The 2012 dissertation, “Essays on the economic impacts of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa, ” was honored by the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.
Social media researcher danah boyd is joining the School of Information Advisory Board. Dr. boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, a leading scholar of the online lives of today’s youth, and a 2008 alumna of the I School.
The Pop-Up Archive, first developed as a 2012 MIMS final project, is an open-source software system to streamline the entire workflow of a radio producer. Now the Archive is the winner of a $300,000 Knight News Challenge grant.
