[Air-L] Postdoctoral position - digital media and civic mobilization

[Delia Dumitrica]

Dear colleagues, please distribute this announcement to potentially interested parties. Many thanks!

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<https://webmail.ucalgary.ca/src/compose.php?send_to=bakardji@ucalgary.ca>).

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