fyi. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:24:26 +0100 From: Mireia Fernández Ardèvol <mireia.f.a@gmail.com> To: mobile-society@googlegroups.com Subject: [mobile-society] Doctoral positions, Open University of Catalonia Dear colleagues, Please, find below a call for submissions for applications for doctoral students. I would like to highlight 2 specific research lines linked to mobilities as a part of the “Mobile Communication, Economy and Society” research program. a) The study of the processes of acceptance, or rejection, of mobile telephony among senior population in developed countries, mainly but not exclusively Europe. b) The study of the contribution of mobile communication to social and economic development mainly in poorer areas, mainly but not exclusively Latin America. Links to these areas can be found in the section "Network Society". However, many of the other areas listed may be of interest to students in Communications and Media Studies. Regards, Dr. Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol co-director research program "Mobile Communication, Economy and Society" IN3 - Open University of Catalonia mireia.f.a@gmail.com / mfernandezar@uoc.edu *************************************** Call for applications. 20 doctoral positions @ IN3-UOC Doctoral Program in the Information and Knowledge Society, 2012 20 doctoral positions offered: 10 full-time, granted students + 10 on-line students. Deadline: Feb, 5. 2012 The areas covered include: • Cognitive Neuroscience • Communication and New Media • Digital Culture and Cultural Studies • Economics and Business • eGovernment • eHealth • Gender and ICT • Knowledge Management • Law and Internet • Network Society • Urban Transformations More info: http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/opencms/en/doctorat/convocatoria_acces/oferta_places/societat_informacio/index.html Go to the call (granted positions): http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/export/sites/default/PDF/Convocatoria_beques_ANG.pdf. (This document details the scope and nature of the grant.) Please, feel free to disseminate. ***************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to mobile-society@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mobile-society+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en.