University of Zurich 

The Media Change & Innovation Division (Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich invites applications for two open positions at the postdoctoral level: 

Postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). Start of employment: January 1, 2025 (or upon agreement). Two-year contract.

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). The start date will be determined based on the candidate's availability. The duration will be agreed upon, with a minimum commitment of 2 months. 

The division’s research program focuses, among other things, on the societal implications of digitalization and the internet, algorithmic selection and artificial-intelligence (AI) tools in everyday life, dataveillance and privacy, governance of media change, religion-like digitalization and implicit everyday religion, cyborgization, digital inequalities, and digital well-being (see https://www.mediachange.ch/research/ for an overview of our current research projects and https://mediachange.ch/publications/ for the division’s recent publications).  

Further information and application details:

Postdoctoral researcher: 

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/postdoctoral-position-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/2cce0f6a-5e70-4c0d-b330-c2941aa9d47a 

Short-term visiting postdoctoral researcher

https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/short-term-visiting-researchers-in-socio-technical-transformations-through-digitalization-and-ai/fbe39727-27ee-4153-92a9-3c01b931435f 

Review of applications starts immediately, but the positions will remain open until qualified candidates are found. 

Please contact Dr. Noemi Festic (n.festic@ikmz.uzh.ch) or myself, Dr. Daniela Jaramillo-Dent (d.jaramillo@ikmz.uzh.ch) for questions.