[Reader-list] Research Positions at Sarai

[The Sarai Programme]

ADVERTISEMENT FOR SARAI RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

The Sarai Programme (www.sarai.net)
at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites applications for 2
research positions, to work on the subject of `media and information
infrastructures’. 

The research agenda is historical and contemporary, archive based and
ethnographic, and will traverse a variety of media, including radio,
gramophone, cassette, photography, film, television, video, and digital
forms. 

TOPICS INCLUDE:

 --The histories of the emergence and circulation of media
technology and equipment
 
 --Laws and regulations
governing media use, and their contestation.
 
 --State information and media policies, including the development
of media and communication infrastructures, in radio and television
transmitters, telegraph and telephone networks, satellite and cable
technology.
 
 --The deployment of media for
identification and surveillance, including topics such as sting
journalism.
 
 --The cultivation of media professions,
from formal schools in mass communication, radio engineering, film-making,
advertising, and computer expertise, as well as more informal networks for
the acquisition of such skills.
 
 --Media industry
practices, including institutional and technological changes, and the
development of human resources in a variety of fields; for example, in the
cinema, from camera work and editing to sound design, art direction,
costumes, and the composition of lyrics and dialogue.
 
 --Computer culture, from software programming and management to
digital compositing.
 
 --Media consumption and
circulation, including shops for media goods, photograph studios,
exhibition spaces ranging from film halls and video parlours to electronic
bulletin boards and ambient television and video experience, including the
phenomenon of cellphone image capture and circulation.
 
 --Descriptions of the social and cultural habitus within which
media is produced, circulated and consumed.

Ongoing research on 'media and information infrastructures' is
currently looking at the history of media and identification practices,
including work on the development of the Unique Identification project;
fear and surveillance; genealogies of documentary and information film in
colonial and early Independent India; and the circulation of popular
cultures of language and music in radio and cinema.

APPLICANTS SHOULD SEND IN:
-CV listing recent works and
projects.
-A writing sample from recent work.
-A three- page
research note on the research that the applicant would like to pursue.
-Contact details. 

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed at Sarai-CSDS. Selected
candidates will be appointed initially for one year, with the possibility
of renewal for a second year. They will receive a stipend of Rs. 30,000/-
per month.

THE LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION IS 20TH SEPTEMBER 2012.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR SARAI RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS IN FILM RESEARCH

Sarai will hire two interns to undertake supervised research,
collections and inter-institutional liaison in the area of film studies.
The interns will be involved in reviewing existing Sarai archival
materials, extracting material for specific research and writing projects,
and gathering new collections under the guidance of Sarai research
fellows. Interns will also be involved in the liaison work for a year-long
programme of academic activities to celebrate a century of Indian cinema.
This internship programme, called the Indian Film Century, is coordinated
by Sarai and BioScope, the multi-partnered journal of screen studies. 

THE LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION IS 20TH SEPTEMBER 2012.

APPLICANTS SHOULD SEND IN:
-CV listing recent works and
projects.
-A writing sample from recent work.
-Contact
details.

SEND ALL APPLICATIONS WITH SUBJECT TITLED 'RESEARCH POSITIONS' TO:
dak at sarai.net