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Logo of EURAXESS Job offer - JOB - Netherlands - University of Amsterdam (UvA) via AcademicTransfer - Posted on: 19 September 2026 PhD Candidate: "Agents of Doubt: A Novel Framework on Adolescents" Page contents 19 Sep 2026 University of Amsterdam (UvA) Research Field Communication sciences » Media studies Communication sciences » Science communication Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Application Deadline 16 Oct 2026 - 21:59 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Not Applicable Hours Per Week 38.0 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description Are you interested in how adolescents navigate AI-generated content? Do you want to know if synthetic content reshapes how they form knowledge? And do you want to know if increased reliance on AI-generated content may lead to a collapse of norms of knowledge and distrust in traditional knowledge providers such as academia and media? Then apply for this PhD project! Join us! We are looking for two ambitious PhD Researchers for the four-year project "Agents of doubt: A novel framework for understanding the impact of synthetic content on adolescents' knowledge formation." The PhD Candidates are embedded in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) and are part of the Youth and Media Entertainment Program Group . You will be working together with Jochen Peter and Toni van der Meer. What are you going to do Adolescents heavily use synthetic content - AI-generated text, audio, images, and video. However, given their still developing cognitive skills, they may also be least equipped to deal with synthetic content. This project investigates how synthetic content reshapes how adolescents develop knowledge. We propose a novel framework that links synthetic content to adolescents' in...