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[ecrea] PhD Scholarship at Centre for Critical Media Literacy at Dublin Institute of Technology

Thu Feb 15 17:33:11 GMT 2018




The Centre for Critical Media Literacy at Dublin Institute of Technology is offering a four-year PhD scholarship for a research on a project that will use social media as a tool for journalistic transparency with a student-produced community newspaper/website. The deadline for applications is February 26th. Send a CV and cover email to (harry.browne /at/ dit.ie) and see <http://criticalmedialiteracy.org> (and below) for more details.

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Critical Media Literacy

The Centre for Critical Media Literacy aims to facilitate a range of media research, production, learning and community engagement, with a commitment to equality and diversity, and to an understanding of media literacy in wider social, economic and political contexts. Its mission includes scientifically informed and timely studies of the changing technologies that are used in media production, distribution and consumption.

PhD Scholarship Opportunity: The centre is pleased to be able to offer a scholarship for a four-year PhD working on a community-based media-literacy project. It would be of particular interest to someone with a background in journalism and strong knowledge of social media. The project, which has been approved for funding under the College of Arts and Tourism scholarship scheme in DIT, will use The Liberty, a ‘hyperlocal’ newspaper and website produced by students at Dublin Institute of Technology for a mainly working-class community in Dublin's inner city, to innovate in the area of journalistic transparency. The project will employ social media as a forum for sharing 'the story behind the story', with tweets, Facebook updates, YouTube videos and Instagram posts that unveil aspects of the production of journalism, from notebook pages to editing history, from who-was-interviewed to who-refused. A doctoral-level researcher will be responsible for implementation, monitoring, community engagement and evaluation of this project. Once implemented, the project would help readers to understand better the process of news construction, and help journalists-in-training to become accustomed to radical ideas of public openness about that process.

The successful candidate will of course be in a position to shape the direction of this research. She or he will receive payment of €16,000 per annum, plus up to €2,000 in additional expenses, with all DIT fees covered. Interested individuals should send a CV and some indication of their approach to and suitability for this project to (harry.browne /at/ dit.ie) by February 26th 2018.

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