Consider MSU for an Interdisciplinary Information and Media Doctoral Degree

21 Nov 2016

Consider MSU for an Interdisciplinary Information and Media Doctoral Degree

The Information and Media PhD program at Michigan State University seeks outstanding students who wish to join a unique interdisciplinary program of study at the intersection of the social sciences and technical systems. The faculty develop and apply research about media and society and evolving information and communication technologies to important problems. The program engages students to become active scholars, teachers, and leaders in the media and information fields. The PhD program is offered jointly by the Department of Advertising + Public Relations, the School of Journalism, and the Department of Media and Information, and gives students access to fifty […]

24 Oct 2016

Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on Data Sharing

Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on ‘Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data: Complexities and Contradictions in the Use of a Digital Data Archive’ presented for the Quello Center, Michigan State University, on October 5, 2016. The talk draws on her research with DANS, the Data Archiving and Networked Services of the Netherlands, and the UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures. Christine L. Borgman – Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data from Quello Center on Vimeo. Abstract Researchers face competing challenges for access to their data. One is the pressure to make their data open in response to mandates from funding agencies, […]

26 Sep 2016

A Challenge to Virtual Reality by A. Michael Noll

A Challenge to Virtual Reality A. Michael Noll September 26, 2016 © 2016 AMN Is today’s virtual reality little more than real fantasy? Back in the 1960s, Maurice Constant of the National Film board of Canada visited Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. I was in the audience listening to him challenge us to make a system that would allow a designer to actually mold with their hands a virtual clay that existed only in the computer – seeing and feeling simultaneously in 3D. I was challenged by this vision, and subsequently designed and built an interactive 3D […]

26 Feb 2015

Launching the Net Neutrality Impact Study

MSU’s Quello Center is launching a study of the impact of net neutrality. With the support for net neutrality regulations at the FCC, and in the White House, the debate should quickly move from theoretical speculation to empirical realities: What will be the actual impact of net neutrality regulation? The net neutrality debate has galvanized a wide variety of stakeholders in opposing camps around the wisdom of this regulation on the future of a global, open and secure Internet. Proponents argue that net neutrality will keep the Internet open and in line with its early vision by not advantaging those […]

30 Oct 2014

ICT4Detroit: The Role of ICT in Collaboration for Detroit’s Revitalization

Facing the nation’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy, the city of Detroit is emerging as a test bed for initiatives aimed at reversing the city’s longstanding decline. These efforts are coming from a range of sources, including federal, state and local governments, major corporations, startups and startup incubators, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, non-profits and citizen-driven community groups. While the depth and dimensions of Detroit’s challenges may be historically unique, so too are the opportunities for revitalization-focused communication, computation and collaboration afforded by today’s information and communication technologies (ICT). The unprecedented nature of both the crisis and the potential power of ICT-enabled responses to […]

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