Two new Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Harriman Institute

Tue Feb 24 13:59:55 UTC 2009

HI Announces Two New Postdoctoral Fellowships 

The Harriman Institute at Columbia University announces two post-doctoral
fellowships for a new project investigating Modes of Communication in
Contemporary Russia: press, entertainment media, the internet (blogs,
chatrooms, forums, social networking pages, etc.). 

The project addresses questions of the mode of communication (mode and
genre, networks of audience and participation) and the interaction of the
mode of communication with the power (subordination to or autonomy from
centralization of power).

The fellowships are open to applicants from all disciplines. Natural
candidates for these fellowships are Ph.D.s with training in sociology,
cultural studies, political science, anthropology or linguistics. The
project will focus on Russia but specialists in other countries of the
Soviet sphere will be considered.

The term of the fellowships is one year from September 2009 through May
2010. Ph.D. required. Eligibility is restricted to those applicants who have
received the Ph.D. within the three years prior to the fellowship period for
which they are applying. Candidates cannot hold a faculty position and must
have successfully defended and deposited their dissertations prior to the
commencement of the fellowship.

For more information on the project, pleased contact the Project Director,
Alan Timberlake at at2205 at columbia.edu.

HOW TO APPLY

Candidates should send the following materials to the Fellowship Committee,
c/o Barbara Singleton, at the address below, by March 1st (fellowships begin
the following September): 

1. A research plan outlining how the scholar's time will be spent at the
Institute 
2. A curriculum vitae
3. A substantial portion of the applicant's dissertation (one or two
chapters, or an abstract of the dissertation)
In addition, the applicant should have three letters of recommendation sent
to the Fellowship Committee of the Harriman Institute. 

Barbara Singleton, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 420 West 118th
Street, New York, New York 10027

-----Original Message-----
From: Catharine Nepomnyashchy [mailto:cn29 at columbia.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:47 AM
To: 'Rachkov Alla'
Cc: 'Cathy Nepomnyashchy'
Subject: FW: [SEELANGS] Online: Russian Cyberspace 1. Virtual Power

Did you post a post-doc call to seelangs?  IF not, we should, C

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ellen Rutten
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 5:43 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Online: Russian Cyberspace 1. Virtual Power

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 1 of The Russian
Cyberspace Journal, 'Virtual Power. Russian Politics and the Internet.'
Through a variety of approaches to the study of new media, 'Virtual Power'
presents a scholarly investigation of the representation and web mediation
of Russia's political discourse and the most significant political events of
2008: the presidential elections and the Georgia-Ossetia conflict.

The full issue is available online at www.russian-cyberspace.com.

The Russian Cyberspace Journal is a biannual online publication on Russian,
Eurasian, and Central European new media, published by Russian Cyberspace, a
consortium of scholars concerned with new media studies. For further
information on the Russian Cyberspace project, please visit our site at
www.russian-cyberspace.org <http://russian-cyberspace.org>.

Best regards,

The editors

Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (Moscow)
Ellen Rutten (Cambridge/Amsterdam)
Robert A. Saunders (New York)
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin)
Vlad Strukov (London/Leeds)

Issue 1. Virtual Power. Table of contents

Editorial

Robert Saunders (Rutgers University, New Jersey), 'Wiring the Second World.
The Geopolitics of Information and Communications Technology in
Post-Totalitarian Eurasia'

Ellen Rutten (Cambridge University), 'More Than a Poet? Why Russian Writers
Didn't Blog on the 2008 Elections'

Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds), 'Possessive and Superlative: On the
Simulation of Democracy and Nationhood in Russia'

Henrike Schmidt (Freie Universitat Berlin), 'Designing Political
Participation. Social Software and Viral Marketing on the Runet'

Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk (RGGU, Moscow), 'Media Constructions of Reality'

Natalia Sokolova (University of Samara), 'Runet for Television Fans: The
Space of / without Politics'

Olena Goroshko & Elena Zhigalina (Technical University Kharkiv), 'Quo Vadis?
Political Interactions in the Russian Blogosphere'

Tatjana Hofmann (Humboldt University Berlin), 'The Third Siege of
Sevastopol': How Historical Myths Are Written 'Bottom-Up' on the Internet'

Discussion, reviews, interviews, and artists' contributions

Floriana Fossato (Oxford University), 'Is Runet the Last Adaptation Tool?'

Aleksei Krivolap (Belarusian State University, Minsk), 'Virtualization of
Belarusian Power'

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