[ecrea] CITP/MiLab Spring 2015 Doctoral Workshop

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CITP/MiLab Spring 2015 Doctoral Workshop

The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton 
University and the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab) at the University of 
Vienna are pleased to announce our inaugural Doctoral Workshop to be 
held April 6th to April 8th at Princeton University.

The workshop will be led by Ed Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of 
Computer Science and Public Affairs and Director of CITP at Princeton 
University, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, who holds the Medienwandel 
Professorship in the Department of Communication and leads the MiLab at 
the University of Vienna.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for leading doctoral 
students to present their late-stage research to experts in the field, 
receive feedback and advice, and gain exposure to related work in other 
disciplines. We seek to provide a helpful, interactive experience for 
students, to highlight the work of rising stars in this area, and to 
foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Participants will be selected through a competitive review process. We 
expect to invite about 8 doctoral students to attend. We will provide 
support for travel and lodging up to $500 per attendee. Students are 
encouraged to submit dissertation relevant work; abstracts and shorter 
proposals will not be accepted.

Research topics should focus on the interplay between information and 
communication technologies and the social, political, civic, and 
governmental spheres. We welcome applications from doctoral students 
doing relevant work in any discipline, including communication studies, 
computer science, economics, political science, and sociology. Possible 
topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

.        Citizen journalism
.        Civic engagement and digital technology
.        E-voting security
.        Internet governance
.        Open government data
.        Privacy technologies for democratic ends
.        Social media and political expression
.        State-sponsored internet freedom programs

Submission process: Please submit your manuscript, along with your CV 
and full contact information, to Laura Cummings-Abdo ((citp /at/ princeton.edu) 
<mailto:(citp /at/ princeton.edu)>) and Meike Müller 
((meike.mueller /at/ univie.ac.at) <mailto:(meike.mueller /at/ univie.ac.at)>) no 
later than February 1, 2015.

For more information about our work, please visit our websites: CITP 
(citp.princeton.edu <http://citp.princeton.edu>) and MiLab 
(milab.univie.ac.at <http://milab.univie.ac.at>).