Dear all Apologies for cross-posting. Very pleased to invite applications for full-time postdoctoral positions in the new European Research Council Consolidator Project on small social media platforms (2024-2029), which I will soon set up at LMU Munich, Germany. A brief description and respective links are given below. SMALLPLATFORMS will explore small social media platforms (beyond the big tech) in a cross-cultural context, examining whether and in what ways forms of contentious speech are associated with practices particular to such platforms. Fieldwork will be carried out in Germany, Kenya, India, and the UK. The study combines ethnography, content analysis, critical discourse analysis and computational methods (NLP and social network analysis). It will simultaneously engage in theoretical, empirical and policy discussions around small social media platforms’ evolving role in extreme speech ecosystems. 1. Postdoctoral Researcher / Kenya 2 years, extendable by 1 year and 3 months Research expertise in ethnography, social media data gathering, content analysis, critical discourse analysis is required. Experience in data sciences is desirable. Fluency in English and Swahili is needed. https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/bcca3578ed62e9217e48979f53ca40c65080f45... 2. Postdoctoral Researcher / Germany / 2 years, extendable 1 year and 3 months Research expertise in ethnography, social media data gathering, content analysis, critical discourse analysis is required. Experience in data sciences is desirable. Fluency in German and English is needed. https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/705783264ad42b3e8dcc5634a5d9fec4d292dc1... 3. Postdoctoral Researcher / Data Science / 2 years https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/8746b38dacc091e740ae2aae34257f326be45fc... Research expertise in quantitative methods and data sciences, with a focus on data visualization, social network analysis and NLP is required. Candidates with a background in computer sciences or computational social sciences are invited to apply. 4. Project and social media manager, part time 50% Background in media and project management, and fluency in German and English are required. https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/cdfa315b58f211144a159203b4e38170bf1426e... As part of the project, you will contribute to respective subprojects as well as co-authored team publications, project events, and project reporting. All positions are based in Munich but ethnographers on the team will carry out fieldwork in their respective fields for eight to nine months. You will be a member of the Center for Digital Dignity, a multidisciplinary research group, with opportunities to partner with the core research team based in Munich and a global network of collaborators. Successful candidates are expected to join the team by February 2025. Please send: 1. two-page letter of interest with a brief outline of research questions, methods and timeline 2. two-page CV 3. two writing samples as a single PDF and 4. names of two referees by e-mail to *ai4dignity@ethnologie.lmu.de* <ai4dignity@ethnologie.lmu.de> with the *subject line “Small platforms postdoctoral position”* *before 31 August 2024* (please name the files in the format: your second name_smallplatformsapplication). Best wishes Sahana *** Sahana Udupa, PhD | Professor of Media Anthropology | LMU Munich Berkman Klein Fellow, Harvard University @4digitaldignity