[Air-L] Fw: two post-docs at the U of WAW at ERC Consolidator grant

[Jennifer Stromer-Galley]

Forwarded from my friend Magdalena.
~Jenny

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From: Magdalena E Wojcieszak <mwojcieszak at ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 5:14 PM
To: Jennifer Stromer-Galley <jstromer at syr.edu>
Subject: RE: two post-docs at the U of WAW at ERC Consolidator grant



Two Post-doctoral Openings at the University of Warsaw at the Center for Excellence in Social Science

Are you an expert in computer science or computational social science research? Do you specialize in political communication, media exposure and effects? Are you interested in social media, their recommendation algorithms, polarization, and misinformation? ? We invite applications for two post-doctoral researcher positions at the U of Warsaw’s Centre of Excellence in Social Sciences for the ERC-project “NEWSUSE: Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online: Framework and Tools” directed by Magdalena Wojcieszak.

More information about the quantitative / computational social science position: https://cess.idub.uw.edu.pl/en/2024/01/competition-for-a-postdoctoral-researcher-for-the-erc-research-project   (Application deadline: 29 February 2024, starting June 1st 2024 or later, 4 years, remote/hybrid work partly possible)

More information about the computer science position: https://cess.idub.uw.edu.pl/en/2024/01/competition-for-a-postdoctoral-researcher-for-the-erc-research-project-2/ (Application deadline: 29 February 2024, starting January 1st 2025 or later, 3 years, remote/hybrid work partly possible)





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Magdalena  Wojcieszak



Professor of Communication, University of California Davis

Associate Researcher (PI ERC Consolidator), University of Warsaw

Associate Editor, Political Communication

Email: mwojcieszak at ucdavis.edu<mailto:mwojcieszak at ucdavis.edu>

Other: @mwojcieszak<http://magdalenawojcieszak.com/>, Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eiPR5agAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>

Recent Publications

Auditing YouTube’s recommendation system for ideologically congenial, extreme, and problematic recommendations<https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2213020120> Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences

Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w> Nature

Non-news websites expose people to more political content than news websites: Evidence from browsing data in three countries<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.2023.2238641> Political Communication

Political content and news are polarized but other content is not in YouTube watch histories<https://journalqd.org/article/view/4114>  Journal of Quantitative Description