[Air-L] Technology and authority: Graduate programs

[M. Deanya Lattimore]

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



James Howison wrote:
> I think that research like that would also be very welcome within the 
> Information Schools (iSchools):
>
> http://www.ischools.org/oc/schools.html
>
> (I notice that you have Rutgers iSchool on the list, but there are 
> many others, like Syracuse, where I am, that I know would welcome such 
> work.)
>
> Of course, the main goal should be to identify a researcher (or better 
> yet a small group of co-located collaborators) whose research work is 
> close to your interests and whose research style you respect.
>
> --J
>
> On May 22, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Brian Wickhem wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>> Brian Wickhem
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