Hi all,
(With apologies to those of you who have received a variant of this email)
We want to signal a couple of things SSRC is doing these days and invite your participation. Some of you will be familiar with the SSRC Media Research Hub (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org ). The Hub is intended as a resource and brokering service for researchers, activists, and practitioners working on (and in) the convergent media environment.
(1) Some of you already have profiles in the Resource Database (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/resource-database ). The Resource Database is a tool for mapping this complex intersection of fields and-increasingly-for analyzing it. It combines elements of a social networking tool and a wiki: anyone can create or edit profiles of people, institutions, research resources, networks, and projects; anyone can connect these profiles to provide richer descriptions of institutions, social networks and collaborations.
The Resource Database is readable for all visitors, but you must log in to add, edit, or make use of advanced features (such as claiming your profile to gain sole control over your personal and contact information-and, if you choose, hide that information). So please come, create an account, claim your profile, and help us expand and enrich this collective resource. For those of you who miss Netzwissenschaft, this is a good place to come and play. See, e.g., this charming URL:
(http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/resource-database/@@rdb-search.html?fo rm .search_text=&form.portal_types=Person&form.person_role=researcher&for m.gender=&form.institutional_role-empty-marker=1&form.resource_type- empt y-marker=1&form.person_role-empty-marker=1&form.country=&form.gender- emp ty- marker=1&form.institutional_location=&form.topics:list=f0265830ebf104 25cf66d75d705d1631&type_of_search=Internet %20Researchers&form.actions.se arch=1 )
(2) The Hub also hosts grant projects designed to foster public scholarship and research-activist collaboration (http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants ).
Have a look especially at five recently-announced Research Bounties (and at the other Open Projects. These are calls from advocates for collaboration with the research community. Researchers are invited to comment on and/or propose to take up the listed projects. Several of these come with prize money (bounties). Several are Internet related.
(3) The Media Hub hosts a low-volume email list for notification of grant opportunities and other program activities. To subscribe, visit: http://programs.ssrc.org/media/emaillist/ .
(4) We welcome suggestions for how to use (and improve) the Media Research Hub in support of work in this area. As the dataset expands, it will become an increasingly rich tool for understanding and analyzing the field. If you have a design, data visualization, or network analysis itch that might be scratched via the Hub, do drop us a line. The backend skillset for the Hub, fyi, is Python/Zope/Plone, but the site is web service friendly.
So like other collectively-produced goods, the Research Hub depends on community support. We will be happy to repost submissions of relevant news, job opportunities, and internship offers. We will be happier still if you document your area(s) of work and interest on the hub. And we will be borderline ecstatic if you have an interest in making major additions (such as online bibliographies, class projects, other organized contributions). On this or other subjects, drop us a note at mediahub@ssrc.org .
Best,
Joe Karaganis
Karaganis@ssrc.org
Minna Aslama
aslama@ssrc.org
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Karaganis Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:49 PM To: 'Jeremy Hunsinger' Subject: RE: postdocs
Hi Jeremy,
We did hire one -- http://www.ssrc.org/staff/Guilhot/ ;
I've been out of the loop on this discussion this year. If you're interested I'll inquire.
I hope Chicago has been good to you this year. I haven't been back at all, unfortunately.
Best,
Joe
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Hunsinger [mailto:jhuns@vt.edu] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 8:58 AM To: Joe Karaganis Subject: postdocs
Hi Joe,
I hope all I well with and I'm sorry I've missed you when you've been to Chicago. I'm just wondering did SSRC hire any PostDocs last year? I'm curious because I've just received another announcement of them from Becky.
jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu )
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