Question
Where can you get a Ph.D. in Digital Sociology
Answer
HCI, computer science, marketing, sociology, psychology, social psychology, anthropology, management, organizational theory.
When a new subject emerges, if you wait till it is formalized and codified before jumping in, most of the meaty areas are already occupied. By the time the first "social media PhD" program is offered, 80% of the prime territory will have been occupied by farsighted colonizers from these well-positioned neighboring disciplines. Newton was not a "physicist" he was a "natural scientist." The first and greatest computer scientists were not computer science PhDs. They were mathematicians, electrical and mechanical engineers etc. The first surgeons were barbers.
Find a professor who is willing to live dangerously, convince a committee to give you enough rope to hang yourself, and jump. That's the only way you get to interdisciplinary territory before it is colonized.
Go West young man. If you wait for civilization, the game is over and only table scraps are going to be available for you.
When a new subject emerges, if you wait till it is formalized and codified before jumping in, most of the meaty areas are already occupied. By the time the first "social media PhD" program is offered, 80% of the prime territory will have been occupied by farsighted colonizers from these well-positioned neighboring disciplines. Newton was not a "physicist" he was a "natural scientist." The first and greatest computer scientists were not computer science PhDs. They were mathematicians, electrical and mechanical engineers etc. The first surgeons were barbers.
Find a professor who is willing to live dangerously, convince a committee to give you enough rope to hang yourself, and jump. That's the only way you get to interdisciplinary territory before it is colonized.
Go West young man. If you wait for civilization, the game is over and only table scraps are going to be available for you.