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University of Groningen

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Are you interested in doing cutting-edge research on public debates as well as related issues of misinformation, polarization, and radicalization on Twitter? Do you want to contribute to developing an infrastructure that enables SSH researchers to systematically examine current and emerging public debates on crucial societal issues in The Netherlands?

We are looking for a Postdoctoral researcher for TwiXL. This interdisciplinary project (https://twixl.humanities.uva.nl/) aims to develop an infrastructure that enables students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) to systematically examine current and emerging public debates on crucial societal issues in the Netherlands. The project is funded by the Platform Digital Infrastructure of the Dutch SSH-council and developed in a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), University of Groningen (RUG), SURFsara, National Library of the Netherlands (KB), and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (NISV).

Public debate and information exchange, as well as related problems of misinformation, polarization, and radicalization, are increasingly articulated online through social media platforms. This affects the media landscape as a whole: social media activity largely takes shape in response to mass media reporting, which, in turn, is progressively affected by online discourse. Hence, for a healthy democratic system, it is vital that researchers and public institutions are able to monitor the evolving dynamics of mediated public debate. Currently, however, researchers do not have access to comprehensive sets of social media data and readily searchable collections of mass media reporting, nor do they have effective tools for cross-media research at their disposal. TwiXL will facilitate such research, aligning with the first VSNU Digital Society Programme Line ‘Citizenship & Democracy’.

As a postdoc in this project, you will contribute to building the TwiXL infrastructure in close collaboration with a PhD student at UvA and developers from SURFSara, KB and NISV. This infrastructure will enable cross-media research through customized Jupyter notebooks. You will develop a proof-of-concept research project on public debates and related issues of misinformation, polarization, and radicalization on Twitter. Using the TwiNL collection, you will systematically explore the Dutch Twitter sphere on a topic of your choice. Through this research, you will also produce infrastructural requirements and demonstration scenarios and tutorials for other SSH researchers as well as academic publications of the results.

Your research appointment will be 80% while 20% of your time will be devoted to teaching in the MA programme Social Media and Society and/or the BA programme in Media Studies.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• develop and conduct a research project on public debates in the Dutch Twitter sphere, using Jupyter notebooks to create proof of concept of this approach
• presenting intermediate research results at workshops and conferences, and publishing academic articles
• help develop customized Juypter notebooks enabling cross-media research
• collaborate with tool developers in building the TwiXL infrastructure by providing requirements and testing specific components
• organize workshops, teaching SSH researchers and students to do cross-media research using Jupyter notebooks
• participating in meetings of the project research group and assisting the project coordinator in communication tasks (co-managing social media account and website, writing blog posts)
• teaching courses in the BA programme in Media Studies and/or MA programme Social Media and Society (20% of your appointment).

Qualifications

• a PhD in Media Studies or Communication Science, or in another discipline in the humanities or social sciences relevant to this project. The degree must have been obtained by the time the position starts
• excellent research skills demonstrated by a track record of publishing in high-ranked journals or a demonstrable capacity to develop such a record
• excellent command of English, and preferably also Dutch
• preferably programming experience with Python and/or R, and with developing and using Jupyter notebooks for research and/or teaching
• a strong cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research
• enthusiasm for communicating academic research to non-academic audiences.

Organisation

Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has established an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative university offering high-quality teaching and research. Its 36,000 students are encouraged to develop their own individual talents through challenging study- and career paths. The University of Groningen is an international centre of knowledge: It belongs to the best research universities in Europe and is allied with prestigious partner universities and networks worldwide.

The Faculty of Arts is a large, dynamic faculty in the heart of the city of Groningen. It has more than 5000 students and 700 staff members, who are working at the frontiers of knowledge every day. The Faculty offers a wide range of degree programmes: 15 Bachelor's programmes and over 35 Master's specialisations. Our research, which is internationally widely acclaimed, covers Media and Journalism Studies, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, History, International Relations, Language and Literary Studies, and Linguistics.

Research is conducted within the interdisciplinary Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, which has been rated as “excellent/world-leading” in the most recent Research Assessment. If appointed, the candidates are expected to actively contribute to the vibrant research environment in the Centre. They are provided ample support in applying for bids with national and international funding agencies. The candidate will teach in the BA programme in Media Studies and/or the MA programme Social Media and Society. Our BA and MA programmes rank first among all Media Studies programmes in The Netherlands in the national student survey.

