[Air-L] Graduate programs for "internet studies"?

Ismael Peña-López ictlogist at ictlogy.net
Wed Sep 29 10:04:30 PDT 2010


The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, http://in3.uoc.edu

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Devin Gaffney <itsme at devingaffney.com>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I just finished an exhilarating undergraduate program that gave me enough
> flexibility in order to study the impact/efficacy of Twitter during the Iran
> Election(
> http://www.devingaffney.com/-iranelection-quantifying-online-activism),
> but in order to pull it off, I had to really bend some of the institutions
> rules, and just barely got the necessary advisorship in order to study it in
> a reasonable way. I am looking to jump right back into school for the
> following academic year, and am trying to figure out which schools have
> which programs - it seems that the information/websites for all the programs
> that do exist are well ensconced within their respective institutions
> websites, which tend towards labyrinthine. Does anyone have a good list of
> institutions (US/elsewhere) where a Masters/PhD in fields either directly or
> otherwise closely related to "internet studies" (or "web science," or
> whatever term you use, as this even seems to be up in the air, as far as I
> can tell)? Obviously, there are places like Citizenlab, Berkman, and OII,
> which all seem to at least offer classes in some capacity, but are there any
> others i just haven't found?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Devin Gaffney
> http://www.devingaffney.com
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