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Tenure Track Position in Global Digital Media
by Shafer, Leah 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

apologies for cross-posting Assistant Professor Department of Media and Society The Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of global digital media to begin July 1, 2019. The successful candidate should: 1) have a Ph.D. in media studies or a related field in hand by July 1, 2019, 2) have teaching and research experience in new and emerging media and their historical and social contexts (including race, gender, and class), 3) focus on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, or the Middle East, and 4) be able to incorporate both theory and practice (basic production) into their courses. Preference will be given to candidates with experience teaching American undergraduates in an interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. One of the largest majors on campus, the Media and Society Program fosters a critical analysis of the media's influence on society and the individual, and provides students with a broad and sophisticated understanding of media within a liberal arts environment. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, teaching statement, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/52627. Applications received by October 1, 2018 will receive first consideration, but we will continue to review applications until the position is filled. Questions regarding Interfolio should be directed to Jacki Baroody (baroody(a)hws.edu<mailto:ferran@hws.edu>). EOE Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to providing a non-discriminatory and harassment-free educational, living and working environment for all members of the HWS community, including students, faculty, staff, volunteers, and visitors. HWS prohibits discrimination and harassment in their programs and activities on the basis of age, color, disability, domestic violence victim status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected under the law. Discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual harassment, sexual violence, sexual assault, and other forms of sexual misconduct including stalking and intimate partner violence, and gender-based harassment that does not involve conduct of a sexual nature. Founded as Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women, Hobart and William Smith Colleges today are a highly selective residential liberal arts institution with a single administration, faculty and curriculum but separate dean's offices, student governments, athletic programs and traditions. The Colleges are located in a small diverse city in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. With an enrollment of approximately 2,300, the Colleges offer 62 different majors and minors from which students choose two areas of concentration, one of which must be an interdisciplinary program. Creative and extensive programs of international study and public service are also at the core of the Colleges' mission. Leah Shafer associate professor | media and society program hobart and william smith colleges | shafer(a)hws.edu

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Book Announcement: The Qualified Self (MIT Press, 2018)
by Lee H. Humphreys 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hi all, Forgive the cross-postings, but I just wanted to announce the publication of my book, The Qualified Self. It’s actually been out a couple of months now, but MIT Press just made the introduction chapter publicly available (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/qualified-self) I also put together some teaching materials (e.g. slides and discussion prompts) to accompany the book. Here’s a link: http://blogs.cornell.edu/humphreys/the-qualified-self/ The back cover summary: "Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives—what we ate for lunch, where we went on vacation, who dropped in for a visit—didn’t begin with mobile devices and social media. People have used media to catalog and share their lives for several centuries. Pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books are the predigital precursors of today’s digital and mobile platforms for posting text and images. The ability to take selfies has not turned us into needy narcissists; it’s part of a longer story about how people account for everyday life. Humphreys refers to diaries in which eighteenth-century daily life is documented with the brevity and precision of a tweet, and cites a nineteenth-century travel diary in which a young woman complains that her breakfast didn’t agree with her. Diaries, Humphreys explains, were often written to be shared with family and friends. Pocket diaries were as mobile as smartphones, allowing the diarist to record life in real time. Humphreys calls this chronicling, in both digital and nondigital forms, media accounting. The sense of self that emerges from media accounting is not the purely statistics-driven “quantified self,” but the more well-rounded qualified self. We come to understand ourselves in a new way through the representations of ourselves that we create to be consumed.” All the best, Lee *************************** Lee Humphreys, PhD Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Dept of Communication Cornell University lmh13(a)cornell.edu<mailto:lmh13@cornell.edu> Author: The Qualified Self: Social Media & the Accounting of Everyday Life ((MIT Press<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/qualified-self> Amazon<https://www.amazon.com/Qualified-Self-Social-Accounting-Everyday/dp/0262037…>)

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Call for Creative Works on Media and Communication
by Julia H. 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

