{"id":2821,"date":"2014-08-22T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T06:21:25","slug":"call-qut-creative-industries-faculty-phd-scholarships-for-2015-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2014\/08\/22\/call-qut-creative-industries-faculty-phd-scholarships-for-2015-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Call: QUT Creative Industries Faculty PhD Scholarships for 2015 Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join the QUT Social Media Research Group! Applicants with excellent academic track records (equal to an Australian Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours) or equivalent professional research experience may be eligible for competitive PhD scholarships to undertake study in the Creative Industries Faculty<\/a> at QUT. The Faculty is also offering a number of top-ups to these scholarships for highly ranked students whose projects align with our areas of strength.<\/p>\n

The Creative Industries Faculty\u2019s world class, industry-connected researchers undertake innovative applied and theoretical research in the media, creative arts and design, and QUT is home to some of the world\u2019s best researchers in digital media, communication and culture, given the highest possible rating of 5 in both the 2010 and 2012 ERA rankings.<\/p>\n

QUT\u2019s Social Media Research Group<\/a> is a global leader in social media research, and one of the main contributors to the University\u2019s strength in Digital Media overall. Supported by several major research grants and strategic collaborations with industry, QUT researchers are investigating the use of social media in crisis communication, in news and politics, as a backchannel to television and other media, and in everyday life. We are leading methodological innovation by exploring the uses of \u2018big data\u2019 for studying major social media platforms, by integrating STS and software studies into our approaches to social media platforms, as well as by developing novel mixed-methods approaches that support critical and interpretative analysis.<\/p>\n

We are seeking new PhD students to investigate topics such as:<\/p>\n

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  1. The practices of sharing and engaging with mainstream media content through social media;<\/li>\n
  2. the history and political economy of social and mobile media platforms;<\/li>\n
  3. approaches to geomedia research, including locative and geosocial media;<\/li>\n
  4. the structures and effects of follower networks in Australian social media spaces, using social network analysis methods;<\/li>\n
  5. the consequences of emerging online platforms on the production and consumption of culture;<\/li>\n
  6. new methods to generate quantitative metrics that describe activity patterns in social media datasets;<\/li>\n
  7. agent-based simulation approaches for the analysis of networked co-creation of culture;<\/li>\n
  8. critical and interpretive approaches to user engagement and evaluation practices;<\/li>\n
  9. cross-platform flows of media content, data and cultural practices;<\/li>\n
  10. uses, meanings and implications of mobile relationship and dating apps;<\/li>\n
  11. the making and circulation of gender and sexuality with networked media.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Potential supervisors include:<\/p>\n