I believe that I have just finished running the last model needed for my dissertation research, and have also finished reading the literature that has been produced on my topic since I wrote the proposal. Hence, I am starting the writing process. I am still hoping to be able to defend by mid-to-late summer.

Having spent all summer collecting data, and the early fall doing content analysis of collected texts, I'm now starting into the actual statistical modeling phase, after which there will be much reading, writing, and defending... hopefully by May!

I am now officially an ABD / PhC.

Please note that my proposal defense start time has changed to 2:00pm EDT.

However, it should still end by 3:45 or 4:00.

Our apologies for any inconvenience that this change causes.

SLIS doctoral candidate Jonathan Warren will defend his dissertation proposal:

Thursday, June 11
1:00-3:45 PM
Herman B Wells Library, Room LI030

Title: "TV in the Age of the Internet: Information quality of science fiction fansites"

Abstract:

The human subjects application for my dissertation was just approved! This means I can start collecting and analyzing data with the ethical blessings of the University. This is notable because, due to an audit of IU by the federal government, recent applications by other doctoral students in my school have taken 6-12 months to get approved.

Today, I officially finished the qualifying exam process, and became a doctoral candidate (ABD, PhC, etc.). Let the dissertating begin! For anyone interested, here is the final version of the qual paper.