Professor Ranjana Das

@profranjanadas.bsky.social

Prof in Media & Comm at U of Surrey. Interested in what people do with tech & media. PI of Leverhulme project on news use + BA project on tech use in multilingual families. New book https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in-an-algorithm-age

What does #LocalNews have to do with #parenting and raising #children? Our brand 🆕 paper from The Leverhulme Trust #news #use study shows #parents use local news as anchors ⚓️, escape 🪜, as a lens 🔭, and news use as a site of parenting labour 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒. #OpenAccess now journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Vacancy! Our friends in Bergen are looking for a PhD candidate for the Citizen Perceptions of AI in Everyday Media Life project. It's a 3-yrs position focused on surveys. It's in the company of @britaytrearne.bsky.social and others. It's *good". Deadline: Dec 10. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD position in media studies - IMAGINE (270652) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD position in media studies - IMAGINE (270652), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Very worthwhile initiative, with rather depressing results. Here’s a taster: if you’re Scottish and are interested in language or literature, you’re essentially screwed unless you can get into one of the ancients or are happy to leave (and can afford to do so).

Map of higher education provision for English Language and Literature and for Linguistics in the UK, excluding higher-tariff institutions. It shows basically no options for students in Scotland.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2y ago

With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...