Conditions of employment

We offer you in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities:

• a salary, depending on qualifications and work experience, in scale 10 or scale 11 in the first year, depending on experience and qualifications for a full-time position
• on top of that income, you will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an annual bonus of 8.3%
• you will initially be appointed for a period of 1 year with the prospect of extending the contract with another two years after positive evaluation.

For more detailed information about working conditions and working for the University of Groningen, please check: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/

Intended starting date: 1 January 2022

Application

You may apply for these positions until 8 November 11.59 pm / before 9 November Dutch local time by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website).

Applications should include:

1. Letter of application

2. A short research statement of 300-500 words, stating your ideas on how to study public debates on social media in the context of the TwiXL infrastructure

3. A curriculum vitae including publications and other research output clearly showing your expertise in relevant areas, and experience in teaching

4. Two publications you are particularly proud of

5. The names of two academic referees.

Only complete applications submitted by the deadline will be taken into consideration.

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have adopted an active policy to increase the number of female scientists across all disciplines of the university. Therefore, women are encouraged to apply. Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP), https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/sollicitatiecode/ and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers, https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated.

Information

For information you can contact:

Prof. Marcel Broersma, Director Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, +31 50 3635955, m.j.broersma@rug.nl

Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications.

Membrana

Between 15 October 2021 and 15 January 2022, Membrana is celebrating 5 years of the journal with free online access to all the content.

Membrana is dedicated to critical and theoretically grounded understanding of photography. Each issue features a collection of scholarly articles, essays, interviews, photographic projects and book reviews on a selected topic. The topics of the back issues include Camouflage, Grimace, Cabinet, Augmented, Backdrop, Instinct, Protest, Magic, and Master. Among other contributions, the back issues feature interviews with John Tagg, Robert Hariman, Nicholas Mirzoeff, David Bate, Geoffrey Batchen, Mladen Dolar, Steve Edwards and Christopher Pinney among others.

You are invited to browse the issues here: https://www.membrana.org/content-type/journal/

If you prefer reading in print, you can subscribe to the print edition of the journal and/or online edition.

Subscribe now https://www.membrana.org/subscriptions/ and you’ll receive a 25% discount with the code -25COUPON.

Interested in contributing? Calls for next issues are published on our website (https://www.membrana.org/call/), Facebook page (@membranafotografija) and Instagram account (@membrana_journal)

November 4 (16:00 - 17:30 GMT)

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In response to children’s views about what free play means to them, Baroness Beeban Kidron - 5Rights Foundation, will chair a discussion with:

• Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE - LSE, DFC lead researcher and report author
• Dr Sangeet Bhullar, Executive Director, WISE KIDS
• Dr Tim Gill, Rethinking Childhood, Author of Urban Playground
• Professor Mimi Ito, University of California - Irvine

The event will be followed by a Q&A with attendees.

We look forward to your participation, and feel free to forward this invitation to interested others.

Register for the event here

The Digital Futures Commission, hosted by 5Rights Foundation, brings together a unique group of organisations to unlock digital innovation in the best interests of children and young people. You can learn more about the Digital Futures Commission here and about 5Rights here.

Special issue of CINERGIE - Il Cinema e le Altre Arti

Deadline for abstract submission: 21st of November

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted on media production, distribution, and experience. Long-established practices have undergone dramatic interruptions or major shifts and respective laborers have been forced to strongly revise their activities. For instance, film sets and television studios reconsidered their modes of operation in the face of Covid-prevention rules, protocols and requirements. Likewise, in an epidemic scenario in constant change, film festivals and awards found themselves in the need to repeatedly revise their rituals and forms, to be able to carry on at least part of their activities. Media practitioners have thus been faced with the need of reflecting and discussing pitfalls and opportunities brought to light by the pandemic, while also implementing strategies for facing and countering the crisis.

In Italy, actors and actresses have been among the most affected groups of professionals. Whereas the usual pace of film, television and media production, release and promotion has met deep alterations, as much as usual networking activities during periods of lockdown, fame and exposure have foregrounded film and TV stars in social engagement activities and as testimonials of public health campaigns (including the first tentative rules, the lockdown periods, and the efforts towards mass vaccination).

