ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Special issue of Animation: an interdisciplinary journal

Deadline: March 31, 2021

Guest Editor: Professor Paul Ward, Arts University Bournemouth

The study of animation has grown enormously in the past two decades. Historical and theoretical research, along with teaching the practice of animation in a variety of settings – from schools and colleges, to universities and other contexts – is now commonplace. One area that has been overlooked to date, however, is explicit/critical discussion/of/how and why/we teach animation in the ways that we do. There are a number of ‘traditions’ at play here: the teaching/training/inducting of people into the/craft/of making animation; courses that educate people whose goal is to work in more mainstream studio animation; courses that examine animation as an artistic practice overlapping with other areas such as Fine Art or Experimental Film/Video. There often appears to be a bifurcation into ‘animation education’ on the one hand and ‘animation training’ on the other: part of the point of this Special Issue would be to challenge and interrogate such a simplistic binary way of thinking.

The recent turn to ‘production studies’ (e.g. the work of John Caldwell) and critical examination of media industries (e.g. the work published in/Media Industries/online journal) ties in with a more detailed exploration of animation production pipelines, and how these ‘normative models’ are taught and passed down to future practitioners is part of the next stage of important research that needs to be done. Likewise, the role of animation in learning more generally – animation as a potentially radical pedagogic tool – also needs further critical examination.

The Special Issue welcomes submissions on any aspect of animation and education, including but not limited to:

• Animation in the university, school and other formal educational settings;
• Animation’s ‘interdisciplinary’ status;
• Animation Studies/animation practice as a recognizable ‘knowledge area’;
• Animation education’s relationship with industry (mentoring, industry liaison);
• Formal and informal modes of animation education;
• Communities of practice, on-the-job training, continuing professional development;
• Fostering diversity via animation education (e.g. issues of race, class, gender, dis/ability);
• The relationship between animation practice, animation theory, and animation professional discourses;
• The ways in which animation can be used to educate about other things – e.g. History, issues in healthcare, social care, etc;
• Case studies of specific examples of animation pedagogy;
• Animation and the philosophy of education.

As well as welcoming articles of 6-9000 words, we also welcome shorter ‘critical reflections on animation education’ (2-3000 words), where educators can share examples of best practice.

Deadline: Submissions to reach the Guest Editor (pward@aub.ac.uk) by 31 March 2021.

All submissions will be subject to the journal’s peer review processes.

Please refer to the journal's Submission

Guidelines: https://journals.sagepub.com/…ANM

March 2-3, 2021

Online conference

Deadline for abstracts: January 5, 2021

A two-day virtual conference on the diversity of film audience experience in the UK

Full details: https://www.beyondthemultiplex.net/…pdf

‘Audiences beyond the multiplex: understanding the value of a diverse film culture’ marks the final event for the AHRC-funded project ‘Beyond the Multiplex: Audiences for Specialised film in English Regions’.

For more information on the project see: https://www.beyondthemultiplex.net/

Pawel Surowiec, Ilan Manor (editors)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-54552-9?fbclid=IwAR3B8sdP9OjaE7bu96Yh3d1mug3sx9ppHxFsqH_pWFmAFI3BAt0Ve2Gtksk#about

This edited book explores the multi-layered relationships between public diplomacy and intensified uncertainties stemming from transnational political trends. It is the latest wave of political uncertainty that provides the background as well as yields evidence scrutinised by authors contributing to this book. The book argues that due to a state of perpetual crises, the simultaneity of diplomatic tensions and new digital modalities of power, international politics increasingly resembles a networked set of hyper-realities. Embracing multi-polar competition, superpowers such as Russia flex their muscles over their neighbours; celebrated ‘success stories’ of democratisation – Hungary, Poland and Czechia – move towards illiberal governance; old players of international politics such as Britain and America re-claim “greatness”, while other states, like China, adapt expansionist foreign policy goals. The contributors to this book consider the different ways in which transnational political trends and digitalisation breed uncertainty and shape the practice of public diplomacy.

Paweł Surowiec is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Communication at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Ilan Manor is a Digital Diplomacy Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK.

Keywords: post-truth politicsPublic DiplomacyUncertaintysoft powerilliberal trends

November 2, 2020

Online

We're thrilled to share with you the GigaNet symposium program, happening next week!

The GigaNet Annual Symposium will take place on Day 0 of the IGF, this year due to the pandemic it will be remote via Zoom.

