Postdoctoral Research Associate (Civic Software)
CITAP is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to join The Political and Civic Applications Division (PCAD), a research team within CITAP that builds software to support quantitative, human-centered studies of information environments. Led by Dr. Deen Freelon, the PCAD team has already built its first application, PIEGraph. The tool is actively tracking a demographically-matched sample of US Twitter users, whose personal feeds it then captures, giving a clearer picture of the relationships between their demographic characteristics, political opinions, and the quality of information that appears in their timelines.
We invite applications for a postdoctoral research fellow to join the PCAD team and support the ongoing development and use of PIEGraph and other software applications. Successful applicants will be expected to spend approximately 50% of their time working with PCAD and approximately 50% on their own independent research projects, joining other pre-existing center studies, and contributing to the intellectual life of the center. The position requires no teaching, but fellows may opt to teach up to one class per academic year.