*MEDIA(S)CENE* *Call for Creative Works on Media and Communication* Exhibition opportunity at 2019 Media Ecology Annual Convention *Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2018* *We invite proposals for new or existing works for exhibition, screening, performance, installation, sound art, and other creative formats to be featured at the Media Ecology Association’s 20th Annual Convention, taking place in Toronto, June 27-30, 2019.* Inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s “probes” and his view that art is an “anti-environment” or counter-environment to media, we welcome proposals for innovative works that address, expand, or challenge the concepts and conditions of our contemporary media environments, as explored in the experimental essay *“Hot and Cool in the Media(S)cene”*: https://medium.com/mediascene*.* Selected proposals will be invited for the ”Media(s)cene” art exhibit at the Media Ecology Association’s 20th Annual Convention in Toronto from June 27-30, 2019. For more information on the international conference and its theme “*Media Ethics: Human Ecology in a Connected World,*” visit http://mediaethics.ca. Proposals should include an abstract (500 words max), technical requirements for presentation of the work (if applicable), an estimated budget, a brief biography (200 words), and contact information. Please submit the material to Julia M. Hildebrand (*julia.m.hildebrand(a)drexel.edu <julia.m.hildebrand(a)drexel.edu>)* and Barry Vacker (*bvacker(a)temple.edu <bvacker(a)temple.edu>)* by December 1, 2018. We look forward to hearing from you, Project organizers, Julia Hildebrand, Barry Vacker

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tenure track associate professorship (W2) in Digital Geography; University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
by Glasze, Georg 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Dear all, we are currently advertising a tenure track associate professorship (W2) in Digital Geography within an interdisciplinary cluster on digital transformation (see official website of the university: https://www.fau.eu/university/careers-at-fau/professorships/#collapse_1 ; closing date: 22nd of October!). The Institute of Geography in Erlangen is one of the biggest Institutes of Geography in the German speaking academia. In rankings of research and teaching performances the Institute frequently reaches top positions (see: https://www.geography.nat.fau.eu/research/) Our main research areas in cultural/human geography are embedded in a conceptual framework, which is captioned by "Contested Geographies". From this perspective, "we conceive and analyse geographies as 'cultural', that is to say as socially constituted, negotiated and thus often controversial". The Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is one of the leading research universities in Germany and the second largest full-university in Bavaria with an extraordinary broad range of disciplines (see: https://www.fau.eu/) Digital Transformation has been defined as one of the "key research areas" of the FAU bringing together researchers from the social sciences, law, economy, ethics, computer sciences, digital humanities, engineering etc. Our location in Erlangen is an attractive, quite international, lively and bike-oriented southern German university town with a little more than 100,000 inhabitants and roughly 30.000 students. A short 20-min rail- or bus-trip away, Nürnberg (or "Nuremberg") with more than half a million inhabitants is the centre of one of the largest metropolitan areas in southern Germany and offers diverse cultural activities. At Erlangen's and Nürnberg's doorsteps, the Franconian Switzerland as well as the Franconian lakes provide for many leisure opportunities of mid-range mountains (climbing, walking, biking/mountain biking, canoeing, cross country skiing etc.). Erlangen and Nürnberg are very well connected with Intercity Express trains to Munich (approx. 1,5 h to the south) and Berlin (approx. 3h to the north). Nürnberg has an international airport with connections to many major European cities. We seek to appoint an expert who will develop an internationally visible research and teaching profile in cultural/human geography. Applications are welcome from qualified scientists researching the role of digital data in processes of socio-spatial transformation and investigating the causes and effects of advanced datafication. The professor is expected to focus on and expand methods of gathering, processing and analysing geodata. In addition to strengthening research into digitalisation in the field of cultural/human geography, it is desirable that the professor can create connections towards other major research focus areas in cultural/human geography at FAU, in particular urban studies. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Also, please feel encouraged to distribute widely! Best wishes, Georg Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeographie Institut für Geographie FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Wetterkreuz 15 D-91058 Erlangen-Tennenlohe Germany Tel. (Sekretariat Frau Donner): +49 9131/85-22633 https://www.geography.nat.fau.eu/research/ag-glasze/ 08-12 2018 Guest Researcher Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre Department of Geography & Environmental Studies Carleton University Ottawa, CA

