[Students-l] Fwd: [Air-L] Ph.D. position at Eindhoven University of Technology

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Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:11:38 +0100
From: "Uwe Matzat" <u.matzat at tm.tue.nl>
Subject: [Air-L] Ph.D. position at Eindhoven University of Technology
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Dear colleagues,

we still have a vacancy to offer for an interested student with 
knowledge in quantitative
methods of data analysis. The Ph.D. position at Eindhoven University of 
Technology (NL) is
funded for 4 years. If you are interested in analyzing disclosure and 
use of information in
different social contexts then you should consider applying. Deadline is 
December 18.

I'm available for any questions you might have.

Best regards,
Uwe Matzat
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The Eindhoven University of Technology has the following vacancy

PhD student on the project "Surfing the information waves: Finding, 
revealing, and evaluating information online"
at the School of Innovation Sciences.

Job description
The Ph.D. student is expected to do research leading to a Ph.D. thesis 
in the project "Surfing
the information waves: Finding, revealing, and evaluating information 
online". At the core of
this project lies the question how people deal with the reliability of 
information on the Internet,
to what extent the formal and informal mechanisms that facilitate 
reliable exchange of
information offline have online equivalents, and to what extent new 
online mechanisms and
tools are and can be developed to facilitate reliable information exchange.

Typical questions of interest are: How do people discern useful and 
reliable information from
useless and unreliable information in online settings? How can users be 
motivated to provide
reliable information and how can the provision of unreliable information 
be minimized? To
what extent do the answers to these questions depend on the kind of 
online setting? For the
project we anticipate doing research in several areas of application, 
such as medical
information sites and groups, social networking sites (Facebook, 
Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo,
Xing, etc), and general economic and consumer sites, such as eBay, Amazon.

Requirements
The candidate should have a Masters degree (or equivalent) in the social 
sciences
(sociology, psychology, political or communication science), excellent 
knowledge and skills in
quantitative methods of data analysis, and familiarity with new forms of 
online
communication. Most of all, we are looking for someone with a natural 
curiosity with respect
to online interaction of any kind. Knowledge about theories pertaining 
to the topic in (social)
psychology or sociology would be an additional asset. The candidate 
should be proficient in
English (speaking and writing).

Organization
The candidate will work at the school of Innovation Sciences at the 
Department of
Technology Management at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), at the 
Chair of
Sociology of Technology and Innovation. Research interests in and around 
that chair
generally include the way in which humans interact with technology and 
how that interaction
can be improved, both from the user-level as from the level of policy- 
making. Additional
information can be found at:

http://www.tue-tm.org/snijders/PhD/

Conditions of employment
We offer a (full-time) Ph.D. position for 4 years. Gross salaries are in 
the range of EUR 28K
gross per annum in the first year and EUR 35K during the fourth year and 
include attractive
benefits (e.g. technical infrastructure, child care, sports facilities). 
A small teaching load can
be part of the job.



Application
Send your application or requests for further information by email to 
Prof. dr. C. Snijders
(c.c.p.snijders `at? tue.nl). The application should consist of a 
motivation for your application,
and extended curriculum vitae, a description of your obtained scientific 
degree, and a list of
courses and the grades you obtained for those courses.
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Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section, Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
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phone +31 40 247-8392, fax +31 40 247-4646
http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat
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