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[ecrea] DSTL PhD studentship: Achieving Legitimacy in a New Media Ecology

Wed Jun 27 18:17:04 GMT 2012




Following a UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) PhD programme award a studentship is available on this topic supervised by Prof. Andrew Hoskins, beginning October 2012 and based in the College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. The funding is up to four years and covers UK/EU fees, standard living allowance, research costs, conferences and travel.


Key objective: To explain how commemorations, mediated through emerging cyber and social technologies, influence public perceptions of the legitimacy of UK military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Using a mixed methods approach including online ethnography and media archive mining, this research will investigate public engagement with and responses to online commemorations – particularly social networking sites such as YouTube and Facebook. This project will interrogate the role of online commemorative practices, including memorial websites and commemorative amateur videos, in contesting and legitimising support for recent and ongoing UK armed forces campaigns overseas.

Essential application criteria:

A minimum 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline

A Masters level degree (or completion imminent) in a relevant discipline

Experience in online ethnography and in online multimodal discourse analysis

Comprehensive understanding of issues and debates in digital media and memory studies, and in the cultural memory of modern warfare


Potential applicants should email: (andrew.hoskins /at/ glasgow.ac.uk).

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Professor Andrew Hoskins
Interdisciplinary Research Professor In Global Security

http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/ourstaff/andrewhoskins/

Founding Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies (http://mss.sagepub.com)
Founding Co-Editor, Media, War & Conflict (http://mwc.sagepub.com)

Director, Adam Smith Research Foundation
College of Social Sciences
University of Glasgow
66 Oakfield Avenue
Glasgow
G12 8LS

T: +44 (0)141 330 7656
F: +44 (0)141 330 7491
W: www.glasgow.ac.uk

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401



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