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Mini-Conference on Algorithmic Politics
by Jose Marichal 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

I'd be grateful if you could circulate this call Call for Proposals Mini-Conference on Algorithmic Politics 2019 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference The Western Political Science Association (WPSA) invites submissions for a mini-conference on Algorithmic Politics to take place during the WPSA's annual conference in San Diego on April 18-20, 2019. We seek proposals for individual papers, posters, and organized panels that engage in rigorous theoretical and empirical research on the ways in which algorithms, artificial intelligence and online-platforms shape socio- political processes. We seek to develop a conversation among an interdisciplinary group of scholars working in this important emerging field. Topics may include but are not limited to: algorithms and surveillance, algorithms and public opinion/fragmenting consent, algorithms/machine learning and allocating public goods/sanctions, the algorithmic imaginary (pop culture), decentralized algorithmic systems/platforms (blockchain), algorithms and language, algorithmic bias/inequality, algorithms and discourse (fake news, bots, etc), algorithmic governmentality, platform economics/politics/cooperatives and/or civic hacking - algorithmic/machine learning solutionism. To submit an individual paper or poster proposal, please submit a title and abstract <http://216.59.24.78/aParticipation.asp> of no more than 250 words. Paper panels/symposium panels may also be submitted; to do so, please note the title of the panel/symposium in each paper submission. The deadline for paper/panel submissions is September 21. Regards, Jose Marichal California Lutheran University Mini-Conference Organizer -- _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | professor and chair| political science department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360

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TWO open tenure-track positions at USC Annenberg Communication (Org Comm & Comm Networks)
by Mike Ananny 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Hi All, Please excuse the cross-postings but I wanted to share with you all two tenure-track faculty positions we're hiring for at USC Annenberg this year, in: 1) *Organizational Communication* (Asst/Assoc Professor level): https://natcom-jobs.careerwebsite.com/job/assistant-or-associate-professor-… 2) *Communication Networks* (Asst/Assoc/Full Professor level): https://natcom-jobs.careerwebsite.com/job/assistantassociateor-full-profess… Please share far and wide, send me ideas for people you think we should be approaching, and consider applying yourself! I'd love to see AoIR'ers and friends in the applicant pool. All the best, -- Mike. -- *MIKE ANANNY* + /NEW BOOK:/ "Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear" [Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/…> | MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom>] + /Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism/ | Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California + /Faculty Affiliate/ | Science, Technology, and Society, University of Southern California + /2018-19 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences/ | Stanford University mike.ananny.org <http://mike.ananny.org> | ananny(a)usc.edu <mailto:ananny@usc.edu> | @ananny <http://twitter.com/ananny>

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Technical Communication & Rhetoric
by Rice, Rich 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Assistant/Associate Professor of Technical Communication & Rhetoric Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication & Rhetoric program in the Department of English invites applications for TWO open-rank positions to begin August 2019. These are 9-month appointments. We are especially interested in advanced Assistant or Associate-level colleagues who specialize in web design, information design, digital and social media, big data and web analytics, and/or usability/UX. Preference given to applicants with the PhD in Technical Communication. Applicants with administrative experience, online teaching experience, and a record of scholarship supported by funding are strongly encouraged to apply. Service to the department, college, and university is expected, including program-building as well as graduate teaching. The teaching load is 2-2, with further teaching reductions possible for administrative or national service. With around 120 students in our robust graduate program, our faculty have opportunities to teach graduate courses in our areas of interest, and we all serve on dissertation committees. Join our fifteen faculty. We offer the BA in Technical Communication, the MA in Technical Communication, and the PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric in onsite, hybrid, and online delivery modalities. We also offer graduate certificates in Grants & Proposals and in Teaching Technical Communication. Our program affords excellent facilities, including communication-rich computer classrooms, and opportunities to conduct research through the Usability Research Lab, the Media Lab, and the Letterpress Studio. Our university’s strategic plan emphasizes educating and empowering a diverse student body, enabling innovative research and creative activities, and transforming lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship. Texas Tech University is designated a Carnegie Tier One (Highest Research Activity) institution and a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). It has a law school, a medical school, and colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Architecture, Business Administration, Engineering, Human Sciences, Media and Communication, and Visual and Performing Arts. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest of these, representing approximately 28% of the total enrollment of 35,000. The university is located in Lubbock, a rapidly growing city of more than 300,000 on the high plains. Lubbock enjoys 260 days of sunshine every year, little traffic, and a relatively low cost of living. As an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community at Texas Tech University. The university does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant’s race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran. Texas Tech welcomes consideration of dual career and professional couple accommodations. See https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/tcr for more information. If you are interested in working with passionate, productive colleagues and motivated, talented students, please apply for one of these positions through https://www.texastech.edu/careers > TTU Faculty (Requisition ID: 14970BR) with letter of application and vita. Dossiers solicited later from exceptionally qualified candidates. Screening starts October 15. Direct inquiries to the chair of the search committee, Dr. Rich Rice, Director of Technical Communication & Rhetoric (rich.rice(a)ttu.edu) --- Dr. Rich Rice Texas Tech University Director of Technical Communication & Rhetoric http://richrice.com

