Fully funded PhD position 'Tracing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital journalism, 1995-2025'
Dear colleagues, This might be of interest to some of your excellent students in search of a fully funded PhD position. Job: Fully funded 4-year PhD position - Centre for Media and Journalism Studies - University of Groningen, the Netherlands Fully funded PhD position (1.0 FTE) with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, in the project “Tracing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital journalism, 1995-2025”. Project description & supervision team Digital technologies have long shaped the debates on journalism’s future. These debates often emphasize technology as a solution for journalism’s struggles. In doing so, they have also limited the directions in which journalism could actually develop, and elided critical reflections on the complex relationship between journalism and technology. This project addresses these issues by studying sociotechnical imaginaries constructed in the debates about journalism and technology between 1995 and 2025 within the geographical context of Northern Europe. From the introduction of the web, through to our current debates around AI, it studies how journalists, technologists, and other actors have engaged in the introduction, negotiation, and normalization of new technologies. As different actors with diverging interests shape the debate over journalism and technology, the project scrutinizes their competing norms and values concerning journalism and technology. By critically examining how technology has been presented as a necessary and self-evident driver of journalistic change, this research offers a critical history of journalism’s recent past. This PhD project offers a unique opportunity to work in an internationally recognized research centre and gain valuable research experience at a top-ranked European university. As a PhD candidate, you will develop your own research project in consultation with the supervisory team. You will conduct independent and original academic research and report results via peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and ultimately a PhD dissertation. The PhD thesis is to be completed within four years. You are also requested to teach. You will work with the following supervisory team: Dr. Frank Harbers Dr. Rik Smit Dr. Scott A. Eldridge II The deadline for applications is 12 October 2025. For more information about the project, the qualifications and application procedure, and to apply: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02... For more information about the position and project, contact Frank Harbers < f.harbers@rug.nl> -- Dr. P.H. (Rik) Smit Senior Lecturer Program coordinator MAs Media Studies Centre for Media and Journalism Studies University of Groningen Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26 9712EK Groningen Room 13.15.0482 (+31) (0)50 363 5832 http://www.rug.nl/staff/p.h.smit/
Seventh International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2025) Macau Millennium College, Macau October 13-14, 2025 Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology November 05-06, 2025 Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam https://www.socio.org.uk/rtis Authors can participate in Macau or in Vietnam. The International Conference on Real-time Intelligent Systems (RTIS) has travelled from Beijing, China (2016), to Macau. The seventh edition will take place at the University of Macau, Macau and at the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Ho Chi Minh, in Vietnam. Over the past few years, real-time intelligent computing has revolutionised the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today’s highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is necessary to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to the following topics. CALL FOR PAPERS (Virtual/Physical) Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining Streaming data, streaming engines Trace-based intelligent real-time services Adaptive vision algorithms Location-based services Intelligent Robotic Systems Collaborative Intelligence Data capture in real-time Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Data Analysis Intelligent Database Systems Knowledge representation and reasoning Intelligent information fusion Large Language Models, cognitive methods, sequential inference, data mining, pattern/behavioral analysis Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Intelligent Information Systems Privacy and security in Intelligence Software Engineering Solutions Intelligent Soft Computing Real-time multiprocessor systems Internet of Things Architectures for Intelligence Real-time distributed coding Smart services and platforms Real-time modelling user information needs Wireless Communication Real-time intelligent communication Real-time intelligent network solutions Mobile Smart Systems Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors Decision support systems in real-time Multi-agent Intelligent Systems Multilingual information access Recommendation systems Real-time intelligent alert systems Real-time remote access systems Intelligent Transportation Systems Autonomous systems (incl. autonomous vehicles and drones) Distributed systems Cloud/edge computing/fusion Defence/security, robotics, aerospace, intelligent transportation Mining/Manufacturing Environmental monitoring Critical Real-time Applications Real-time noise removal systems Event-driven analytics Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Machine translation in real-time OLAP for real-time decision support Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence AI in Agriculture Smart Agriculture Systems User experience in Real-Time Systems Anomaly Detection Predictive Maintenance Image and Video Recognition Natural Language Processing Vulnerability Management Healthcare Customer Analytics Submission, proceedings Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf. Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be at most 14 pages (long papers) and 8 pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references (in the Springer template). Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with a full registration. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) (https://www.springer.com/series/15179) will publish the accepted papers and be indexed in SCOPUS, EI Compendex, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, and SCImago. All the papers published in the series are submitted for consideration in the Web of Science. Important Dates Submission of Papers: August 25, 2025 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: September 20, 2025 Camera-ready: October 05, 2025 Registration: October 05, 2025 Conference Dates: October 13-14, 2025 General Chair Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Zehan Tan, Macau Millennium College, Macau Program Co-chairs Kenneth Chan, Macau Millennium College, Macau Duong Van Hieu, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge, Technological Centre Ceit, Spain Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Contact: stm@socio.org.uk
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