August 25th, 2008 rachel
Fellowships Now Available for Doctoral Study: Information in Society
The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.
Apply by January 1, 2009 to begin study in Fall 2009
Contact: Professor and Associate Dean Linda C. Smith:
(217) 333-7742 |
Email: lcsmith@uiuc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/phd/infosociety
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August 20th, 2008 rachel
Apologies for cross-posting -
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce the Information in Society Fall 2008 Speaker Series. The series was inaugurated in Spring 2008 as part of the newly created Information in Society doctoral concentration. All lectures are held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign Illinois, 61820, USA. In addition to the lecture, speakers participate in a lunch discussion and office hour. Please visit our web site for more information:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/phd/infosociety/
Click on the following to join the speaker series announcement list:
https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/infosoc_speakers
1. James Cortada: “How Demand-Side Computing Shaped the History of Digitization”
Monday, September 8, 2008
4:00-5:30 pm
LISB 126
Lecture Abstract: Normally the history of computing is told from the perspective of the engineers, firms, and the industries that invented, manufactured, and sold computers. It is also told largely as a US centric story. However, we are increasingly realizing that users were not passive players in this process; rather they used computers when it made sense to them and worked with vendors to develop what they needed. They also developed patterns of adoption that spread around the world. This talk will discuss how whole industries embraced computing and, in the process, changed how they performed their daily work.
Speaker Biography: Dr. James W. Cortada received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from Florida State University, and is the author of two dozen books on the history and management of information technology. His most recent project has been the 3-volume The Digital Hand, which surveys the use of computing in 36 industries over the past six decades. He leads research teams at the IBM Institute for Business Value that monitor use of computing around the world.
2. Alasdair Roberts: “Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age”
Monday, October 6, 2008
4:00-5:30 pm
LISB 126
Lecture Abstract: The last decade has seen an extraordinary increase in the number of countries that have adopted laws like the US’ Freedom of Information Act. Some people say that legal and technological change is producing a new age of transparency. But there are also complaints about new levels of secrecy — justified in the name of executive privilege, national security, and corporate confidentiality. How do we make sense of these conflicting claims? Is governmental secrecy on the decline, or getting worse?
Speaker Bio: Dr. Alasdair Roberts is the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School. Dr. Roberts writes extensively on problems of governance, law and public policy. He is the author of Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age, and most recently The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government. Professor Roberts was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration in 2007. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the School of Public Policy, University College London. He has had fellowships with the Open Society Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Roberts received a JD from the University of Toronto in 1984, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.
3. Laura DeNardis: “Global Internet Standards and Developing Nations”
Monday, November 10, 2008
4:00-5:30 pm
LISB 126
Lecture Abstract:TBA
Speaker Bio: Dr. Laura DeNardis is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The author of Information Technology in Theory (2007 with Pelin Aksoy) and numerous book chapters and articles, she is an interdisciplinary law and technology scholar whose research addresses the legal and political implications of information technologies and new media. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled “IPv6: Politics of the Next Generation Internet” and she is currently working on a new book, Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance, to be published by the MIT Press. She has previously taught at New York University and in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. DeNardis received a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth.
4. Daniel Headrick: “Telecommunications and Imperialism: Double-Edged Sword”
Monday, December 8, 2008
4:00-5:30 pm
LISB 126
Lecture Abstract: When the colonial powers introduced telegraphs to and within their colonial empires, they did so in large part to tighten the control of the metropoles over their colonies and that of the colonial governments over their subjects. Telecommunications had another effect, however, namely it spread the news from distant places, thereby stimulating new ideas that threatened to undermine the colonial status quo. The hopes that the imperialists placed in the controlling powers of telecommunication have so far proved to be misplaced.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Daniel Headrick is an international telecommunications historian and Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University. He is the author of several publications, including The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940 (1991), When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (2000), and the forthcoming Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. He earned a PhD in History from Princeton University in 1971. [jesse]
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