New Scholarship Opportunity with the Vietnam Media Innovation Hub

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Come research the booming Vietnamese digital media industries on this fully funded research scholarship at the University of Sydney!

The Discipline of Media and Communication, with the support from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Sydney Vietnam Institute, is pleased to offer a full scholarship for a candidate interested in studying the platform society within Vietnam. 

The candidate will be based in Sydney with the opportunity to travel to Vietnam during their candidature to conduct fieldwork. The project, while independently managed by the candidate, is part of the larger Sydney Vietnam Institute’s Media Innovation Hub that will spend the next five years researching Vietnamese digital media. 

The successful candidate will specifically be interested in how platformization in Vietnam operates to align with the Vietnam Media and Platforms node. 

Questions can be directed to Associate Professor Jonathon Hutchinson: jonathon.hutchinson@sydney.edu.au.

Full details and how to apply can be found here:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships/a/postgraduate-research-scholarship-in-the-sydney-vietnam-media-in.html

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