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Digital Methods Winter School '23 - Univ. Amsterdam
by rogers＠govcom.org 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Digital Methods Winter School 2023 ’The use and misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)’ 9-13 January 2023 New Media & Digital Culture Media Studies University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands Call for participation The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Winter School on ’The use and misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)’. The format is that of a (social media and web) data sprint, with tutorials as well as hands-on work for telling stories with data. There is also a programme of keynote speakers. It is intended for advanced Master's students, PhD candidates and motivated scholars who would like to work on (and complete) a digital methods project in an intensive workshop setting. The use and misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) From geolocating burning tanks in the Ukrainian fields and determining the authenticity of videos depicting possible human rights violations in Cameroon to reconstructing the events of January 6, 2021 in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., activists, journalists, and the general public are increasingly turning to a (somewhat) new ally: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). The systematization of information gathered from open, often internet-based, sources (as opposed to the classified sources of governmental intelligence) using digital tools, as OSINT may be defined, is turning into a highly regarded strategy to build public narratives of truth. Recently, major news outlets such as The Guardian, The New York Times, and the BBC have added OSINT units or ‘visual investigation’ teams. They join more established investigation units from international civil society such as those of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, academic research institutions such as Berkley's Human Rights Investigations Lab, and citizen intelligence agencies like Bellingcat. Recent news articles have described the rise of open source intelligence as challenging existing authorities, especially state-controlled or other official information sources. In doing so, OSINT practitioners have developed a particular set of reporting formats and verification tools that strengthen the epistemic authority of their practices. For example, crowd-sourced information from Twitter or Telegram is arranged next to video stills pulled from popular platforms or satellite images from public providers in order to put together and strengthen the argument of what actually happened. OSINT has developed a signature 'investigative aesthetic' and style, dramatised and popularised by organisations striving for justice, such as Forensic Architecture, or preserving the memory of wars, such as the Syrian Archive. OSINT also taps into the transparency strategies of the open source ethos and the encouragement of DIY hacker culture. Professional and lay OSINT practitioners curate lists of tools, draft how-to guides and share training materials on YouTube and elsewhere to empower others to undertake similar work. These have been applied to projects that fight climate change and trace illicit money flowing through circuitous corporate structures. They also have found an eager audience in those who dig for and post updates about conspiracy theories such as QAnon. Whether it is misuse or weaponisation, OSINT practices and styles have also been adopted by misinformation operatives such as 'War on Fakes'. The Winter School takes up OSINT as an investigative practice and aesthetic. It offers critical research projects on data journalism, fact-checking and other investigative projects employing online data. It also combines OSINT tools with digital methods and other online research techniques for academic research that make use of verification. Finally, it analyses its cultures of practice and how it establishes and undermines others' epistemic authority. At the Winter School there are the usual social media tool training tutorials for working on single and cross-platform analysis, but also continued attention to thinking through and proposing how to work critically with social media data, both from mainstream social media platforms as well as so-called alt tech. Apart from the keynotes and the training tutorials, there are also empirical and conceptual projects that participants work on. Projects from the past Summer and Winter Schools include: Detecting Conspiratorial Hermeneutics via Words & Images, Mapping the Fringe on Telegram; Greenwashing, in_authenticity & protest; Searching constructive/authentic posts in media comment sections, Mapping deepfakes with digital methods and visual analytics, “Go back to plebbit”: Mapping the platform antagonism between 4chan and Reddit, Profiling Bolsobots Networks, Infodemic cross-platform analysis, Post-Trump Information Ecology, Streams of Conspirational Folklore, and FilterTube: Investigating echo chambers, filter bubbles and polarization on YouTube. The most recent school had some of the following projects: Climate imaginaries; Repurposing Google Ads; What is a meme, technically speaking?; Tracing the genealogy and change of TikTok audio memes; Google Autocomplete: Racist results still?; and OK Boomer on Twitter. Winter School ’23 organisers: Kamila Koronska, Richard Rogers and Guillen Torres, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Application information at https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2023 <https://www.digitalmethods.net/>. Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam

