Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 9, April 2016
Editors: Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University) and Nina
Huntemann (Suffolk University)
Ada invites contributions to a peer-reviewed open call issue featuring
research on gender, new media and technology. They are particularly
interested in contributions that exemplify Ada’s commitments to politically
engaged, intersectional approaches to scholarship on gender, new media and
technology
Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are encouraged;
please contact the editors to discuss specifications and/or multimodal
contributions.
All submissions should be sent by AUGUST 10, 2015 to editor@adanemedia.org.
Your contribution should be attached as a word document. Please use “Ada
Open Call Contribution” for your subject line and include the following in
the body of your message:
A 50 word abstract
Your name
A mailing address
Preferred email address. Important dates:
– Deadline for full essays: Monday, August 10, 2015
– Open peer review begins: Monday, January 11, 2016
– Expected publication date: Monday, April 4, 2016
About Ada:
Ada is an online, open access, open source, peer-reviewed journal run by
feminist media scholars. The journal’s first issue was published online in
November 2012. Since that launch, Ada has received more than 200,000 page
views. Ada operates a review process that combines feminist mentoring with
the rigor of peer review.
Information about the editors:
Radhika Gajjala is professor of media studies and American culture studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where she teaches courses in global media, international communication, media and cultural studies and feminist research methods. She is the author of Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women and of Cyberculture and the Subaltern:Weavings of the Virtual and Real. She has also co-edited South Asian Technospaces and Cyberfeminism 2.0. She is co-editor of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
Nina Huntemann is associate professor of media studies at Suffolk University and and co-director of Women in Games Boston. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, culture and technology, applying feminist theory and cultural production perspectives to the industrial and social practices of digital gaming. She is co-editor of Gaming Globally: Production, Play and Place and Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games. She is also the associate producer of the film Joystick Warriors: Video Game Violence and the Culture of Militarism and produced and directed Game Over: Gender, Race and Violence in Video Games, both distributed by the Media Education Foundation. She is co-editor of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
Job Summary/Responsibilities: The School of Art at Louisiana State University seeks a full-time Instructor or Professional in Residence in Digital Design and Fabrication for an initial one-year appointment to begin August 2015. The position is based in the 3D area, which includes Ceramics and Sculpture, and will involve interaction with faculty and students from Art, Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture.
The successful candidate will be an innovative and dedicated artist and educator, with demonstrable skills in 3D digital design and fabrication. Candidates will be required to teach introductory coursework in theoretical foundations, method skills, and subject-specific knowledge in such applications as: Rhino3D, Grasshopper3D, Solidworks, MasterCAM, Arduino, CAD, CAM, as well as have a thorough understanding of the range of contemporary digital design and fabrication tools and processes.
Required Qualifications:
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) or Masters of Architecture, or equivalent, is required at time of hire for both levels.
Instructor: Teaching experience including a minimum of two years beyond TA is required.
Professional-in-Residence: Eight to ten years of related professional experience is required.
Desired Qualifications:
Particular emphasis will be given to candidates who focus on the use of innovative technologies in ceramics and the creation of functional objects, as well as exhibits detail-oriented craftsmanship with a variety of materials.
Special Instructions to Applicants:
Applicants must present a portfolio of professional work and student work to complete their application. All media is to be attached in the SlideRoom application found here:https://lsuart.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/24674
A copy of your transcript(s) may be attached to your application (if available). However, original transcripts are required prior to hire.
Additional Position Information:
LSU is the flagship university of Louisiana. Located amid 1500 live oaks, it is one of the loveliest campuses in the South. The School of Art is accredited by NASAD, and includes six studio areas, art history, graphic design and digital art, and is part of the College of Art & Design. The School is home to approximately 400 undergraduate majors and 50 plus graduate students. Additional information on the program can be found at http://design.lsu.edu/art.
Salary and rank are commensurate with qualifications and experience. An offer of employment is contingent on a satisfactory pre-employment background check. Review of applications will begin immediately. Application deadline is April 15, 2015, or until a candidate is selected.
BENEFITS: LSU offers outstanding benefits to eligible employees and their dependents including health, life, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement options; sick leave; paid holidays; wellness benefits; training and development opportunities; employee discounts; and more!
The following is an excerpt from an article by Margaret Rhee of Ms. Magazine, published on March 13, 2015.
