Postdoctoral Researcher: Investigating Fact-Checking in Public Debate

2 weeks ago


Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Københavns Universitet (KU) Full time

The Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a postdoctoral research position associated with the Carlsberg-funded project "Tell Me the Truth: Fact Checkers in an Age of Epistemic Instability". This fixed-term research position is available from December 1, 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter.

As part of the Tell Me the Truth project, the successful candidate will investigate questions of facts and truths in public debate, focusing on the practice and role of journalistic fact-checkers. The project understands the establishment of facts as a fundamentally rhetorical practice where people argue for and try to gain support for their way of understanding and conveying the truth.

The project highlights that this happens in a challenging time for traditional authorities and institutions while social media, algorithms, and generative AI are fundamentally reshaping media and politics, making it possible for new types of actors to gain power in the hybrid media system. In this, fact-checkers play a central role but not as objective truth-tellers but as an integrated part of the argumentative process over truth.

The Tell Me the Truth project contains four subprojects asking different but related questions about journalistic fact-checking as a developing practice. The postdoctoral researcher is expected to suggest an independent subproject that either extends one of the existing subprojects or adds a fifth subproject.

Job Requirements
  • An excellent scholar of rhetoric, media studies, or journalism studies
  • Experienced in theories relevant to the project, e.g., theories of public controversies and mediated political debate, knowledge claims and knowledge production, journalists, scientists or other knowledge workers in the information ecosystem, or the use and consequences of algorithms, AI, and machine learning in journalistic fact-checking
  • Experienced in methods for collecting and analyzing material relevant to the subproject
  • Interested in journalistic fact-checking and related communication practices
  • Expected to independently develop a subproject within the framework of the overall project, including a timeline illustrating the feasibility of the subproject

The successful candidate will collaborate with the project leader, Associate Professor Mette Bengtsson, and the other members of the Tell Me the Truth project group at the University of Copenhagen. The salary range starts at DKK 38,500 (approximately EUR 5,100) + a 17.1% contribution to the pension scheme, negotiable based on experience and qualifications.



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