Please notice that you have to register to the conference - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0apZyD5ca71xKOWDeVO-NL-eJ6rsy-z_64HqzdlCX7nT0Xg/viewform

AND the IGF website as well to be able to participate - https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2020-registration

To check out the full program go to this link -> https://www.giga-net.org/2020-annual-giganet-symposium-program-katowice-poland-remote/ but we wanted to give you a teaser of what's on->

GigaNet Symposium at IGF – Monday, 2nd November, 2020

Join the debate on our live tweeting-> @Giganetr #GigaNet

13:40-13:55 UTC – Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Dmitry Epstein, GigaNet Chair

Roxana Radu, GigaNet Program Chair 2020

14:00-15:15 UTC – parallel sessions 1

panel A1: Platform governance

Panel B1: Internet governance and the Covid-19 pandemic

15:20-16:35 UTC – parallel sessions 2

Panel A2: Data Governance

Panel B2: Stakeholders and their role in internet governance

16:40-17:55 UTC – parallel sessions 3

Panel 3: Governing standards and infrastructure

Panel B3: Cyberconflict and Cybersecurity

18:00-19:00 UTC – GigaNet meeting

Tallinn University

Tallinn University is looking for a Professor of Documentary Film (Tenure Track Associate Professor)

The elected candidate commences work on the first career level of the position (associate professor) with the aim of supporting their development into a leader of the relevant study and research field in Tallinn University, and moves to the second career level of the position (professor) by way of evaluation.

Position: Associate Professor of Documentary Film (career level I of Tenure Track Professorship)

Academic unit: Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM - https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm)

Study area: arts

The position will be filled from 01.09.2021.

More info: https://www.tlu.ee/en/associate-professor-documentary-film

Tallinn University has announced a public competition for the position of Professor of Documentary Film. The elected candidate commences work on the first career level of the position (associate professor) with the aim of supporting their development into a leader of the relevant study and research field in Tallinn University, and moves to the second career level of the position (professor) by way of evaluation.

Description of the field of the academic work:

Documentary is an independent branch of film art. The term contains almost everything non-fiction, starting from factual TV-programs and youtube clips ending with auteur documentaries. Nonfiction storytelling fills people’s every day, it is delivered from TV, Internet and Theatres. Every significant phenomena requires studies, both locally and globally. Discourse of the documentary is in constant move, the theory needs to develop parallel to that. TLU as an Estonian university needs to focus to the developments of Estonian documentary as well.

School context: Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM) has internationally highly valued track record in the film education field. Established in 2005 it has by now, became a leading film school - a competence centre for audiovisual knowledge and expertise in the Baltics.

At BFM a film, especially documentary film, is the strongest area of artistic research and creation. BFM alumni have won prizes in many international film festivals.

According to the Tallinn University Development Plan university's goal is to educate creative professionals and critical and active citizens with diverse media literacy, including the ability to create a state-of-the-art image world to narrate stories and contribute to the development of society as well as enrich Estonian and global culture. TLU is an important centre for learning and development of creative (including film) people.

For fulfilment of all these high targets set in the Development Plan BFM is establishing a professorship in the field of documentary filmmaking.

The strategic importance of the position

The relevance of the field to the development priorities of TLU, Estonia and Europe: Regarding the first aspect, attention should be paid, in addition to European and TLU policy, to the Estonian level policy in education and research. Regarding education, of importance are, as an example, the Estonian strategy of education and the Administrative Contract (Haldusleping) between TLU and the Ministry of Education and Research. The latter addresses TLU responsibilities in the audiovisual arts and media production.

Documentary films have had a significant role in the Estonian cinematography history since the 1960ies, and gained a lot of international recognition. In the 21st century the role of audiovisual arts has ever increased, therefore the relevance of teaching them has also become more and more important. “Kultuur 2020”, the document describing the cultural policy of Estonia stipulates that “the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School of Tallinn University will be a modern international school of cinematography and media studies where the education in the study fields of cinematography and audio visual media can be obtained both in Estonian and English.”

In BFM documentary studies in its various forms have actually been taught since the foundation of the school, currently within the curricula of the BA studies of Film Arts, BA studies of audio visual media and separately at the MA level as an international curriculum.

The administrative contract concluded between the Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia and Tallinn University stipulates that Tallinn University is responsible for teaching audio visual techniques and media production in the study group of the arts curriculum, it is also its responsibility in the digital and media culture which is one of the focus areas of the development plan of the University.