Over International Women’s Day weekend, dozens of feminists armed with laptops came to the Ms. magazine offices to reclaim the largest encyclopedia in the world: Wikipedia.
A collaboration between Ms. and theFembot Collective, the Ms. Fembot Edit-A-Thon aimed to “contribute to the digital legacy of women, trans and/or gender non-conforming scientists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists, politicians and others by writing them into Wikipedia.”
An astonishing 90 percent of Wikipedia’s editors are men, and that glaring imbalance often trickles down into who gets a Wikipedia entry and who doesn’t. As Wikipedia is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world, its gender gap causes a very male-centric well of knowledge for the countless folks who use it every day.
Transforming knowledge production was at the heart of the feminist event. As Ms. in the Classroom director Karon Jolna asked in her introductory address: “Imagine if [all of] Wikipedia was written by women?”
More and more feminists are organizing to make that wish a reality. The Ms. Fembot event joined several others across the country–such as the Art + Feminism events—committed to including more women editors and more representation of women within Wikipedia.
Editing Wikipedia at Ms.
The participants at Fembot created numerous entries and made 29 changes within existing Wikipedia entries. Among the accomplishments were the creation of entries on civil rights icon Rosa Lee Ingram, suffragist and playwright Paula O. Jakobi and 91-year-old American inventor Barbara Beskind. (You can read and/or edit all the Fembot entries here.)
Master in Fine Arts, Photography Department of Art
I am third year graduate student in Fine Art and currently working on my thesis which is about various qualities of communicative act in creative practice. The structure of my portfolio as an artist, since I started as a photojournalist in Iran until now that I am graduating with a MFA in the US, is mainly about the process of reception, and also the work of art as a medium that actively impacts the communicative act.
In my creative practice I mostly focus on proliferation of both participatory and process-based projects that engage with the idea of social relations outside of the conventional art spaces and through different modes of communicative act such as intervention and collaboration. I also study various channels and alternative contexts wherein I could apply those communicative modes to structure and distribute new social and cultural objects–whether in the form of social encounters or creative work of art that is no longer conceived of as noun/object but as a verb/process.
My interest in New Media studies originates from the same concept, particularly the way it looks at medium as an expressive cultural object. By cultural object I mean a medium that is not self-sufficient or merely related to the archeology of its existence but rather to the genealogy of its reception through the process of communicative act.
According to Lev Manovich in The Language of New Media, new media mostly cares about those mediums that being made for ‘distribution and exhibition’ rather than production (like film features and TV broadcasting) and storage (such as books and magazines). In other words, New Media negates the medium as predicative gesture that is fixed in time and space and solidifies a message into a single untouchable lexeme that is going to be digested by the audience.
Thinking about this concept, I centered the main trajectory of my work on examining the possibilities for transforming this determined correlation between medium and message into an ever-moving chain of relations with no fixed entities to hold onto. This effort introduces the communicative act as a subjective mechanism related to the inability of the addresser to fully express her intentions, but at the same time, her ability to enunciate a context for spontaneous realization. In fact, in this context, the study of new media helped me to establish different ways in which I could define a meta-lingual relationship between medium and message, mainly by focusing on the process of reception rather than a denotative medium such as photography, painting or even, in a broader sense, language and coding. New Media study actually made a move beyond the primacy of the text and emphasized on contextual aspects of distribution and reception. This also necessitate the building of transferrable tools, environments, and platforms –to shape a peripheral medium which actually becomes possible because of the emergence of those new methods in communication and distribution.
That being said, I believe, new media is not addressing certain issues of culture, technology or art. New media is actually introducing itself as an underway of new approaches toward the distribution of new cultural objects and the way in which they will be received. It evolves and reforms itself according to the contemporary issues raised by other fields such as art, history and empirical and human sciences. And in fact this was a new perspective that I have applied to my projects and also my research on creative act as a communicative process.
Teleography (images 1-3) is an open-call and ongoing collaborative project, that I started a few years ago, in which participants are invited to contribute photos (Teleographs), taken from their TV screen, to an online archive. By referring to the same concept that I mentioned earlier, here I was seeking out the possibility of a shift from a passive communicative process (production -> reception) to an active schema (production <-> reception <-> distribution).