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DDP 2022 (IEEE)
by ijwa dline.info 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Second International Conference on Digital Data Processing University of Bedfordshire Luton. UK December 07-09, 2022 www.socio.org.uk/ddp (IEEE Xplore. Papers should follow the IEEE template) Data grows voluminously and exponentially with heterogeneity and complexity. A single organization or industry processes more than a few million transactions hourly and stores several petabytes of data. We live in a world of tremendous pressure to analyze and process data more efficiently where the Data analytics can reflect hidden patterns, incomprehensible relationships, intrinsic information relations, and segmentation. The data applications have introduced cutting-edge possibilities in every activity in our life. Thus, studying data and its underlying structure, dynamics of data relations, and newer data technologies are a never-ending process. The literature and research on data management are enormous; they do not sufficiently solve the data processing requirements. Currently, the use of technology and interrelations among information pieces generate gargantuan amounts of data. Many studies tend to develop models and systems to analyse the voluminous datasets. Analysing the impact of data leads to application domains on decisions that have a systematic influence. Knowledge generated from the data analysis can enable the production of critical information for several domains. Hence this conference reviews and discusses the recent trends, opportunities, and pitfalls of data management and how it has impacted organizations to create successful business and technology strategies and remain updated in data technology. This conference also highlights the current open research directions of data analytics that require further consideration/ The proposed conference will discuss topics not limited to Data applications in various domains and activities Data in cloud Real-world data processing Data inaccuracy and reliability issues Data Ecosystem Business Analytics New data analytics techniques Physical and management challenges Privacy and Security Crowdsourcing and Sensing Data modelling Deep learning techniques Data fusion Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics Machine learning Network optimization Data in Biomedical Engineering Data in Materials science and mechanics Data handling and applications in domains Wireless Networking Data Management Data of Electronic & Embedded Systems Multi-media Systems Data Artificial intelligence Models and Systems Data E-Computing Data Renewable Energies Data Publications DDP is technically supported by IEEE CPS. The DDP papers will be submitted for publication and indexing in IEEE Xplore. Besides, modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization 8. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies Important Dates Full Paper Submission: October 15, 2022 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 01, 2022 Registration Due: November 25, 2022 Camera Ready Due: December 01-09, 2022 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: December 08-09, 2022 Main conference December 07-09, 2022 Keynote Speakers Eleni (Helen) Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Program Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, Chair UK& RI IEEE TEMS, UK Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau - Program Co-Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Publicity Chair Mohsin Beniysa, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: ddp(a)socio.org.uk

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Pentagon PSYOP Review and Interviews...
by Dr. Emma Briant 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Dear Colleagues, In spite of efforts to silence it, I'm glad to share news of my research making an impact this month. For my doctorate researched military adaptation of Information Operations to digital age challenges. Now, 5 years after my article examined <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920517750741> internal Pentagon debates over the nature of policy changes made to enable internet age propaganda tactics... Facebook and Twitter have finally taken down the US military's PSYOP which they now acknowledge broke their platforms' rules. Some of the posts have been released and examined in a report <https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nj914nx9540/unheard-voice-tt.pdf>by Graphika and Stanford. And my prior article <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920517750741> into the policies and changes in tactics that enabled these campaigns has been covered in the Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/20/military-pentagon-fake-s…> and the Pentagon's tactics are finally under review. It's time for a much-needed public debate. No-one said being a propaganda scholar would be easy, but I never imagined when I graduated from my PhD, that one day I would be getting profiled by the esteemed free expression organization Index on Censorship. There needs to be more support and understanding of the unique <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1578088810667180044?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9R…> threats and challenges faced by scholars if we want to enable them to produce work that makes an impact. And I am not alone <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1578088810667180044?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9R…>. I am grateful to have supportive allies and I hope you will find the Index interview interesting: The woman exposing the propaganda puppet masters <https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2022/09/the-woman-exposing-the-propaganda…> . I am also happy to share new episodes of my YouTube show 'Afternoon Tea and Truth Biscuits' where I talk about Cold War black propaganda campaigns with Prof. Rory Cormac <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQRmiaSIpos> (University of Nottingham) and discuss Diasporas as Cyberwarriors with Dr. Dmitry Chernobrov <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrt61cmiheo> (University of Sheffield). I hope to see you in the audience for the Next show too on <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1577386839471640576?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9R…> 18th October with Dr. Rizwaan Sabir talking about his book 'The Suspect' <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/04/26/book-review-the-suspect…>, which draws on both his research into Islamophobia and his experience of being wrongly accused after obtaining an Al-Qaeda publication required for his studies of Counter-terrorism. Watch and share here. <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1577386839471640576?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9R…> Thank you all as always for your continued support for my work. Best wishes, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin

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New roles at Ada Lovelace Institute - EdTech, Policy & Law, Public Participation
by Andrew Strait 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

The Ada Lovelace Institute are hiring a series of new roles, <https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/about/jobs/> including: 1. *Researcher (Public Participation & Research) <https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/researcher-public-participation/> - *The role of Researcher in Ada’s Public Participation & Research team provides an excellent opportunity for an early-career individual who’s interested in using research to ensure public perspectives and attitudes influence and inform issues of technology policy and practice. 2. *Visiting Senior Researcher, Education and AI <https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/education-and-ai/> - * The role of Visiting Senior Researcher provides an excellent opportunity for a mid-career researcher to craft and execute a research project in a dynamic and energetic policy-facing organisation. 3. *Associate Director (Data & AI Law and Policy) <https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associate-director-data-ai-policy/> - *A new associate director to join our senior leadership team and develop a comprehensive strategy for informing and influencing public policy, regulatory initiatives and legislative debates on data and AI policy and regulation, in the UK and beyond Applications can be submitted via the links above. Ada is a UK-based organisation with the ability to sponsor visas for the UK. With best wishes, -- Andrew Strait Associate Director, Emerging Technology & Industry Ada Lovelace Institute

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"The epistemological foundations of data science: a critical analysis"
by Luciano Floridi 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

In case it may be of interest to members of the list: "The epistemological foundations of data science: a critical analysis" is now forthcoming in Synthese, open access preprint freely available @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4008316 With best wishes, Luciano Floridi ______________ Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute Fellow, Exeter College University of Oxford PA Krystal Whittaker<mailto:lucianofloridi.pa@gmail.com> Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication Director, Centre for Digital Ethics Department of Legal Studies Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna SA Elisabetta Bulla<mailto:segreteria.amministrativa.cde@gmail.com>

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Goldsmiths Media: 'The Future of Media' book launch, 5pm Thursday 27 October
by Joanna Zylinska 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Dear All, The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths have the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of our book, The Future of Media, co-edited by us and Joanna Zylinska, and published by Goldsmiths Press. The event takes place at 5pm on Thursday 27 October and will start with a roundtable discussion on the future of media, featuring many of the contributors to the book, who include Daisy Asquith, Lisa Blackman, Clea Bourne, NG Bristow, James Burton, Sarah Cefai, Sue Clayton, Sean Cubitt, James Curran, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany, Sandra van Lente, Richard MacDonald, Mirca Madianou, Mathapelo Mofokeng, David Morley, Anamik Saha, Richard Shannon, Daniel Strutt, Milly Williamson and the book’s co-editor Joanna Zylinska. The roundtable will be followed by a Q&A and drinks. The event will take place on the Goldsmiths campus in LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall building. We hope to see many friends, collaborators and students past and present there! Best wishes Goldsmiths Media More details at https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=14029 *** Here is a description of the book’s content: How do we combat post-truth in the news? Are social media influencers the journalists of today? What is it like to live in a smart city? Does AI really change ‘everything’? The Future of Media investigates the future of media industries and technologies (journalism, TV, film, photography, radio, publishing, social media), while exploring how media shape our future – on a political, economic, cultural and individual level. Issues of diversity, media reform, labour, activism and art take the discussion into a wider social context. Through this, the book celebrates the importance and vitality of media in the modern world. The Future of Media is also an experiment in collaborative modes of thinking and working. Co-authored by theorists and practitioners from one of the world’s most established media departments and their collaborators, it offers a radical, creative and critical take on media industries – and on world affairs. An open-access version of the book can be downloaded from the GRO repository [click on the download button]: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/ If you like the book, we hope you will be able to support Goldsmiths Press by ordering a paper copy for yourself and/or your library, via their distributor, MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media The book also has a companion website, featuring practice works engaging with the future of media: https://www.golddust.org.uk/futureofmedia -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice King's College London Department of Digital Humanities http://www.joannazylinska.net

