[Air-L] ERC Consolidator Project / Small social media platforms / Postdoctoral positions

[sahana udupa]

Dear all

Apologies for cross-posting.

Very pleased to invite applications for full-time postdoctoral positions in
the new European Research Council Consolidator Project on small social
media platforms (2024-2029), which I will soon set up at LMU Munich,
Germany. A brief description and respective links are given below.


SMALLPLATFORMS will explore small social media platforms (beyond the big
tech) in a cross-cultural context, examining whether and in what ways forms
of contentious speech are associated with practices particular to such
platforms. Fieldwork will be carried out in Germany, Kenya, India, and the
UK. The study combines ethnography, content analysis, critical discourse
analysis and computational methods (NLP and social network analysis). It
will simultaneously engage in theoretical, empirical and policy discussions
around small social media platforms’ evolving role in extreme speech
ecosystems.



   1. Postdoctoral Researcher / Kenya 2 years, extendable by 1 year and 3
   months

Research expertise in ethnography, social media data gathering, content
analysis, critical discourse analysis is required. Experience in data
sciences is desirable. Fluency in English and Swahili is needed.

https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/bcca3578ed62e9217e48979f53ca40c65080f4510?ref=homepage



   2. Postdoctoral Researcher / Germany / 2 years, extendable 1 year and 3
   months

Research expertise in ethnography, social media data gathering, content
analysis, critical discourse analysis is required. Experience in data
sciences is desirable. Fluency in German and English is needed.

https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/705783264ad42b3e8dcc5634a5d9fec4d292dc140?ref=homepage



   3. Postdoctoral Researcher / Data Science / 2 years

https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/8746b38dacc091e740ae2aae34257f326be45fc30?ref=homepage

Research expertise in quantitative methods and data sciences, with a focus
on data visualization, social network analysis and NLP is required.
Candidates with a background in computer sciences or computational social
sciences are invited to apply.



   4. Project and social media manager, part time 50%

Background in media and project management, and fluency in German and
English are required.

https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/cdfa315b58f211144a159203b4e38170bf1426ec0?ref=homepage



As part of the project, you will contribute to respective subprojects as
well as co-authored team publications, project events, and project
reporting.  All positions are based in Munich but ethnographers on the team
will carry out fieldwork in their respective fields for eight to nine
months.



You will be a member of the Center for Digital Dignity, a multidisciplinary
research group, with opportunities to partner with the core research team
based in Munich and a global network of collaborators.



Successful candidates are expected to join the team by February 2025.



Please send:

1. two-page letter of interest with a brief outline of research questions,
methods and timeline
2. two-page CV
3. two writing samples

as a single PDF

and

4. names of two referees by e-mail to *ai4dignity at ethnologie.lmu.de*
<ai4dignity at ethnologie.lmu.de> with the *subject line “Small platforms
postdoctoral position”* *before 31 August 2024* (please name the files in
the format: your second name_smallplatformsapplication).

Best wishes

Sahana

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Sahana Udupa, PhD | Professor of Media Anthropology | LMU Munich

Berkman Klein Fellow, Harvard University

@4digitaldignity