Leuphana University of Lüneburg, foundation under public law, fosters the development of the junior scientific staff. Therefore the university offers 1 Doctoral Scholarship (36 months) on “Re-Thinking the Technological Condition“ focus “Techno- and Media Ecology of Digital Culture.”

The Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL), as a dialogical and open knowledge centre, serves to promote excellent research and its systematic integration, to develop international networking amongst others via its renowned fellows, and supports young researchers by attracting new talents. The research program of the DCRL includes four thematic fields concerned with (a) questions of the technological conditions of digital cultures, (b) new forms of cooperation, collectivity and organisation, (c) shifts in political participation and affective control, as well as (d) methodological problems and experiments in the research of digital cultures.

The doctoral project of the applicant should be located with the thematic field of “re-thinking the Technological Condition” and should be furthermore a significant historical and theoretical contribution to the emerging field of a techno- and Media Ecology of digital culture.

The scholarship is formally associated with the “Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media” (ICAM), first supervisor of the dissertation will be Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl, Professor for Media Culture.

See the full posting with application guidelines here

Further information on studying for a PhD at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg can be found under:
http://www.leuphana.de/en/study/doctoral-degree.html 

Further information on applying for a PhD at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg can be found under:
www.leuphana.de/en/apply/to-study/doctoral-degree-program.html or
http://www.leuphana.de/en/apply/international-applicants/doctoral-degree-program.html