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IMA student job opportunity<\/p>\n
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JOB POSTING:
\nNYU Identities & Ideologies Project Research Assistant
\nSummary: I am hiring a research assistant for a social science research project supported by the
\nNYU Identities & Ideologies Project to assist with web scraping tasks. The project focuses on
\nimportant questions related to medical sociology, knowledge\/expertise, race, and gender.
\nProject details:
\n\u2022 Supervisor: Avra Janz, Ph.D. student in Sociology, NYU
\n\u2022 Project affiliation: This research is supported by the NYU Identities & Ideologies Project,
\nan initiative that sponsors interdisciplinary research in political science, sociology, and
\npsychology. The selected research assistant will be invited to participate in the I&I project
\nand to attend I&I events (if interested\u2014not required).
\n\u2022 Pay rate: $15\/hour.
\n\u2022 Dates: Fall 2022 through first part of Spring 2023 semester.
\n\u2022 Hours per week: 7-10 (we can discuss your preferences).
\n\u2022 REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICANTS: Knowledge of R OR Python, AND previous
\nexperience with web scraping.
\n\u2022 Project research areas: medical sociology, knowledge\/expertise, race, gender,
\ncomputational text analysis, natural language processing
\nResearch project description: Modern therapists often recruit clients for therapy by posting
\nprofiles describing themselves on online therapist directories like PsychologyToday.com. In their
\nprofiles, therapists describe their backgrounds, provide information on what clients might learn in
\ntherapy, and describe what problems clients might come to therapy to solve. Clients search
\nthrough these profiles to find a therapist.
\nThis research project explores pressing social science questions about therapy via a
\ncomputational analysis of therapists\u2019 ads. We will scrape data from thousands of ads and
\nexplore important questions, like: Are therapists who focus on serving clients with particular
\nidentities (e.g., clients of a particular race, gender, or sexuality) more likely to depict their
\nclients as passive recipients of therapy, rather than active participants in their medical
\ncare? Do therapists represent particular emotions as desirable or undesirable emotions for
\nclients to feel? If so, do the emotions that therapists depict as \u201cdesirable\u201d and
\n\u201cundesirable\u201d vary based on the race of the therapist or of her clients? [And more\u2014we will
\nexplore and dig deeper into any interesting patterns we find.]
\nJob description: The selected research assistant will help scrape therapist ads from three online
\ntherapist directories, including PsychologyToday.com. These ads will serve as the primary data
\nsource for this project. I have already scraped 2000+ ads, but we\u2019d like to scrape many more! More
\ndetails will be provided to interested candidates.
\nYou can scrape in whatever coding language you prefer. If you\u2019d like, you would also be
\nwelcome to use the cleaned data in an independent research project or senior thesis. I am glad to
\nhelp provide advice!
\nTo apply: If you\u2019re interested in this position, please email me at janz.avra@nyu.edu with:
\n\u2022 Your name, major, and year in program
\n\u2022 The coding languages in which you\u2019re proficient
\n\u2022 A 3-6 sentence description of your previous web scraping experience
\n\u2022 Your resume
\nI will reply to you via email. If it looks like a potential match, we will set up a time to chat briefly to
\ndiscuss the project and answer any questions you may have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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