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Job Opening at Bentley University (Waltham, MA) in Writing
by Benjamin Aslinger 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

The full posting can be found at jobs.bentley.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52213 The Department of English and Media Studies at Bentley University invites applications for a tenure-track writer engaged in any of the following creative practices: digital, transmedia, or multi-platform storytelling; writing for interactive media; game writing and/or narrative design; electronic literature; graphic storytelling; or experimental journalism. We welcome candidates whose work traverses platforms and straddles both legacy and new media in form, expression, and/or distribution. We seek a candidate with strong records of professional achievement, excellence in undergraduate teaching, and service. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active record of juried creative work or be published in high-impact venues. Joining a department that includes creative writers, media practitioners, literary scholars, and cinema and media studies scholars, the candidate will contribute to the development of the department's major in Media and Culture. Teaching load, salary and benefits are competitive. Bentley's pleasant campus is located in a Boston suburb, close to Cambridge. Minimum qualifications: Ph.D., MFA, or equivalent record of experience. Prior teaching experience at the college level is required. Applicants without the terminal degree must have degree in hand on or before July 1, 2014. For best consideration, please apply online at https://jobs.bentley.edu/ by November 1, 2013. Please upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, artist/creative statement (use the link for Additional Document 1), and statement of teaching philosophy. Samples of your work as links or attachments may be submitted online (use Additional Document 2 and/or Additional Document 3). Samples of work on DVD or other formats may be mailed to Dr. Samir Dayal, Search Committee Chair, Bentley University, 175 Forest St., Waltham, MA 02452. You will be prompted to enter information for three references who will be contacted once the candidate pool has been narrowed. As a leader in business education, Bentley University's mission is to foster and create knowledge within and across business and the arts and sciences and to educate creative, ethical, and socially responsible organizational leaders. Bentley is an equal opportunity employer, building strength through diversity, and welcomes applications from members of under-represented groups.

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Interdisciplinary Ada Lovelace Conference Reminder (Stevens Inst. of Tech. 10/18/13)
by rhammerm 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Dear Colleagues: Greetings and a reminder that registration continues for the upcoming Ada Lovelace interdisciplinary conference at Stevens Institute of Technology (18 October 2013, Hoboken, New Jersey). Kindly follow the link to our conference webpage and check out our fantastic lineup: www.stevens.edu/CAL/calconference. There is a clear link to registration on the webpage. Thank you for your kind attention to this timely matter. Please do not hesitate to respond off-list with queries. Sincerely yours, Robin Hammerman Ada Conference Organizer -- Dr. Robin S. Hammerman Teaching Assistant Professor College of Arts and Letters Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

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Microsoft Research, Social Media Collective Postdoc Opening
by Nancy Baym 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

The Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for a social media postdoctoral researcher (start date: 1 July, 2014). This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar whose work draws on anthropology, communication, media studies, sociology, and/or science and technology studies to bring empirical and critical perspectives to complex socio-technical issues. Application deadline: Monday 4 November, 2013. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/fulltime/postdoc.aspx Microsoft Research provides a vibrant multidisciplinary research environment with an open publications policy and close links to top academic institutions around the world. Postdoc researcher positions provide emerging scholars (PhDs received in 2013 or to be conferred by July 2014) an opportunity to develop their research career and to interact with some of the top minds in the research community. Postdoc researchers are invited to define their own research agenda and demonstrate their ability to drive forward an effective program of research. Successful candidates will have a well-established research track record as demonstrated by journal publications and conference papers, as well as participation on program committees, editorial boards, and advisory panels. The position offers the potential to have research realized in products and services that will be used world-wide. Postdoc researchers receive a competitive salary and benefits package, and are eligible for relocation expenses. Postdoc researchers are hired for a two-year term appointment following the academic calendar, starting in July 2014. Applicants must have completed the requirements for a PhD, including submission of their dissertation, prior to joining Microsoft Research. We do accept applicants with tenure-track job offers from other institutions so long as they are able to negotiate deferring their start date to accept our position. While each of the thirteen Microsoft Research labs has openings in a variety of different disciplines, the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England (located in Cambridge, MA) is especially interested in identifying social science/humanities candidates with critical approaches to their topics. Qualifications include a strong academic record in anthropology, communication, media studies, sociology, science and technology studies, or a related field. The ideal candidate may be trained in any number of disciplines, but should have a strong social scientific or humanistic methodological, analytical, and theoretical foundation, be interested in questions related to technology or the internet and society or culture, and be interested in working in a highly interdisciplinary environment that includes computer scientists, mathematicians, and economists. The Social Media Collective is comprised of full-time researchers, postdocs, visiting faculty, PhD interns, and research assistants. Current projects include: - How does the use of social media affect relationships between artists and audiences in creative industries? (Nancy Baym) - What are the implications of regulating algorithms? (danah boyd) - What are the politics, ethics and policy implications of big data science? (Kate Crawford) - How does information infrastructure shape event epistemology? (Megan Finn) - What are the cultural, political, and economic implications of crowdsourcing as a new form of semi-automated, globally-distributed digital labor? (Mary L. Gray) - How do online technologies shape subcultures and communities of alterity? (Jessa Lingel) To apply for a postdoc position at MSRNE: Submit an online application at: https://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/jobs/fulltime.aspx - Indicate that your research area of interest is "Anthropology, Communication, Media Studies, and Sociology" and that your location preference is "New England, MA, U.S." - In addition to the CV and names of three referees (including your dissertation advisor) that the online application will require you to include, upload the following 3 attachments with your online application: a) two journal articles, book chapters, or equivalent writing samples (uploaded as 2 separate attachments); b) a single research statement (four page maximum length) that addresses the following: outlines the questions and methodologies central to your research agenda (~two page maximum length); provides an abstract and chapter outline of your dissertation (~one page maximum length); offers a description of how your research agenda relates to research conducted by the social media collective (~one page maximum length) After you submit your application, a request for letters will be sent to your list of referees on your behalf. You can check the status of progress on individual reference requests at any time by clicking the status tab within your application page. Note that a complete application includes three submitted letters of reference. ALL LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE DEADLINE IN ORDER FOR AN APPLICATION TO BE CONSIDERED. Please make sure to check back with your referees if you have any questions about the status of your requested letters of recommendation. For more information, see: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/fulltime/postdoc.aspx To learn more about the Social Media Collective, check out our blog: http://www.socialmediacollective.org ---

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Assistant Professor in Digital Media
by Jonathan Lillie 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

I am the chair of this search, so if you have questions you can email me directly. Thanks, Jon. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DIGITAL MEDIA The Department of Communication at Loyola University Maryland (http://www.loyola.edu/communication) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position (Assistant Professor) in digital media for the fall of 2014. Primary teaching responsibilities will be web development and graphics in the department’s digital media sequence as well as other courses in a broad-based communication program, oriented primarily toward professional communications disciplines such as journalism, advertising and public relations. Candidates should have professional experience in a communication-related field and a record of, or potential for, outstanding undergraduate teaching. A Ph.D. is required. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain a record of scholarly publication, participate in service activities, be supportive of the university’s Catholic/Jesuit mission, teach and advise students. The Communication Department includes specializations in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations, and Digital Media. The typical teaching load of 6 courses per year is reduced by one course in the first year. The Department offers undergraduate specializations in Journalism, Advertising/Public Relations, and Digital Media. Courses are taught in state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories. Loyola offers numerous internal grant programs for research and curricular development, substantial funding of faculty travel, and research leaves for fourth year faculty applying for outside research grants. Loyola University Maryland is a dynamic, highly selective Jesuit/Catholic institution in the liberal arts tradition and is recognized as a leading independent, comprehensive university in the northeast. Loyola is located in multi-ethnic, culturally dynamic Baltimore in the hub of the New York-Washington media corridor. Loyola enrolls more than 3,700 students in its undergraduate programs and more than 2,300 graduate students. Communication is the most popular undergraduate major. The Department of Communication seeks a broad spectrum of candidates, including women and people of color. Visit our website to learn more about Loyola’s Jesuit identity and commitment to diversity (http://www.loyola.edu/About/prospective-faculty-and-staff.aspx) Apply Here: http://www.Click2apply.net/ysky3dn -------------------- Jonathan J. Lillie, Associate Professor Department of Communication, Loyola University Maryland Managing Editor, NMEDIAC, the Journal of New Media & Culture, Ibibilio.org/nmediac 4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210 ________________________________________

