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Fostering Collaboration for Global Impact

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CITS is dedicated to nurturing the skills involved in understanding transitions in technological and social environments of the next generation of researchers, developers, educators, policy-makers, and public citizens. To this end, many of the funded research projects involve graduate and undergraduate students affiliated with the Center. For example, in 2013 graduate students from the Computer Science, Communication, and Film and Media Studies Departments accompanied an interdisciplinary team of CITS affiliated faculty to collect data for their project on "internet freedom and the free flow of informed, censor-resistant online social networks".

In addition, the Center organizes a Ph.D. emphasis in Information Technology & Society (IT&S) in order to enable graduate students to develop interdisciplinary perspectives and diverse expertise. Each year we offer a "gateway" seminar to introduce students to research paradigms and literatures relevant to studying information technology and society from outside their own discipline. Course topics have ranged from "Algorithms and Culture" to "Smart Cities: Smart Citizens?" Participation in the emphasis also requires students take a set of courses related to information technology outside their own department. Through cultivating a deeper awareness of relevant work in other disciplines, these courses help develop students' ability to frame their research questions in novel, creative ways, with broader tools to answer technology and society questions. Our graduates are employed by leading international academic and research institutions.

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