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Invitation to sign the “Global Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work
by Rafael Grohmann 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

In anticipation of the International Labour Organisation's [1]Meeting of Experts on Decent Work in the Platform Economy – being held in Geneva from 10 to 14 October – a 'Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work' to protect and ensure the rights of platform workers across the world will be launched. The document was developed by leading researchers from different countries and institutions involved in analysing the platform economy and its consequences on workers. Platform work is increasingly becoming a fundamental source of employment and income for workers worldwide. But too often, such work is precarious – with low standards or lack of rights and protection regarding payment, conditions, contracts, management and representation. The 'Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work' aims to urge the ILO to adopt a convention on platform work that caters to the specific and urgent needs of platform workers globally. The Manifesto argues that fair conditions for platform workers should be put in place to address this lack of rights and protection. It outlines the challenges posed by these new labor relations in crucial aspects, such as misclassification, low pay, health and safety risks, discrimination, non transparent algorithmic management, and lack of representation and collective bargaining. We invite researchers in the field of platform work and related topics to read and sign the Manifesto. The document can be accessed and signed at [2]fair.work/manifesto. Please share this invitation with other researchers in your network. The manifesto will be launched in [3]a virtual event on Friday, 7 October at 15.00 BST. We would also like to invite you to attend the event. And feel free to share this invitation with other people you believe could be interested in this discussion. References 1. https://www.ilo.org/travail/eventsandmeetings/WCMS_852196/lang--en/index.htm 2. https://fair.work/manifesto 3. https://wzb-eu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uN50v7bYTOG6VUBVpA2eGQ

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Invitation - Global Manifesto for a Fairer Platform Work
by Jonas Valente 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Dear AoIR members, *Invitation - Global Manifesto for a Fairer Platform Work* In anticipation of the International Labour Organisation's Meeting of Experts on Decent Work in the Platform Economy <https://www.ilo.org/travail/eventsandmeetings/WCMS_852196/lang--en/index.htm> – being held in Geneva from 10 to 14 October – a 'Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work' to protect and ensure the rights of platform workers across the world will be launched. The document was developed by leading researchers from different countries and institutions involved in analysing the platform economy and its consequences on workers. Platform work is increasingly becoming a fundamental source of employment and income for workers worldwide. But too often, such work is precarious – with low standards or lack of rights and protection regarding payment, conditions, contracts, management and representation. The 'Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work' aims to urge the ILO to adopt a convention on platform work that caters to the specific and urgent needs of platform workers globally. The Manifesto argues that fair conditions for platform workers should be put in place to address this lack of rights and protection. It outlines the challenges posed by these new labor relations in crucial aspects, such as misclassification, low pay, health and safety risks, discrimination, non transparent algorithmic management, and lack of representation and collective bargaining. We invite researchers in the field of platform work and related topics to read and sign the Manifesto. The document can be accessed and signed at fair.work/manifesto. Please share this invitation with other researchers in your network. The manifesto will be launched in a virtual event <https://wzb-eu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uN50v7bYTOG6VUBVpA2eGQ> on Friday, 7 October at 15.00 BST. We would also like to invite you to attend the event. And feel free to share this invitation with other people you believe could be interested in this discussion. Kind regards, Jonas Valente Fairwork project Oxford Internet Institute

