[Air-L] Technology and authority: Graduate programs

[Kim De Vries]

While there are many different considerations, I think a list is helpful as
a place to start.  Perhaps we could extract the data from this thread and
make a page at the AoIR site, if nothing like it exists already.

Best,

Kim

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Brian -
>
> As many researchers have commented previously on this
> list, it is not usually paramount WHERE one attends
> university, but WHO one works with while there (there
> are of course mitigating circumstances in many cases).
> In that case, one would look for the foremost academic
> "authority on authority" rather than collecting a list
> of Schools.
>
> I would name an academic currently working at a
> primary centre for Internet Studies in Australia at
> Curtin University. Matthew Allen, former President of
> AoIR is an authority on authority. Further, I see by
> his webpage that he concentrates his efforts currently
> on postgraduate (graduate in the US) supervision. That
> is a key component of your search - 1) will the bright
> academic in question have time to work with you and
> your project, and naturally, 2) will they have any
> funding available for you to do so?
>
> I am not saying Matthew can answer all your needs, but
> here is his website:
>
> http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm?
> id=MHNPFDd <http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm?id=MHNPFDd>
>
> Otherwise, there are several key academics on the role
> of authority. I would name David Lyon and andrew
> Feenberg as two very notable academics in this area,
> although I am not aware of their supervisory
> capacities at present. There are doubtless many more.
>
> To address your other issue, mobile communication -
> Marcus Foth, also on the AoIR board, has done much
> work on mobile communications, and he is located at
> the Queensland University of Technology (also in
> Australia).
>
> http://www.vrolik.de/
>
> Good luck in your search!
>
> Denise N. Rall
>
>
>
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