Requirements for the candidates (incl. professional experience)

Candidates for the tenure system position shall meet at least the requirements of career level I of tenure system professor (associate professor), which are stipulated in Annex 2 and respectively in Annex 9 and 10 to the Employment Relations Rules. As this position is in the field of arts, at least a Master’s degree or an equivalent qualification is required.

Academic activity requirements

• The following requirements are considered necessary:
• considerable demonstrable knowledge in the field of documentary film and documentary filmmaking;

• a list of significant creative works including nominations and/or awards from international film festivals or film organisations. Research and publication record would be beneficial. (Submitted among the other application documents);
• experience in international film production;
• experience in organising international workshops and speciality meetings;
• active membership in international and national professional and/or creative organisations, expert groups, journal editorial boards,
• programme committees of international conferences;
• substantial pedagogical experience in teaching and supervising in the field of film art, especially documentary film;
• experience in organizing societal outreach activities including collaborations with film industries;
• experience in developing and running curricula in the field of documentary film.

Leadership aspects of the role: Professor of Documentary Film is expected to have existing experience in leading and managing creative teams. It is recommendable for the candidate to evidence skills in team and consensus building.

Job responsibilities

In accordance with Annexes 1, 2 and 10 to the Employment Relations Rules.

Duties are approximately divided between research (40-65%), teaching (20-40%) and internal and external service (10-30%).

Particular work duties linked to the profile, include:

• development of the study programs both in BA and MA level;
• co-ordinating the activities of the academic staff;
• teaching theory of the documentary;
• supervising creative courses of the documentary;
• initiating international networking, international relationship (i.e participating in the teaching documentary network of CILECT);
• promoting documentary studies in the country and abroad;
• searching for additional funds for financing students’ creative projects;
• participating in the festivals for film schools.
• Representing BFM in the teaching documentary network of CILECT;

European Documentary Network, Estonian Documentary Guild. Ethics. The job holder will cooperate with local ethics committees when planning and executing creative activities and research.

Language skills:

Estonian at a high level (C1). An employee who does not speak Estonian is expected to start acquiring proficiency in Estonian upon starting work and achieve language proficiency level B1 within three years and a level comparable to level B2 within five years in order to be able to perform tasks related to institutional development and administrative work in Estonian.

English at a high level (C1). The candidate needs to possess high command of English for conducting creative works in an international setting.

Working load: 1,0 (40 hours a week).

Remuneration: In accordance with TLU Remuneration Regulation and by negotiations with the director of the School where the position shall be. In addition to remuneration, a limited allowance is foreseen to the tenure professor, which can be used to cover the costs of research and development expenditure, members of the research team etc related to the position.

Location: Professor is expected to live in Tallinn and work at the premises of Tallinn University.

Required application documents shall be submitted by 20th January 2021 (incl) to Personnel Office of Tallinn University. A list of significant creative works shall include nominations and/or awards from international film festivals or film organisations. Research and publication record would be beneficial.

Additional information: Please address your administrative questions to konkurss@tlu.ee, and questions on the content to the Administrative Head of the BFM Kaie Viigipuu-Kreintaal, kaie.viigipuu@tlu.ee

Zrinjka Peruško, Dina Vozab, Antonija Čuvalo

https://www.routledge.com/Comparing-Post-Socialist-Media-Systems-The-Case-of-Southeast-Europe/Perusko-Vozab-Cuvalo/p/book/9780367226787

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate configuration of conditions that influence their contemporary shape.

Applying an innovative longitudinal set-theoretical methodological approach, the book contributes to the theory of media systems with a novel theoretical framework for the comparative analysis of post-socialist media systems. This theory builds on the theory of historical institutionalism and the notion of critical junctures and path dependency in searching for an explanation for similarities or differences among media systems in the Eastern European region.

Extending the understanding of media systems beyond a political journalism focus, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on comparative media systems in the areas of media systems studies, political science, Southeast and Central European studies, post-socialist studies and communication studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction 2. Explaining the transformations of post-socialist media systems 3. Prelude to modernity 4.Media systems in socialist modernity 5. Towards democracy: Post-socialist media systems in digital modernity 6. Why the media systems are the way they are

Reviews

This is a conceptually rich, methodologically sophisticated, and interdisciplinary analysis of south-east European media systems that explains continuity, change and divergence between the six cases. It deserves to be read not only by scholars of the region but by those considering how to approach more generally the study of comparative media systems and cultures.

