Karlstadt University

The advertised doctoral studentship (fully funded for 4 years) is tied to the research project Beyond Fact-Checking: Detecting Frames and Disinformation in News and Social Media Content with Computational Methods(PI: Dr. Peter Maurer). The project has an interdisciplinary specialisation and will apply advanced methods for digital (computational) text analysis to identify frames  and opinions in political texts. The project also includes a comparative perspective where texts in different languages (English, Swedish, German, etc.) are analysed.  Applicants with a background in Media and communication, journalism, political science as well as computer/data science (or a related discipline) are welcome to apply.

Apply here: https://kau.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:806004/