[Air-L] funded Ph.D. position

[Uwe Matzat]

Dear colleagues,

I would be thankful for distributing this information to Master students interested in the 
field of internet research. I'm available for incoming questions.

Best regards,
Uwe Matzat


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The Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) has the following vacancy

PhD student on the project "Surfing the information waves: Finding,
revealing, and evaluating information online"

at the School of Innovation Sciences.

Job description
The Ph.D. student is expected to do research leading to a Ph.D. thesis in
the project "Surfing the information waves: Finding, revealing, and
evaluating information online". At the core of this project lies the
question how people deal with the reliability of information on the
Internet, to what extent the formal and informal mechanisms that
facilitate reliable exchange of information offline have online
equivalents, and to what extent new online mechanisms and tools are and
can be developed to facilitate reliable information exchange. 

Typical questions of interest are: How do people discern useful and
reliable information from useless and unreliable information in online
settings? How can users be motivated to provide reliable information and
how can the provision of unreliable information be minimized? To what
extent do the answers to these questions depend on the kind of online
setting? For the project we anticipate doing research in several areas of
application, such as medical information sites and groups, social
networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Xing, etc), and
general economic and consumer sites, such as eBay, Amazon. 

Requirements
The candidate should have a Masters degree (or equivalent) in the social
sciences (sociology, psychology, political or communication science),
excellent knowledge and skills in quantitative methods of data analysis,
and familiarity with new forms of online communication. Most of all, we
are looking for someone with a natural curiosity with respect to online
interaction of any kind. Knowledge about theories pertaining to the topic
in (social) psychology or sociology would be an additional asset. The
candidate should be proficient in English (speaking and writing).

Conditions of employment
We offer a (full-time) Ph.D. position for 4 years. Gross salaries are in
the range of €28K gross per annum in the first year and €35K during the
fourth year and include attractive benefits (e.g. technical
infrastructure, child care, sports facilities). A small teaching load can
be part of the job.

More information can be found at:
http://www.tue-tm.org/snijders/PhD/

Application
Send your application or requests for further information by email to
Prof. dr. C. Snijders (c.c.p.snijders 'at' tue.nl). The application should
consist of a motivation for your application, and extended curriculum
vitae, a description of your obtained scientific degree, and a list of
courses and the grades you obtained for those courses.

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Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section
Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
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phone: +31 40 247-8392
email: u.matzat at tm.tue.nl
http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat/
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