Ph.D. Media Studies Concentration

The Media Studies area of the Ph.D. program is run by the faculty of the department of Journalism and Media Studies.

Ph.D. LIS Concentration

The Library and Information Science (LIS) area of concentration (also known as iSchool) in our interdisciplinary Ph.D. provides an excellent environment for research.

Ph.D. COM Concentration

Areas of Concentration

Students in this Ph.D. Program may elect to focus their study in the following areas: Communication, Library and Information Science, Media Studies

Admissions and Financial Aid

Application deadlines for the fall term are January 5 of each year, with late applications to be considered at a May 1 deadline. Students requesting financial aid, must apply by January 5.

Reynolds R. & Leeder, C. (2018). The digital divide and web use skills. In Hobbs, R. & Mihalaidis, P. International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy. NY: Wiley.

Reynolds R. & Leeder, C. (2018). Cultivating school librarian decision-making for e-Learning Innovation. In Lee, V. & A. Phillips, Reconceptualizing Libraries: Opportunities from the Information and Learning Sciences.

Reynolds, R. & Harel, I. (2019, in press). Lessons Learned During Research and Development of Globaloria, 2005-2017. In Holbert, N., Berland, M. & Y. Kafai, Constructionism in Context.

Reynolds, R. & Hansen, P. (2018). Inter-disciplinary research on inquiry and learning: Information and Learning Sciences perspectives. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR). New Brunswick, NJ.

Reynolds, R., Chu, S., Ahn, J., Buckingham Shum, S., Hansen, P., Haythornthwaite, C., Hong, H., Meyers, E., Rieh, S.Y. (2019). Inaugural issue perspectives on Information and Learning Sciences as an integral scholarly Nexus. Information and Learning Sciences. 120(1/2). Pp. 2-18.

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