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Your responsibilities • Conduct high-quality research in the field of digital health communication • Development of a (digital) research infrastructure for the collaboration with/support of other researchers at UZH and beyond • Teaching on BA and MA level • Organizational and administrative tasks within the department Your profile • Ph.D. in communication science or a related subject • Excellent research and teaching record in health communication and digitalization • Experience in research organization, ideally also in the development and maintenance of research infrastructure • Proficiency in German and English • Organizational and team skills

The ERC-funded project ‘Changing Childhoods in the Era of the WWW (WEB CHILD)’ offers a postdoctoral position to attract applicants with a well-documented track record in research into the cultural history of South Korea, Korean cultural studies, or related areas. The candidate should be genuinely interested in exploring childhood history between 1995 and 2005 and utilising various methods from history, digital humanities, and cultural studies. The position is 2,5 years (30 months). You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods. You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work.

The candidate will be involved in the Medialab Institute and its Master's teaching programs, will teach a course in the Faculty's bachelor's programs, and will collaborate with the other departments and institutes of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The candidate must hold a PhD in one of the social sciences or equivalent qualification. High-quality publication record in the field of the position, evidenced by publications in reputed international journals; he/she must demonstrate an ability to take a critical, empirically-based look at digital platforms as technical, economic, cultural and political structures. He/she must have conducted original research on one or more of the following areas: Technical: Analysis of the code, recommendation algorithms, architecture and hardware and software infrastructures of platforms. Economic: Study of business models, monetization logics, the attention economy or power relationships between players (digital workers, content creators, companies, governments, etc.). Cultural and social: Exploration of usage dynamics, online communities, moderation practices, virality and engagement dynamics. Political: Analysis of regulations, surveillance and moderation issues, debates on platform governance and self-governance. An advanced level of French and English is required.

The Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a tenured, Associate or Full Professor faculty position. Candidates who are currently appointed as assistant professor (or the equivalent) and have a record that would merit tenure are also encouraged to apply. Candidates will be considered regardless of field of specialization. This hire is part of a multi-year hiring initiative in “Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion.” Successful candidates will join a dynamic cluster of scholars at UC-Berkeley who are addressing anti-blackness across a range of institutions and from diverse disciplinary approaches. University of California, Berkeley is committed to building a community of scholars whose work contributes to contemporary efforts to strengthen democratic structures that are currently in crisis (e.g., through the suppression of voting rights; hyper-criminalization; persistent wealth inequality; highly segregated schools, and approaches to crime control). The Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion hiring initiative centers anti-blackness as a central organizing feature of social and political institutions in the US and globally, and as an expansive conceptual framework that draws attention to the systems and structures that delimit Black lives and enables us to interrogate how anti-blackness functions across and within racial/ethnic groups. We seek scholars who are leading or emerging voices in conversations on anti-blackness as it relates to outcomes in various social domains and who possess a demonstrated commitment to advancing anti-racism both inside and outside the academy, whether in the United States or internationally. This initiative is especially interested in applicants whose research can contribute to theoretical, conceptual, and empirical understandings of how social institutions can provide for the safety and well-being of a diverse group of people in a democratic society as it reckons with its roots in racism, anti-blackness and white supremacy. We invite applicants with interdisciplinary expertise in critical epistemologies, like critical race theory, and the Black intellectual and Black feminist traditions. The position’s duties include: scholarly experience includes a demonstrated commitment to this research arc and publications, undergraduate and graduate teaching/mentoring, and administrative service, practice and public intellectualism/partnerships along these lines.

One full-time (100%) position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Social Sciences as a PhD Research Fellow in Digital Sociology/Sociology of Artificial Intelligence, affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Social Work and the Center for Digital Transformation (CeDIT), for a period of three years, or four years with 25 % required teaching duties. The position is connected to the broad subject area of Digital Sociology and/or the Sociology of Artificial Intelligence, and we are looking for candidates wishing to conduct research on sociological topics within this area. Relevant thematic areas may include but are not limited to the sociology of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, digital sociology, AI and the sociology of knowledge, AI and expertise, and digitalization and criminology (digital criminology).

This position offers a strategic opportunity to develop interdisciplinary courses that integrate disciplinary expertise in the study of global visual cultures (historical and present) with computational analytical methods and critical approaches to digital tools and artifacts. The successful candidate will hold a doctoral degree in one of following fields: Art History, Visual Culture, Media Studies, Archaeology, Film Studies, Education, Digital Humanities, Digital Culture Studies, or a closely related field, with a focus on the computational analysis of visual materials. They will specialize in digital curation and analysis of visual cultural data (e.g. artworks, photographs, maps, films and videos, digital media (memes, Instagram posts), objects, artifacts, exhibition records, visual archives), with expertise in computational methods (e.g., computer vision, machine learning, network analysis, data management, digital preservation) as well as critical perspectives, including tool and data criticism and digital ethics. They will also have proven experience in teaching computational methods within the context of visual culture studies. They will engage in cross-institutional or transdisciplinary collaborations with experts across disciplines and cultural areas (Art History incl. East Asian Art History, Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, Educational Sciences) to ensure disciplinary relevance and adaptability to evolving academic and technological developments.

Candidates for this position should be pursuing an active research agenda and producing high-quality publications. They should also demonstrate a commitment to effective teaching at the undergraduate level and be willing to teach an introductory-level course as well as a research methods and/or data analysis course, among other courses in their areas of expertise. We especially encourage applicants who focus on one or more of the following areas: digital sociology, critical media studies, and science and technology studies, although other areas may be considered.

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