SMID – Sammenslutningen af medieforskere i Danmark

*PhD course – 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 stationary as well as mobile 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, familiar 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 a guest professor of the Danish National Research School for Media, Communication, and Journalism during the spring of 2010. Other contributors to the seminar include key figures in Scandinavian new media studies. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss papers on their doctoral projects.

Time: April 14-16 2010
Place: IT University of Copenhagen, http://www1.itu.dk/ (rooms to be announced)
Organizers: Klaus Bruhn Jensen & Gitte Stald
Contact: kbj@hum.ku.dk, stald@itu.dk
Sponsored by The Danish National Research School in Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ)

More information, http://fmkj.dk/?p=1735