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jESSE colleagues:

 

The School of Library and Information Studies at The University of Alabama is proud to announce the appointment of Miriam E. Sweeney to a tenure-track position beginning August 16, 2013.  

 

Sweeney’s research explores how cultural values about gender and race inform the design, use, and meaning of information and communication technologies. Her research program will explore anthropomorphized virtual agents and interface design across platforms from a feminist critical informatics perspective.  She will defend her dissertation at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in fall, 2013. Her dissertation, entitled “Servants of Cyberspace: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey,” is supervised by Dr. Linda C. Smith.

 

Other research currently underway includes a paper written with collaborators (Changing Course: Collaborative Reflections of Teaching/Taking “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Information Professions”), which is in revision for the Journal of Education in Library and Information Science.  Sweeney is currently active as a reviewer with New Media & Society, and is a member of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and the International Communication Association (ICA). 

 

Sweeney, who was an IMLS Information in Society Fellow at UIUC, holds an MA from The School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa and a Certificate in Book Studies from the University of Iowa Center for the Book as well as a BA in Anthropology from Indiana University. 

 

Miriam Sweeney is welcomed by an energetic group of scholars at The University of Alabama!

 

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Steven L. MacCall, PhD

Interim Director and Associate Professor

School of Library and Information Studies

College of Communication and Information Sciences

The University of Alabama

Box 870252

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0252

 

Work: 205.348.6727

Fax: 205.348.3746

 

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