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The ATLAS Ph.D. in Technology, Media and Society
The interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Technology, Media and Society is offered by the ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Media and Society) Institute at CU-Boulder and involves dozens of faculty from disciplines ranging from the arts, humanities and social sciences to sciences, engineering, business and law. It is intended for highly motivated students whose interdisciplinary interests at the intersections of technology, media and society are not met well by traditional disciplinary Ph.D. programs. Each student in the program forms a faculty committee appropriate to his or her interests from the outset and works with that committee to construct a set of courses and candidacy exams customized to those interests. A sampling of the areas in which students may seek to study and conduct research at the intersection of Technology, Media and Society includes:
• Globalization and the networked information age
• The impacts of information and communication technologies upon education, upon business and scientific practice and/or upon social interactions
• New forms of digital media, arts and entertainment
Privacy, security and ethics in the information age
• Methods and impacts of human-computer interaction.