Doctor of Philosophy in Media, Technology, and Society

The doctoral program in Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) provides a graduate environment for innovative research in the study of media and communications technologies.

Interdisciplinary in approach, the program allows students great autonomy both within MTS and the University at large to design individual programs of study. Drawing on the University's diverse resources and distinguished faculty, MTS encourages research on historical, contemporary, and emerging media that challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and assumptions.

The MTS faculty are internationally known scholars who are trailblazers in communication research, with interests spanning boundaries both methodological (with quantitative and qualitative methods) and substantive (with foci as diverse as internet studies, organizational contexts, network studies, and interface design). The program aims at equipping scholars to address significant theoretical and research issues in media and communication technology.

Events

5/20/13 MTS Brown Bag Series: Will Barley

MTS PhD Candidate Will Barley will will speak at the Brown Bag on Monday 5/20/13 at noon in Frances Searle Room 1-483.

5/16/13 Joint MTS & TSB Speaker Series: Charlotte Lee (University of Washington)

Charlotte Lee will be a joint MTS & TSB speaker on May 16, 2013 at 4pm, Frances Searle 1-483. Reception will follow. Her talk is titled “Developing cyberinfrastructures: Data-centric virtual organizations and scientific innovation.”

5/13/13 MTS Brown Bag Series: Jennifer Ihm

MTS doctoral student Jennifer Ihm will speak at the Brown Bag on Monday 5/13/13 at noon in Frances Searle Room 1-483.

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Awards and Publications

Katie Day Good Receives AAUW Dissertation Fellowship

MTS PhD Candidate Katie Day Good has been awarded the prestigious Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. Katie’s dissertation is titled “Nations as neighbors: Mediating internationalism in American education, 1900-1960.” Congratulations, Katie!

Jeremy Birnholtz published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Jeremy Birnholtz published “Cross-Campus Collaboration: A Scientometric and Network Case Study of Publication Activity Across Two Campuses of a Single Institution,” in the January issue of JASIST, together with Cornell collaborators Geri Gay, Shion Guha, Y. Connie Yuang, and Karen Heller.

Darren Gergle publishes paper in Human-Computer Interaction

Darren Gergle published “Using Visual Information for Grounding and Awareness in Collaborative Tasks” in the January 2013 issue of Human-Computer Interaction, together with collaborators Bob Kraut (CMU) and Sue Fussell (Cornell).

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Blog

Research Adventures in India
This fall I had the privilege traveling to Kolkata, India on behalf of my advisor, Paul Leonardi. The trip was part of a NSF-funded grant studying remote occupational socialization in collaboration with Diane Bailey at the University of Texas, Austin and Bonnie Nardi at the University of California, Irvine. I was fortunate to have an [...]
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MTS is Going to London…
Fifteen members of the MTS community are going to be part of the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in London this coming June. Representing the program at that conference will be students Courtney Blackwell, Drew Cingel, Sabrina Connell, Katie Day Good, Robin Hoecker, Eugenia Mitchelstein, Casey Pierce, and Lindsay Young; postdoc Alexis Lauricella; [...]
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Greetings from Paris
One of the most common questions that I encounter when I describe my comparative project on the development of the Web as a self-expression medium is, “Why France?” To be sure, the selection of cases in comparative research is always defined by theoretical reasons. Here, I would like to briefly describe what makes Paris such [...]
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