[ecrea] Postdoc position available at the University of Bergen

Postdoc position in Information Science at the Department of Information 
Science and Media studies

At the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, the Faculty 
of Social Sciences, a 3-year post doc position is available in the area 
of information science/computational social science.

The position is linked to the project "Diversity in the Norwegian Media 
Landscape: A Hybrid Model for Evaluating Media Policy", financed by the 
Norwegian Research Council. The postdoc project will develop automatic 
computational methods for use in analyses of diversity and pluralism in 
the Norwegian media landscape.

The “Diversity"-project will collect data to establish the pluralism of 
voices, sources and contents in the news media, compare across 
geographic regions and media corporations, and analyse agenda setting 
mechanisms in the media landscape. The data will comprise large samples 
of digital content: textual and audio-visual journalistic stories from 
newspapers, broadcasting, online and mobile media, published locally, 
regionally and nationally. The postdoc will work closely with the 
project leader and with project collaborators to develop and advance 
methods for automated collection and quantitative analysis of the data.

The aims of the “Diversity"-project include:
* Develop robust, secure and reliable methods for collecting data on 
four different technological platforms (online, mobile, broadcasting, 
newspapers)
* Digitize analogue media formats for computer supported analysis
* Automatic recognition and classification of voices and sources in the 
news and their affiliations
* Topical detection for the automatic classification of news topics
* Tracking news diffusion patterns through the media landscape
* Evaluation of levels of originality, citation and/or republishing in 
news media outlets

Further information about the position, and project description, can be 
obtained through the project leader Helle Sjøvaag, +47 55589021, e-mail: 
(helle.sjovaag /at/ infomedia.uib.no)<mailto:(helle.sjovaag /at/ infomedia.uib.no)>.

Qualifications:
* PhD in information science or equivalent. Applicants must have 
submitted their dissertations before the application deadline. 
Employment is pending approval of the thesis.
* Fluency in Norwegian (or Scandinavian languages) and English.
* Programming skills (e.g. Java or Python)

Proposal:
Applicants must attach a project description (4-5 pages) outlining how 
the project will be carried out. The project description must contain a 
research design, a plan of progress, and a publication plan. The 
application must also demonstrate how the project is relevant to the 
aims of the “Diversity"-project, and its scientific and methodological 
relevance to the interdisciplinary aims of the project as a whole. The 
project description and its plan of progress will be considered part of 
the contract for the position.

Applicants will be evaluated based on the following:
* Scientific qualifications
* Scientific soundness and originality of the proposed project
* The project’s merit in qualifying the researcher for top positions
* Documented ability for independent research, dissemination of results 
and publishing at a high international level
* Programming skills and interdisciplinary understanding

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies was established 
in 2004 as a merger between the Department of Information Science and 
the Department of Media Studies. The Department’s research profile is 
characterised partly by the interdisciplinary encounter between media 
and information science, and partly by the research traditions specific 
to the two disciplines. As this postdoc position is part of a media 
studies project, the postdoc will contribute to the interdisciplinary 
development of research methods in the intersection between information 
science and media studies.

Further information on the research profile of the Department can be 
found at www.uib.no/en/infomedia<http://www.uib.no/en/infomedia>.

Candidates may be called for an interview and may also be asked to give 
a trial lecture on an assigned topic.

Deadline for applications: 20 August 2014.

To apply: 
http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/104205/postdoctoral-fellowship-at-the-department-of-information-science-and-media-studies



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