[ecrea] PhD scholarship in internet research - with a focus on the United States

PhD scholarship in internet research with a focus on the United States 
(re-advertisement)
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The Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, Faculty of 
Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for 
a 3-year PhD scholarship. The successful candidate will be affiliated 
with the Peoples’ Internet (PIN) project sponsored by the Carlsberg 
Foundation. The scholarship is expected to begin November 1, 2016, or as 
soon as possible thereafter.

Description of the project

“The Peoples’ Internet – Market, state, and civil society in China, 
Europe, and the United States” will undertake a comparative study of the 
internet in different world regions. Digital networks are among the most 
flexible and universally applicable technologies ever invented by 
humans. But the many significant variations in the social uses of the 
internet around the world remain poorly understood. The PIN project 
compares the current state and future potential of the internet in three 
centers of the global economy and world politics – China, Europe, and 
the United States – focusing on the interplay of civil society with the 
other two key sectors of modern societies: market and state.

The PhD candidate will be an integral part of the PIN research group. 
The PhD candidate will participate both in formal project events and in 
informal deliberations throughout the candidate’s affiliation with the 
project; will have the opportunity both to pursue personal research 
interests and to contribute to the overall theoretical and 
methodological framework of PIN; and will join a wider interdisciplinary 
research environment centered in the University of Copenhagen’s Center 
for Communication and Computing and its research group on Digital 
Communication and Aesthetics. In addition to coursework and other 
institutional obligations, the PhD candidate will undertake the 
following main activities:

• six months of ethnographic fieldwork in the USA
• review of regulatory regimes and cultural traditions in the fieldwork area
• participation in analyses of population surveys
• contributions to the dissemination of project findings and other outreach.

The successful PhD candidate must be fluent in spoken and written 
academic English. Prior experience with cross-cultural studies and/or 
survey research within media and communication studies will be 
considered an advantage, but is not a requirement. It is expected that 
the successful candidate will be present, part of the research group, 
and engaged in the activities of PIN on a daily basis. Departing from 
the PIN project framework, the PhD project description must include:

• a main section outlining preliminary research questions, 
methodological considerations, and a time schedule for a six-month 
ethnographic fieldwork in the United States of America
• a section identifying preliminary issues to be addressed in a review 
of regulatory regimes and cultural traditions in the U.S.
• a section discussing how insights from the fieldwork may inform and 
complement the survey component of the PIN project.

Please notice that this position is advertised in parallel with a 
similar position where the focus is on Europe, please see: 
http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/phd-scholarship-in-internet-research-with-a-focus-on-europe/ 


The project proposal must lie within the overall framework of PIN. For 
further information, including a copy of the project framework, please 
contact the Principal Investigator of PIN, Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen 
(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk)>

Application deadline: September 15, 2016 at 23.59 (CET), 
http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/phd-scholarship-in-internet-research-with-a-focus-on-the-united-states/ 



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