John Downey, Professor of Comparative Media Analysis, Loughborough University

There was the need to fill a gap in the study of media systems in Southeast Europe. This book is doing this in a very convincing way. Peruško and colleagues support their discussion of the media systems in Southeast Europe with a rich and often complex interpretative apparatus deriving both from media studies and political science. Undoubtedly this mixture represents a major enrichment of their attempt that opens the doors to other possible applications, avoiding the frequent self-reference that often characterizes media studies.

Paolo Mancini

This book reveals major changes in media systems in the six post-socialist countries of Southeast Europe between their early development in the late 19th century and the end of the socialist period (1945-1990) after World War II, and the breakup of their common state of Yugoslavia (1918-1990). The authors follow common threads of changes in contemporary media policy and media systems from the prolific challenges they pose to democracies to the appalling combination of conditions that reinforce media dependence on agents of political and economic power in what they call a "hybrid and competitive authoritarian media systems". This is an important contribution to comparative media studies, providing an exciting insight into media culture across diverse national contexts and advancing a theoretical understanding of the complex and little-known changes in the post-socialist countries of the former Yugoslavia.

Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana

Peruško, Vozab and Čuvalo’s book focusing on one of the most troubled regions of European history is an important contribution to the study of comparative media systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this excellent study offers historical depth, conceptual innovation and methodological sophistication and will be a benchmark for future comparative research in the field. A fascinating read for everybody interested in the transformation of media systems in emerging democracies!

Katrin Voltmer, Professor of Communication and Democracy, University of Leeds

Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany

Sage, October 2020

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526456966/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tu00_p1_i4

When we a re told so regularly that we live in a ‘post truth’ age and are surrounded by ‘fake news’, it can be tempting to think of politics as primarily media ted. Discussion and analysis of public affairs is preoccupied with the power and reach of platforms or the passion and rage of social media exchanges. As important as these issues may be, a focus on the communicative risks downgrading the political.

Media, Democracy and Social Change puts politics back into political communications. It shows how within a digital media ecology, the wider context of neoliberal capitalism remains essential for understanding what political communications is and can hope to be.

Tackling broad themes of structural inequality, technological change, political realignment and social transformation, the book explores political communications as it relates to debates around the state, infrastructures, elites, populism, political parties, activism, the legacies of colonialism, and more.

It is both an expert introduction to the field of political communications, and a critical intervention to help re-imagine what a democratic politics might mean in a digital age. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and activists.

Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany all work at the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, where they teach together on the MA in Political Communications.

Table of Contents

1 Putting Politics Back Into Political Communications

2 Infrastructures of Political Communications

3 The State of Political Communications

4 Elites, Experts, Power and Democracy

5 Democracy Without Political Parties?

6 The Violence of an Illiberal Liberalism

7 Political Communications, Civil Society and the Commons

8 Intellectuals and the Re-imagining of Political Communications

October 22 – November 12, 2020

International Symposium

Hosted by Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/events/contagion_design

Organizers: Gay Hawkins and Ned Rossiter

Summary

How is contagion designed? How do labour, migration, habits and data configure contagion? Across a program of four weeks of discussion and debate, this event explores the current conjuncture through these vectors to address issues of rising unemployment, restricted movement  increasing governance of populations through data systems and the compulsory redesign of habits. Design logics underscore both biological contagion and political technologies. Contagion is redesigning how labour and migration are differentially governed, experienced and indeed produced. Habits generate modes of exposure and protection from contagion and become a resource for managing biological and social life.

Data turns contagion into models that make a virus actionable and calculable. But can the logic of pre-emption and prediction ever accommodate and control the contingencies of a virus? The aim of this event is to explore these issues and their implications for cultural, social and political research. If contagion never abandons the scene of the present, if it persists as a constitutive force in the production of social life, how might we redesign the viral as the friend we love to hate?

This event organised by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University includes speakers from the ICS together with national and international colleagues.

Please note: there are 4 events held over a 4-week period. The details of each event are included below, including the links to register. You may register for all or some of the events. Please register separately for each event you would like to attend.

Full pdf of the symposium program can be downloaded from the url above.

