[Air-L] Three-year research fellow on ‘Generic visuals in the news’

[Helen Kennedy]

We are appointing a three-year, full-time postdoctoral research fellow to
join us (Dr Giorgia Aiello, Professor Christopher Anderson & Professor
Helen Kennedy) on *Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos
and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics*, from 1st October
2020 until 30th September 2023. *Generic Visuals in the News, *a research
project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will explore
how generic visuals assemble political publics. Do stock photographs and
simple data visualizations - which are increasingly ubiquitous and
understudied - bring groups of people together around shared interests and
concerns? Do they activate citizens to care about particular issues and
lead to specific forms of political engagement? *Generic Visuals in the
News* will use mixed methods, combining ethnographic fieldwork, focus
groups, interviews, and social semiotic analysis. The successful candidate
will be a key member of the research team, carrying out research in
newsrooms, analysing generic visuals, and interviewing members of the
public in order to explore how they respond to generic visuals in the
news, amongst other duties.

Further information about applying can be found here:
https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=AHCMC1047.

Closing date: Monday 17th August 2020.

-- 
Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data
<https://livingwithdata.org/>

*RECENT PUBLICATIONS: *
Public perceptions of good data management: findings from a UK-based survey
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720935616>, *Big Data
and Society* (June 2020, w/Todd Hartman, Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones)
*Public Understanding and Perceptions of Data Practices: a review of
existing research
<https://livingwithdata.org/current-research/publications/>* (May 2020, w/
Susan Oman, Mark Taylor, Jo Bates, Robin Steedman)

*Data Visualization in Society
<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722902/data-visualization-in-society>*
(April
2020, ed w/ Martin Engebretesen, Open Access with Amsterdam University
Press)

Complex ecologies of trust in data practices and data-driven systems
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1748090>,
*Information,
Communication & Society* (April 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones)
Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of
inequality: a case study in public service media
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736122>,
*Information,
Communication & Society *(March 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones)