Doctor of Philosophy in Media, Technology, and Society

The Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) doctoral program is an innovative, interdisciplinary, and flexible curriculum focusing on the dynamic media and technology environment and its impact. The program encourages students to pursue their passion by designing individualized programs of study that incorporate relevant classes from across Northwestern University. The program faculty are internationally renowned for their research in areas such as:

Children’s development
Digital media use and effects
Health and well-being
Human-computer interaction

Innovation and change
Media institutions
Networks and organizing
Social media

The MTS faculty undertake research in these areas using a wide array of traditional and innovative research methods. In addition, they actively pursue opportunities to make positive economic, cultural, and social impact through their research in businesses, nonprofit, and government agencies.

Events

6/3/13 MTS Brown Bag Series: Robin Hoecker

MTS doctoral student Robin Hoecker will will speak at the Brown Bag on Monday 6/3/13 at noon in Frances Searle Room 1-483.

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.”

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Awards and Publications

Angela Xiao Wu Receives Dissertation Fellowship

MTS doctoral candidate Angela Xiao Wu has received a Dissertation Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for her dissertation “Uses of the Chinese Internet: Everyday Media Practices and Political Subject-Formation among China’s Early Web Surfers.” Congratulations, Angela!

Will Barley Wins Stinchcombe Award

MTS doctoral candidate Will Barley has won the 2013 Art Stinchcombe Dissertation Prize for his work entitled “Cloudy with a Chance of Partnership: How Weather Researchers Shape Science to Support Collaboration.” Congrats, Will!

Aaron Shaw Wins APSA Award

MTS faculty member Aaron Shaw has received the Best Published Article of 2012 by the Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political Science Association for his paper, co-authored with Yochai Benkler, “A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and the Right” (American Behavioral Scientist, 2012, vol. 56, 459-487). Congratulations, Aaron!

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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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