Migration and Labour

22 October, 11:30am – 1pm

Register on Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/yyyhns6s

Chair: Brett Neilson

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, ‘Economic Informality and Democracy in India at the Time of Covid-19’

Joyce Liu, ‘What Comes After the Lockdown? A New Wave of Nationalisation and the Local Divide’

Anne McNevin, ‘Temporal Contagion as an Antidote to Renationalization’

Contagious Mutualities

29 October, 4–5.30pm

Register on Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/y6x2brga

Chair: Katherine Gibson

Stephen Healy and Declan Kuch, ‘Contagious Mutuality: Spreading Postcapitalist Possibilities’

Peter North, ‘Building Back Better in the UK or Back to Work?’

Teppo Eskelinen, ‘Redefining Community in Nordic Countries After the Pandemic’

Habits of Contagion

4 November, 4–5.30pm

Register on Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/y4yto3jo

Chair: Tony Bennett

Franck Cochoy, ‘On the Art of Burying One's Face in a Band: How the Sanitary Mask Encounters the Habits of Laypersons and Experts’

Ben Dibley, ‘Demophobia and the Infrastructures of Infection’ Gay Hawkins, ‘Social Distance: Security, Suggestion, Insecurity’

Data Contagion

12 November, 11am – 12.30pm

Register on Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/y5ed2lb6

Chair: Ned Rossiter

Mark Andrejevic, ‘Biometrics “at-a-distance”: Touchlessness and the Securitization of Circulation’

Rolien Hoyng, ‘Datafication and Contingency in Circular Economies’ Orit Halpern, ‘Resilient Natures: Algorithmic Finance, Radical Events and Ecological Models’

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Are you interested and engaged in the social and political debates on AI? Do you question why the trolley problem has been at the centre of these debates for so long and wonder whether AI is more than just deep learning? Are you interested and experienced in interdisciplinary research on digitisation and society? Then we look forward to receiving your application!

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is looking for a committed PhD candidate for the Shaping AI project.

The successful candidate will work in the research project “Shaping 21st Century AI. Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy, and Research” (SHAPING AI) for 3 years, in an 65% capacity (TVL 13). Family & travel support, as well as support for the procurement of research materials are included. Starting date for the position is February 1, 2021.

This international joint project – with partners in the UK, France and Canada – empirically investigates the formation of “artificial intelligence” (AI) as a central socio-technical institution in contemporary societies. Over a ten-year period (2012-2021), we will conduct a comparative study of the issue career, framing and problematisation of AI in the four participating countries and in three domains: media, politics and technical research. The HIIG will act as consortium lead.

Key Responsibilities

• Development of a dissertation topic within the scope of the project

• Independent implementation of sub studies within the project (e.g. on policy debates and regulation of AI, on media debate and on technical research in Germany)

• Contributions to design and implementation of the research project

• Collaboration and communication with international project partners

• Publication of scientific articles in relevant journals, submission of conference papers and development of formats for knowledge transfer to a wider public, e.g. through events, blog posts, etc.

• Support or expansion of existing scientific networks of the institute

Requirements and Preferred Qualifications

• Eligible candidates will have a very good university degree, ideally based in the social sciences with a topic related to the above-mentioned field

• Initial experience in social-science based Internet research, ideally with a focus on one or more of the following fields: AI, regulation/governance/ethics, science communication, controversies about science and technology.

• Initial empirical experience with document analysis, discourse analysis and/or critical data and algorithm research, including digital methods, is desirable

• Great interest in interdisciplinary research, first experiences in interdisciplinary cooperation are desirable

• Open-mindedness for international scientific cooperation, ideally substantiated by experience abroad

• Independence, creative will, sense of responsibility, motivation and teamwork

• Business fluency in German and very good knowledge of English are mandatory

Resources & Benefits

• Independent research and creative opportunities to develop your own scientific profile, gain visibility and publish at a high level

• Participation in the development and establishment of a new research project with room for own ideas in cooperation with the project management

• International project context with a highly visible and relevant topic

• Strong international and interdisciplinary networking and cooperation with renowned project partners

• The opportunity to gain a doctorate, participation in the doctoral programme and the mentoring programme and other excellent exchange and networking opportunities

• An attractive and family-friendly working environment with flexible working hours, flat hierarchies in an embodied alternative to the traditional science business

• A highly motivated team that works very closely together and committed colleagues from various disciplines in a forward-looking institute in the heart of Berlin