Reversality (image 4-5) was another process-based and collaborative project about transforming the subjectivity of the artist, as a historical medium, into a cultural object! The project started as an international open-call in 3 phases, introducing self- determination as an enforced human right and referring to necessity of providing indigenous peoples with the option to state and freely choose how they would be addressed and identified within various cultural and political contexts. The project had been supported by Tokyo Foundation and also the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), by receiving an international fellowship called Sylff Award in 2014.
My terminal creative project, «A», (image 6-7) will be an structured space that offers a communicative process in which the audience could spontaneously realizes the illegitimacy of the artist’s intention in conveying the message. The installation tries to be an obscure lexicon, consists of several indexes referring to destruction and subtraction. Each piece in this installation negates the presentation of itself as a medium. There are books that are impotent of conveying their intended message; destructed prints that are depleted from the iconic value of an image; and bodies that are unable to introduce the real identity of individuals.
Inside this destructive space that somehow invites the viewer into an engagement with the artist’s intentionality, lies an important and affirmative sentiment, which is the main objective in my thesis: the possibility of relocating the meaning from within the art object and also from the intentionality of the artist to the contingencies of the reception process.
Image 6-7: From Farhad’s terminal creative project: «A»
Some good reads:
Useful Resources on New Media and Digital Culture:
On the New by Boris Groys
In terms of current readings and resource recommendations about new media, On the New by Boris Groys, the German media theorist, was a very interesting and enlightening reading for me. Here Groys investigates the continuous shifting of the line that separates culture from history, profane from sacred and thus, new from old.
And finally, I would like to close this article with the same excerpt that I started my thesis with, from a play called The Story of the Panda Bears told by a Saxophonist who has a Girlfriend in Frankfurt, written by Matéi Visniec, Romanian-French playwright:
“ HER: Say « A ».
HIM: « A ».
HER: Whisper: « A ».
HIM: « A ».
HER: Say « A » as if to say you love me. HIM: « A ». HER: Say « A » as if to say you’ll never forget me. HIM: « A » HER: Say « A » as if to say : « stay! » HIM: « A ». HER: Ok… Do I want a coffee? HIM: « A »? HER: Yes, I’d love one. [He gets up and pours her a coffee.] HIM: « A »? HER: Just a small piece, thank you. HIM: « A »? HER: I don’t know… Though I think I prefer to eat at home. HIM: « A ». HER: Now, look me straight in the eyes. HIM: « A ». HER: Say « A » in your mind. HIM: … HER: Now, say « A » in your mind as if to say you love me… HIM: … HER: Say « A » in your mind as if to say you’ll never forget me. HIM: …. HER: And now I’m going to ask you something… Something very important… And you’re going to answer in your mind. Are you ready? HIM: … HER: « A »? HIM: … HER: … HIM: …
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015 – 7:00pm – Wednesday, September 16, 2015 – 7:00pm
Colleagues are invited to submit proposals for Designs on eLearning 2015: Technology, Culture, Practice, an international conference in partnership with University of the Arts London (UAL), Penn State University and Texas State University. The conference will be hosted at Central Saint Martins, UAL, London on 16 – 17 September, 2015.
Application deadline: 15 April 2015
Proposals can take the form of panel discussions, workshops or short paper presentations on the following themes:
• Cross-disciplinarity
• Understanding practice & culture
• Engaging students in digital spaces
• Digital identity
• Digital scholarship
About Del 2015
Designs on eLearning (DeL) is an international conference exploring the use of technology in art and design Higher Education. As digital technologies continue to transform the creative and pedagogic landscape, they face exciting possibilities and new challenges for the future of education. Themed Technology, Culture, Practice, DeL 2015 aims to explore forms of learning that take place in digital contexts within and beyond HE institutions.
The CENDARI project invites applications to its second summer school, to be held the 20-24th of July in Prague, Czech Republic, on the theme “Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment.”
The interdisciplinary five-day program is geared especially toward early-career historians and other scholars (doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows) in Medieval Studies as well as toward archivists, librarians, and e-scientists that engage with or specialise in this time period. No prior experience with digital research methods is required. Participants will need their own laptops.
Through a number of hands-on sessions, participants will learn how to enhance their research with tools such as Abbreviationes, Classical Text Editor, and Manuscriptorium. They will also have the opportunity to experiment with the integrative CENDARI Virtual Research Environment.
