Tag Archives: School of Informatics

Iowa Guide

By alex | Published: 11/24/2004
lago was wondering where he could get information about manuscript review times for various journals. I dropped him a note pointing him toward the Iowa Guide to journals in Mass Media and related fields. I don’t think this is his discipline, but it is a great resource, providing (self-reported) acceptance rates, manuscript policies, where they […]
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Beijing-bound

By alex | Published: 11/6/2004
No, not anytime soon. But it looks very likely that our school will be starting a Beijing graduate program, followed shortly by BS and MA programs in Singapore. (Oh, and keep this under your hat, or something, it’s not really public. It’s not like anyone actually reads this blog or anything.) This means that I […]
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Come work here

By alex | Published: 9/16/2004
Below is the ad that our department is putting into a bunch of the standard outlets. The faculty wanted “Now looking for smart people working on cool projects,” but that lost out to the standard form. If you are working on social software, and you can combine a background in social science with some knowledge […]
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New(ish) job

By alex | Published: 8/24/2004
While this may not be news to everyone who reads the blog, today it was made official. I have a new administrative position in the School: I am the Graduate Director of Informatics. In practice, I’ll still be teaching and doing research, but I will also be in charge of the Masters in Informatics program. […]
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