[Air-L] Three PhD positions, Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo (UiO).

[Charles M. Ess]

Dear AoIR-ists,

The Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo 
(UiO), has opened three PhD positions with an application deadline of 
Feb 1, 2022.

 From the job description 
(<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215708/doctoral-research-fellowship>):

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IMK is an interdisciplinary department, approaching media and 
communication from social scientific, humanistic and technological 
perspectives. In line with the department's new strategy for 2030, it 
will be prioritized to follow-up UiO's bold efforts to develop more 
competence and knowledge about conservation and development of 
democracy, climate and the environment. The doctoral project must be 
innovative and relevant to the current research that takes place at IMK. 
The successful candidate will take part in research groups within 
relevant areas at the department, and applicants must enclose a project 
description with topics or research questions within one or more of the 
research areas outlined below:

*Children, adolescents and digital media
Research on children's and adolescents' digital lives, how they use 
digital media, digital skills, adolescents as natives of a global media 
culture (global natives), digital parenting, children and adolescents' 
safety and rights online, political socialization and children's 
democratic rights, and regulations on children's digital life.

* Media aesthetics
Media aesthetics follows a humanistic tradition that emphasizes 
technologically mediated communication, sensory and experiential aspects 
of media expressions in a cultural and social perspective. This includes 
research on the form and content of media texts, perception, media 
history, and media development and innovation.

* Political communication
Research on political communication between different actors, in 
different public spheres, and political influence through strategic 
communication. This includes research on lobbying, political rhetoric, 
election campaigns, opinion processes and influences, algorithms and 
artificial intelligence, fake news, media policy, journalism in digital 
media, freedom of expression, media, power and democracy.

* Screen cultures
Screen cultures is a research and educational initiative that studies 
how screen media shape people´s experience and understanding of 
themselves and the world. This includes research on development, use and 
experience of new and established screen media, such as film, television 
and new digital platforms. Ambivalence, resistance and attempts at 
withdrawal or digital detox are relevant perspectives.

* Method and analysis of digital media
Innovative/creative methods for research on communication, utterances 
and changed usage patterns in digital media. Including an increased 
focus on data collection on digital/social media and analysis of big data.
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 From my perspective, these are three very exciting possibilities for 
pursing one's PhD in a top-ranked department in the marvelous city of 
Oslo, Norway.  Please see the website for further details, including the 
encouragement to contact the particular research area(s) of interest for 
further information about their work.
As a start, you can look at
<https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/about/>

Good luck and good hunting!
- charles

-- 
Professor Emeritus
University of Oslo
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>

Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT
<http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>

Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, 
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out:
<http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>