[ecrea] Fully Funded PhD with Ofcom

A reminder of the approaching deadline (25 April) for applications for 
this fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award to be hosted by the 
Department of Culture, Film and Media in collaboration with Ofcom. The 
project is highly interdiscplinary and so we would welcome applicants 
from relevant disciplines in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 
Applicants with experience of conducting audience or statistical 
research, and from diverse backgrounds, are particularly encouraged to 
apply.

Please forward to any students who may be interested.

Longitudinal Analysis of Media Users and Digital Media

The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has generated a number of 
longitudinal quantitative and qualitative datasets that are unique in 
their coverage of shifting attitudes, uses and behaviours regarding 
digital media culture over the past 10 years. This CDA will enhance 
understanding of people's changing uses of and attitudes towards digital 
media through the synthesis and analysis of Ofcom's datasets, 
contextualised in relation to wider socio-cultural research. Ofcom’s 
extensive datasets (consisting of seven qualitative and quantitative 
datasets stretching back ten years) offer considerable scope for the 
award holder to shape their own research project. Possible areas for 
study could focus on, but are not restricted to: how UK audiences’ 
uses of and attitudes towards digital media have changed since 2005; 
which factors have shaped these changes in attitude and how might they 
be shaped by the wider socio-cultural context in which they emerge; how 
longitudinal analysis of change in the uses of and attitudes towards 
digital media might inform media policy as well as broader theorisations 
of the ways in which people negotiate technological, media or cultural 
change.

For more information on the studentship and how to apply, please see: 
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/MED1379

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