Hi all, My institute at Tallinn University is announcing 5 free PhD positions in the “Audiovisual Arts and Media Studies” doctoral program. The places will come with attached scholarships and salaries - in the amount of 1400 euros per month. Please circulate. The programme facilitates two fields of study: creative practice based audiovisual arts studies and empirical media studies. The curriculum focuses on contemporary forms and phenomena of media and audiovisual arts, first and foremost media production and content research. Special focus is given to the processes of change in media and arts. In 2019, there will be two PhD students admitted to conduct research as part of the EU Commission funded Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN) ERA Chair project and two PhD students admitted to conduct research as a part of the EU Mobilitas Pluss Top Researcher project of Prof. Pia Tikka. One study place will not be attached to a project and is thematically free. The two doctoral places that relate to CUDAN projects need to relate to the following themes: - Data based studies of audiovisual heritage (film and television, projects could focus on their histories, their databases and corpora, their metadata, the ways databases and corpora represent or mediate history) - Data usage in contemporary media organisations (media organisations in smaller countries preferred, projects could focus on their data collection and analytic practices and opportunities, analysis of related value propositions) The two doctoral places that relate to prof. Pia Tikka research projects need to relate to the following themes: - Virtual reality/Augmented reality storytelling in immersive narrative environments, practice-based work requiring skills in working with game engines, 3D character animation, and/or 360 cinematic production. Programming skills are considered a plus. - Biosensor-driven interaction between the participant and immersive narrative and/or virtual characters, requiring relatively advanced skills in programming, experience in conducting psychophysiological experiments is emphasised. Learn more about the programme and the opportunities here: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/audiovisual-arts-and-media-studies <https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/audiovisual-arts-and-media-studies> New (open access) book: "Emergence of Cross-innovation Systems: Audiovisual Industries Co-innovating with Education, Health Care and Tourism” <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Emergence-of-Crossinnovation-Systems/?K=9781787699809>, Emerald, 2019 thanks! Kat Tiidenberg Katrin Tiidenberg, PhD Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Social Media, Tallinn University, Estonia Founding member of Estonian Young Academy of Sciences Secretary of AoIR Books: Selfies, why we love (and hate) them. // Ihu ja hingega internetis, kuidas mõista sotsiaalmeediat. Just published: Tiidenberg, K; Paasonen, S. (2018). Littles: affects and aesthetics in sexual age-play. Sexuality & Culture // Tiidenberg, K; Allaste, A-A. (2018). LGBT activism in Estonia: Identities, enactment and perceptions of LGBT people. Sexualities, 1−18. more info: http://kkatot.tumblr.com/