[Commlist] Scholarships at QUT Digital Media Research Centre - Platform Governance and Internet-distributed TV

*The Digital Media Research Centre at QUT is seeking applications for 
PhD students (on stipend) to commence research in 2019 allied to one of 
two projects. ***

*Internet-distributed television: Cultural, industrial and policy dynamics*

Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham 
((s.cunningham /at/ qut.edu.au) <mailto:(s.cunningham /at/ qut.edu.au)>)

This project investigates the impact of global subscription 
video-on-demand platforms on national television markets. As U.S.-based 
services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video open up these markets to 
unprecedented competition, the project will provide much-needed 
comparative analysis of how governments are responding and what the 
implications are for debates about local content, local screen 
production, and media diversity. Analysis of original production and 
programming strategies will identify new forms of transnational media 
flow. Conceptually, the project aims to advance our understanding of an 
emerging paradigm of globalising, multiterritory television.

The PhD project sits within a wider Australian Research Council-funded 
project (conducted by Ramon Lobato (RMIT University), Amanda Lotz and 
Stuart Cunningham (QUT)). You are invited to propose an area of focus, 
for example, on a particular streaming service, institution, national 
context, production practice, policy issue.

*The Platform Governance Project: Rethinking Internet regulation as 
media policy*

Supervisor: Professor Terry Flew ((t.flew /at/ qut.edu.au) 
<mailto:(t.flew /at/ qut.edu.au)>)

**The Platform Governance Project is an Australian Research Council 
(ARC) funded project that investigates the regulatory and policy 
implications of understanding global digital platforms as media 
companies. Responding to ongoing public concern about these companies’ 
self-management of online communication and social media, this project 
will address these concerns by developing detailed recommendation for 
reform based on international case studies, enabling media policy makers 
to more effectively regulate digital media platforms to better align 
with contemporary public interest rationales. As part of a research a 
team led by Professor Terry Flew (QUT), and working with Nicolas Suzor 
(QUT), Fiona Martin (Sydney) and Tim Dwyer (Sydney), the PhD candidate 
will conduct research on the changing political economy of digital 
platforms, the value ecology of content distributed online through these 
platforms, and the shifting relationship of media and communications 
policy to such challenges. It would be advantageous to have a research 
background in media and creative industries, and an interest in media 
law and policy.

*Applications must contain the following:*

 1. A two page research proposal demonstrating alignment to the selected
    project including proposed project title, project outline, research
    question or problem statement, a brief overview of previous relevant
    research, objectives of the program of research and investigation,
    research methods/methodologies and plan including references to key
    literature/contextual sources.
 2. Full Curriculum Vitae including three referees (two referees must be
    academic).
 3. Academic Transcripts from previous undergraduate and postgraduate 
study.

Applications close midnight (ADST) Friday 25^th  January 2019.

Applicants will be notified of outcome by Friday 15^th  February 2019.

Applications are to be sent as a single pdf to the QUT Digital Media 
Research Centre Coordinator at (dmrc /at/ qut.edu.au) <mailto:(dmrc /at/ qut.edu.au)>

For further information about the projects please contact the listed 
project supervisor directly via email.

*Eligibility *

To apply for this scholarship, you must meet the entry requirements for 
a _Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 
<https://www.qut.edu.au/study/international-courses/doctor-of-philosophy/doctor-of-philosophy-creative-industries>_ at 
QUT, including any English language requirements for international students.

You must also:

  * have completed a first-class Honours degree, a research Masters
    degree, or a coursework Masters degree with a significant research
    component from a recognised institution and in a cognate discipline
  * be able to take up the scholarship and begin full-time study no
    later than July 2019 and enrol full-time
  * develop a research proposal that responds to and aligns with the
    aims of either the Internet-distributed television or Platform
    Governance Project
  * demonstrate excellent capacity and potential for research.


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