Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Citizens, Media and Democracy

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Citizens, Media and Democracy

Norway University of Bergen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow position

We are looking for an ambitious scholar who wants to help develop a new agenda for researching citizens’ relations to the public sphere. The postdoc will form part of the team for the project “Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens’ public connection networks in the age of datafication” (PREPARE), funded by The European Research Council ) and led by professor Hallvard Moe. The position is full-time for 3 years.

About the project and work tasks:

PREPARE analyzes citizens’ potential for political engagement, with a standing in media and communication studies, but drawing on political theory, anthropology and sociology. We are primarily using qualitative methods and concentrate on different social groups to understand how they connect to the public and engage with politics in a broad sense. We are int...