[Air-L] 2-year Postdoc @ King's College London - digitalisation and conspiracy theories

[Clare Birchall]

Dear all, 
please pass on details of the following postdoctoral research post to interested candidates:

https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/052425/Research-Associate-in-the-Department-of-English-Language-Literature <https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/052425/Research-Associate-in-the-Department-of-English-Language-Literature>

King’s College London (KCL) is seeking to appoint a full time Postdoctoral Research Associate for two years to work on the CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe)-funded research project REDACT (Researching Europe, Digitalisation, and Conspiracy Theories). The project aims to understand the impact of digitalisation on the production, consumption, circulation and regulation of conspiracy theories across Europe. It will examine how both the conditions of digitised mediation and political, social and historical contexts shape the content, communities, consequences of and responses to online conspiracy theories today. REDACT will employ a comparative and interdisciplinary framework that combines digital methods, ethnography, and granular cultural and political discourse analysis to examine the actors, tactics, cultural forms, technologies and audiences involved in the online spread of conspiracy theories in different European regions as well as the tactics that have been developed to combat them. The project will run from November 2022 to October 2025, and involves collaboration between researchers in the UK, Germany, Slovakia, Estonia and Croatia. The team will be led by Prof. Clare Birchall (KCL), and, in addition to this digital methods postdoc position, it includes five co-investigators, three postdocs, one PhD and two research assistants.

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in digital methods to ascertain the most engaged with conspiracy platforms, websites, blogs and accounts in each case study region (Western Europe, German-speaking countries, Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans), with the aim of producing focussed and manageable datasets for each subproject. Using a variety of digital methods techniques, the postdoc will also map, analyse and produce data visualisations of the viral flows between countries and regions for the project as a whole.

Please click on the link above for more details on how to apply. 

Many thanks,
Clare Birchall
Professor of Contemporary Culture, King’s College London