The aim of this issue of Cinergie is surveying and understanding the manifold impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Italian actors and actresses. Topics within the scope of this issue include but are not limited to:

• Training actors and actresses at the time of the COVID-19 crisis: schools, academies, coaching
• Media production, acting performance, and restrictions: emergency, strategies, and tactics
• Actors, actresses and the promotion of media products: from testimonials to remote endorsers?
• Actors, irregular work, labour activism: workers’ solidarity and institutional and commercial policies during the pandemic
• Acknowledging actors and actresses: festivals, awards, and the economy of prestige during the COVID-19 crisis
• Stardom, public health, and social engagement
• Social networks, self-promotion, and actors and actresses during the COVID-19 crisis
• Job-seeking: finding acting jobs at the times of the pandemic
• Actors, intermediaries, and the COVID-19 crisis: coaches, agents, management, casting departments, press agents, and social media managers during the pandemic
• Theoretical and methodological contributions on actors and actresses in the pandemic
• Case histories on specific actors or actresses, film productions, television shows, digital platforms in the national context and/or in the transnational connections between Italy and other markets.

Submission details

Please send an abstract and a short biographical note to Luca Antoniazzi, Cristina Formenti, and Giulia Muggeo at: luca.antoniazzi3@unibo.it, cristina.formenti@uniud.it, and giuliafrancesca.muggeo@unito.it by November 21, 2021 — [subject: Cinergie Media Performers + name surname author(s)].

Abstracts, in English or Italian, should be from 300 to 500 words of length. Notification of acceptance will be sent within November 28, 2021.

If the proposal is accepted, the author(s) will be asked to submit the full article by January 16, 2022.

The articles must not exceed 5,000/6,000 words and can include images, clips, and links for illustrative purposes. Please, provide correct credits, permissions and copyright information in order to be sure that the images, clips, and links are copyright free and can be published.

Contributions will be submitted to double-blind peer-review.

The issue will be published in July 2022.

June 24-25, 2022

Budapest, Hungary

Deadline (EXTENDED): November 20, 2021

Keynote Speakers

• Mark Deuze (University of Amsterdam)
• Laura Ahva (Tampere University)

A conference exploring the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism.

Although the shared past of digitization and journalism stretches back at least to a half-century, digital journalism history is a field still in formation. Building on the momentum of the recent ‘historical turn’ in digital media and internet studies, the aim of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars to interrogate digital journalism histories and to start a global critical exchange on various approaches to and aspects of historicising digital journalism.

As digital journalism has been re-configured by socio-historical contradictions of communication and complexities of its technological innovations, journalism scholarship should continuously strive for enhancing critical exchange to advance studies that intersect with numerous disciplines, theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Emphasis of the conference is on the plurality of histories instead of one single digital journalism history, acknowledging diachronic as well as synchronic complexities of social relations, political contingencies, cultural traditions and power configurations between journalism and digitisation. Instead of enforcing one great master narrative, the conference aims to offer a space to embrace the co-existence of parallel, sometimes complementing, often conflicting historical investigations and narratives.

By aiming to explore the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism, the conference welcomes papers and panels that are grounded on diachronic or synchronic explorations of digital journalism ‘pasts’, while elaborating the relevance of its historical findings for digital journalism ‘futures’. The conference invites theoretical and methodological reflections on historicising digital journalism as well as original single case studies or comparative inquiries into the phenomena from the decades of the long digital revolution of journalism. The conference welcomes papers that examine the digital journalism histories of the global ‘centers’ and we especially encourage inquiries from the ‘peripheries’ of digital journalism development and scholarship.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- Mythologies of technology: reconsidering ‘dead’ and ‘new’ technologies in journalism

- Transforming social control in the digitized newsroom: investigating separation and integration tendencies

- Re-configuring the labour process in digital journalism: between standardisation and creativity of digital news production

- Digital platforms, tools and practices in journalism: from Teletext, CD-ROMS and Minitel to www, smartphones and social media

- Changing skillsets in digital journalism: deskilling, reskilling, upskilling newsworkers

- (Dis)continuities of forms and genres in journalism

- Labour relations of digital journalism: standardisation, precarisation, entrepreneurialism

- Liquefied identities of digital journalism: boundary work between ‘online’ and ‘offline’ journalists, ‘professional’ and ‘citizen’ journalists, journalists and ‘technologists’, ‘journalists’ vs ‘bloggers’

- Re-inventing journalistic profiles: from ‘mouse monkeys’, ‘meta journalists’ to ‘robot journalists’

- Digitized audiences between participation and commodification

- Business models of digital journalism: from legacy media ecosystem to platform capitalism

- Ethical, legal and regulatory issues of digital journalism: from www to automation

- Particular online journalistic genres moving online: digital music, sport, food journalism

Technical details and important dates

Deadline for submitting abstracts and panel proposals is November 20, 2021 (CET).

