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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">we have a postdoc position for a digital ethnographer interested in Twitter, social media automation and platform studies. You will be working in an interdisciplinary team with digital
methods specialists and media activism scholars.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span lang="en-GB" class="">More information on the project "Fabricating the People - Negotiating Claims of Representation in Social Media in Post-Gezi Turkey" and research center "Transformations
of the Popular" can be found here: </span><span lang="de" class=""><a href="https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz_carolin/fabricatingthepeople.html" class="">https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz_carolin/fabricatingthepeople.html</a></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">The link to the official job offer: <a href="https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissenschaftlicher-Mitarbeiterin-Medienwissenschaft,-SFB-„Transformationen-des-Populären-57072/641171901/" class="">https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissenschaftlicher-Mitarbeiterin-Medienwissenschaft%2C-SFB-%E2%80%9ETransformationen-des-Popul%C3%A4ren-57072/641171901/</a> </div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Looking forward to receive your applications!</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Best wishes</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Carolin Gerlitz</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">We are looking for:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span lang="en-GB" class="">In Faculty I – Faculty of Philosophy, Media Studies, </span><span lang="de" class="">the German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)
1472 “Transformations of the</span><span lang="en-GB" class=""> </span><span lang="de" class="">Popular” is </span><span lang="en-GB" class="">looking for a postdoctoral research associate at the earliest possible date under the following conditions:</span></div>
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</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Salary category 13 TV-L</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">fixed-term period until 31.12.2024</span>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">CRC "Transformations of the Popular"</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">The CRC is an interdisciplinary research network consisting of 18 projects and more than 60 scientists from the fields of literature studies, media studies, linguistics, history, music,
education, social sciences, art history as well as theology and business administration, collaborating with national and international cooperation partners for a period of four years. The CRC will be funded by the DFG from January, 1st 2021. The CRC deals
with interrelated, interdisciplinary research on the causes and consequences of the epochal erosion of the culturally dominant high/low axiology in the course of the development of quantifying methods of measuring attention and its popularisation. The CRC
is divided into three areas of research „pop“, „popularisation“ and „populisms“.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span lang="en-GB" class="">Further information on the CRC’s research agenda and subprojects can be found at </span><a class=""><span lang="de" class="">https://popkultur.uni-siegen.de/sfb1472/</span></a></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Your tasks:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Conceptualisation, organization and realization of the project “Fabricating ‘the people’ – Negotiating Claims of Representation
in Social Media in Post-Gezi Turkey” as part of a team. The project explores how public opinion is both measured and fabricated in the context of post Gezi-Turkey drawing on ethnographic, digital and software studies methodologies</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Development of digital ethnographic methodologies</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Conducting fieldwork on Twitter related practices, networks, software ecologies and automation in the context of Turkey drawing
on ethnographic methods</span> </li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Presentation of the research project at relevant international conferences</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Publication of research outcomes in relevant international journals</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Conceptualisation and organisation of international conferences, workshops and data-sprints</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Regular participation in the interdisciplinary event program and collaborative working groups of the CRC (including colloquia,
lectures, conferences, research labs and workshops)</span> </li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Contributions to main topics of the CRC, including socio-technics of popularization in social media, popularization and quantification,
popularization and populism</span> </li></ul>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Your profile:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Above-average doctorate in a discipline relevant to the project such as media studies, cultural studies, ethnology, sociology
or science and technology studies</span> </li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Research expertise and interest in the field of social media, software- and platform studies, digital culture in Turkey or Twitter
research</span> </li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Experience with (digital) ethnographic methods, interest in methods of software and platform research and the willingness to
participate in methodological development</span> </li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Relevant academic achievements (publications, conference presentations)</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Experience with workshop or conference organisation</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Readiness for interdisciplinary cooperation</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Ability to work in a team, conduct tasks independently and very good communication skills</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Fluency in spoken and written English</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">German and/or Turkish language skills would be desirable</span>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Our offer:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">This position aims to promote the candidate’s scientific or artistic qualification (e.g. Habilitation) according to the Act of
Academic Fixed-Term Contracts (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz), for which the ongoing media research in Siegen together with the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 “Media of Cooperation” and the GRK 1769 “Locating Media” offers an enabling environment. </span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Responsibility for a field with great creative potential</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">An agile environment that supports engagement with innovative educational work.</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">The opportunity to make a visible contribution towards modern accounts of leadership, cooperation and diversity culture</span>
</li><li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.0pt" class="">Numerous offers such as flexible working hours, company pension scheme, dual career service, coaching/mentoring and a comprehensive
personnel development program</span> </li></ul>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Please apply exclusively via our application portal:
<a href="https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/" class="">https://jobs.uni-siegen.de</a>. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications in paper form or by e-mail.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Contact:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">+49 (0) 271 740 4692 (Sekretariat)</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="mailto:Carolin.Gerlitz@uni-siegen.de" class="">Carolin.Gerlitz@uni-siegen.de</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Prof. Dr. Mine Gencel Bek</div>
<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="mailto:Mine.GBek@uni-siegen.de" class="">Mine.GBek@uni-siegen.de</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt;" class="">The University of Siegen is an equal opportunity employer. The call for applications is explicitly aimed at people of all genders (m/f/d); applications from women are given preference
in accordance with the North Rhine-Westphalian Equal Opportunities Act (Landesgleichstellungsgesetz). We also welcome applications from people with different personal, social and cultural backgrounds, people with severe disabilities and people of equal status.</div>
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<a href="mailto:carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de" class="">carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de</a></div>
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