[ecrea] Digital and Social Media PhD Scholarships

QUT Creative Industries Faculty PhD Scholarships for 2015 Entry

Applicants with excellent academic track records (equal to an Australian 
Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours) or equivalent professional 
research experience may be eligible for competitive PhD scholarships to 
undertake study in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. The Faculty 
is also offering a number of top-ups to these scholarships for highly 
ranked students whose projects align with our areas of strength.

The Creative Industries Faculty’s world class, industry-connected 
researchers undertake innovative applied and theoretical research in the 
media, creative arts and design, and QUT is home to some of the world’s 
best researchers in digital media, communication and culture, given the 
highest possible rating of 5 in both the 2010 and 2012 ERA rankings.

QUT's Social Media Research Group (http://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/) is a 
global leader in social media research, and one of the main contributors 
to the University’s strength in Digital Media overall. Supported by 
several major research grants and strategic collaborations with 
industry, QUT researchers are investigating the use of social media in 
crisis communication, in news and politics, as a backchannel to 
television and other media, and in everyday life. We are leading 
methodological innovation by exploring the uses of 'big data' for 
studying major social media platforms, by integrating STS and software 
studies into our approaches to social media platforms, as well as by 
developing novel mixed-methods approaches that support critical and 
interpretative analysis.

We are seeking new PhD students to investigate topics such as:

1.

The practices of sharing and engaging with mainstream media content 
through social media;
2.

the history and political economy of social and mobile media platforms;
3.

approaches to geomedia research, including locative and geosocial media;
4.

the structures and effects of follower networks in Australian social 
media spaces, using social network analysis methods;
5.

the consequences of emerging online platforms on the production and 
consumption of culture;
6.

new methods to generate quantitative metrics that describe activity 
patterns in social media datasets;
7.

agent-based simulation approaches for the analysis of networked 
co-creation of culture;
8.

critical and interpretive approaches to user engagement and evaluation 
practices;
9.

cross-platform flows of media content, data and cultural practices;
10.

uses, meanings and implications of mobile relationship and dating apps;
11.

the making and circulation of gender and sexuality with networked media.

Potential supervisors include:

•

Prof. Axel Bruns (http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/bruns/)
•

Assoc. Prof. Jean Burgess (http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/burgesje/)
•

Dr. Stephen Harrington (http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/harrings/)
•

Prof. Ben Light (http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb/)
•

Dr. Peta Mitchell (http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/mitchepr/)
•

Assoc. Prof. Patrik Wikström (http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/wikstrop/)
If you are interested in applying, please contact Axel Bruns 
(a.bruns /at/ qut.edu.au) or Jean Burgess (je.burgess /at/ qut.edu.au), in addition to 
following the processes below.

How to apply

PhD program
Doctor of Creative Industries program

Information on the University’s Annual Scholarship Round can be found here.

Closing date: 30th September 2014 (earlier enquiries strongly encouraged)

Further information about the Faculty’s research can be found here.
Looking for a supervisor? Please view our Academic Staff profiles here.

Any Questions?

Contact the Creative Industries Faculty HDR support team at 
(ci.hdr /at/ qut.edu.au) or phone +617 3138 3799 or 3138 8591

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