How to Join Us as a Visiting Scholar or Postdoc
As part of our mission of working across disciplines, cultures, and communities, we welcome visiting scholars and hire postdoctoral associates and fellows. Here’s the process.
Funders and Partners
For shaping new media uses and practices, sponsors, donors, and research partners make it possible for us to pursue our far-reaching mission.
Postdoc Opportunity with Prof. Justin Reich and the Teaching Systems Lab
To play a lead role in the analysis of mixed-methods data collected from a cohort of math teachers in an urban school district. Full description.
Recent Posts
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Video: Patricia Saulis, “Creating Space for Balance: Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science — Two-Eyed Seeing — in Environmental Justice and Media”
Patricia Saulis features clips of Mikmaq Elders speaking and provide some perspective on how their work could be brought forward in discussions of Environmental Justice and Media.
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Video: Lana Swartz, “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
Lana Swartz’s book New Money frames money as a media technology, one in major transition.
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Video: Elinor Carmi, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media”
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
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Faculty opening: Assistant or Associate Professor, Media Studies, with focus on civic media
The application deadline is January 4, 2021, and start date as early as July 1. Apply at academicjobsonline.org.
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Taper #5
Edited by CMS/W Professor Nick Montfort, it’s journal of computational poetry, with this issue being on the theme of “fiveness and times of confinement”.
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Video: Laura Partain, “Race and Representation of Syrian, Palestinian, and Norwegian Refugees in the News”
Nationalism and national belonging — and the ways social-expectations placed on displaces peoples can limit their access to civic, medical, and everyday resources.
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Video: Eric Gordon, “Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City”
Visiting Professor Eric Gordon discusses a recent project in Boston, in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies.
