Heur B (van) (VKS) on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:24:55 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime-ann> Two PhD positions at the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio |
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The Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio within the
Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) program of the Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences of Maastricht University offers the following PhD positions
(4 years, 75 % research, 25 % teaching): -
Technological Urbanism and Knowledge Production -
Digital Technologies and the Everyday Life of Scholars Technological Urbanism and Knowledge Production From the informational city to digital cities to
cybercities to the open source city, the always complex relation between cities
and technologies has over the last decades become rephrased in the language of
digital technologies and the internet. This PhD project focuses on the
epistemological dimensions of this shift. What does it mean for knowledge
production about the city when this knowledge is increasingly acquired through
the use of new media techniques, methods and metaphors? Who are the main actors
involved in this process and in what ways do these epistemologies of the city
reproduce old and create new lines of in- and exclusion? Within this research theme, interested applicants are
encouraged to develop a historical focus by analyzing how different cases at
different times have used ‘new technologies’ to shape our knowledge
and vision of the city. This approach in turn will enable a better evaluation
of the supposed newness of contemporary new media cities and will contribute to
a more refined view of technological innovation in urban environments.
Empirically, depending on the background of the PhD candidate, the project
studies concrete cases in fields such as architecture, urban planning or
infrastructure. Theoretically, the study is informed by science and
technology studies and highlights the social and cultural construction of urban
technologies. For more information, please read carefully the graduate
school website: http://www.fdcw.org/phdprogram/2007/06/sts.html Those interested, contact and e-mail a CV plus a brief
_expression_ of interest to Bas van Heur before Sunday 1 March: b.vanheur@vks.unimaas.nl Digital Technologies and the Everyday Life of Scholars New, digital forms of data collection,
storage, exchange and representation as found in dynamic databases, simulations
and archives as well as new communication possibilities offered by social
networking sites offer exciting opportunities to scholars to raise new research
questions, to collaborate with others and to reach new audiences. However, much
more mundane applications, such as word processing, email and online searching,
have also had profound effects on the work of scholars in the humanities and social
sciences over the past 20 years. This project will focus on a particular
group of ‘information workers’, namely researchers in the
humanities and social sciences, a group that is deeply affected by the
explosion in information and therefore it is interesting to see how they are
coping with the challenges to their professional lives. What are the implications
of the use of digital technologies for the nature and pace of their work? What
is the response of their professional associations or unions? What skills are
needed to process information? How do highly educated scholars decide which
information is important for their work? How do they reconcile contradictory
information? What new forms of inter/mediation are emerging in relation to new
technological applications? How are their relationships with colleagues, students
and university management changing? This project will bring together
insights from science and technology studies as well as information and library
science, and the history of institutions and ideas. For more information, please read carefully the graduate
school website: http://www.fdcw.org/phdprogram/2007/06/sts.html Those interested, contact and e-mail a CV plus a brief
_expression_ of interest to Sally Wyatt before Sunday 1 March: s.wyatt@vks.unimaas.nl |
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