Lectures on the fundamentals of Digital Humanities and its prospects for Medieval Studies as well as field trips to cultural heritage sites in Prague will complete the program. The school will be held at the attractive Old Town venue of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The Institute of Philosophy and the Collegium Europaeum are co-organisers of this event.
The closing date for applications is 15 April 2015.
Successful applicants will be notified of decision by 30 April and asked to accept a position or not by 15 May.
TRAVEL BURSARIES
A number of travel bursaries (€300) will be available on a competitive basis to early career researchers in order to defray the costs of attending the school. Funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for Research, bursaries can be applied for directly through the application form and will be awarded on the basis of the applicant’s ranking during the evaluation process.
Digital Bridges Two-Year Postdoctoral Scholar Position – Call for Applications
Applications due April 12, 2015
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa welcomes applications for a full-time, twelve-month Postdoctoral Scholar. The two-year residency will begin on August 10, 2015. The position is funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is part of a four-year initiative, Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry: A Grinnell College/University of Iowa Partnership.
The purpose of the grant is to develop humanities-centered collaborations in the digital liberal arts that build on the complementary strengths of a liberal arts college and a research university. They seek to weave the digital humanities more deeply and thoughtfully into the curriculum at both institutions while also building cross-institutional bridges to connect Grinnell College and the University of Iowa intellectually and pedagogically. Their shared mission is to create knowledge with their students, learn what forms of collaboration best serve the humanities, and to share that knowledge, along with emerging scholarly digital projects and digitally energized pedagogy, with colleagues across the country. Therefore, they are especially interested in candidates with demonstrated expertise in using digital technologies and digital pedagogy to enhance teaching and learning.
Work expectations and learning opportunities are focused on three central areas:
Teaching: The Postdoctoral Scholar will work closely with faculty members in the
Professor Jim Elmborg, School of Library and Information Sciences.
University of Iowa Public Humanities in a Digital World, Digital Studio for Public Arts and Humanities, and Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. The Scholar will teach one course each semester in University of Iowa’s new Public Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate program. In fall 2015, the Scholar will teach “Digital Humanities Theory and Practice,” the introductory course for the graduate certificate, in collaboration with the director of the certificate program, School of Library and Information Sciences Professor James Elmborg. In the spring semester, the Scholar will teach a course in her or his area of digital expertise that fulfills a requirement for the certificate (which will also be open to advanced undergraduates). 30% OF THIS POSITION IS DEVOTED TO TEACHING
Project Management: The Digital Bridges initiative will include summer institutes, skills-based workshops, faculty development opportunities, and the development of new undergraduate courses. They seek a Postdoctoral Scholar with experience in project management who can work with faculty members to design institutes and workshops during the two years of residency. The Postdoctoral Scholar will also advise faculty and graduate students as they develop digital collaborations. 30% OF THIS POSITION IS DEVOTED TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
Research: The Postdoctoral Scholar will have office space, a computer, and staff support at the Obermann Center, and will be invited to participate in the Obermann Fellows’ work-in-progress seminar and in other scholarly activities at the Center. 40% OF THIS POSITION IS DEVOTED TO RESEARCH.
COMMITMENT & COMPENSATION
This two-year Postdoctoral Scholar position is a full-time, twelve-month salaried appointment. The annual salary is $42,840 plus benefits (described on the University of Iowa Graduate College Office of Postdoctoral Scholars website http://postdoc.grad.uiowa.edu/policies-and-benefits/university-benefits). The grant includes limited funding for travel to conferences and other research costs for professional activities that both assist the candidate and further the objectives of the grant.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a related field in hand before August 16, 2015 and must be no more than five years from receiving the Ph.D.
Expertise in digital humanities as evidenced by successful integration of digital tools, approaches, and pedagogy in humanities research and teaching.
Professor Elmborg and Obermann Center director Professor Teresa Mangum will work closely with the Postdoctoral Scholar as colleagues and mentors.
At least 2 years of teaching experience in an academic setting as a teaching assistant or an instructor (undergraduate and/or graduate teaching).
