[Linganth] postdoc at Open University studying Russia Today

[Ilana Gershon]

  Research Associate: ‘Reframing Russia for Global Mediasphere from Cold
  War to “Information War”’

Unit:
Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS)
Salary:
£32,004 to £38,183
Location:
Milton Keynes <http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/region/milton-keynes>
  Please quote reference:
13436
3 year post available from 1 June 2017 - 37 hours per week for the first 
2 years and 11.1 hours per week for the third year.
Closing Date:
9 May, 2017 - 12:00


A Research Associate is required to support Professor Marie Gillespie 
(Sociology) and Dr Alistair Willis (Computer Science) who, with 
colleagues from Manchester University (Russian Studies), are beginning a 
major 3-year, AHRC-funded grant project on ‘Reframing Russia for the 
Global Mediasphere: From Cold War to “Information War”?’. The project 
will provide new, inter-disciplinary insights into the post-Cold War 
global media ecology through an in-depth case study of one of its most 
controversial actors, RT (Russia Today).

You will support colleagues with an analysis of RT audiences and their 
interactions with and responses to RT’s broadcast, online and social 
media outputs in English (and Arabic would be desirable but not 
essential). You will conduct focus group interviews with RT audiences 
and users, and using a variety of techniques in computational, content, 
image and discourse analysis, will investigate user interactions online 
and in social networks. You will co-author articles, contribute one 
article of your own on a relevant topic, and work alongside a second 
Research Associate in gathering other research sources and producing 
reports for our non-academic partners.

You will have excellent knowledge of international news media, audience 
research and social media analysis, and will have completed a PhD on 
news media, political communication and/or international 
relations-related issues. You will have advanced literacy skills in 
writing English for academic purposes but also be able to write in an 
appropriate register for policy-makers and diverse publics.

*Please note that as a consequence of the applicable Immigration Rules 
relating to salary levels, The Open University_will not_be able to 
obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship for the third year of this 
contract.  Consequently in order to be considered for this appointment, 
all non EU/EEA candidates must hold a UK visa valid for the duration of 
the contract OR must be able to show that (subject to the necessary 
applications) they will have entitlement to remain in the UK without the 
benefit of a certificate of sponsorship at the commencement of the third 
year of this contract.*

Email:
FASS-Recruitment at open.ac.uk <mailto://FASS-Recruitment@open.ac.uk>

An application form and job related information are available from the 
links located below. For detailed information and how to apply go 
towww3.open.ac.uk/employment <http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment>, 
email_FASS-Recruitment at open.ac.uk 
<mailto:Arts-recruit at open.ac.uk>_quoting the reference number.

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