[Air-L] Knight Postdoctoral Opening at UPenn

Engler, Alex C. acengler at upenn.edu
Thu Dec 11 06:42:20 PST 2025


Hello all!

The Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy and the Wharton School of UPenn are hiring a Knight Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Professors Duncan Watts<https://css.seas.upenn.edu/people/duncan-watts/>, Pinar Yildirim<https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/pyild/>, and Dean Knox<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.dcknox.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!VosFYb7IsswLDTG3RSNcNyXtPYu98G1dC4GZ9q0NckBHwbEIBL1w85f3odmWVzpgpiJbc5_KSx4KbsTpdPkpJqDdrgCvPA$>.

More details below - please share the job posting<https://infodem.upenn.edu/wharton-postdoc/> and the LinkedIn post<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7401375203794001920/__;!!IBzWLUs!VosFYb7IsswLDTG3RSNcNyXtPYu98G1dC4GZ9q0NckBHwbEIBL1w85f3odmWVzpgpiJbc5_KSx4KbsTpdPkpJqCCagclLA$>!


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The position is intended for a quantitative researcher or computational social scientist.
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Ideal candidates would be interested in news content and consumption, media bias and censorship, the relationship between entertainment and news, and the impact of emerging technologies on journalism.
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The postdoctoral scholar will have access to large and highly granular datasets of media consumption and content;
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will be co-supervised by Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Duncan Watts, Associate Professor of Marketing Pinar Yildirim, and Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions Dean Knox;
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will join a cohort of Knight PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows affiliated with the Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy

Applications are rolling until the position is filled, but do apply by January 11th for full consideration.

https://infodem.upenn.edu/wharton-postdoc/

Best,

Alex




Alex C. Engler

Executive Director

Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy<https://infodem.upenn.edu/>

The University of Pennsylvania

Amy Gutmann Hall #506

acengler at upenn.edu<mailto:acengler at upenn.edu>




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