[Students-l] Fwd. [Air-L] Post doc opportunity Digital Media and Migration (0, 8 fte) @ Utrecht University, Netherlands

[M.J. Menou]

> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:44:53 +0100 
 > From: "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl>
 > To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
 >Subject: [Air-L] Post doc opportunity Digital Media and Migration (0, 
8 fte) @
> Utrecht University, Netherlands -1"
> 
> 
> Dear AOIR mailinglist members,
> 
> Please spread the word on a postdoc opportunity on the topic of
> Digital Media and Migration (0,8 fte) @ Utrecht University,
> Netherlands to anyone who might be interested.
> 
> Sorry for x-posting.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Koen Leurs, www.uu.nl/wiredup
> 
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> 
> Job description
> 
> ??We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to
> participate in the
> 
> Wired Up program. Wired Up is an international, interdisciplinary
> collaborative project between the Faculty of Humanities and the
> Faculty of Social Sciences. Vanderbilt University, USA, is also
> taking part in the project. The project is funded by Utrecht
> University, through the prestigious High Potential Programme. Wired
> Up researches how new digital media practices, in particular the
> Internet, impact on the lives, identities, learning and socialization
> of migrant youth. ??
> 
> The project focuses on:? -	identity construction and global
> representations? -	development of new learning strategies and
> socialization patterns? -	new forms of digital literacy and youth
> networks?
> 
> For more information about Wired Up visit
> http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/???
> 
> Along with this postdoc another postdoctoral researcher will be
> appointed at the Faculty of Social Sciences to work within the Wired
> Up project. See advertisement no.: 691005, www.uu.nl/vacatures??
> 
> Job description ?In Wired Up we are researching the impact of new
> digital applications on the construction of identity of young Dutch
> migrants in a transnational setting. We are investigating in
> particular how diasporic communities are constructed and sustained
> through the analysis of youth networks, specific patterns of
> consumption and modes of self-presentation online as well as how new
> patterns of learning arise from these youth networks.
> 
> ??The postdoc is expected to do comparative analysis of the data
> collected in the wired up team by also combining different approaches
> across disciplines from the humanities and social science.?? The
> project will draw from the field of (digital) media studies,
> postcolonial theories, gender and cultural studies along with
> anthropology, education, migration, youth and literacy studies, also
> depending on the specific expertise the post-doc will bring into the
> team.??
> 
> Your tasks will be to:? -combine several disciplinary perspectives
> for the analysis of transnationalism, media, youth and migration;?
>  -develop a comparative framework in order to analyse the data sets
> collected in the wired up project;? -write conceptual or empirical
> papers based on these analyses; ? -submit 4 publications in
> international peer-reviewed journals by the end of the two years; ?
>  -present results at national and international conferences;?
>  -coordinate the organization of a final conference;? -support the
> editorial work for a final monograph.
> 
> ?Qualifications ??We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic
> researcher with a PhD in a relevant field, either in the Humanities
> or Social Science with a preference for knowledge and/or experience
> in the following fields: media studies (in particular new digital
> media), gender and ethnic studies, youth studies, education and new
> literacies, multicultural studies and migration studies.
> 
> ??Further details?? Additional information about the project and this
> position can be obtained by sending an email to Sandra Ponzanesi,
> e-mail: s.ponzanesi at uu.nl or by phone 31 (0) 30 253 7844.
> 
> The Postdoc will be hosted at the Research Institute for History and
> Culture. ??More information can be found at the website of the OGC.
> ??More information about the Gender Graduate Programme where the
> postdoc will be integrated can be found at: www.genderstudies.nl  ??
> 
> See www.uu.nl/wiredup for application information.
> 
> 
> Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture
> and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13,
> 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |
> 
> Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/
> 
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Dr. Michel J. Menou
Visiting Professor, Department of Information Studies
University College London, U.K.
Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management
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Email: micheljmenou[at]gmail[dot]com
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