[ecrea] Vacancy: Professor of Cross-media Culture Faculty of Humanities – Department of Media Studies, Amsterdam

http://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2017/10/17-495-professor-of-cross-media-culture.html?origin=IDU2lUJuTL6pmHQa%2FNN+4g



Publicatiedatum
    10 oktober 2017
Opleidingsniveau
    Gepromoveerd
Salarisindicatie
    €5,334 to €7,766 gross per month

Sluitingsdatum
    20 november 2017
Functieomvang
    38 hours per week
Vacaturenummer
    17-495

The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research with 
a strongly international profile in a large number of disciplines in the 
field of language, history, and culture. Located in the heart of 
Amsterdam, the Faculty maintains close ties with many cultural 
institutions in the capital city. Almost 1,000 employees are affiliated 
with the Faculty, which has about 8,000 students. The Faculty of 
Humanities consists of eight departments.

Job description
Context

Media and Culture encompasses film studies, cross-media culture as well 
as global media studies.

Together these scholarly fields and programs offer a comprehensive and 
critical analysis with both theoretical and practice-based modes of 
inquiry concerned with audio-visual culture as well as online and 
digital culture both in the Netherlands and internationally.

For the study of media and culture there are two main entry points. The 
first is the study of the culture of media, including practices of 
production, programming formats and media aesthetics. The culture of 
production is studied alongside that of consumption, especially 
engagement and agency of the spectator, viewer, user and navigator. 
Media production and consumption are continually changing and challenged 
with the advent of new media, where there are new mobile screens, media 
formats, users and cultures of commodification and control. The second 
entry point is the study of media in culture, from the contents of 
cinema, domestic and urban screens, to the software and apps on mobile 
devices and tablets. In the shift from informational to social media, 
online culture is increasingly shaping sociality through public displays 
of connection and taste.

More specifically, media and culture takes up questions surrounding the 
cultural origins and effects of media, drawing on traditions ranging 
from media archaeology and genealogy to cultural studies, political 
economy and critical theory. Media theory, in all its medium-specific 
diversity remains central as do media research techniques widely applied 
across the curricula. Substantively, Film studies engages with the 
transformative shifts in both the materiality as well as the screening 
of cinema. Cross-media culture addresses the radical transformation of 
popular media, including television, in the age of mobility, second 
screens, participatory culture, and global distribution. Global media 
studies provides means by which film, television and new media may be 
compared across cultures and borders, and inquires into how the study of 
media allows us to access the dynamics of globalisation.

The Media and Culture team consists of four professors: next to the 
chair of Cross-media culture, there are chairs in Film Studies, Digital 
Heritage and Globalisation. The other team in the department is Media 
and Information, containing chairs in Journalism, New Media and digital 
culture, Archival studies, Cultural information studies and 
Computational and Digital Humanities.
Profile

Contemporary social and cultural practices – from personal friendships 
to political election campaigns, from education to commercial forms of 
entertainment – are shaped by a matrix of different media and by the 
continuous transformation of media forms and media technologies. While 
TV – with its reality shows, spectacular live events, and transmissions 
of global catastrophes as well as its continuing offer of imported and 
home-made fiction series and characteristic forms of storytelling, – is 
still of major importance, its impact changes as it is augmented and 
partly replaced by social media, mobile phones, and ‘second screens’. 
Therefore it is paramount to understand the specific aesthetic, social, 
political and economic dynamics of different media and the way in which 
content and user practices travel across these media, provoking new 
connections and modifications.

The professorship for Cross Media Culture is expected to stimulate and 
develop approaches from different disciplines, ranging from cultural 
studies to critical theory and from political economy to production 
studies. The professor is furthermore expected to actively participate 
in academic and public debates on the on-going transformation of media 
culture. The knowledge of the history and continuing relevance of film, 
radio and television will be the starting point to map the conceptual, 
social, and cultural changes that come with digital, mobile and social 
media.

The Chair in Cross-media culture is expected to cover, both in teaching 
and research, several of the following topics:

    the transformation of critical media theory in the context of 
institutional and technological changes in media landscapes (e.g. 
discussions around creativity, materialism, ecology, convergence);
    the changing role of media institutions, new forms of mediated 
politics, and the growing importance of social media, continual 
technological shifts in content production, circulation and transformation;
    the changing relationship between modes of media production, media 
aesthetics, and user practices.

The professor is expected to contribute to interdisciplinary 
collaboration with the film and new media sections of the Media Studies 
department, to expanding teaching and research links with public 
partners (such as EYE, Beeld en Geluid, Stedelijk Museum, City of 
Amsterdam), to expanding opportunities for students in practice-based 
learning and to developing new research and teaching initiatives.
Teaching and research

The professor in cross-media culture is expected to play an important 
role in both BA and MA teaching as well as PhD supervision, in 
particular in the television and cross-media culture track. In terms of 
research, this position has closest affinity with the Amsterdam School 
for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the National Research School for Media 
Studies (RMeS), and, pending on the profile of the candidate, the 
Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS).
Requirements

Candidates for the position are expected to meet the following requirements:

    a PhD in media studies or a related field;

    an excellent international reputation in the field of media studies;
    an excellent academic publication record;
    an experienced and enthusiastic teacher on all levels of academic 
training;
    experience in developing new teaching programs;
    experience with collaborative projects;
    a proven track record of acquiring external research funding;
    experience in the supervision of PhD-tracks;
    an extensive national and international network with other academic 
and cultural institutions;
    the ability to contribute to knowledge exchange in public as well 
as academic settings;
    the ability to establish productive connections with other academic 
disciplines within as well as outside the department;
    proven excellent management and leadership qualities.

All foreign employees appointed at the Faculty of Humanities are 
expected to have a good command of both written and spoken Dutch within 
two years.

Please also check the document Information about chairs at the Faculty 
of Humanities.
Further information

For further details, interested parties should contact:

    mr. Hotze Mulder, secretary of the selection committee
    T: +31 (0)20 525 3066
    Prof. Rens Bod, chair of the committee
    T: +31 (0)20 525 4946

Appointment

The appointment will be permanent. The gross salary will normally 
conform to professorial scale 2, between €5,334 and €7,766 gross per 
month (€74,441 to €108,382 per annum, including 8% holiday pay and an 
8,3% end of year payment) on a full-time basis in accordance with the 
Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) for Dutch Universities. In certain 
cases, however, different terms of employment may be offered.
Job application

Candidates are invited to submit a letter of application in Dutch or 
English no later than Monday, 20 November 2017, accompanied with a CV 
and a list of publications. The application should be addressed to The 
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Fred Weerman, Kloveniersburgwal 
48, 1012 CX Amsterdam and may be sent in pdf-form by email to Hotze 
Mulder . Please indicate vacancy number 17-495 in the subject field.

Applications will be received by a selection committee headed by the 
chair of the department of Media Studies, Prof. Rens Bod. Following a 
procedure which may involve a formal leadership assessment and a public 
trial lecture, the committee will make its final recommendation to the 
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. #LI-DNP

No agencies please


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