[csaa-forum] PhD/Research Assoc. for Anonymity project - Leuphana University, Germany

[Ned Rossiter]

http://www.leuphana.de/bewerben/jobs-und-karriere/forschung-lehre/ansicht-forschung-lehre/datum/2015/07/06/research-associate-eg-13-tv-l.html

<via goetz.bachmann at leuphana.de >

Research Associate EG 13 TV-L
06.07.2015 The sub-project “Configuring Sociality. The Production of Online Anonymity Regimes” at Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), is seeking to appoint a 65% position as Research Associate, EG 13 TV-L, at a doctoral level for a duration up to three years, starting from 1. October 2015.

The sub-project “Configuring Sociality. The Production of Online Anonymity Regimes” at Leuphana University Lüneburg (foundation under public law), is seeking to appoint a 65% position as

Research Associate
EG 13 TV-L
at a doctoral level for a duration up to three years, starting  from 1. October 2015.

The sub-project “Configuring Sociality” is part of a larger project on “Reconfiguring Anonymity – Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation”, with Hamburg and Bremen University as further partners. The overall project is funded by the program “Key Issues in Academia and Society” of the Volkswagen-Foundation, and coordinated by Bremen University (Prof. Michi Knecht). The sub-project “Configuring Sociality” is led by Prof. Götz Bachmann, Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), Leuphana.

“Reconfiguring Anonymity” starts with the assumption that the way we practice and imagine anonymity is one of modernity’s most fundamental cultural formations. However, current and future media, information, identification and surveillance technologies transform established concepts and practices of doing and undoing anonymity. While the questions raised by these profound changes are widely debated in public discourse, empirically grounded and theoretically complex understandings of the social dynamics, productivity and dangers of anonymity are surprisingly scarce. Therefore, “Reconfiguring Anonymity” brings together social anthropologists, sociologists, media scientists and art historians to generate a series of extended ethnographic case studies, with the aim to produce new insights into regimes of maintaining, modifying or abandoning anonymity in contemporary, hybrid online-offline worlds.

The sub-project “Configuring Sociality” addresses the negotiation of anonymity in the process of designing, producing, coding and launching social media platforms and applications. Research will be conducted in Germany, the UK and the US. The doctoral project will be located in this topical area, and will involve extensive ethnographic research in the UK and in the Berlin/Hamburg region. The post is situated at the “Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media” (ICAM), and associated to the “Centre for Digital Cultures” (CDC) at Leuphana.

Your tasks:
    •    Independent work on a PhD project, including the design and conduct of extensive ethnographic case studies in digital media companies and networks in the UK and Germany
    •    Participation in the activities of the sub-project on “Configuring Sociality” and the overall project “Reconfiguring Anonymity”
    •    Preparation and discussion of research literature, especially in the area of media theory, media history, social and cultural anthropology and STS, where relevant for the topic
    •    There is no requirement to teach, but own teaching activities are possible
    •    Preparing and writing up results for peer reviewed publications

Requirements:
    •    Completed masters degree or equivalent in the area of Cultural or Social anthropology, European Ethnology, Media Studies, Social studies of Science and Technology (STS), Cultural Studies, Sociology or related fields.
    •    Familiarity with ethnography, ideally within the area of media ethnography and/or the ethnography of work
    •    Excellent letter of intention, which includes not only past experiences, but also an outline of first ideas for a doctoral project in the thematic and methodological field (no more than 3 pages at 1.5 line spacing and font size 12)
    •    Very good communicative and team skills, willingness to closely work together with PhD students and researchers of the reaearch group
    •    Interest in interdisciplinary exchange within a research intensive environment
    •    Preparedness to enrol for the doctoral programme at Leuphana University Lüneburg, including participation in its seminars and colloquia.
    •    Very good English language skills, good German skills.

Place of work is Lüneburg. This post is subject to formal grant approval.

For further substantial enquiries regarding the posts please contact goetz.bachmann at leuphana.de

Leuphana University Lueneburg is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering heterogeneity among its staff. Disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given priority consideration. We are looking forward to your application.

You may submit hard copy applications (not preferred!)

Applications with supporting documentation (including research proposal of no more than 3 pages) should be sent by 20th of July 2015 to:
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Personalservice; Frau Mühl-Beulke
Kennwort: „Configuring Sociality“
Scharnhorststraße 1
D – 21335 Lüneburg
bewerbung at leuphana.de

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