[Commlist] Opening: Postdoc Social Media and Public Debate (3 years / 1 fte)

Opening: Postdoc Social Media and Public Debate (3 years / 1 fte)

Are you interested in doing cutting-edge research on public debates as 
well as related issues of misinformation, polarization, and 
radicalization on Twitter? Do you want to contribute to developing an 
infrastructure that enables SSH researchers to systematically examine 
current and emerging public debates on crucial societal issues in The 
Netherlands?

We are looking for a Postdoctoral researcher, based at the Centre for 
Media and Journalism studies at the University of Groningen, for TwiXL.
Deadline for applications: Nov. 8
For more info: 
https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/305380/postdoc-social-media-and-public-debate-10-fte/ 
<https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/305380/postdoc-social-media-and-public-debate-10-fte/> 


TwiXL is an interdisciplinary project (https://twixl.humanities.uva.nl/ 
<https://twixl.humanities.uva.nl/>) that develops an infrastructure that 
enables students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities 
(SSH) to systematically examine current and emerging public debates on 
crucial societal issues in the Netherlands. The project is funded by the 
Platform Digital Infrastructure of the Dutch SSH-council and developed 
in a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), University 
of Groningen (RUG), SURFsara, National Library of the Netherlands (KB), 
and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV).

Public debate and information exchange, as well as related problems of 
misinformation, polarization, and radicalization, are increasingly 
articulated online through social media platforms. This affects the 
media landscape as a whole: social media activity largely takes shape in 
response to mass media reporting, which, in turn, is progressively 
affected by online discourse. Hence, for a healthy democratic system, it 
is vital that researchers and public institutions are able to monitor 
the evolving dynamics of mediated public debate. Currently, however, 
researchers do not have access to comprehensive sets of social media 
data and readily searchable collections of mass media reporting, nor do 
they have effective tools for cross-media research at their disposal. 
TwiXL will facilitate such research, aligning with the first VSNU 
Digital Society Programme Line ‘Citizenship & Democracy’.

As a postdoc in this project, you will contribute to building the TwiXL 
infrastructure in close collaboration with a PhD student at UvA and 
developers from SURFSara, KB and NISV. This infrastructure will enable 
cross-media research through customized Jupyter notebooks. You will 
develop a proof-of-concept research project on public debates and 
related issues of misinformation, polarization, and radicalization on 
Twitter. Using the TwiNL collection, you will systematically explore the 
Dutch Twitter sphere on a topic of your choice. Through this research, 
you will also produce infrastructural requirements and demonstration 
scenarios and tutorials for other SSH researchers as well as academic 
publications of the results.

Your research appointment will be 80% while 20% of your time will be 
devoted to teaching in the MA programme Social Media and Society and/or 
the BA programme in Media Studies.



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