[Air-L] CFP: Doctoral Colloquium at IR 13.0

[Klaus Bruhn Jensen]

CFP: Doctoral Colloquium at IR 13.0

Call for Participation:

Doctoral Colloquium at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 2012

Internet Research 13.0, http://ir13.aoir.org/

University of Salford, United Kingdom

 

In keeping with its commitment to students’ scholarship in the Association of Internet Researchers, the Internet Research 13.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on October 18, 2012. Participants will have a chance to present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length, with peers and established senior researchers.

This year, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, will coordinate the Doctoral Colloquium, and will be joined by colleagues including:

Nancy Baym, Microsoft Research New England

Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology

Mia Consalvo, Concordia University

Charles Ess, Drury University

Alex Halavais, Arizona State University

Rasmus Helles, University of Copenhagen

Annette Markham, Umea University, Sweden

Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

(Others to be announced)

Interested students should prepare a two-page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their research problems, methodologies, ethics, and the process of ‘bringing it all together’ in the dissertation.

SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION Please submit the two-page application by Friday, June 1, 2012 to: Klaus Bruhn Jensen kbj at hum.ku.dk

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2012. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare a four-page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 31, 2012.


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Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Professor, dr.phil.

Film and Media Studies Section
Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication
University of Copenhagen
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark

kbj at hum.ku.dk
www.media.ku.dk

Tel +45-35328100
Fax +45-35328110

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*New publication - 2nd edition*

Jensen, KB (Ed.) (2012). A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies. 2nd edition. London, New York: Routledge, www.routledge.com/9780415609661