**Job Description**
This fully funded PhD project offers a unique opportunity to research the sociotechnical imaginaries of digital journalism between 1995 and 2025 within Northern Europe. The project investigates how various actors, including journalists and technologists, have shaped debates around the introduction, negotiation, and normalization of new technologies, such as the web and AI, in journalism. It critically examines the competing norms and values concerning journalism and technology, scrutinizing the blurred boundaries and tensions between journalism as a public service institution and the entrepreneurial logic of big tech corporations. Methodologically, it combines computational and qualitative analyses of metajournalistic discourses with interviews to reconstruct first-person experiences and social networks, providing a critical history of journalism’s recent past.
**Skills & Abilities**
• Demonstrable methodological and analytical skills
• Capacity to develop and conduct innovative research
• High level of spoken command of English and academic writing skills (equivalent of 7.0 IELTS overall)
• Knowledge of the language and culture of the proposed geographic area-of-focus
• Willingness to pursue further language and cultural training if needed
• Clear research interest in the project topic (e.g., critical-historical research into digital journalism, journalistic innovation, and social construction of technology)
• Experience with and/or knowledge in the proposed project area (ideally at master’s level) is an asset
• Comprehension of one or more Northern-European languages is an asset
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team
**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Journalism
• Media Studies
• Contemporary History
• Science and Technology Studies
• Communications
• Digital Humanities
**Experience**
Other:
• High academic merit (average grade of 8.0 or above on the Dutch scale or international equivalent)
• Language certificate required if MA thesis is not written in English (minimum overall score 7.0 IELTS, 6.5 for specific sections)
Note: We’ve analyzed the actual job post using AI, for more details visit the original job post by clicking on “Apply Now”!
