[csaa-forum] Fwd: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Positions Available

[Devleena Ghosh]

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> From: Mitoo Das <mitoo at sarai.net>
> Date: 2008/8/20
> Subject: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Positions Available
> To: announcements at sarai.net
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> *POSTITIONS AVAILABLE*
>
> The Cultural and Material life of Media Piracy is a three year project
> carried out by the Sarai programme of the CSDS in collaboration with
> the Alternative Law Forum Bangalore. We begin with the premise that
> piracy is widespread in places where a media-saturated modernity meets
> severe inequalities of purchasing power for books, software,
> recordings, videos and other knowledge products. One of the key aims
> of this research project will be to understand this media environment
> as it unfolds itself in diverse contexts.  The main research node is
> in India with comparative work in China and Pakistan. The Sarai-ALF
> teams of researchers work in tandem with an international project on
> media piracy with fellow researchers in Brazil, South Africa and
> Russia. The larger study is coordinated by the SSRC (New York).
>
> The project seeks to open different debates on piracy other than
> simply that of enforcement and criminality. Through research, we hope
> to generate discussions of cultural needs, community practices of
> sharing and circulation in societies of high inequality. We will also
> look at media industry approaches to piracy and enforcement
> strategies. In addition, there will be ethnographic and quantitative
> work on media use in neighbourhoods. The study of piracy offers a
> unique vantage point to study the media environment, through the sites
> of media and its movement across limits set by law, the complexity of
> user-bases, and the diversity of cultural delivery platforms.
>
> We are looking for bright, energetic and qualified researchers who can
> work in collaboration with a regional and international team.
> Applicants must demonstrate abilities to research and write on the
> subject.  A familiarity with the debate on piracy and the creative
> commons is preferable. *Social science and Humanities applicants
> should have completed post graduate degrees and law students- a four
> year programme.
> *
>
> *Researcher One: Delhi*
> The researcher will be looking at fieldwork material on media piracy
> in the Sarai archive, as well as conduct neighbourhood surveys slate
> to begin in 2009. Work will include research papers presentations and
> collaborative work with the team.
>
> *Researcher Two: Mumbai*
> The researcher will be looking at the range of piracy strategies
> pursued by media industries in the film and music sectors. Research
> will span the larger media companies as well as the smaller companies.
> Work will include research papers presentations and collaborative work
> with the team. Applicants from outside Mumbai are also welcome to
> apply for this position, although Mumbai based work will be
> significant.
>
> Remuneration will be *Rs 28000/ a month*.  Interested applicants may
> send their *CV* and a written research sample to
> *researchjobs at sarai.net by September 20, 2008*. *
> Applications without a written research sample will not be  
> entertained.
> *
>
> Links
> SSRC piracy project: http://programs.ssrc.org/ccit/ip/
> Sarai, CSDS : http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/knowledge-and-culture
> ALF: www.altlawforum.org
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(Dr) Devleena Ghosh
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