[ecrea] Junior Professorship (W1) "Communication and media studies with a focus on media society"

New job vacancy at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and 
Information Research, University of Bremen:

Junior Professorship (W1) "Communication and media studies with a focus 
on media society". Application deadline: 3rd December 2015

The University of Bremen, a mid-sized university with 250 professorships 
and 19,000 students, offers a broad range of disciplines and competes 
internationally in top-level research. With an ambitious institutional 
strategy the university was successful in the Excellence Initiative as 
one of eleven universities in Germany.The university will now strengthen 
research and development by awarding temporary professorships in a 
number of defined dynamic areas. One of these areas is the main research 
field of “Media Change”, which investigates the communicative 
figurations of mediatized cultures and societies.The University of 
Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies invites applicants for the following 
position:

*Junior Professorship
*Pay grade: W1
for the duration of 3 years
(with a renewal option of further 3 years, depending on a successful 
interim evaluation)

Communication and media studies with a focus on media society (Code 
number: JP 892/15)

Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research 
with a focus on social communication and medial moulding of social 
processes. The research should focus on a cross-media perspective within 
at least two of the following main areas: appropriation and user 
practices of digital media; cultural, social and economical contexts of 
digital media; opportunities and risks of data collection; digital 
methods/computer-assisted collection and analysis procedures. An 
engagement within the main research field “Media Change” within the 
Faculty of Cultural Studies, the acquisition of third-party funding and 
interdisciplinary research cooperation within the Centre for Media, 
Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its research group 
“Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds” are expected. Teaching 
is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for Historic 
Journalism, Communication and Media Studies (IPKM) and should include 
thematic courses in social communication and medial moulding of social 
processes as well as basic principles of communication and media studies 
and their methods. An interest in further establishing postgraduate 
programs is also expected.

In addition to the pre-conditions of civil service law, a relevant 
doctoral dissertation and other relevant academic achievements of 
outstanding quality are required. A further requirement is that the 
successful candidates can evidence their pedagogical-didactic 
suitability by documented teaching experience. Applicants are expected 
to have acquired teaching skills in the German language after a period 
of 2-3 years. Junior professors will be unburdened from teaching in the 
initial stage to further qualify themselves academically. The teaching 
duties account for 4 semester periods per week.

The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its 
diversity policies. We strive to increase the number of female 
researchers and particularly solicit applications from suitably 
qualified female candidates. International applications and applications 
on the part of academics with a migration background are explicitly 
welcome. Disabled persons with the same professional and personal 
qualifications will be given preference.

For further information please contact the head of the Centre for Media, 
Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp 
((andreas.hepp /at/ uni-bremen.de)).

Please send your application by 3rd December 2015 including CV, a list 
of publications and teaching experience, research profile and relevant 
certificates citing the reference number to:

Dean of Faculty 9 – Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. Dorle Dracklé
University of Bremen
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen
Germany

Further information can be found on the ZeMKI website: 
http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/start.html





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