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[1] From: Simone Natale
Subject: PhD Studentship: Media convergence before convergence: The case of the Electrophone (139)
[2] From: Peeter Tinits
Subject: Post-doc: DH text mining in University of Tartu (Estonia) (139)
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Date: 2019-07-30 09:22:57+00:00
From: Simone Natale
Subject: PhD Studentship: Media convergence before convergence: The case of the Electrophone
Qualification Type: PhD
Location: Loughborough
Funding for: UK Students, EU Students
Funding amount: £15,009
Hours: Full Time
Deadline: 19 August 2019
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BUA515/phd-studentship-media-convergence-before-
convergence-the-case-of-the-electrophone
This AHRC-funded PhD studentship will study the case of the
Electrophone, a telephone broadcasting system that operated in the
United Kingdom between 1894 and around 1938, to improve understandings
of the contemporary media configuration in the age of digital convergence.
Loughborough University is a top-ten rated university in England for
research intensity (REF2014). In choosing Loughborough for your
research, you will work alongside academics who are leaders in their field.
Find out
more:http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/supporting-you/research/
Full Project Detail:
The Electrophone brought information, education, and entertainment into
UK homes through telephone lines as early as 1895, long before the
emergence of radio, television and online broadcasting services. It is
an important early example of the convergence in telecommunications and
media to integrate services, content offerings, and means of
communication under one core technology.
Today, few people have heard of the Electrophone, yet this system played
a fundamental role in preparing the cultural, institutional and social
context for the emergence of broadcasting. This studentship will develop
the first ever comprehensive study of the Electrophone. Studying the
electrophone now is particularly timely. As broadcastings approach and
terminology are appropriated by web companies such as YouTube, Netflix
and Spotify, the Electrophone shows that broadcasting systems have
always circulated across different platforms and technologies.
Using a media archaeology approach, the selected student will
interrogate how this case can help us to better understand the present
configuration of digital media. The student will be encouraged to engage
with both media history and contemporary media theory in order to
explore the significance of the Electrophone for enhancing our
understanding of technological and social change in media and communication.
The selected PhD student will work with an international team of
supervisors composed of DrSimone Natale
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/simone-natale/,
Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University;
Prof.Gabriele Balbi
https://search.usi.ch/en/people/9fca22404467d1801cfd4213b9fb7e7e/Balbi-
Gabriele,
Associate Professor at USI, Switzerland;David Hay
https://fr.linkedin.com/in/david-hay-79596610, Head of Heritage &
Archives at BT Group; and
James Elder
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-elder-49577977, Archive Manager at BT.
Find out more:
https://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/BTgrouparchives/index.htm
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/about/
Entry requirements:
Applicants should have, or expect to achieve, at least a 2:1 Honours
degree (or equivalent) in Communication and Media Studies or History or
a related subject. A relevant Master's degree and/or experience in one
or more of the following will be an advantage: historical research;
communication and media theory; archival research.
Funding information:
The studentship is for 3 years and provides a tax-free stipend of
£15,009 per annum for the duration of the studentship plus tuition fees
at the UK/EU rate. EU citizens not resident in the UK are eligible for
tuition fees only.
Contact details:
Dr Simone Natale
s.natale@lboro.ac.uk
How to apply:
All applications should be made online
athttp://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/apply/research/. Under programme name,
select Social Sciences
Please quote reference number: SS-BBBOct19
Applicants should include the following with their application:
1. A cover letter presenting their career trajectory and their
motivation for applying.
2. A CV
3. A writing sample (e.g. UG or PGT dissertation or another example of
academic writing)
Application details:
Start date of studentship: 1 October 2019
Closing date of advert: 19 August 2019
Interview date: 23 August 2019
Supervisors:
Primary supervisor: Dr Simone Natale (Loughborough University)
Secondary supervisor: Prof Gabriele Balbi (USI, Switzerland), David Hay
and James Elder (BT Archives)
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Dr. Simone Natale
Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies
Programme Director, BSc Communications and Media Studies & BSc Media,
Culture and Society
Assistant Editor, /Media, Culture & Society /(Sage Publishing)
Loughborough University
School of Social Sciences
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
Phone (work): (+44) (0) 1509223380
Institutional webpage:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/natale-simone.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/simone_natale
Academia.edu: https://lboro.academia.edu/SimoneNatale
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Date: 2019-07-30 07:52:41+00:00
From: Peeter Tinits
Subject: Post-doc: DH text mining in University of Tartu (Estonia)
Post-doc: Measuring the Evolution of Industrial Modernity (1900-2018)
Starting date: Starting at 01.11.2019, temporary contract to 31.10.2021
Application deadline: 16.09.2019
Full Or Part Time: Full time
Location: Tartu, Estonia
Link: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/423402
A research group in a University of Tartu, Estonia, is looking for a
postdoctoral researcher to join us in studying the evolution of industrial
modernity. The project is based on the Deep Transitions framework (Schot &
Kanger, 2018
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733318300593);
Kanger & Schot, 2018
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422417301892)) that
aims to conceptualize the 250-year developmental trajectory of industrial
societies through the co-evolution of socio-technical systems. The key
questions our team seeks to answer are as follows: 1) What are the
foundational features of industrial modernity, characterizing almost every
industrial society to date, that have shaped its evolution? 2) Do we see
some significant ruptures along these dimensions in recent decades?