Please submit all submissions via this online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLTg4do6bMlFrDrcxL6MJJJqudnWJtR9rrRxrRSgtUoo0qiA/viewform

Panel proposals should consist of 3 or 4 papers, and all the paper abstracts belonging to a proposed panel should be submitted individually through the form. The maximum length for panel and paper abstracts is 400 words.

Conference talks will be 15 minutes long followed by 5 minute long discussions.

Further information will be found on the constantly updated conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/hodj2022/news

Organizers and contact information

The conference will be held at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), and is jointly organised by the Department of Sociology and Communications, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, BME and the Social Communication Research Centre, University of Ljubljana (UL).

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers:

Dr. Tamas Tofalvy, Associate Professor (BME): tofalvy.tamas@gtk.bme.hu

Dr. Igor Vobič, Associate Professor (UL): igor.vobic@fdv.uni-lj.si

November 17

Online event

Comparative research on Digital disconnection

The field of study on digital disconnection is flourishing, yet comparative research is only starting to emerge. The Norwegian project Digitox (https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/index.html) and the comparative project Dis/Connect, in Portugal (https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/research/projects/national-funding/137-dis-connect-individuals-digital-disconnection), seek to advance the field through two cross-national qualitative studies.

On November 17th, 10-11 am CET, the research teams will present results of 'Disconnection and leisure locations', and 'Disconnection and youth', reflecting on the merits and challenges of comparative studies. Speakers include Trine Syvertsen, Ana Jorge, Patrícia Dias, Brita Ytre-Arne.

This presentation is offered in the scope of Dis/Connect project led by CICANT/Lusófona University (Portugal), a comparative project with Digitox, led by Universities of Oslo and Bergen, and in collaboration with CRC-W (Catholic University of Portugal). Dis/Connect is funded by EEA Grants (FBR_OC1_69_COFAC).

The event will take place on Microsoft Teams.

Further inquiries: ana.jorge@ulusofona.pt

Free event, registration required at https://forms.office.com/r/8eXfLjEWE8

The Spanish research cluster Nebrija_INNOMEDIA is working on a project about media, social networks, and fake news. We are trying to elucidate how young adults access information and navigate what has been called "infodemic." If you could please share this research form with your students it would be wonderful, as we are trying to gather responses from countries other than Spain to compare international data. The form is anonymous and takes 5-10 minutes to complete. You can find the information bellow.

Thank you very much for your help.

Defined as the overabundance of information on a given subject, infodemic has been described by the World Health Organization as one of the most serious problems we face as a society. This is an investigation carried out by researchers from the Nebrija_INNOMEDIA research group. Answers are collected totally anonymously and only for scientific and academic purposes. The survey takes 5 minutes to respond: https://forms.gle/PoGip8CD98ochKeX6

March 12, 2022

Online

Deadline: December 10, 2021

Biographic, Narrative and Lifecourse Research Group (BNLR) of the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI)First Biennial Conference Online

Overview

The Biographic, Narrative and Lifecourse Research Group (BNLR) of the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) was established in 2019 as a forum for critical discussion and debate among Irish, European and international social scientists on the multidimensionality of narrative, biographic and lifecourse inquiry, to address methodological questions and challenges and advance scholarship in these interlinking fields. Our first biennial conference engages critically with national and international biographic, narrative and lifecourse scholarship on voices in uncertain times; how voice is conceptualised, why and how some voices are accorded greater or lesser social legitimacy depending on context and how the voices of some social groups that have traditionally been marginalised from social debates, might be given more primacy in contemporary social and political debates. We are also interested in the interplay between voice and visibility, i.e. how voices may become noticeable and seize public spaces.

The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought unprecedented changes in global societies, irrevocably transforming governance and social relationships, everyday interactions, touch practices, and emotional displays. At the same time, international debates rage about climate justice, inequitable impacts of environmental degradation in majority and minority world contexts, while major transformations take place globally and locally in how society is organised and governed. The social and cultural effects of these events on people’s lived experiences are long-lasting affecting how we talk, touch, move, and interact in private and public spaces. In contemporary society, voices are continually repositioned and their legitimacy is reimagined due to profound cultural transformation with regards to rights, freedoms, membership of online communities, political protests and the impact of non-human actors (e.g. viruses, animals) on human worlds (and vice versa).

