PhD student Surfing the information waves: finding, revealing, eval. inf. online
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven, (Noord-Brabant), 40 hours per week
Job description
The Ph.D. student is expected to do research leading to a Ph.D. thesis
in the project "Surfing the information waves: Finding, revealing, and
evaluating information online". At the core of this project lies the
question how people deal with the reliability of information on the
Internet, to what extent the formal and informal mechanisms that
facilitate reliable exchange of information offline have online
equivalents, and to what extent new online mechanisms and tools are
and can be developed to facilitate reliable information exchange.
Typical questions of interest are: How do people discern useful and
reliable information from useless and unreliable information in online
settings? How can users be motivated to provide reliable information
and how can the provision of unreliable information be minimized? To
what extent do the answers to these questions depend on the kind of
online setting? For the project we anticipate doing research in
several areas of application, such as medical information sites and
groups, social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo,
Xing, etc), and general economic and consumer sites, such as eBay,
Amazon. More information about the project can be found at
http://www.tue-tm.org/snijders/PhD.
A small teaching load can be part of the job.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
The candidate should have a Masters degree (or equivalent) in the
social sciences (sociology, psychology, political or communication
science), excellent knowledge and skills in quantitative methods of
data analysis, and familiarity with new forms of online communication.
Most of all, we are looking for someone with a natural curiosity with
respect to online interaction of any kind. Knowledge about theories
pertaining to the topic in (social) psychology or sociology would be
an additional asset. The candidate should be proficient in English
(speaking and writing).
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers
Organization
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Department of Technology Management
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2000 - 2500
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 40
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
prof.dr. Chris Snijders
Telephone number: 31(0)402475596
Or ir. Marc Roelands
Telephone number: 31(0)402474886
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
Or additional information can be obtained through the following link:
* About the organization (http://www.tue.nl)
Application
You can apply for this job before 26-09-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending
your application to:
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
paviljoen R 1.23
Personnel department
Postbus 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
Nederland
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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