The candidate will be a part of the team tasked with measuring long-term
trends in the historical evolution of industrial societies along multiple
dimensions (ideas, institutions, and practices) and on multiple scales
(national, global). The project seeks to combine data from existing
databases with analysis of digitized text corpora. Therefore, we are
looking for a candidate with 1) competence in data analysis skills
applicable to the analysis of large historical text collections; 2)
methodological creativity in finding ways to utilize text corpora for
tracking long-term societal trends.
The research group is highly interdisciplinary, involving (among others)
experts from sustainability transitions studies, digital humanities,
history and environmental sociology. As such applicants from diverse
backgrounds are welcome to apply.
The position is funded by the Estonian Science Council and is part of the
project "Reshaping Estonian energy, mobility and telecommunications systems
on the verge of the Second Deep Transition".
The researcher is expected to engage in the following tasks, some of which
involve close collaboration with other team members:
- Operationalizing the features of industrial modernity in order to
track them in historical data.
- Extracting text corpora from public sources, organizing and storing
them.
- Cleaning and processing historical OCR texts and preparing them for
analysis.
- Assisting in designing and formulating collaborative procedures and
workflows to study the representations of industrial modernity in
historical texts utilizing the interdisciplinary domain expertise in the
group.
- Conducting data analysis and text mining on historical corpora through
various techniques, interpreting and integrating the results.
- Representing the findings in thematic conferences and participating in
the write-up of the results for journal submission.
See also the general job requirements for the University of Tartu
(https://webdesktop.ut.ee/wd/?page=pub_get_ttxt_dokv_file&pid=39498046&lang=eng&
u=20190702145609&desktop=57835&r_url=%2Fwd%2F%3Fpage%3Dpub_list_dynobj%26pid%3D%
26tid%3D69329%26u%3D20190702145609)
(Research Fellow, pages 6 and Annex 8, page 20)
Required qualifications
- PhD degree or equivalent research qualification.
- See also requirements for teaching and research staff
(https://dok.ut.ee/wd/?page=pub_get_ttxt_dokv_file&pid=39498046&lang=eng&u=20
180328103150&desktop=57835&r_url=%2Fwd%2F%3Fpage%3Dpub_list_dynobj%26pid%3D%26ti
d%3D69329%26u%3D20180328103150)
.
Required experience
Essential Experience in at least two of the following areas:
- Gathering and maintaining large digital corpora for text mining
- Applying NLP on historical OCR texts
- Keyword extraction, topic modeling, sentiment analysis
- Automatic content extraction and text classification
- Time series analysis of large text collections
- Cultural analytic studies based on large text collection
In addition:
- Readiness to learn new techniques as needed
- Excellent oral and written proficiency in English
- Independent, creative and critical thinking, capability to cope with
uncertainty.
Desirable but not essential
- Prior experience in studying long-term trends with quantitative tools
- Disciplinary background in fields that have engaged in long-term and
macro-level research (e.g. cultural evolution, digital humanities,
historical macro-sociology, economic history, economic geography,
computational history)
- Disciplinary background in fields that have focused on the study of
technology and society (e.g. history of science and technology, Science and
Technology Studies, media and communication studies, innovation studies)
- Working knowledge in sustainability transitions and long wave
literature.
Required language skills
- Excellent oral and written proficiency in English.
Period
- Starting at 01.11.2019, temporary contract to 31.10.2021
Salary
- 25,000-28,000 eur per annum gross per month depending on skills level.
- See also UT salary rules
(https://dok.ut.ee/wd/?page=pub_get_ttxt_dokv_file&pid=127157&lang=eng&u=2015
0911082757&desktop=57835&r_url=%2Fwd%2F%3Fpage%3Dpub_list_dynobj%26pid%3D%26tid%
3D69329%26u%3D20150911082757)
Additional info
The research group is highly interdisciplinary, involving (among others)
experts from sustainability transitions studies, digital humanities,
history and environmental sociology. As such applicants from diverse
backgrounds are welcome to apply.
The position is funded by the Estonian Science Council and is part of the
project "Reshaping Estonian energy, mobility and telecommunications systems
on the verge of the Second Deep Transition".
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