SMID – Sammenslutningen af medieforskere i Danmark

*First announcement*

Internet Research: New Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Hosting most previous forms of human communication – one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many – the internet is a unique kind of medium, a meta-medium (Kay & Richardson, 1977), which users access from mobile and other platforms. As such, it challenges media and communication studies to think again about relevant and appropriate research methodologies. The internet also provides an opportunity for research to refashion, or reinvent, standard approaches and instruments.

This PhD course provides an overview of the state of internet research, illustrating the applicability of both new and old methodologies to this field of inquiry. The central contributor to the course will be Professor Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, the founding president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and a key figure in internet research for more than a decade. Steve Jones is an FMKJ guest professor during the spring of 2010. Other contributors to the course will be announced shortly.

Time: April 14-16 2010
Place: Copenhagen
Organizers: Klaus Bruhn Jensen & Gitte Stald
Contact: kbj@hum.ku.dk