[ecrea] postdoc position: Research Associate: ‘Reframing Russia for Global Mediasphere from Cold War to “Information War”’

Research Associate: ‘Reframing Russia for Global Mediasphere from Cold 
War to “Information War”’
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/3-year post available from 1 June 2017 - 37 hours per week for the 
first 2 years and 11.1 hours per week for the third year. Closing Date: 
9 May, 2017/

A Research Associate in Sociology is required to support Professor Marie 
Gillespie (Sociology) and Dr Alistair Willis (Computer Science) who, 
with colleagues from Manchester University (Russian Studies), are 
beginning a major 3-year, AHRC-funded grant project on ‘Reframing Russia 
for the Global Mediasphere: From Cold War to “Information War”?’. The 
project will provide new, inter-disciplinary insights into the post-Cold 
War global media ecology through an in-depth case study of one of its 
most controversial actors, RT (Russia Today).

The Research Associate will support colleagues with an analysis of RT 
audiences and their interactions with and responses to RT’s broadcast, 
online and social media outputs in English (and Arabic would be 
desirable but not essential). You will conduct focus group interviews 
with RT audiences and users, and using a variety of techniques in 
computational, content, image and discourse analysis, will investigate 
user interactions online and in social networks. You will co-author 
articles, contribute one article of your own on a relevant topic, and 
work alongside a second Research Associate in gathering other research 
sources and producing reports for our non-academic partners.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of international 
news media, audience research and social media analysis, and will have 
completed a PhD on news media, political communication and/or 
international relations-related issues. You will have advanced literacy 
skills in writing English for academic purposes but also be able to 
write in an appropriate register for policy-makers and diverse publics.

Please note that as a consequence of the applicable Immigration Rules 
relating to salary levels, The Open University will not be able to 
obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship for the third year of this contract. 
Consequently in order to be considered for this appointment, all non 
EU/EEA candidates must hold a UK visa valid for the duration of the 
contract OR must be able to show that (subject to the necessary 
applications) they will have entitlement to remain in the UK without the 
benefit of a certificate of sponsorship at the commencement of the third 
year of this contract.

For queries about the post, email Professor Marie Gillespie 
((marie.gillespie /at/ open.ac.uk))

An application form and job related information are available at:

http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/research-associate-%E2%80%98reframing-russia-global-mediasphere-cold-war-%E2%80%9Cinformation-war%E2%80%9D%E2%80%99-13436


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