[Commlist] Call for applications for 18 doctoral positions (100%/75%) in the Research Unit “Communicative AI: The automation of societal communication”

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Call for applications for 18 doctoral positions in the research unit: 
“Communicative AI: The automation of societal communication” (FOR 5656)

How is societal communication evolving with the profound transformation 
of the digital media environment through communicative artificial 
intelligence? What consequences, risks, and opportunities arise from the 
widespread use of this new technology across various social domains?
The "Communicative AI" (ComAI) research unit, funded by the German 
Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), will 
begin exploring these questions from the perspectives of media and 
communication studies, sociology, science and technology studies, 
computer science, and law, starting in early 2025.

The participating research institutions have announced a total of 18 
research assistant positions (job scope: DFG 100%, FWF 75%) with the aim 
of pursuing a doctorate over a four-year period. The specific job 
advertisements related to this project can be found on the research 
unit's website (https://www.comai.space). Additional information on the 
working environment and the benefits of completing a doctorate within 
the research unit is also available on the website.

The application deadline is September 27, 2024.

Overview of the research projects in the research unit:

P1 | Pioneer Communities: Imagining ComAI and its possible futures (2 
vacancies DFG)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany

P2 | Interfaces: Implementing user-centered ComAI (2 vacancies DFG)
Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka
TZI, University of Bremen, Germany

P3 | Law: The Juridification of ComAI (2 vacancies DFG)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz
Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Germany

P4 | Governance: Private ordering of ComAI through corporate 
communication and policies (2 vacancies DFG)
Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany

P5 | Journalism: Automating the news and journalistic autonomy (2 
vacancies DFG)
Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen
Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Germany

P6 | Political discourse: ComAI and deliberative quality (1 vacancy DFG)
Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany
Dr. Gregor Wiedemann
Leibniz Institute for Media Research | HBI, Germany

P7 | Personal sphere: Companionship and ComAI (2 vacancies FWF)
Prof. Dr. Michaela Pfadenhauer
Institute for Sociology, University of Wien, Austria

P8 | Health: Caring through ComAI (2 vacancies FWF)
Prof. Dr. Juliane Jarke
BANDAS-Center, University of Graz, Austria

P9 | Education: ComAI for learning and teaching (2 vacancies DFG)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
ZeMKI, University of Bremen / Institute for Information Management 
Bremen, Germany

CP | ComAI Research Space (1 vacancy DFG)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany

Contact:

Website of the Research Unit 5656 “Communicative AI”: 
https://www.comai.space

University of Bremen
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/

Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute
https://leibniz-hbi.de/en/

Institute for Information Management Bremen
https://www.ifib.de/en/home

University of Bremen
TZI, Center for Computing Technologies
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/tzi
University of Graz
BANDAS-Center https://business-analytics.uni-graz.at/en/center/

University of Vienna
Institute for Sociology
https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/


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