Dear AoIR colleagues, We are searching for a PhD candidate (100%) to work with us to examine the history of online commenting technologies and practices at the University of Siegen, Germany. The DFG-funded sub-project "Historical Technography of Online Commentary", part of the newly established Collaborative Research Center "Transformations of the Popular" will be led by Johannes Paßmann and Anne Helmond. Please find more details about the project, candidate requirements and application procedure here: https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research-Associate-%28100%29%2C-Media-Studies... Deadline: 28 January 2021. For further questions, do not hesitate to contact us: Dr. Johannes Paßmann Johannes.Passmann@uni-siegen.de Ass. Prof. Dr. Anne Helmond a.helmond@uva.nl Feel free to forward to your students and colleagues! Best wishes, Anne Helmond --- Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ | @silvertje Highlighted publication: Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.