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[ecrea] PhD scholarship in internet research - with a focus on the United States
Wed Jul 27 23:24:33 GMT 2016
PhD scholarship in internet research with a focus on the United States
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The Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, Faculty of
Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for
a 3-year PhD scholarship. The successful candidate will be affiliated
with the Peoples’ Internet (PIN) project sponsored by the Carlsberg
Foundation. The scholarship is expected to begin November 1, 2016, or as
soon as possible thereafter.
Description of the project
“The Peoples’ Internet – Market, state, and civil society in China,
Europe, and the United States” will undertake a comparative study of the
internet in different world regions. Digital networks are among the most
flexible and universally applicable technologies ever invented by
humans. But the many significant variations in the social uses of the
internet around the world remain poorly understood. The PIN project
compares the current state and future potential of the internet in three
centers of the global economy and world politics – China, Europe, and
the United States – focusing on the interplay of civil society with the
other two key sectors of modern societies: market and state.
The PhD candidate will be an integral part of the PIN research group.
The PhD candidate will participate both in formal project events and in
informal deliberations throughout the candidate’s affiliation with the
project; will have the opportunity both to pursue personal research
interests and to contribute to the overall theoretical and
methodological framework of PIN; and will join a wider interdisciplinary
research environment centered in the University of Copenhagen’s Center
for Communication and Computing and its research group on Digital
Communication and Aesthetics. In addition to coursework and other
institutional obligations, the PhD candidate will undertake the
following main activities:
• six months of ethnographic fieldwork in the USA
• review of regulatory regimes and cultural traditions in the fieldwork area
• participation in analyses of population surveys
• contributions to the dissemination of project findings and other outreach.
The successful PhD candidate must be fluent in spoken and written
academic English. Prior experience with cross-cultural studies and/or
survey research within media and communication studies will be
considered an advantage, but is not a requirement. It is expected that
the successful candidate will be present, part of the research group,
and engaged in the activities of PIN on a daily basis. Departing from
the PIN project framework, the PhD project description must include:
• a main section outlining preliminary research questions,
methodological considerations, and a time schedule for a six-month
ethnographic fieldwork in the United States of America
• a section identifying preliminary issues to be addressed in a review
of regulatory regimes and cultural traditions in the U.S.
• a section discussing how insights from the fieldwork may inform and
complement the survey component of the PIN project.
Please notice that this position is advertised in parallel with a
similar position where the focus is on Europe, please see:
http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/phd-scholarship-in-internet-research-with-a-focus-on-europe/
The project proposal must lie within the overall framework of PIN. For
further information, including a copy of the project framework, please
contact the Principal Investigator of PIN, Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen
(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk)>
Application deadline: September 15, 2016 at 23.59 (CET),
http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/phd-scholarship-in-internet-research-with-a-focus-on-the-united-states/
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