[ecrea] Three Media Research Associate Positions Vacant at the Sarai Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

    Dear all,

    The Sarai Programme at CSDS invites applications for three 
positions centered around media research.

    The research agenda is historical and contemporary, archive based 
and ethnographic, and will traverse a variety of media, including radio, 
gramophone, cassette, photography, film, television, video, and digital 
forms.

    Ongoing projects at Sarai include:

    - Media and information infrastructures

    - Social media archeologies

    Researchers at Sarai have ranged from postdoctoral scholars to 
students working on their PhDs; M.A. and M.Phil graduates; media and 
cultural practitioners interested in research; and independent scholars. 
Researchers will work with ongoing projects at Sarai; we place a premium 
on collaborative research, including regular reading sessions, workshops 
and writing.

    Possible topics include:

    - The histories of the emergence and circulation of media equipment 
and technology.

    - Laws and regulations governing media use, and their contestation.

    - State information and media policies, including the development 
of media and communication infrastructure in radio and television 
transmission, telegraph and telephone networks, and satellite and cable 
technology.

    - The deployment of media for identification and surveillance, and 
online vigilante cultures.

    - Social Media: legal conflicts, the transformation of politics, 
sexuality and privacy.

    - Media industry practices, including institutional and 
technological changes.

    - Computer culture, from software programming and management to 
digital compositing.

    - Sites of media consumption and circulation including shops for 
media goods, photographic studios, exhibition spaces ranging from cinema 
halls and video parlours to electronic bulletin boards and ambient 
television and video experience and the phenomenon of cellphone image 
capture and circulation.

    Applicants should submit:

    - CV listing recent works and projects.

    - A writing sample from recent work.

    - A three-page research note summarising her/his research 
interests, and reasons for working at Sarai.

    Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed at Sarai-CSDS, Delhi.

    Selected candidates will be appointed initially for one year, with 
the possibility of renewal for a second year.

    The last date of submission is 16th November 2014.

    Send all applications by email with subject title of ‘research 
positions’ to dak[at]sarai[dot]net

    Regards,

    The Sarai Programme
    Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
    sarai.net | facebook.com/sarai.net


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