[ecrea] 12 fully funded PhD positions in "User-Centred Social Media"

The Graduate School (DFG Research Training Group)
User-Centred Social Media (UCSM)
 at the University of Duisburg-Essen invites applications for its new
PhD programme starting in October 2015. We offer twelve PhD Positions
which are paid according to German TV-L E13 (starting from 43,000
Euro/year before taxes), for a duration of three years. The Graduate
School UCSM provides an interdisciplinary research environment with
computer science and psychology as the main contributing disciplines.
From this interdisciplinary perspective, it addresses research
challenges related to Social Media which are understood as complex
socio-technical systems characterized by features such as user-generated
content, social interaction and awareness, and emergent functionality.
Significant research gaps have been identified with respect to analyzing
and understanding the characteristics and determinants of user
behaviour, both at the individual and the collective level, as well as
regarding the user-centred design of social media systems. Our research
will build on theories and methods from the following fields:
- Media psychology and communication science
- Decision making and decision support
- Human-computer interaction
- Information retrieval and mining
- Social network analysis and visualization
- Privacy and security engineering
- Media-supported collaboration and learning.

Applicants should have a background in Computer Science, Information
Systems, Cognitive Science, Psychology or Communication Science and,
ideally, prior knowledge and experience in one or more of the areas
listed above.

The University of Duisburg-Essen aims to promote the diversity of its
members (see http://www.uni-due.de/diversity/international.shtml). It
also aims to increase the share of women in the scientific personnel and
therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. Women will be
preferentially considered when equally qualified according to the state
equality law. Applications from disabled or equivalents are encouraged.

Applications should comprise a curriculum vitae, documentation of
academic degrees and certificates and two academic contacts that can
provide references. In addition, a written statement of the applicant´s
research interests and related experience should be submitted as well as
electronic copies of the applicant´s master thesis and/or relevant
publications.
Applicants are also invited to express their interest in one or more of
the provisional research topics listed on the Website
(http://ucsm.uni-due.de). Applications, together with supporting
documents, are to be submitted in electronic form to our Website
http://ucsm.uni-due.de (Application) until 2015-06-15.

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Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Social Psychology - Media and Communication
Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg Tel: 0203-3792482
email: (nicole.kraemer /at/ uni-due.de)




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