Considering a PhD in library and information studies? The School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be hosting an information session on PhD programs in October. PhD Program Info Session Date: October 11, 2013 (Friday) Time: 5:00 to 6:00 PM CDT Location: SLIS Commons (4207 Helen C. White Hall) More Information? Visit: slis.wisc.edu/phdwelcome.htm Research Areas - Book, print, and media studies: Research in the field combines literary, historical, and information fields ranging from traditional book history to recent development in the digital humanities. Strongly allied with the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. - Children, youth and media: Research in this area draws on a range of disciplines including education, media and cultural studies, and childhood studies. Areas of study include learning, identity, and media consumption and production. - Consumer health informatics: Research that centers on the information structures, processes and technologies that empower consumers to manage their own health--a diverse array of work on topics from health information literacy to consumer-friendly language, personal health records, and Internet-based strategies and resources. Represented on campus by the Living Environments Laboratory, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. - History of librarianship: Historical and biographical research on librarianship, examining how race, gender and class influence librarianship. - Information ethics and policy: Research with an emphasis on legal and philosophical issues related to privacy, information collection and dissemination, state transparency, and licensing contracts. - Information labor over time and space: Research on the workers and designers involved in the business of the telegraph system, the construction of the closed-captioning system, and the computerization of metadata systems in libraries. - Information use and users: Research on users’ interaction with information and factors affecting the information behavior. Areas include information literacy, information seeking, user-centered systems and services design, and information equity. - Societal level aspects of information and communications technologies: Research on intellectual and cultural property issues, licensing and copyright, and changes in markets and business models for electronic information products. Web based government information, policy and management issues inherent the production of government information and records.
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