[Commlist] PhD Opportunity in Information and Communication : Artificial Intelligence and Communication

*PhD Opportunity in Information and Communication Science*

We are looking for exceptional candidates for a PhD scholarship who are 
keen on exploring several research questions about *communication and 
learning issues in the artificial intelligence age.*

The candidate will be hosted by ELLIADD Lab, University of 
Franche-Comté, France.

Several IA tools show advances in the wide field of human communication 
: for instance, the Associated Press exploits AI-enabled solutions in 
the production and distribution of news (Marconi et al., 2017), 
news-writing programs create narratives from data that cannot be easily 
distinguished from human produced stories (Clerwall, 2014; Graefe et 
al., 2018), Springer edited the first AI-written book (2019, 
/Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Machine-Generated Summary of Current 
Research/), human beings can ask digital assistants like Amazon’s 
Alexato solve doubts or fill some knowledge gaps in (Pew Research 
Center, 2017; Guzman, 2018; Jones, 2014;) or ask Google human voice 
AI-agent to complete administrative tasks (Statt, 2018).

In the field of the communication research, these AI-technologies pose 
theoretical and methodological challenges. In fact, AI-devices and 
programs let users interact dynamically, according on the messages 
exchanged within a particular moment and context or upon the data being 
fed into the program. Moreover, people perceive humanized interfaces and 
robots as social partners distinct from humans but as social nonetheless 
(e.g. Edwards et al., 2016), and AI-devices can learn about their human 
communication partner and adjusting interactions accordingly.

AI-devices act as communicative tools and people perceive them as social 
actors.

For these reasons, research should think differently the design and the 
evaluation of human-machine communication settings under the light of 
AI-technologies possibilities and limits.

*Skills of the candidate*

To deal with these issues, the candidate should have a background in 
interaction design or communication science, computer science (machine 
and deep learning), psychology and human computer interaction or related 
areas. Knowledge and skills in computer science will very useful to 
develop a POC (Proof of Concept) to be tested.

The PhD application process is quite competitive, so we are looking for 
high motivated and capable students from any country.

*Practical Details*

To obtain further information, contact***(ioan.roxin /at/ univ-fcomte.fr)* 
<mailto:(ioan.roxin /at/ univ-fcomte.fr)>or *(federico.tajariol /at/ univ-fcomte.fr)* 
<mailto:(federico.tajariol /at/ univ-fcomte.fr)>

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*Application Deadline and Process:**ASAP*

*Studentship period :* 3 years (November or December 2020 – October or 
November 2023)

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*Academic Requirement:* Master degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate 
field (e.g. Information and Communication Science, Cognitive science, 
Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science)

*Stipends:*  The net monthly wage**is about 1 400 euros for the duration 
of the PhD. A paid teaching activity is possible during this period.



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