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The Social Media & Society Cluster is a transdisciplinary unit within Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information that supports research that extends across the boundaries of the i-School, communication, and media studies programs within the School. Consisting of faculty from the departments of Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, and Library and Information Science, our faculty offer an interdisciplinary PhD program, as well as a Master of Communication and Information Studies and a Master of Information. A key element of our program involves mentoring from these faculty that encourages direct involvement in cutting edge research.

Embracing the transdisciplinary nature of research in this area, our faculty represent multiple communities, including communication, complexity, journalism, sociology, media studies, computer science, and organizational behavior. Included within our faculty are some of the most prominent in the world doing research in the area of new media, community informatics, social informatics, urban informatics, human-computer interaction, social network analysis, network science, and computer-mediated communication.