For this first biennial conference, we invite abstracts for papers and proposed conference roundtables and panels from narrative, lifecourse and biographical researchers which engage with one or more of the following themes/topics relating to voice and social transformation:

• The meaning of voice in contemporary societies; positionalities, legitimation and de-legitimation of particular voices;
• Methodological innovations, challenges and novel solutions to capturing, analysing and interpreting voices and lived experiences in times of unprecedented social and cultural transformation;
• Research with groups often considered to be ‘marginalised’ and/or ‘hard to reach’;
• Effects of recent social transformations on lived lives and everyday social experiences, including concealed and unspoken aspects of daily living;
• Interdisciplinary or Transdisciplinary research which incorporates distinctively biographic, narrative or lifecourse research focus;
• Research on socially fragmented professional and working lives (e.g. working arrangements, emotions, social isolation, innovative technological responses; ‘blurred’ boundaries of professional and personal living arrangements, impacts on particular professional groups;
• Voices of young people in contemporary education systems and novel challenges of learning and teaching online;
• Societal perceptions of Covid-19, risk, trust and governance;
• Research on built space, urban/rural environments and our relationships with non-humans;
• Reflexivity and research impacts upon individual researchers and/or research teams.

Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts for papers should be 200-250 words approximately and must also contain an indicative title, list of authors’ names, institutional affiliation and 2-3 keywords.

Proposals for individual panels, roundtables or workshops should be approximately 700 words in length and must contain a title, list of convenors, outline of the key focus, and description of workshop/panel activities (if appropriate).

Please submit all abstracts and panel/workshop proposals to bnlrgroup@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions: 10th December 2021

Authors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by email on/by 8th February 2021.

November 18-19, 2021

This is an invitation to register for virtual or in-person participation!

The Union of International Associations (UIA) cordially invites European Communication Research and Education Association to participate in its 14 th Associations Round Table Europe in Prague (Prague Congress Centre) on Thursday 18 & Friday 19 November 2021

The UIA Associations Round Table Europe 2021 is a hybrid event designed for participants working in and with international associations. If travel is not permitted, then in-person registrations will be converted to online participation.

We hope to see many of you in-person in Prague. And for those, who wish to participate virtually, our hosts the Prague Convention Bureau will provide a virtual meeting platform where easy access, networking and educational content will combine to provide an engaging and rewarding experience for all delegates.

What you can expect:

• presentations on common challenges by peers working in international associations
• discussions in workshops and break-out rooms with the chance to ask in-depth questions and to share and exchange knowledge and experience
• UIA team members will moderate the sessions throughout, guiding and assisting the delegates
• the host teams will assist virtual attendees with any technical need
• networking breaks
• in-person attendees: optional city tours and everyone will enjoy tasty food and the city of Prague

See the topics of the programme at https://uia.org/roundtable/2021/europe/

Thanks to the support of our hosts, we are able to offer a high-level educational programme through a professional and easy to access technology platform for a low fee:

• the registration fee for the hybrid Round Table Europe is EUR 60.00 plus 21% VAT

How to register for Round Table Europe 2021:

(1) Go to https://uia.org/user/login

(2) Fill in your username : XF5766

(3) Fill in your password: DTSRQAZH

(4) Click on “Register for the 2021 Round Table Europe in Prague”

You can use this username and password to register any number of delegates; each of your delegates will need to log in and register separately.

UIA is an independent non-profit research institute founded in 1907 which documents and promotes the work of international associations since over 110 years.

We look forward to welcoming you at our Round Table Europe this year and we thank our host partner Prague Convention Bureau – and our Platinum Special Partners: Thailand Convention & Exhibitions Bureau and Business Events Sarawak

Sincerely,

Carol Williams

Union of International Associations

PS. While you are logged in on the UIA website, you may also wish to check your association’s profile in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information

Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information, the Institute for Women’s Leadership, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, are joining together to seek a prominent leader in the area of media, culture, and feminist studies to hold the prestigious Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair.

The Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies reflects and builds on the work and world view of Gloria Steinem, feminist journalist and activist, organizer, reporter, editor, and humanist. The chair inspires students and faculty at Rutgers, as well as the wider audience outside the university, to explore and reimagine the role of the media in serving democracy, with an explicit focus on women and under-served communities. Connecting the worlds of academia and media, this chair will invite students to come together across boundaries, to analyze, critique, and create media that reflect reality, and to provide facts, narratives, and new forms of storytelling that advance empathy, democracy, communal action, and innovative solutions.

This notable leader may come from the academic, media, and/or activist worlds and will engage with topics such as (a) examining the relationship among media technologies, democracy, social change, gender and racial equality, and public policy as well as catalyzing and supporting others in the Rutgers and engaged communities; (b) providing opportunities for students and faculty to learn from scholars, experts, and activists with frontline experience; (c) developing classes and educational programs to enhance students’ understanding of how technology and media shape who we are; and (d) guiding students toward critically analyzing important social and cultural questions and encouraging them to take action to address social inequalities.

The successful candidate will be the second Gloria Steinem Chair and will play an important role in shaping the chair’s development, ensuring that its work is world-leading in envisioning its positive impact on gender equality in society. The successful applicant’s expertise and interest may be grounded in gender, communication, media, or information. They will be excited by students and teaching; a leader who will foster robust collaboration among related scholars and practitioners and build a hub for innovation in teaching and practice. We seek a leader who is creative, dynamic, and energetic, an effective and trusted communicator who is excited about collaborating and leading a diverse and dynamic team of colleagues and students, and about engaging in national and international arenas. The successful candidate will also have a demonstrable record of public engagement as a public intellectual, scholar, professional, and/or activist in related areas.

The Position

This is a two to three-year rotating position.

The individual chosen for this chair may come from the academic, media, or activist worlds and will be, first and foremost, interested in and excited by students and education. Responsibilities of the position include undergraduate and graduate teaching assignments (one course each semester) in communication, media, information, and women studies; an active program of engagement in the candidate’s area of expertise and interest; initiating and facilitating events and collaborations (e.g., workshops, internships, symposia, guest lectures, projects, etc.); and communicating on behalf of the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair with all relevant stakeholders.

The expected start date for the position is August 2022.

The Environment

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the state of New Jersey’s preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Established in 1766, the university is the eighth oldest higher education institution in the United States. Nearly 71,000 students and 23,600 full- and part-time faculty and staff learn, work, and serve the public at Rutgers locations across New Jersey and around the world. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers is committed to building a diverse community and encourages women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. For additional information please see our Non-Discrimination Statement at http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement

Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information (SC&I) houses a dynamic and engaged community of scholars studying real-world problems related to knowledge, technology, culture, media, creativity, health, social justice, organizations, communities, policy, leadership, and their interrelations. It is unique in its mature and dynamic combination of communication, information science, journalism, and media studies. The school teaches over 10,000 students, of whom 2,500 are its own undergraduate, master, and doctoral students. Geographically adjacent and closely connected to the world’s largest media and information hubs and supported by Rutgers’ vibrant scholarly community, the School embraces the University's goals of promoting diversity throughout our networks and programs and is strongly committed to social engagement. For more about the School see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu

Rutgers University’s Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies teaches approximately 4,000 undergraduate students and over 200 graduate students annually. In its major and four minors it introduces path-breaking research that addresses concerns of particular interdisciplinary constituencies in the areas of women and gender studies, critical sexualities, social justice, and gender and media (in collaboration with the School of Communication and Information). Reflecting the fundamental commitments of feminist pedagogy, the program provides students with critical tools to engage and challenge contemporary life and to work toward the social transformation and social justice. For more about the department see: http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/

Rutgers University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL) is a consortium of ten participating members dedicated to the mission of examining and advancing women's leadership for a just world. Consortium members include: Douglas Residential College, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for American Women and Politics, Institute for Research on Women, Center for Women and Work, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Center on Violence Against Women and Children and Center for Women in Business. For more about IWL see: http://iwl.rutgers.edu/

How to Apply

Applicants should apply at https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/143220.

Include a CV and a cover letter that addresses the points above and clearly articulates the candidate’s expertise in media, culture, and feminist studies. Also include a list of up to five referees, with full contact information and rationale for their inclusion. Active review of applications will begin on November 15, 2021, and the position will remain open until filled.

For queries regarding the position, please contact Distinguished Professor Dafna Lemish, chair of the search committee, at dafna.lemish@rutgers.edu.