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CASPAR BOWDEN: How the Cloud became a privacy Guantanamo
by Andrew Hoskins 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Apologies for cross-posting CASPAR BOWDEN How the Cloud became a privacy Guantanamo: European complicity in facilitating NSA surveillance ADAM SMITH RESEARCH FOUNDATION LECTURE (followed by reception) Senate Room, University of Glasgow, Wednesday 6th November, 6pm. Abstract: A report<http://t.co/aO07uQGIlg> commissioned for the EU Parliament inquiry into the activities of the US National Security Agency, and effects on fundamental rights, uncovered cold trails of European policymaker complicity, leading back to the EU/US Safe Harbour negotiations around 2000. At this time, official US strategy documents proclaimed the aim of full-spectrum "information dominance", which at the time might have seemed no more that the bombast of hyperbolic military planners. The scale of capabilities that Edward Snowden has revealed, together with other contemporary sources, seem to indicate that these plans have not only been realized but surpassed. This talk will reflect on cultural, political , academic, bureaucratic and economic strata which allowed the construction, in secret, of an apparatus beyond Orwell's (or Terry Gilliam's) imagination in just the past few years. What were the securocrats thinking, and how do they think about the lives and interests of those they claim to protect? Caspar Bowden is an independent advocate for informational privacy rights, and public understanding of privacy research in computer science. He is a specialist in EU Data Protection, European and US surveillance law, PET research, identity management, and information ethics. He co-authored the 2012 report to the European Parliament on Cloud computing, which anticipated risks to EU data sovereignty from "PRISM". For nine years he was Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft for forty countries, and previously co-founded and was first director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (www.fipr.org<http://www.fipr.org/>). He was an expert adviser for UK Parliamentary legislation, and co-organized six public conferences on encryption, data retention, and interception policy. He has previous careers in financial engineering and risk management, and software engineering (systems, 3D games, applied cryptography), including work with Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM. He founded the Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, is a fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the advisory bodies of several civil society associations. This Adam Smith Reseach Foundation<http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/adamsmith/> Lecture is organised in association with the ESRC research seminar series Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights<http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/esrc-research-seminar-series> (ES/I001816/2) led by Prof. Gillian Youngs, University of Brighton. It is co-organised by CREATe<http://www.create.ac.uk/> the RCUK centre for copyright and new business models in the creative economy led by the University of Glasgow, and by Policy Scotland<http://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/> a policy research and knowledge exchange hub based at the University of Glasgow. All are welcome but registration is essential as numbers are limited. Reserve your place here: http://digitalpolicy.eventbrite.co.uk<http://eventbrite.co.uk/event/8546668315?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=ema…> __________________________________________________ Professor Andrew Hoskins Interdisciplinary Research Professor In Global Security http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/ourstaff/andrewhoskins/ Founding Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies (http://mss.sagepub.com<http://mss.sagepub.com/>) ESRC/Google project: Internet search and elections in established and challenged democracies: http://voterecology.com<http://voterecology.com/> The End of Decay Time: http://mss.sagepub.com/content/6/4/387.long Director, Adam Smith Research Foundation College of Social Sciences University of Glasgow 66 Oakfield Avenue Glasgow G12 8LS T: +44 (0)141 330 7656 F: +44 (0)141 330 7491 W: www.glasgow.ac.uk<http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