Application Instructions

Do you recognise yourself in the profile described? Then we look forward to receiving your application with a letter of motivation, CV and relevant certificates. Please enclose a 1-2 page sketch with first ideas for a doctoral thesis topic within the project “Shaping AI”. Please submit the documents using the online form below. The review of applications will start on November 2, 2020. The call for applications will remain online and thus open until a suitable applicant is found. The careful screening and selection of our new team members is very important to us and we ask for your understanding that we will conduct several selection interviews during the process. If you have any questions regarding the content of the position, please contact Dr. Christian Katzenbach (christian.katzenbach@hiig.de).

https://www.hiig.de/en/doktorandin-m-w-d-fuer-das-projekt-shaping-ai/

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Are you interested and engaged in the social and political debates on AI? Do you question why the trolley problem has been at the centre of these debates for so long and wonder whether AI is more than just deep learning? Are you interested and experienced in interdisciplinary research on digitisation and society? Then we look forward to receiving your application!

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is looking for a committed postdoc for the Shaping AI project.

The successful candidate will work in the research project “Shaping 21st Century AI. Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy, and Research” (SHAPING AI) for 3 years, in an 80% capacity (TVL 13 or 14, depending on your qualification) in cooperation with the head of research programme “The evolving digital society” and in close coordination with the research directorate. Family & travel support, as well as support for the procurement of research materials are included. Starting date for the position is February 1, 2021.

This international joint project – with partners in the UK, France and Canada – empirically investigates the formation of “artificial intelligence” (AI) as a central socio-technical institution in contemporary societies. Over a ten-year period (2012-2021), we will conduct a comparative study of the issue career, framing and problematisation of AI in the four participating countries and in three domains: media, politics and technical research. The HIIG will act as consortium lead.

Key Responsibilities

• Joint responsibility and scope for development in the design of the research topic and the implementation of the research project

• Coordination of the international research network together with project management, cooperation in communication and coordination with project partners

• Development of comparative research designs for the comparison of empirical results at the consortium level

• Supervision of sub-studies, executed by PhD candidate and graduate students (e.g. on policy debates and regulation of AI, on media debate and on technical research in Germany)

• Publication of scientific articles in leading international journals, submission of conference papers and development of formats of knowledge transfer for a broader public, e.g. through events, blog posts, etc.

• Support and expansion of existing scientific networks of the institute

• Monitoring of funding lines and tenders, raising of third-party funds by participating in public tenders or by supporting the fundraising activities of the HIIG, especially in the field of AI and society

Requirements and Preferred Qualifications

• Eligible candidates will have an outstanding university degree and a completed doctorate in social sciences, ideally related to the above-mentioned field

• Experience in social-science based internet research, documented by relevant publications and lectures, ideally with a focus on one or more of the following fields: AI, regulation/governance/ethics, science communication, controversies about science and technology.

• Empirical experience with document analysis, discourse analysis and/or critical data and algorithm research, including digital methods, are desirable

• Great interest in interdisciplinary research, ideally already experience in interdisciplinary cooperation

• Open-mindedness for international scientific cooperation, ideally substantiated by relevant experience abroad or within existing cooperations

• Initial experience in project management and the coordination of distributed work processes as well as very good communication skills are desirable

• Independence, creative will, sense of responsibility, motivation and teamwork

• Fluent business English is mandatory, good command of German is desirable

Resources & Benefits

• Independent research and creative opportunities to develop your own scientific profile, gain visibility and publish at a high level

• Development and establishment of a new research project with leeway for your own ideas and agenda in cooperation with the research programme manager and in close coordination with the research directorate

• International project context with a highly visible and relevant topic

• Strong international and interdisciplinary networking and cooperation with renowned project partners

• An attractive and family-friendly working environment with flexible working hours, flat hierarchies in an embodied alternative to the traditional science business

• A highly motivated team that works very closely together and committed colleagues from various disciplines in a forward-looking institute in the heart of Berlin

Application Instructions

Do you recognize yourself in the profile described? Then we are looking forward to receiving your application along with a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, and relevant certificates. Please include a 1-2 page research sketch with first ideas of how you imagine the empirical implementation of the above mentioned topics of the project “Shaping AI”. Please submit the documents using the online form below. The review of applications will start on November 2, 2020 and the call for applications will remain open until a suitable applicant is found. The careful screening and selection of our new team members is very important to us and we ask for your patience that we will conduct several interviews during the process. If you have any questions regarding the content of the job advertisement, please contact project lead Dr. Christian Katzenbach (katzenbach@hiig.de).

https://www.hiig.de/en/postdoktorandin-m-w-d-fuer-das-projekt-shaping-ai/