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CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST PhD Scholarship (Media and Communication) Added: 1 day ago | Expires: in 28 days At: RMIT University, School of Media and Communication Location: Melbourne Australia CIRCUS VIDEO ARCHIVE MEETS WEB 2.0 – OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN AN EXCITING INTER-DISCIPLINARY TEAM THE PROJECT: The Circus Oz Living Archive: developing a model of online digital engagement for the performing arts The successful applicant will have demonstrated capacity in any or all of new media, networked media, online video, interaction design or participatory and social media. In addition you will be excited by the prospect of helping to develop innovative approaches to social media in the context of online video and performing arts audiences. As a PhD candidate on this ARC funded project you will be supervised by Associate Professor Laurene Vaughan and co-supervised by Dr. David Carlin and Adrian Miles. This digital media candidate will receive training in practice based research methodologies, with a particular orientation towards user centred design and interaction design. In addition you will undertake qualitative research into new media, Web 2.0, social media, and online video to inform the development and critical appraisal of all prototypes. You will be expected to develop an understanding of contemporary issues and practices in terms of the digital humanities with a specific emphasis on video within Web 2.0 systems and the development of innovative narrative and documentary possibilities through the utilisation of existing archival material online. As this position is situated within the Circus Oz, Living Archive research project, the successful application will collaborate with a computer science PhD candidate as we work towards the creation of the Living Archive. As such the computer science candidate will compliment your area of expertise in the project and focus on building a content based image retrieval (CBIR) system using public domain image retrieval software, and investigating how the content based image retrieval may supplement the social media video archive as a search mechanism. This PhD scholarship provides a tax-free stipend of AUD26,533 per annum for three years. There are also limited funds to support the candidate is disseminating their research outcomes throughout their study program in conjunction with the other project researchers. The position is full time, and is based at RMIT’s city campus, in Melbourne, Australia. Potential applicants are invited to contact the project leader, Dr David Carlin [david.carlin@rmit.edu.au, or phone 03 99253934], for more information, and to check out the further information on this blog.