News of Interest to the Profession
Sid Bhattacharyya, Mary Beth Watson Manheim, Steve Jones, and Eric Welch, University of Illinois at Chicago, were awarded a grant of $497,000 by the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration for a two year research project that will examine how the use of social computing tools (SCT) affect work practices and outcomes in the US.
Steve Jones is Co-PI and Zizi Papacharissi is a participant on a National Science Foundation IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) grant of $3,200,000 awarded to an interdisciplinary team of scholars at the University of Illinois at Chicago for five years titled "Electronic Security and Privacy: Technology, Human, Enterprise and Legal Considerations."
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Charles T. Salmon is now Professor of Communication Studies at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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