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[ecrea] QUT - DMRC call for PhD applications for 2019
Tue Jun 26 19:28:32 GMT 2018
Here in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of
Technology we're currently advertising some excellent opportunities for
prospective PhD students — please share these with promising candidates!
*DMRC PhD Scholarship**s for 2019:
https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/research-training/annual-scholarship-round-dmrc-call-for-phd-applications-for-2019/*
/We've now opened our annual PhD scholarship round, for projects
starting in 2019. We are looking for promising PhD candidates to
undertake projects that align with the DMRC's overarching mission to
conduct world-leading research for a creative, inclusive and fair
digital media environment. Applicants with excellent academic track
records or equivalent professional research experience may be eligible
for competitive PhD scholarships in QUT's Annual Scholarship Round to
undertake study with us./
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Research Training
Annual Scholarship Round: DMRC call for PhD applications for 2019
DMRC PhD scholarship topics for 2019
We are looking for promising PhD candidates to undertake projects that
align with the DMRC’s overarching mission to conduct world-leading
research for a creative, inclusive and fair digital media environment.
Applicants with excellent academic track records or equivalent
professional research experience may be eligible for competitive PhD
scholarships in QUT’s Annual Scholarship Round to undertake study with us.
We welcome expressions of interest for projects that directly address
the DMRC’s research priorities of creativity and innovation, inclusion
and diversity, and trust and fairness, and we are calling for projects
that specifically address the following priority PhD topics:
A critical assessment of the empirical evidence for echo chambers
and filter bubbles in social media
Bias in algorithmic governance
Challenges of digital inclusion: access, diversity, participation,
and skills
Digital media, location data, and everyday negotiations around
geoprivacy
Digital transformations in journalistic practice
Diverse vernacular and popular cultures of digital media
Diversity and digital dating cultures
Diversity and inclusion in the videogame industry
Indigenous tourism and digital narrative strategies
Innovation in news media organisations in response to digital media
Labor, equality, and gender in the film and television industries
Progressive online communities, with particular reference to Muslim
or Australian Indigenous communities
Trust in the digital economy
Using digital methods to analyse the circulation of rumours,
misinformation, and ‘fake news’ in social media
Using digital methods to map data flows in social media environments
Youth uses of and trust in news and information in the social media age
How to apply
All applications must go through an Expression of Interest process,
which closes on 10 September 2018. To apply,
check the application requirements and eligibility for QUT’s annual
scholarship round
prepare a CV, writing sample, and 2-page research proposal using
this document template, and
complete the online Expression of Interest form by 10 September
2018. If you are unable to access the online form, please email
(rtc-soc /at/ qut.edu.au) for a Word version.
Expressions of Interest close: 10 September 2018
Final applications due: 30 September 2018
Supervisors and supervisory interests
Assoc. Prof. John Banks: videogames industry, consumer co-creation
Prof. Axel Bruns: social media, journalism studies, citizen
journalism, Internet studies, media and communication, user-led content
creation
Prof. Jean Burgess: civic engagement, diversity and inclusion in
social media environments, feminist and LGBTQ politics, platform
governance and platform studies, issue mapping and controversy analysis,
everyday digital media use
Assoc. Prof. Susan Carson: cultural tourism, literary and cultural
trails, digital applications, Indigenous tourism, Australian studies
Dr Elija Cassidy: digital diversity and inclusion, everyday digital
media use, digital dating/hookup apps, digital LGBTQ cultures, online
safety and harassment, participatory reluctance, cultures of non-use and
resistant appropriation, digital diasporas
Prof. Stuart Cunningham: media industries in transition; digital
platform studies; creative industries; media convergence; media, arts,
communications and cultural policy
Assoc. Prof. Michael Dezuanni: digital and media literacy, digital
inclusion, children’s digital cultures, media education and media arts
Prof. Terry Flew: creative industries, globalisation and
international trade, media convergence, media and citizenship, media in
Asia, media policy
Assoc. Prof. Stephen Harrington: emergent forms of journalism,
entertainment, political citizenship
Dr Brendan Keogh: video games, game studies, creative industries,
game development, creative labour, digital media, informal labour, game
industry, new media
Ariadna Matamoros Fernández: Platform governance and platform
studies, digital methods, popular cultures of digital media, race and
racism on digital platforms, online harassment,
misinformation/disinformation
Assoc. Prof. Peta Mitchell: locative/mobile/geosocial media, media
geography, digital ethics, digital diversity, critical approaches to
data, data literacy, everyday digital media use
Dr Kylie Pappalardo: copyright, intellectual property, intermediary
liability, open access, online governance, regulation, digital media
Prof. Matthew Rimmer: intellectual property, digital copyright,
clean technologies, and climate change, media and information technology law
Assoc. Prof. Angela Romano: cultural diversity and journalism,
journalism and democracy, journalism in developing countries, public
journalism, civic journalism and deliberation, media representations of
refugees, women in the media
Dr Mark Ryan: Film, television, and screen genres; Australian film
and television; film and screen industries; health and screen media;
blockchain and screen production
Dr Kevin Sanson: media industries, globalization, creative labour,
creative industries, film/television studies
Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals: media studies, citizen journalism,
internet studies, social media, blogs
Dr Christina Spurgeon: advertising studies, co-creative media,
community media
Assoc. Prof. Nic Suzor: platform governance; internet regulation;
open knowledge, open access, and free culture; digital copyright
Dr T. J. Thomson: visual communication, especially in mediated or
networked contexts, such as journalism and social media; visual
literacy; visual sociology; visual self-representation; image culture
Prof. Patrik Wikström: digital creative economy, cultural
economics, music, computational social science
Questions?
Contact (rtc-soc /at/ qut.edu.au) for further information.
Find us on Twitter and Instagram as @qutdmrc, or on Facebook at
http://facebook.com/qutdmrc
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