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Nominations for the Library of Congress Kluge Chair in Technology and Society
by Natalie Rock 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Dear friends The Library of Congress is seeking nominations for chairs in five positions. One, it would be great to have the Chair in Technology & Society held by an AoIR member. Note that self-nominations are not allowed. Read on for details. **************************** Dear colleague: I write to solicit your nominations for the Kluge Chairs at the Library of Congress. The Kluge Center in the Library's flagship Thomas Jefferson Building brings a small number of major scholars and thinkers to the Library of Congress every year to use the rich and often unique materials available here. Appointees are chosen on the basis of intellectual accomplishment, the ability to communicate ideas to a broad audience, and their relevance to the challenges faced by democracies in the 21st century. It is our hope that they will stimulate thinking by sharing their insight and analysis through informal discussions and formal presentations within the Center and the Library. The Kluge Chairs are suited for the most distinguished and innovative scholars who are at the height of their creative and intellectual powers. There are five Kluge Chairs: * The Chair in American Law and Governance focuses on legal, constitutional, and political issues related to the institutions of American government. * The Chair in Technology and Society focuses on the impact of fast-changing technologies on human societies. * The Chair in Modern Culture focuses on modern arts and media and their impact on societal development. * The Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North focuses on the history and cultures of North America, Europe, Russia, and East Asia. * The Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South focuses on the history and cultures of Africa; Latin America; the Middle East, South, and Southeast Asia; and Oceania. Throughout their tenure at the Kluge Center, chair-holders have opportunities to interact formally and informally with Members of Congress, their staff, and other policymakers in Washington, DC. To offer nominations for any of these chair positions, please provide the name and a short statement of rationale for up to three candidates per chair, and send via e-mail to klugechairs(a)loc.gov<mailto:klugechairs@loc.gov>, without sharing news of your submission with colleagues or nominees. This year's submission deadline is Octeber 15, 2018, which gives the Library ample time to conduct its own rigorous evaluation in view of making offers on or around March 1, 2019 for appointments beginning in September 2020. I would be grateful if you would consider providing this valuable service to the Library and contributing to our effort to identify the very best scholars whose ideas hold the potential to positively impact scholarly and policy conversation on Capitol Hill. With all good wishes, John Haskell Director The John W. Kluge Center [/var/folders/ps/3b1f3g_92lxc46ftprz07cxhv4dc5r/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/Email-LOC-logo.jpg] "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer "

