Looking for PhD Students: Observing and Video-recording of the Use of Mobile Phone in Everyday Life
Technological developments (for example, Internet access, social media, GPS) have contributed to the emergence of new practices and new forms of sociality: new ways of interacting with people (‘shaking your phone’ on WeChat), new forms of dating (location-aware dating platforms such as MoMo, ZuiYou), new ways of user-to-user services (finding a ride through Uber or DiDi), or new ways of paying for goods (electronic money such as WeChat Pay or Alipay).
Our group is investigating these topics by observing, or even video-recording, people using technology in everyday life. We draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to make visible our taken-for-granted ways of interacting with these technologies.
We are looking for students with a background in sociology, anthropology, or communication, who would be interested in studying some of these topics by doing a PhD at the Department of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The deadline is 30 January 2018 (for admission 2018/2019) – and 1 December 2018 (for admission 2019/2020). So if you are interested, please contact Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen (c.greiffenhagen@cuhk.edu.hk) in English or Yumei Gan (1155090095@link.cuhk.edu.hk) in Chinese.
For further information:
Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/GREIFFENHAGEN_Christian.html
PhD in Sociology @ CUHK: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/MPhil_admission.html
博士生招生
课题：观察并录制手机的日常使用
科技的进步正在带来全新的社会关系，并重塑新的社会现实，例如：人与人互动的新方式 (‘微信“摇一摇”); 约会的新样式 (基于地理位置的移动社交: 陌陌，最右);用户到用户的新服务 (滴滴/优步打车); 支付方式的革新 (支付宝/微信支付等电子钱包)。
我们的团队通过观察及录像，在从各个方面研究日常生活中人们“如何”使用新科技。我们从“常人方法学”(Ethnomethodology)和“会话分析”(Conversation Analysis)的视角出发，研究习以为常，也常常被视为理所当然的日常生活。录像是我们最常用的研究方法。
我们期望找到新的博士学生，我们期望学生具有社会学，人类学，传播学或者相关学科领域的学习背景，对研究手机的日常使用充满兴趣，热爱细节，并愿意在香港中文大学社会学系攻读博士学位。
2018/2019学年录取的截止日期为2018年1月30日; 2019/2020学年录取的截止日期为2018年12月1日。如果您对这个课题感兴趣，欢迎您使用英文联络: Christian Greiffenhagen 教授 (c.greiffenhagen@cuhk.edu.hk) 或者使用中文联络甘雨梅：(1155090095@link.cuhk.edu.hk) 。
导师信息及香港中文大学博士奖学金咨询您亦可以参见：
Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/GREIFFENHAGEN_Christian.html
香港中文大学社会学系博士学生录取信息: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/MPhil_admission.html