an multi-disciplinary cohort of scholars to focus on a topic of 
pressing concern not well addressed in more established disciplinary and 
departmental institutions. The ACC research program will explore the 
drivers transforming networked society, their meaning, and their 
implications for business and government policy. We welcome researchers 
from various disciplines including anthropology, architecture, the arts, 
business, communications, computer science, design, economics, 
engineering, history, international relations, law, library science, 
neurosciences, political science, rhetoric, and sociology.

The USC graduate fellowships will provide office space to allow students 
to complete their dissertations and a $5,000 stipend for the 2006-2007 
academic year. Graduate fellows working on theses related to the meaning 
of the networked age are preferred. Graduate fellows are expected to 
spend significant time at the ACC and to participate in theme related 
activities during 2006-07, including a monthly speakers series and 
weekly seminars.

ACC is a research institute devoted to the study of new media from a 
multi-disciplinary perspective. We are in a period of fundamental 
transformation in the nature of the networks that connect people, 
information, objects, and locations. But, what does it mean and what, if 
anything, should be done to guide the process? The ACC research program 
will explore the drivers of these changes, their meaning, and their 
implications for business and government policy.

The 2006-2007 theme investigates the structure and evolution of today's 
political, social, cultural, technological, and knowledge networks. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * How new technology is transforming politics in areas such as 
redistricting and citizen participation, policy and law for network 
media access and control
     * Communication law and policy
     * New models of intellectual discourse and citation
     * Peer-to-peer cultural production and distribution
     * The emergence of pervasive mobile and wireless networks

Applications should include a CV, a cover letter including a personal 
statement, and a brief statement of research goals in relation to the 
theme, and the names and email addresses of three references. Address 
all application materials to Elizabeth Harmon, Annenberg Center for 
Communication, University of Southern California, 734 West Adams 
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007. Email contact: eharmon at annenberg.edu.

The deadline for receipt in our office is April 30, 2006.