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PhD Student Resources

A work in process.

This page is dedicated to presenting useful resources for current and potential PhD students whose work relates to community informatics. All of the material here is given as recommendations from current and past students and professors.

Students would do well to visit Chip Bruce's Graduate Student Survival Guide, too.

• Conferences
• Journals
• Leaders in the field
• Example student papers
• Listservs and CI websites
• Field Exam readings
• UIUC classes
• Example posters
• Job Market Candidate resources

Conferences

Major

• Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) 2009
  Prato, Italty | Monash University Prato Centre | November 4-6
• iConference (iSchools) 2010
  Urbana-Champaign, IL | University of Illinois I Hotel | February 3-6
• 2010 ALISE Annual Conference
  Boston, MA | January 12-15
• American Library Association ALA
  Washington, DC | Washington Convention Center | June 24-30
• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
  Vancouver, BC, Canada | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | November 6-11
• Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)
  Milwaukee, WI | Hilton Milwaukee City Center | October 8-10

Minor

• Imagining America
• Community as Intellectual Space, Paseo Boricua

Journals

PhD students, staff and faculty were asked to each list their favorite CI-related journals to create this list.

Chip Bruce Suggests

• Favorite journals (many!)
• His recent publications (usually education-related)

Ann Bishop and Sharon Irish Suggest

• Journal of Community Informatics
• Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
• New Directions for Teaching and Learning
• Media Culture and Society
• Feminist Media Studies
• Information Society
• Continuum (Journal of Media and Cultural Studies)
• Critical Studies in Media Communication
• Communication Research
• Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
• Journal of Health Communication
• Publications of major LIS conference associations - AERA, ALA, ASIST, ALISE, AOIR

Jeff Ginger (PhD Student) Suggests

• New Media and Society
• First Monday

Leaders in the field

PhD students, staff and faculty were asked to suggest people they felt are leaders in the field of community informatics (and related fields).

• Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Daniel E. Atkins, Kellogg Professor of Community Information
• Joan C. Durrance, Margaret Mann Collegiate Professor of Information
• Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program
• Doug Schuler, Evergreen University, Washington, USA
• Manuel Castells, University of Sotuhern California

Example student papers

Some of Jeff Ginger's papers can be found on his research website, Community Informatics Projects Sandbox

Listservs and CI websites

• http://www.communicationforsocialchange.org/
• http://www.kit.nl/smartsite.shtml?id=SINGLEPUBLICATION&ItemID=1797
• http://www.uoguelph.ca/snowden

Field Exam readings and questions

Questions

Some example questions from qualifying exams can be found on Chip Bruce's Graduate Student Survival Guide

Readings

• Gurstein, M. (2007) What Is Community Informatics (and Why Does it Matter) http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0712/0712.3220.pdf 
• Kling, R. (2000). Learning about information technologies and social change: The contribution of social informatics. The Information Society 16(3), 217-232.
• Sawyer, S. and Eschenfelder, K. R. (2002). Social informatics: Perspectives, examples, and trends. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36, 427-464.
• Wellman, B. (1997). An electronic group is virtually a social network. In S. Kiesler (Ed.), Culture of the Internet (pp. 179-205), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Williams, K., and Durrance, J. C. (2009). Community informatics. In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Marcia J. Bates, Mary Niles Maack and Miriam Drake, editors. Taylor & Francis.

UIUC Classes

• Dan Shiller - GSLIS - Information Society
• Abdul Alkalimat - GSLIS/Afro - Technology and the Black Experience
• Caroline Haythornthwaite, Michael Twidale, Bill Cope - GSLIS/Education - Ubiquitous Learning
• Anke Voss - GSLIS - Archival
• Assata Zerai, Zsuzsa Gille, Markus Shulz - Sociology - Qualitative methods, global ethnographies, social movements/theory
• Ken Salo
• Christian Sandvig

Example posters

CI posters from UIUC students can be found in the Community Informatics Multimedia Archive.

Any from other Universities?

Job Market Candidate Resources

http://www.ischools.org/site/jobs/