[ecrea] Kelvin Smith PhD Scholarship, University of Glasgow

/(In) Security In The Mainstream: Riots and the Media/

Andrew Hoskins (Adam Smith Research Foundation) and Karen Renaud
(Computing Science) have been awarded a four year Kelvin Smith
Scholarship (as joint supervisors) to appoint a student to work on this
project from September 2012.

Project overview:

Much is being attributed to the traumatic and charismatic power of
digital communicationsmedia (mobile phones, social networking services)
in mediating new forms ofsocial relations, inciting, organising or
countering public disorder, and placing the self at the heart of a
highly connected new media environment.


How though is this new power of media attributed, by whom and to what
effect?


This project explores the mediations of the 2011 riots in English cities
to interrogate the discourses of the power of new communications media
in shaping public security crises. Through combining mixed media content
analysis of both mainstream news coverage and new communications media,
with interviews with key actors, we will be able to gain a holistic
insight into these events.

This project tests for evidence of a 'mainstream' culture of security
contrasted with the popular notion of the 'self-organising' or
independent effects of New Communications Media (NCM).


_Application key criteria:_

· A minimum 2:1 (or equivalent)first degree in a relevant discipline

· A Masters level degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline

Experience in:

· Television and online media discourse analysis

· Ethnography (devising, organizing and undertaking interviews and focus
groups)

· Implementing significant software systems (not only web-based systems)

· Mastery of at least one programming language such as Java or C

· Understanding of databases, SQL and XML


For further details and information on how to apply email:
(andrew.hoskins /at/ glasgow.ac.uk)

See also:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/kelvinsmithfellowshipsscholarships/recruitingscholarshipprojects/

Closing date: 2nd April 2012

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*Professor **Andrew Hoskins*
*Interdisciplinary Research Professor In Global Security*

http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/ourstaff/andrewhoskins/

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Founding Editor-in-Chief,/Memory Studies/  (http://mss.sagepub.com)
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Founding Co-Editor, /Media, War&  Conflict /(http://mwc.sagepub.com)

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