Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce two faculty positions at Michigan State University to start in the fall of 2010. Please consider applying, or if not a good fit for you, please forward this note to any of your colleagues who might find either position of interest. Thanks for your help! Brief descriptions of each position are pasted in below, and the full announcements with application instructions are online at http://cas.msu.edu/jobs . with best regards, Charles Steinfield Professor and Chair Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University Health Communication Technology The Department of Communication and the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University are seeking an individual to fill an open-rank tenure-track faculty position in Health Communication Technology beginning fall 2010. Candidates will pursue funded scholarly research opportunities in areas that focus on the improvement of health services through communication technology. Examples of these include telemedicine, online health information and services, and the use of technology in health communication such as electronic medical records. The successful candidate will design new health communication technology curricula and teach existing courses in computer mediated communication, communication technology, research methods, organizational communication, and/or human computer interaction. A PhD in Communication, Information Studies, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Health Informatics or a related discipline is required. Computational Journalism The School of Journalism and the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media at Michigan State University are seeking an innovative, dynamic individual to fill a full-time, tenure stream position in Computational Journalism at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates will be expected to gain recognition through peer- reviewed scholarly publications. Faculty are also expected to pursue external funding to support their research activity, which may result in a reduced teaching load. Candidates will join an enthusiastic, multidisciplinary faculty team and should be able to contribute through research and design experience at the intersection of journalism and information or computer science. To fill this position we seek a person who uses information and communication technology to collect and disseminate news in a cutting edge fashion. The ability to use information technology to create new tools, services or technical systems to both gather and disseminate news is highly desired.