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Fw: Re:coding Black Mirror @CPDP 2019 conference
by Pinelopi.Troullinou 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Dear all, I am happy to announce that the 3rd edition of "re:coding black mirror" workshop is hosted by the CPDP conference in Brussels on 30th of January 2019. I am sorry in case of cross-posting and I hope that the workshop is relevant to many of you. Please see below the call for papers. Best, Pinelopi Call for papers Re:coding Black Mirror - One day workshop at CPDP2019 MOTIVATION Black Mirror is a British sci-fi series directed by Charlie Brooker portraying a dystopian future emanating from the wide use of digital advancements. Even though Black Mirror’s episodes do not entirely rely on the widespread availability of existing technology, some of the advancements presented are not from such a distant future. The ethical and societal implications emerging from the increasing reliance on digital media (partly depicted in the series) has been a longstanding debate in critical studies underlying issues around privacy, social control, social and individual justice and other key values around Democracy such as freedom of speech. Computer science has picked up on such kind of issues focusing mainly on privacy offering technical solutions such as privacy by design and encryption amongst other tools. FORMAT Re:coding Black Mirror is a one-day workshop which aims at creating dialogue and connections between computer, data and social scientists and also activists and privacy advocates that are interested in the societal and ethical implications of digital technologies. In order to address emerging social phenomena from different perspectives, the workshop employs a novel interactive format, where researchers are invited to create futuristic scenarios as the ones depicted in Black Mirror exploring emerging societal and ethical concerns. It will also be a forum for raising opportunities of networking with scholars from different fields to explore novel research problems that can be relevant to both the web and social science communities. TOPICS Given the novelty of the workshop format, we welcome submissions addressing two different issues, as explained in the brief summaries below. Possible submissions are not restricted to those examples but works addressing those scenarios would be very much welcome too. (1) Works showing how the ongoing research in the web community could enable/lead to dystopic scenarios similar to the ones presented in Black Mirror episodes and also, how it could prevent/minimise such risks. For example: * How could web technologies be used to integrate information about another person from multiple online sources (digital footprinting), providing a mean for stalking or even blackmailing them? (S03E03) * How could web technologies be designed to prevent the abuse of user ratings based on the relations between people and information about their network/context? (S03E01) (2) Works exploring the societal and ethical concerns emerging from digital technologies as presented in Black Mirror episodes. For example: * How do technological developments impact parental surveillance strategies and consequently the family environment? (S04E02) * How does the normalization of surveillance through gamification change individuals’ relationship with the surveillance apparatus? (S02E02) SUBMISSION Please submit your contribution to the workshop by 1st October 2018 (23:59 Hawaii time) through the easychair system<http://2dsf1.r.ca.d.sendibm2.com/mk/cl/1MTvNMQF_rOfgrytOjDn794A9qIe6Ja73jqV…> . To facilitate submissions from different fields, we accept three categories of submissions: * Full papers (max 8 pages) on research and applied technologies, * Short papers (max 4 pages) about visions and positions on forthcoming challenges, * Abstracts (max 2 pages) on the societal and ethical risks of the aforementioned technologies. We expect each paper to take as a starting point one futuristic scenario, either directly from Black Mirror or of a similar nature, as motivation for the work presented. You can take a look at the previous Re:coding Black Mirror workshop here<http://2dsf1.r.ca.d.sendibm2.com/mk/cl/51luXa9uUitNx1lGKYdvI1SR5qxncTXMAcHZ…> . ORGANISERS * PINELOPI TROULLINOU, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK * MATHIEU D'AQUIN, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland * ILARIA TIDDI, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK For further information about the workshop and the submission process please send your emails to pinelopi.troullinou(a)open.ac.uk<mailto:pinelopi.troullinou@open.ac.uk?subject=CPDP%20Mailing%20Call%20for%20Papers%20Re%3Acoding%20Black%20Mirror%20> Dr Pinelopi Troullinou Research Associate Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) The Open University Level 4 North, Berrill Building, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6HE, UK @pinelopi_tr -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in relation to its secondary activity of credit broking.

