25 May 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
CNRS- Department
OpenEdition Center- Research Field
Political sciences
Sociology » Social shaping of technology
History » History of science- Researcher Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)- Country
France- Application Deadline
14 Jun 2024 - 23:59 (UTC)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
35- Offer Starting Date
1 Oct 2024- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
OpenEdition Lab is a department of the OpenEdition support and research unit (UAR), whose mission is to define, support and organize, within and with the OpenEdition UAR, an interdisciplinary research program, both fundamental and applied, on the practices of production, circulation, appropriation, and regulation of human and social science knowledge in an open science regime.
OpenEdition Lab offers a host environment, an infrastructure, and a research network structured around 4 axes, enabling collaborative investigations into open science practices in the humanities and social sciences to be deployed using thematic and cross-disciplinary approaches. Ranging from the most open and experimental to the most operational and applied, these studies enable the Lab to participate in the development of open science through publications and academic conferences, the display of data and methods from its research, the development and prototyping of new software tools and new forms of communication, the feedback of indicators and the drafting of reports for public policy, as well as interdisciplinary teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels.
As part of an increasingly international open science ecosystem, OpenEdition Lab aims to become a major research hub for open science practices in the social sciences and humanities, by making OpenEdition part of a national and European research network.
Open science: an 'ecosystem'? Uses of the semantic field of ecology within open science (history of human and social sciences, discourse analysis, text mining, participant observation, interviews, network analysis, etc.)
OpenEdition Lab is recruiting a PhD student in STS / sociology of infrastructures / information and communication sciences / digital humanities / computer science / data science to carry out a research project on the 'open science ecosystem'.
For some years now, the term 'ecosystem' has been used by a number of research stakeholders to refer, in very different ways, to the environment in which their practice takes place. Current research at OpenEdition Lab points to the first emergence of this ecological borrowing at the confluence, in the 1970s-1980s, of cybernetics and symbolic interactionism, and then, in the 1990s-2000s, of the sociology of digital infrastructures and business management. Since 2010, this semantic field has been extended within platform studies and political discourse to issues of resilience through modular design, incremental adaptation, bibliodiversity, virality, lifecycle, etc.
The many uses of the semantic field of ecology to understand the digital transition of research environments are, however, very diverse - the borrowings and their meanings vary greatly - and very polarised - in their practical performativity as much as in their political orientation. In order to unravel the different visions of the 'open science ecosystem' that coexist in academic, political, and public spaces today, this PhD will aim to produce a diachronic cartography of the emergence and circulation of ecological discourses on open science.
Depending on their profile and disciplinary expertise, the candidate will be able to draw on a genealogy of the concepts used, methods of discourse analysis, participant observation and interviews or digital data science tools such as text mining or network analysis. The PhD student will thus document the borrowing, circulation, and performativity of the semantic field of ecology in and about open science.
The proposed project must specify the approach(es) favoured by the candidate, their articulation in the case of mixed methods or interdisciplinarity, and the effect of these on the research project (strengths and advantages, limitations and blind spots, possibilities for collaboration with other researchers, etc.).
We are looking for a candidate with a rather interdisciplinary profile, either with a strong SHS or data science background. The exact issues and research methods will depend on the experience and expertise of the successful candidate.
Master's level degree in STS / sociology of infrastructures / information and communication sciences / digital humanities / computer science / data science.
Experience of field survey methods and corpus constitution-analysis and/or experience of programming, particularly Python and ML libraries, and use of remote calculation servers.
Knowledge of informational, library and archival issues in the digital age and/or mastery of traditional machine learning tools applied to SHS datasets.
An interest in the development, use and criticism of digital methods in the humanities and social sciences and an interest in the objects and methods of the humanities and social sciences.
General skills:
Willingness to collaborate with other disciplines and with other OpenEdition departments.
Knowledge of data management practices (ethical issues, management plan, technical solutions).
Application: send a CV, a research project (max. 1 page + 10 references), the contact details of two referees and a cover letter via the CNRS platform.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Political sciences
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Research Field
- Sociology
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Research Field
- History
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Level
- Basic
- Research Field
- Political sciences
- Years of Research Experience
- None
- Research Field
- Sociology » Social shaping of technology
- Years of Research Experience
- None
- Research Field
- History » History of science
- Years of Research Experience
- None
Additional Information
Additional comments
The doctoral programme will be hosted by OpenEdition in Marseille.
Co-supervision, depending on the profile recruited, either with ELICO (Lyon Research Team in Information and Communication Sciences) and its doctoral school (485 ED EPIC); or with LIS (UMR AMU CNRS of INS2i) and its doctoral school (ED 184).
- Website for additional job details
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UAR2504-SIMDUM-004/Default.aspx
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- OpenEdition Center
- Country
- France
- City
- MARSEILLE 13
- Geofield
Where to apply
- Website
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Candidat/Offre/UAR2504-SIMDUM-004/Candidater.aspx
Contact
- City
MARSEILLE 13- Website
http://cleo.openedition.org/
STATUS: EXPIRED