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Serious Games
by Keith Hampton 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Colleagues, My department is searching for an Assistant/Associate professor (tenure system) who is doing research in the area of game studies. We are open to applicants from a range of disciplines. The appropriate candidate would serve as Director of our Serious Games Certificate (SGC). Please apply! The Department of Media and Information (M&I) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member to serve as Director of our Serious Games Certificate (SGC) program while continuing their research, publication, and teaching efforts. We welcome applications from emerging and established scholars at the Assistant or Associate rank who have sufficient relevant experience in Game Studies with terminal degrees from a related discipline. The SGC is a three-course, transcriptable, graduate certificate that can be completed either in a hybrid (in-classroom/online) or fully online format. Candidates will be expected to continue to gain visibility through peer-reviewed academic publications or a combination of peer-reviewed publications and juried creative works. For more information, see https://careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/512411/assistantassociate-professor-te… -- ___________________________________________________________ *Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D.* Professor, Department of Media and Information Director of Academic Research, Quello Center Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology Affiliate Faculty, Canadian Studies Center *Michigan State University* www.mysocialnetwork.net www.twitter.com/mysocnet

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Reminder: Job Search: Associate / Full Professor of Race, Media and Comm
by Burcu Baykurt 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

*Hi colleagues! I’m excited to share this job ad for Associate/Full Professor of Race, Media and Communication in the Department of Communication at UMass Amherst. Please see below and drop me a line if you have any questions about our department! * The Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks to build on our 50-year tradition of critical and community-engaged media and communication research with this hire in the area of race, media, and communication studies. We are looking for an Associate / Full Professor with a record of intellectual leadership and engaged scholarship examining the politics of race in media and communication, communication and racial justice, and/or race and representation in popular culture. We seek a colleague who can advance our department's mission to center issues of racial justice in communication research, collaborate with our diverse and international faculty and students, and extend our core strengths in critical cultural studies and media and communication studies. The Department of Communication is one of the most internationally diverse faculty in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Of particular interest are candidates who draw from critical bodies of theory and epistemologies of Black, Latino/a/x, Asian, Indigenous, and Ethnic Studies when studying media, communication, and racial politics in the United States. We also welcome candidates who draw from intersectional perspectives of feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory and those who study racial politics in transnational perspective. We are open to diverse methodological approaches and community engaged scholarship. Particular areas of expertise may include (but are not limited to) the following: · Race and representation in film, television, and social media · Systemic racism in media, creative, and tech industries · Racial equity and critical data studies · Racial justice narratives, digital activism, and strategic communication of social movements · Black digital cultures, creativity, and media-making · Queer and transgender politics of race · Race and Blackness in performance studies · Race and racial discrimination in health communication · Mediated solidarities, joy, and conflicts between/among communities of color · Racially targeted disinformation, hate, and digital harms · Race and mediated communication in geopolitics · Postcolonial and decolonial studies, and transnational and diasporic media · Critical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion in media and communication studies Requirements The candidate is expected to have a PhD in Communication or related fields. This is a mid-career or senior-level position, and the candidate will be reviewed for tenure during their first year of appointment. They are expected to have at least 5 years experience in a tenure-track professorship post in Communication or related fields, with a record of excellence in research, teaching, and outreach. A successful record of leadership in grant-funded projects is desirable. Additional information The position will begin on Sept. 1, 2023. Applicant instructions Candidates should submit the following materials: 1. Cover letter addressed to Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 2. CV. 3. Three writing samples. 4. Evidence of teaching effectiveness. 5. Names and contact information of three academic references. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to write a tailor-fit statement about their experiences with and expectations from university diversity and inclusion initiatives and submit this to the Chair prior to the campus visit. Shortlisted candidates will also be asked to provide materials that demonstrate the candidate's eligibility and qualifications to show they meet the criteria and the standards for tenure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. https://www.umass.edu/provost/resources/all-resources/academic-personnel/po… Review of applications will begin October 20, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. For inquiries about the post and the application process, contact Search Committee Chair Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong at jcong(a)umass.edu.

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