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Tenure Track Job Opportunity - Asst. Prof., Quantitative Methods
by Grant Kien 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

FACULTY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Assistant Professor of Communication (Quantitative Methods) California State University-East Bay Department of Communication, Hayward/Concord/Online FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK To apply, go to: apply.interfolio.com/51689 THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) is a comprehensive university serving the San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley. It is known for award-winning programs, expert instruction, its diverse student body, and a choice of more than 100 career focused fields of study. The ten major buildings of the Hayward Hills campus, on 342 acres, contain over 150 classrooms and teaching laboratories, over 177 specialized instructional rooms, numerous computer labs and a library, which contains a collection of over one million items. The University also has campuses in Concord and Oakland, as well as Online. With an enrollment of approximately 15,000 students and 900 faculty, CSUEB is organized into four colleges: Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences; Business and Economics; Education and Allied Studies; and Science. The University offers bachelor’s degrees in 49 fields, minors in 52 fields, master’s degrees in 34 fields, 16 credentials programs, 18 certificate options, and 1 doctoral degree program. http://www20.csueastbay.edu/ THE DEPARTMENT: The Department of Communication offers it diverse student body a rich array of courses that cover an interrelated spectrum of new and traditional forms of communication in contemporary society. The BA in Communication includes course offerings that range from interpersonal and public relations to communication to broadcasting, new media, electronic communication, and everything in between. Undergraduate students select from one of three concentrations: Communication and Media Studies, Strategic Communication, and Multimedia Journalism. Each option fosters the development of knowledge in communication theory and criticism as well as the development of practical skills. Course offerings for the Master of Arts program include theory, criticism, research, practice, and ethics in communication. The program prepares students for service in public and professional spheres, on local, national, and international levels. Students develop competencies to work in professional careers in areas such as business, law, education, media, government, social and human services, and technology. Graduates also pursue doctoral degrees in Communication and related fields. http://www.csueastbay.edu/class/departments/communication/index.html DUTIES OF THE POSITION: The successful candidate will teach coursework at all levels in the Department of Communication with a primary focus on quantitative communication research (emphasizing social media content); degree coursework within the three program concentrations of Strategic Communication, Communication and Media Studies, and Digital Media Journalism; and other coursework as assigned. When necessary, the successful candidate will lead in the design and conduct surveys (and other research) for the Department’s various needs in serving students, and the Department and University’s goals. They will mentor and teach a diverse student body, and is expected to respect the varied (inter)disciplinary specialties represented in the department. In addition to teaching, all faculty are required to advise students, assist the Department with administrative and/or committee work, and are expected to assume campus-wide committee responsibilities. Please note that teaching assignments at California State University, East Bay include courses at the Hayward, Concord and Online campuses. RANK AND SALARY: Assistant Professor. Salary is dependent upon educational preparation and experience. Subject to budgetary authorization. DATE OF APPOINTMENT: August 2019 Qualifications REQUIRED: Ph.D. in Communication or related field, emphasis on content analysis and quantitative methods. ABD candidates may be considered, however, degree must be in hand at the time of appointment. The ideal candidate will have the ability to articulate the importance of critical communication research in the classroom. Preference will be given to those who have can provide evidence of effective teaching and mentoring students from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds, graduate students, and generally contribute to student life initiatives on campus. The ideal candidate will have a record of scholarly work with an emphasis on on social media discourse and its socio-cultural implications. This University is fully committed to the rights of students, staff and faculty with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. For more information about the University’s program supporting the rights of our students with disabilities see: http://www20.csueastbay.edu/af/departments/as/ Application Instructions Please submit all materials by October 31st, 2018. Late applications will be accepted. The position will be considered open until filled. TO APPLY: Please submit the following via Interfolio http://apply.interfolio.com/51689 • Letter of application addressing the qualifications noted in the position announcement; • Current curriculum vitae (C.V.); • Teaching statement (2 to 3 pages max); • Research statement (2 to 3 pages max); • Evidence of teaching effectiveness (2 to 3 pages max); • Writing samples; • Three (3) confidential letters of recommendation; • Diversity statement that addresses how you engage a diverse student population in your teaching, research, mentoring, and advising (1 page max). Note: California State University, East Bay hires only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. All offers of employment are contingent upon presentation of documents demonstrating the appointee’s identity and eligibility to work in accordance with provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. A background check (including a criminal records check and prior employment verification) must be completed and cleared prior to the start of employment. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, CSUEB does not discriminate on the basis of any protected categories: age, ancestry, citizenship, color, disability, gender, immigration status, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran’s status. The University is committed to the principles of diversity in employment and to creating a stimulating learning environment for its diverse student body.

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