Dr. Payal Arora has been selected for the ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship in Media, Communication and Information. She was selected out of a received 107 applications in total for 2018. The duration of this fellowship will be a month in the Fall 2018.
The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, offers a thriving interdisciplinary research environment in the areas of media, communication and information. Involved disciplines include communication and media studies, computer science, cultural studies, educational science, studies in religion, and history. Since mid-2017, the ZeMKI invites applications from excellent researchers in the field of media, communication, and information.
As a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow, the selected candidate will gain insights into the versatile research activities at the interdisciplinary centre with over 60 members. Applicants demonstrate experience and a strong interest in the collaborative research which is embraced at the ZeMKI in various ways and contexts. The selected candidate will contribute to these research activities in the area of media change and transforming communications in the form of a research paper submitted to the peer-reviewed “Communicative Figurations” working paper series as well as a lecture in the ZeMKI Research Seminar.