UvA_ASCoR

#Welcome🎉 to our new ASCoR member Yara Mijnhout! Yara is part of the the RESPOND (Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies) consortium and her research focuses on how media shapes perceptions of corruption and influences public awareness and political engagement👋

🚨#Jobalert! Are you interested in the financial challenges that journalism faces? We are seeking a fulltime PhD Candidate for the three-year project "Financial Challenges Facing Journalism"🗓️Apply by November 17! See link in the comments below👇

#Congratulations to Mónika Simon on passing her doctoral defense today🎉 Mónika's dissertation is entitled “What happens on the fringes, stays on the fringes? Information flows in the contemporary media system”🌟

#Congratulations to Emma van der Goot on passing her PhD defense yesterday🎉 Emma is part of the Political Communication & Journalism group and her thesis is titled "Online Battles: Conflict frames in political actors' online communication: context, content and consequences"🌟

#Welcome🎉 to our new ASCoR member Anisha Arenz! Anisha investigates the role of social influence processes (e.g., social norms) in the impact of social and mobile media on mental health. Her research further includes intensive longitudinal designs and data donation methods👋

🚨#Jobalert! Are you interested in how a personalized culturally sensitive chatbot can contribute to mental health among migrants? We are seeking a PhD Candidate for the four-year project “MIND-CHAT: May I help you?🗓️Apply by August 30! See link in the comments below👇

🚨#Jobalert! Are you interested in generative AI and corporate social responsibility? We are seeking a PhD candidate for the project “Generative (De)Legitimation: Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility in the Age of Conversational Generative AI”🗓️Apply by August 15! See link in the comments below👇

🚨#Jobalert! Are you interested in the roles of social media in the representation of LGBQ young people? We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate for the project: Social Media Representations of LGBQ Young People🗓️Apply by August 15! See link in the comments below👇

🚨#Jobalert! Are you interested in the Dynamics and effects of commercially instigated media capture? We are seeking a PhD candidate for the project “Commercially instigated media capture and the consequences for journalistic performance”🗓️Apply by August 16! See link below👇

🚨#Jobalert! Are you interested in how TGN people are depicted in media and how this portrayal affect employability? We are hiring an ambitious PhD researcher for the project “Transgender people and the labor market”🗓️Apply by July 4th! See link in the comments below👇

🚨#Jobalert! Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in information law to join this collaborative project between ASCoR and IViR 🗓️Apply by June 23! See link bellow👇

🚨#Jobalert! Are you intrigued by adolescents’ susceptibility to planetary health misinformation? We are looking for a PhD Researcher to join the project “Empowering Adolescents: Building Resilience Against Planetary Health Misinformation”🗓️Apply by June 5! See link bellow👇

🚨 #PhD position available! Are you interested in researching the effects of digital #media use on #MentalHealth? Join this project supervised by Lara Wolfers, Susanne Baumgartner and Ine Beyens. 📅 You have till November 23 to apply. Visit the website for more information! 👉 https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-in-Social-Influences-on-Digital-Media's-Effect-on-Mental-Health/780581702/

In the #Media 📰 How do editorial teams best deal with the use of #AI and what steps are they already taking? ASCoR's @hannescools@mastodon.social spoke to @villamedia@mastodon.social about this topic. Curious about what he had to say? Read the article for more information! ➡️ https://www.villamedia.nl/artikel/ai-richtlijnen-vangrails-voor-werken-met-kunstmatige-intelligentie

🌟In the #Spotlight 👉 postdoc @hannescools@mastodon.social who works for @aim4dem@akademienl.social and @DDC_SDU@fosstodon.org. His interdisciplinary research focuses on (generative) #AI, computational journalism, algorithmic recommender systems and newsroom innovation 🔜 Keep an eye out for our next spotlight post!