The Society for New Communications Research, a global nonprofit research and education foundation and think tank focused on the latest developments in new and emerging communications tools and technologies such as digital, social media, and mobile, and their effect on business, culture, and society, is now accepting applications for its 2013-2014 Fellows. The application deadline is Friday, January 11, 2013.
The Society for New Communications Research Fellowship is a two-year, volunteer-based program. All futurists, scholars, technologists, business leaders, professional communicators and members of the media from around the globe are invited to apply.
The 2013 research priorities are:
- Business model disruption in the pro/am, social data-enabled world
- Gamification of online collaboration
- Business, cultural, societal, political impacts of global social media trends
- Integration of digital / social strategy and presence
- Micro-marketing and hyper-local marketing based on real time, actionable social data
- Mobile / wearable technology
- New roles, titles and skill sets created by new communications and social media
- Nonprofits’ use of social data to improve strategy and operations
- Problems and risks created by social media / new communications technologies and trends
- Turning unstructured data into real-time actionable business intelligence
Those who are selected to serve as SNCR Fellows are expected to volunteer at least 10-12 hours per month of their time to SNCR, conducting independent research in line with their proposals and/or undertaking other SNCR-sponsored research, publication, and education projects.
Those who are selected will collaborate with the other SNCR Fellows on research initiatives, educational offerings, and the establishment of standards and best practices. The SNCR Fellowship program is highly competitive. A maximum of six Fellows will be accepted for this two-year volunteer-based fellowship.
Those selected will also gain access to SNCR’s latest reports and journals focused on the cutting edge of new communications research combining business and academic perspectives, receive monthly updates on innovations in the field, and receive an invite to the Annual SNCR Symposium and Awards Gala to share research and best practices focused on emerging trends and developments in media and communications, and effects on business, media, culture and society.