[Air-L] Postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Tartu for studying the evolution of industrial modernity

[Andra Siibak]

Dear AoIR community,


I am delighted to announce that the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, is looking for a post-doc researcher to join us in studying the evolution of industrial modernity. The research group is highly interdisciplinary, involving (among others) experts from sustainability transitions studies, digital humanities, history and environmental sociology.

The candidate will be a part of the team tasked with measuring long-term trends in the historical evolution of industrial societies along multiple dimensions (ideas, institutions, and practices) and on multiple scales (national, global). The project seeks to combine data from existing databases with analysis of digitized text corpora. Therefore, we are looking for a candidate with 1) competence in data analysis skills applicable to the analysis of large historical text collections; 2) methodological creativity in finding ways to utilize text corpora for tracking long-term societal trends.


Application deadline is 16. September and the position starts from 1. November 2019.


I would love to see members of AoIR community applying for this position and would be delighted to welcome you in our institute!


Andra


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Measuring Industrial Modernity (1900-2018)

A research group in a University of Tartu, Estonia, is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join us in studying the evolution of industrial modernity. The project is based on the Deep Transitions framework (Schot & Kanger, 2018<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733318300593>; Kanger & Schot, 2018<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422417301892>) that aims to conceptualize the 250-year developmental trajectory of industrial societies through the co-evolution of socio-technical systems. The key questions our team seeks to answer are as follows: 1) What are the foundational features of industrial modernity, characterizing almost every industrial society to date, that have shaped its evolution? 2) Do we see some significant ruptures along these dimensions in recent decades?


The position is funded by the Estonian Science Council and is part of the project “Reshaping Estonian energy, mobility and telecommunications systems on the verge of the Second Deep Transition”.

The researcher is expected to engage in the following tasks, some of which involve close collaboration with other team members:

  *   Operationalizing the features of industrial modernity in order to track them in historical data
  *   Extracting text corpora from public sources, organizing and storing them
  *   Cleaning and processing historical OCR texts and preparing them for analysis
  *   Assisting in designing and formulating collaborative procedures and workflows to study the representations of industrial modernity in historical texts utilizing the interdisciplinary domain expertise in the group
  *   Conducting data analysis and text mining on historical corpora through various techniques, interpreting and integrating the results
  *   Representing the findings in thematic conferences and participating in the write-up of the results for journal submission.


Read more about the post and requirements: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/423402





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Andra Siibak

Professor of Media Studies

Institute of Social Studies

University of Tartu


Recent publications:

Siibak, A., Nevski, E. (2019). Older siblings as mediators of infants’ and toddlers’ (digital) media use. In: Erstad, O.; Flewitt, R.;Kümmerling-Meibauer, B.; Pires Pereira, I. S. (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood (123-133). Routledge.


Kikerpill, K., Siibak, A. (2019). Living in a Spamster’s Paradise: Deceit and Threats in Phishing Emails. Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 13(1), 45−63.10.5817/MUJ LT2019-1-3<http://doi.org/10.5817/MUJ%20LT2019-1-3>.


Siibak, A. Traks, K. (2019). Dark Sides of Sharenting. Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 11(1), 115-121.