[ecrea] Applications are invited for a 2-year postdoctoral position in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Dear colleagues, please distribute this announcement to potentially
interested parties.**Many thanks!*
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Applications are invited for a 2-year postdoctoral position in the
Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of
Calgary, Canada. *

The postdoctoral scholar will carry out *research on social movements
and collective action in relation to digital media and civic
mobilization in Canada and internationally.* S/he will collaborate with
Professor Maria Bakardjieva and her team on projects investigating the
ways in which important public issues become an object of civic
deliberation and mobilization employing digital, and specifically,
social media.

Social movements and the role of digital media as key tools in the
pursuit of their goals is a topic of high political importance as has
been demonstrated by numerous events internationally and in Canada. Dr.
Bakardjieva is leading two projects in this research area: Social Media
and Civic Culture: Investigating Emerging Practices of Democratic
Participation in Canada, funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant, and New
Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society in the New EU Democracies:
Retooling Citizenship in the Baltics and the Balkans funded by the
Swedish Baltic Sea Foundation. The postdoctoral researcher will be
involved in both projects with a focus on theorizing the technological
mediation and expansion of the action repertoires of contemporary social
movements. S/he will be instrumental to the empirical investigation of
Canadian cases of civic participation facilitated by social media as
stipulated by the Social Media and Civic Culture project.

The postdoctoral scholar will bring expertise on the theory of social
movements and collective action. S/he will be responsible for data
collection and analysis pertaining to a number of case studies of civic
engagement using social media in Canada. S/he will work with Dr.
Bakardjieva and other team members to develop conceptual bridges across
a range of different cases. The postdoctoral researcher will take a
central role in the subsequent knowledge dissemination process.

For more information on the above-mentioned projects, the scope of work
and the required qualifications for the postdoctoral scholar please
contact Dr. Maria Bakardjieva ((bakardji /at/ ucalgary.ca)
<mailto:(bakardji /at/ ucalgary.ca)>).

For information on postdoctoral scholarships at the University of
Calgary, please follow this link:
http://ucalgary.ca/research/postdoc/future-postdocs.

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