[ecrea] DSTL PhD studentship: Achieving Legitimacy in a New Media Ecology

Following a UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) PhD 
programme award a studentship is available on this topic supervised by 
Prof. Andrew Hoskins, beginning October 2012 and based in the College of 
Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. The funding is up to four years 
and covers UK/EU fees, standard living allowance, research costs, 
conferences and travel.


Key objective: To explain how commemorations, mediated through emerging 
cyber and social technologies, influence public perceptions of the 
legitimacy of UK military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Using a mixed methods approach including online ethnography and media 
archive mining, this research will investigate public engagement with 
and responses to online commemorations – particularly social networking 
sites such as YouTube and Facebook. This project will interrogate the 
role of online commemorative practices, including memorial websites and 
commemorative amateur videos, in contesting and legitimising support for 
recent and ongoing UK armed forces campaigns overseas.

Essential application criteria:

A minimum 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline

A Masters level degree (or completion imminent) in a relevant discipline

Experience in online ethnography and in online multimodal discourse analysis

Comprehensive understanding of issues and debates in digital media and 
memory studies, and in the cultural memory of modern warfare


Potential applicants should email: (andrew.hoskins /at/ glasgow.ac.uk).

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Professor Andrew Hoskins
Interdisciplinary Research Professor In Global Security

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

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

Director, Adam Smith Research Foundation
College of Social Sciences
University of Glasgow
66 Oakfield Avenue
Glasgow
G12 8LS

T: +44 (0)141 330 7656
F: +44 (0)141 330 7491
W: www.glasgow.ac.uk

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401



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