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

[bl506 at york.ac.uk]

You may also be interested in either of the MSc's we run here at the 
University of York (UK) Social Media & Interactive Technologies or Social 
Media & Management.

Brian

On Sep 29 2010, Devin Gaffney 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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