What are you going to do?You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. Your research will be part of the
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, one of the five research schools of the
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.
You will join the New Media & Digital Culture team in the Department of Media Studies. New Media & Digital Culture specialises in research strategies for developing critical media theory as well as digital research methods. Its emphasis is on internet studies.
The position is focused on computational methods for digital journalism, with a focus on open source intelligence (OSINT), a field and outlook that employs internet data and forensic technologies to verify source provenance and authenticate media. It employs a variety of techniques, including natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, to verify actors, identify image and video manipulation as well as pinpoint coordinated inauthentic behaviour, such as disinformation influence campaigns. It relies on publicly available data, mainly internet data, as well as software tools.il pdf These methods and tools are applied by fact-checkers, data journalists as well as academic researchers in their verification and media manipulation studies. It is a vibrant field, one in demand these days given the quantities of misinformation in evidence on social media and the question of how editorial as well as automated content moderation can address it. The position seeks researchers who undertake critical inquiries into the practices and computational methods for digital journalism.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- designing and conducting independent research on and with computational methods (NLP in particular) for digital journalism / OSINT, resulting in academic publications in peer-reviewed international journals and/or books;
- actively pursuing external funding for research, notably funding from research councils, national as well as European;
- actively contributing to and developing national and international research networks and other forms of cooperation;
- actively contributing to the research activities of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis;
- developing, coordinating and teaching courses in English, in the Bachelor and Master programmes;
- supervising Bachelor and Master theses and tutoring students; co-supervising PhD theses;
- actively contributing to the development and improvement of the broader teaching programmes in the department;
- taking part in committees and working groups, and carrying out departmental administrative tasks as directed