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The Ada Lovelace Institute (Ada) is a hiring an Associate Director to lead our Emerging Technology & Industry Practice research domain and collectively set its agenda and workplan in our next strategy period (to 2029).

In collaboration with the Digital Humanities team of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the department is developing a suite of tools to facilitate the use of oral history in the history of science, technology, medicine, and environment. These tools include CORAL: Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge, which enables researchers to search and analyze the full text of oral history interviews across institutions and collections. For this position, we are seeking a postdoctoral scholar who can assist in the development of CORAL and other in-house digital humanities projects while pursuing their own independent research project. We are particularly interested in scholars who have experience with both oral history and the digital humanities, and who have a proposed research project that deploys oral history as a method for studying a topic related to the department’s core research themes. Your profile: • PhD in the history of science, technology, medicine, and environment or a neighboring field in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, history, sociology, and STS (PhD must be in hand by the starting date of the contract) • Experience with oral history and with the application of digital humanities methods in your own research • A proposed research project that deploys oral history as a method for studying a topic related to the department’s research themes. • Interest in developing innovative, cross-cultural, critically reflective methods as part of an interdisciplinary research group

Fully funded four-year PhD position for the project Mediatizing the Homeland, positioned at the intersection of digital media, decolonial and diaspora studies. As a candidate, you will part of the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, engaging with a thriving community of scholars at the forefront of critical media research. This PhD project offers a unique opportunity to work in an international environment and to acquire valuable research experience at a top-ranked European university. As a PhD student, you will develop your own research project in consultation with the associated supervisors. You will conduct independent and original academic research and report results via peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and ultimately a PhD dissertation. The PhD thesis has to be completed within four years. You will also have the opportunity to (further) develop your teaching skills.

This project proposes a fundamentally new view on media effects. The core idea is that media effects stabilize over time and are therefore difficult to detect with traditional methods. The project will test this new framework with innovative (controlled) field trials that employ a unique mix of subjective and objective measures. This project will test the impact of digital technologies on first-time users – that is, children who receive a smartphone or video game console for the very first time. Specifically, the project will examine to what extent acquiring a smartphone or game console changes the way children spend their time, and its impacts on attention and well-being. This four-year project is funded by a NWO Vidi grant awarded to Susanne Baumgartner and is part of the Youth and Media Entertainment Programme Group of the Department of Communication Science. In our programme group, we explore the role of communication technologies in everyday life studying traditional and new forms of entertainment media. Building on a media psychological orientation, the programme group focuses in particular on children and adolescents. You will be part of a larger project that investigates the effects of digital technologies on children and adolescents who use these technologies for the first time. Specifically, the project will examine whether and how these technologies influence children’s attention and well-being. In this project, data collection will be based on 1) a randomized controlled field trial among novice video game players, and 2) a longitudinal field study among novice smartphone users. As a Postdoc you will be involved in the data collection of both projects and will work in close collaboration with the other team members.

You will teach English language courses on specialized topics in business, economics, and intercultural communication at HM Business School in both undergraduate and advanced degree programs. Your in-depth knowledge of English-language business communication and your professional experience will enable you to successfully implement integrated modules and projects in business studies.

This is a postdoctoral position on the Digital Gender Gaps project led by Professor Ridhi Kashyap and supported by the Gates Foundation. We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to advance scientific understanding and inform policy on the impacts of digital expansion on gender equality and women’s social and economic opportunities. The post holder will develop research using computational, statistical and social data science approaches to expand knowledge on gender inequalities in digital connectivity, as well as the impacts of digital gender inequalities on social, demographic, and economic domains in low and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on Africa and South Asia. The post holder will be responsible for developing and maintaining existing data infrastructures as well as developing methodologies to collect and integrate novel sources of web, social media, and geospatial data with secondary survey datasets for analysing gender inequalities. The post holder’s research areas will include: (1) creation of real-time indicators of digital connectivity by gender at granular spatial resolution using social media, population and survey datasets, and statistical and machine learning approaches; and/or (2) analysis of the social and demographic impacts of digital expansion, especially from a gender perspective, using quasi-experimental methods. The research outputs from the project will inform knowledge exchange with various stakeholders for generating an evidence-base for policy, and the post holder will also directly contribute to these impact and partnership building activities.

The Center of Digital Lives researches the everyday digital life from a psychological perspective and investigates how digital media use in everyday life (e.g. via smartphones, social media, AI-based chatbots) changes well-being and social relationships. The center strives to map and research the complexity of everyday digital life and has an interdisciplinary focus. We research media use and its effects in the family context and digital media use for coping with stress. The specific PhD project has a focus on the dynamics of effects of digital media use on well-being over time investigating how and in what shape media effects occur in everyday life (e.g., how long do effects last). The project focuses on the application of intensive longitudinal studies including experience sampling research and digital media use tracking. Your position: • Coordinate and manage research projects • Conceptualize, design, conduct, and analyze research studies with a focus on intensive longitudinal designs including experience sampling and tracking designs • Document and present research findings in English in the form of publications and presentations • Design plan, and teach courses (seminars, tutorials, practical courses) • Supervise students and review their contributions (seminar, bachelor and master theses); support examinations on the BSc and MSc level • Contribute to organizational tasks within the Center of Digital Lives

King’s College London is engaged in a major strategic investment in “AI+”, focused on AI innovation and application applied to any/all areas of research – including health, humanities, biosciences, social sciences, arts, business and law, and physical/mathematical sciences. We aim to bring the full potential of AI to research across King’s, building on existing world-class expertise in a range of areas. We have therefore created 20 AI+ Academic Fellowships, which will grow our AI+ academic community by investing in the brightest minds worldwide. We are committed to recruitment processes which engage all dimensions of society. The AI+ Academic Fellowships offer 3 years of 80% “protected” research time, with minimal education/administrative responsibilities, enabling awardees to focus on establishing outstanding research programmes. After this period, subject to a 3-year review, there will be a gradual transition over the next 2 years to the standard requirements for open-ended academic posts in the host Faculty. Through this structure, we aim to develop the research leaders of the future.

Lie Detectors is an award-winning, independent, non-profit organisation that aims to strengthen critical thinking and news literacy among students and their teachers across Europe. We are looking for a Head of Germany Programme, who will further expand our network of journalists and schools and advance media education in Germany.

We are offering positions in teaching practice-focused modules that support students in developing technical skills in digital media while understanding their practice in relation to theory and context. We utilise an innovative teaching approach, fostering experimentation and combining lectures and seminar discussions with creative workshops and tutorials that guide students in considering the theoretical and contextual relevance of their creative works. All units are designed to help students develop their communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation skills, while fostering compassionate intelligence. We expect our students to become independent learners, applying these skills to areas such as still and moving images, animation, sound, interactive and hybrid digital practices, creative coding, game design, 3D modelling, and emerging tools like extended reality (AR/VR/MR) and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as other fields where they can push the boundaries of digital media arts. It is essential that you have at least two years' experience teaching within higher education in a relevant subject area. Ideally, you will have a PhD in a relevant area, or be able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience.

The Department of English and Media Studies at Bentley University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American literary and/or cultural studies with a possible secondary field of specialization in Digital Humanities. The ideal candidate will be able to teach courses in at least one of the following areas: rhetoric and composition, film, literature, communication, and/or media studies.Candidates should have experience as the instructor of record for a course that aligns with this call and demonstrated ability to teach courses in at least one of the areas listed above. The new hire will be able to teach existing courses in the department and develop new courses in their area/s of specialization.

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