[ecrea] PhD bursary at the University of Portsmouth: Misogyny and homophobia in online amateur translation communities

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three year PhD to commence 
in October 2019.

Misogyny and homophobia in online amateur translation communities

This PhD offers a fantastic opportunity for a candidate interested in 
investigating hate speech in online fan communities to undertake new 
research on misogyny and homophobia in fansubbing and fan translation 
forums, such as Subsfactory or YYETS, and YouTube translation 
communities (e.g. Vietsub). While we anticipate that the successful 
applicant will refine the research questions and choose case studies, 
it’s expected that the project will provide an account of the language 
used in bullying or hate speech in these communities and investigate the 
forms and practice of mediation that have been used to minimise it.

The successful applicant will explore how linguistic discrimination is 
carried over from the offline world into the online world, and how 
aggressors construct their online identity, both individually and as 
part of a group. Existing datasets collected from Reddit as part of the 
project ‘The Language of Cybersexism’ will provide opportunities for 
statistical comparison with the linguistic features seen in fansubbing 
communities.

This is an exciting opportunity for interdisciplinary study that touches 
on aspects of linguistics, fandom, translation, sociology, criminology 
and gender studies. The successful applicant will benefit from the 
supervisors’ interdisciplinary experience of fan communities, 
translation, corpus linguistics, gender and sexual discrimination, 
discourse analysis, law, as well as their experience of dealing with 
research ethics.

Candidate specification
Candidates must be UK or EU residents and hold a good honours degree 
(2:1 or above) from a recognised higher education institution.
We require English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 
with no component score below 6.0.

Additionally, we welcome applications from candidates who have native or 
near-native competence in a language other than English (preferably 
French or Italian) with a 2:1 (or equivalent) at bachelor’s degree in 
applied linguistics, media studies, or translation studies (or related 
disciplines). Ideally, candidates will have a master’s degree in a 
relevant area, excellent IT skills, especially webscraping, as well as 
familiarity with corpus-based discourse analysis.

Enquiries and application
Please contact Dr Jonathan Evans ((jonathan.evans /at/ port.ac.uk)) to discuss 
your interest before you apply, quoting both the project code and the 
project title.

When you are ready to apply, you can use our online application form, 
making sure you submit a personal statement, proof of your degrees and 
grades, details of two referees, proof of your English language 
proficiency and an up-to-date CV.

Please also submit a research proposal (up to 1000 words), detailing how 
you would develop this project:
• What research questions would you pose?
• How would you design the project?
• What research methods would you use?
• How would you engage with/ build on existing research?

Our ‘How to Apply’ page offers further guidance on the PhD application 
process.

If you want to be considered for this funded PhD opportunity you must 
quote project code SLAL4360219 when applying.

More details here: 
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/misogyny-and-homophobia-in-online-amateur-translation-communities/?p104350

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