[Air-L] Student conf "Social informatics: Internet Research, Social Media, Computer Games etc."

Olessia Koltsova olessia.koltsova at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 03:47:15 PST 2016


Dear all,

The annual HSE International Student Conf in St.Petersburg (Russia)
announces call for participation in its Social informatics session.
Dates Feb2-3, 2017
Deadline: Dec 1, 2016
Conf website https://spb.hse.ru/en/studresearch/

Session aims and scope:

 Social informatics both studies social aspects of information and
communication technologies (ITC) and uses those technologies to do
computationally complex social research. We welcome applications from
students of all disciplines engaged in such interdisciplinary projects, in
particular: sociology, psychology, political science, management,
economics, linguistics, computer science, health and urban studies and
others. The topics include, but are not limited to: online and gaming
behavior, prediction with internet data, human-computer interaction, ICT
adoption, health informatics, online experiments and interventions, urban
informatics and spatial analysis, education through internet and gaming,
and more.

Olessia Koltsova
Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies
National Research University Higher School of Economics
room 216, 55/2 Sedova St.,
190008, St.Petersburg, Russia
Phone: +7 (812) 560-00-55
www.linis.hse.ru
E-mail: ekoltsova at hse.ru
http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747


On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg <
Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no> wrote:

> The University of Bergen’s MA program in Digital Culture is accepting
> applications from international students until December 1. This is a
> tuition-free, two year Master's degree taught in English in Norway, with
> one year of course work and one year for writing a research-based MA thesis.
>
> You need a BA degree with at least a full year (60 ECTS if in Norway) of
> courses that can be seen as equivalent to digital culture, and courses
> equivalent to a half year that are relevant to the planned topic for your
> MA thesis. For European students, you can send in final grades after
> application, but for applicants outside Europe you do have to have
> completed your BA before Dec 1 to be considered. Sorry about that.
>
> To get a residency permit, students from outside the EU/EEA/EFTA need to
> have about USD 12,500 in a bank account to show they can cover living
> expenses. There are no tuition fees.
>
> Here is information about applying to do an MA in Norway as an
> international student, and about residency permits, health insurance and so
> on.
> http://www.uib.no/en/education/48934/international-masters-
> degree-applicants-residing-abroad
>
> Here is information about the MA program and admission:
> http://www.uib.no/en/studyprogramme/MAHF-DIKUL
>
> And here is general information about studying in Norway:
> http://www.studyinnorway.no
>
> Please feel free to email me if you have questions about the program
> itself. If you have practical questions about how to apply to do a degree
> as an international student, you can email master at uib.no.
>
> We also expect to advertise a PhD fellowship within the next few months,
> and I’ll post info about that to the list when we have it.
>
> Jill
>
>
> Jill Walker Rettberg
> Professor of Digital Culture
> Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
> University of Bergen
> Postboks 7800
> 5020 Bergen
>
> + 47 55588431
>
> Blog - http://jilltxt.net
> Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt
> My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs
> and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an
> open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free!
> http://jilltxt.net/books
>
>
>
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