[Commlist] 2-year postdoc @ King's College London: Conspiracy theories and digitalisation

postdoctoral research post:

https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/052425/Research-Associate-in-the-Department-of-English-Language-Literature

King’s College London (KCL) is seeking to appoint a full time 
Postdoctoral Research Associate for two years to work on the CHANSE 
(Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe)-funded 
research project REDACT (Researching Europe, Digitalisation, and 
Conspiracy Theories). The project aims to understand the impact of 
digitalisation on the production, consumption, circulation and 
regulation of conspiracy theories across Europe. It will examine how 
both the conditions of digitised mediation and political, social and 
historical contexts shape the content, communities, consequences of and 
responses to online conspiracy theories today. REDACT will employ a 
comparative and interdisciplinary framework that combines digital 
methods, ethnography, and granular cultural and political discourse 
analysis to examine the actors, tactics, cultural forms, technologies 
and audiences involved in the online spread of conspiracy theories in 
different European regions as well as the tactics that have been 
developed to combat them. The project will run from November 2022 to 
October 2025, and involves collaboration between researchers in the UK, 
Germany, Slovakia, Estonia and Croatia. The team will be led by Prof. 
Clare Birchall (KCL), and, in addition to this digital methods postdoc 
position, it includes five co-investigators, three postdocs, one PhD and 
two research assistants.

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in digital 
methods to ascertain the most engaged with conspiracy platforms, 
websites, blogs and accounts in each case study region (Western Europe, 
German-speaking countries, Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans), 
with the aim of producing focussed and manageable datasets for each 
subproject. Using a variety of digital methods techniques, the postdoc 
will also map, analyse and produce data visualisations of the viral 
flows between countries and regions for the project as a whole.


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