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Deadline extension - Shared Machine Shops
by Mathieu ONeil 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Call for Papers - Special issue of the Journal of Peer Production Shared Machine Shops: Beyond Local Prototyping and Manufacturing Deadline extended by two weeks - 15 October 2013 Editors: Maxigas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Peter Troxler (International Fab Lab Association, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) In the last years we have witnessed an incredible proliferation of shared machine shops in a confusing number of genres: hackerspaces, makerspaces, Fab Labs and their more commercial counterparts such as TechShops, co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators. These are currently "fringe phenomena" because they play a minor role in the production of wealth, knowledge, political consensus and the social organisation of life. Interestingly, however, they also experience the same core transformations as contemporary capitalism. That is, for the individual: the convergence of work, labour and other aspects of life. On a systemic level: the rapid development of algorithmically driven technical systems and their intensifying role in social organisation. Finally, as a corollary: the practical and legitimation crisis of modern institutions, echoed by renewed attempts at self-organisation. Arguably, hackers occupied such an ambiguous position since the beginning of hackerdom, but shared machine shops represent a new configuration. They appear as embodied communities organised in research and production units of physical and logical goods; they even appear to escape the subcultural ghetto as educational institutions, museums, and libraries start to integrate them into their ambit. They are eminent laboratories in both their practices and products: as experimental forms of social institutions, and as the developers of technological prototypes projecting new visions of the future. Industry actors, state authorities and policy makers have recognised such milieus as prolific grounds for recruitment and new organisational models, which in itself warrants critical attention. Inspired by all these developments, we dedicate the next special issue of the Journal of Peer Production to Fab Labs and similar places. Some of the questions we are interested in exploring: * What are the historical conditions and concrete genealogies which enabled the emergence of shared machine shops? (Can we talk about the renewed relevance of craftsmanship?) * Are rapid prototyping practices changing the relationships to technology, research and development, and innovation? (Are shared machine shops democratising knowledge and production or rather building a new maker elite?) * How do technologies cultivated in shared machine shops such as personal fabrication intervene in urban and rural geographies? (Is the time ripe for "global villages" or we have to adapt to "smart cities"?) * What new and old anthropologies and ethics are articulated in shared machine shops? (Who is the “New Man” of Peer Production?) * Finally, how do shared machine shops interface with the political economy of contemporary capitalism and the military-industrial complex? (If the means of production are in the hands of the workers, is that free labour, a new form of outsourcing, or the germ for a next revolution?) Beyond local prototyping and manufacturing capability, what is the contribution of shared machine shops to critical practices of technology appropriation, to products, services and consumption patterns, to urban and rural geographies, and to practical political economy and ethics? Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners alike. Collaborative efforts are encouraged. We are mainly expecting academic papers on the one hand, and commented project documentations or narrative vignettes on the other hand, but anything that can be presented on a website could work. However, submitters are advised to keep in mind that the content should address questions of consequence to practitioners, based on realities on the ground, while at the same time they should be reflexive and consider their wider intellectual context. Submission proposals of up to 500 words due by September 30th, 2013, and should be sent to fablabissue(a)peerproduction.net. Submissions will be notified by October 30, 2013, and full papers and materials (research papers around 8,000 words, testimonies and documents around 3,000 words) are due by January 31st, 2014, for review. Final submission deadline is June 1st, 2014. The special issue is due to appear in early July 2014. Research papers are peer reviewed according to JoPP review policies.

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Four Job Postings: Cluster hire in Civic Media
by Eric Gordon 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

We have four assistant professor positions open at Emerson College in the area of civic media, including positions in games, big data, digital media and culture and communication studies. Please read below and follow the link for details. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at eric_gordon(a)emerson.edu<mailto:eric_gordon@emerson.edu> Emerson College is pleased to announce a major faculty hiring initiative in civic media. Building on the Colleges strengths in communication and the arts and supporting the Colleges strategic initiatives in civic and global engagement, we seek to develop a distinguished faculty that addresses connections among media innovation, technologies, social networks and global citizenship. There is a need to consider how the changes brought by digital media are shaping political and social life, along with definitions of governance and citizenship. How people make and use media (whether it's a film or a tweet) to engage with the world, to make change, to be informed, or to connect across national borders, are topic areas that span the arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. The new faculty hires in Journalism, Visual and Media Arts, Communication Studies, and the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies will form a distinctive interdisciplinary faculty cohort that intersects with students from across the College. While faculty members will have their primary appointments within one of the four participating units, they will share teaching responsibilities with the new College-wide minor in Digital Media and Culture, and have a research affiliation with the Emerson Engagement Labs (EEL). All the new faculty hires will begin August 28, 2014. http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000795328-01/ Eric Gordon Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard University Director, Engagement Game Lab Associate Professor, Emerson College http://engagementgamelab.org (617) 824-8828

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