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

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Are any of these distance learning programmes?

On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Sarah Oates wrote:

> First of all, I've just romped through your paper and you wrote that  
> as an UNDERGRADUATE? Damn, you're good.
>
> I hear your pain on the internet studies/grad thing -- sometimes  
> these things are hard to find but I am sure this is the perfect list  
> to ask -- here are some good ones out there that I know in the UK,  
> try:
> Royal Holloway near London
> Leicester University is developing into a hot place to 'do' internet  
> studies (always look for a place with at least 2 people ... they  
> have 5 or 6)
> Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
> some folk at Leeds and Goldsmith's (London)
> London School of Economics, they're developing this area
>
> our programme is great for abstract concepts/political communication  
> and you could do a very fun MSc dissertation on this very topic ...  
> I'm just now working with someone in Computing Science to tackle  
> this sort of thing, see our programme at
> http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/politicalcommunicationmscpgdip/
>
> When I update my own webpage (www.media-politics.com) about this  
> (good thing to put up), I'll Email back
>
> SAO
>
> Sarah Oates
> Professor of Political Communication
> School of Social and Political Sciences
> Adam Smith Building
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8RT
>
> Email: sarah.oates at glasgow.ac.uk
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> Subject: [Air-L] Graduate programs for "internet studies"?
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>
> 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 <http://www.devingaffney.com/>
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