The Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR currently has a Postdoc vacancy in the Digital Communication Methods Lab, part of the RPA project Communication, directed by Prof. Claes de Vreese.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies are reshaping our communication environment in an extremely fast pace. These changes encompass not only drastic changes to the media landscape (e.g., algorithms, recommendation systems, personalization in social and news media), but also to the partners with whom we communicate (e.g., conversational agents, virtual assistants, bots, social robots with growing levels of sophistication and adoption), and to how we can research communication (e.g., advances in cognitive computing, machine vision, natural language understanding).

In this post doc project, we investigate the changes that AI and related technologies bring to communication and media effects theorizing and research. The project focuses on different areas such as health, politics, entertainment and/or commerce. We welcome applications from candidates that have can make substantive and/or methodological contribution to the project. The information about the project, which potential applicants should review before applying, can be found at  the UvA website.

An 0.8 appointment, possibly with .2 FTE teaching time within the Department of Communication Science, is negotiable.

Candidates should hold a relevant PhD degree in disciplines relevant to the project. Candidates who are due to submit their dissertation manuscript in Spring 2018 are welcome to apply. The preferred starting date is (late) summer 2018.

The details and requirements that potential applicants should review before applying are available at the UvA website.

The position preferably starts in (late) summer 2018. It concerns, in principle, a two-year period after an initial test period.

Your monthly gross salary will range, depending on your knowledge and experience, between €3,475 and €4,757 (Scale 11) based on a full-time basis.    

We offer a pension scheme, a holiday allowance of 8% per year, and flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

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Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR

The Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR is the research institute in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. It is the largest research institute of its kind in Europe and is among the largest worldwide. More than 50 senior researchers are permanently associated with ASCoR, and its English-language PhD program has more than 35 students.

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