[Commlist] Call for Applicants: FOUR Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions (five years, full-time) at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre

Axel Bruns has just advertised four Postdoctoral Research Associate jobs 
at the DMRC (more details at https://bit.ly/laureateteam). These 
five-year, full-time jobs will be part of the team of his Australian 
Laureate Fellowship, a major research project that investigates the 
drivers and dynamics of partisanship and polarisation in online 
communication. The project will develop new approaches to assessing a 
number of key dimensions of polarisation: in the journalistic content 
produced by different news outlets; in the audiences accessing and 
engaging with such content; in public debates, on social media platforms 
and elsewhere, about specific current issues; and in the networks of 
interconnection and interaction on and across social media platforms. 
(more information about the project is at https://snurb.info/laureate.)

For this research, he is looking for excellent Postdocs with expertise 
in one of more of the following research areas: journalism studies, 
media and communication studies, political science, social media 
analytics, computational social science, computational discourse 
analysis, social network analysis, issue mapping. The project takes an 
internationally comparative perspective, so he is also explicitly 
interested in applicants from outside of Australia. (COVID-related 
travel restrictions should no longer be an issue by the time these jobs 
commence.)

Applications for these positions are now open, and close on 30 January 
2022; travel and visa processes permitting, the Postdocs should commence 
in mid-2022. More information about the application process is at 
https://bit.ly/laureateteam, where you can also find the full position 
description for these jobs. Note that applications must include a CV, 
response to selection criteria, and statement of research interests with 
respect to the aims of the Laureate project.

He would also be very happy to speak to any prospective candidates ahead 
of their applications, to discuss their suitability for these positions. 
He is away on summer holidays in early December, but will respond to any 
enquiries in the week before Christmas and during January.



Early next year he will also advertise the first four PhD scholarships 
related to this project, with applications closing in March and the PhD 
projects commencing in mid-2022. He'll have more details about those PhD 
opportunities then, but if you know of any prospective PhD students who 
may be interested in those scholarships please also feel free to direct 
them to his already. There's a little more information about these at 
https://snurb.info/laureate, too.

Contact: (a.bruns /at/ qut.edu.au)

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