Experience in the use and application of one or more DH technologies (e.g., visualization, text-mining, text-encoding, GIS, network analysis, database design, dynamic digital editions, presentation and content management tools) for creating and transmitting scholarship and/or in teaching.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
Experience with digital platforms and technologies, especially in the area of teaching.
Experiences in a digital working environment, such as a library, digital lab, or center.
Experience in project management and/or in organizing workshops or conferences.
A letter of application that discusses areas of research and teaching, along with experience with digital tools and pedagogy. Briefly discuss classes you might be especially interested in teaching at the graduate level. Please be specific in noting the platforms and tools with which you have experience and the level of your experience (no more than three pages).
A complete curriculum vitae.
A sample of your writing (a published article, dissertation chapter, or online publication).
Links to digital projects in which you have played a part with a brief description of your contributions. (Can be included in your letter of application.)
Also, please send the names of two referees whose letters could address your qualifications for the Postdoctoral Scholar position (but please do not request that letters be sent unless you are requested to do so).
Evaluation of the materials will begin on April 13, and we will contact candidates for online interviews promptly thereafter.
If you have questions, please contact the University of Iowa Directors for the Digital Bridges grant.
Professor Jim Elmborg, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa james-elmborg@uiowa.edu
Professor Teresa Mangum, Director, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and Professor, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu
This conference investigates the changes in global political discourses and practices brought about by the digital revolution. The event is part of the Wayne Morse Center’s theme of inquiry on Media and Democracy and is free and open to the public.
The complete schedule is forthcoming; check back here for a link to the conference website soon.
Keynote address South Korea as the World’s Most Wired Nation:
Its Digital Democracy as a Real-Life Case Study?
Sang Jo Jong is a law professor and the director of the Center for Law & Technology at Seoul National University and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. He previously taught intellectual property law at Georgetown Law and Duke Law School.
Conference
Friday, April 10, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
110 Knight Law Center
Panelists:
Mathew Adeiza (University of Washington), project manager for the Digital Activism Research Project at the University of Washington.
Tarek El-Ariss (University of Texas at Austin), author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political.
Camille Crittenden (UC Berkeley), director of the Data and Democracy Initiative and the Social Apps Lab, and deputy director of the Center for Information Research Technology in the Interest of Society.
Sean Jacobs (The New School), co-editor of Shifting Selves: Post-apartheid essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity.
Purnima Mankekar (UCLA), author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India.
Leah Lievrouw (UCLA), author of the forthcoming Media and Meaning: Communication Technology in Society.
Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan), author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry and co-editor of Global Bollywood and Television at Large in South Asia.
Margaret Rhee (UCLA), author of How We Became Human: Race, the Robots, and the Asian American Body (in preparation), co-founder of “From the Center.”
Joe Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin), author of The Persistence of Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class and the Digital Divide in Austin, Texas.
Organizers:
Bish Sen, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication
Laura Strait, Media Studies PhD.
School of Journalism and Communication
Patrick Jones, Media Studies PhD.
School of Journalism and Communication
Cosponsors:
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, School of Journalism and Communication, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of International Affairs Global Studies Institute, New Media and Culture Certificate Program, Oregon Humanities Center, Agora Journalism Center, International Studies Department, Department of Comparative Literature, The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, Department of History.
The Office of Academic Affairs is conducting an internal University of Oregon search for a new position, the faculty codirector of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. The position is a .5 FTE Officer of Administration open to tenured faculty as well as non-tenure-track faculty who are in a senior position and hold a three-year contract.
It is a new position following restructuring of the center’s management positions and the upcoming retirement of director Margaret Hallock. The faculty codirector shares leadership with a managing codirector and a senior scholar/program director. The faculty codirector will oversee the center’s major academic programs and reports to the Office of Academic Affairs.
The position includes course buy-outs and an administrative stipend meant to compensate for one-half of a faculty member’s time. We anticipate two or three course buyouts and an administrative stipend of up to $35,000 ($25,000 for the academic year and $10,000 for the summer). It is a twelve-month position.
The position is effective January 1, 2016. The new codirector will be expected to serve on the Wayne Morse Center advisory board during fall 2015 to help select a new theme of inquiry.
Duties and Responsibilities
The faculty codirector manages the following key areas and programs:
Theme of inquiry, including working with a steering committee to develop programs and classes
Member of the UO faculty with an established record of research and service. Tenured faculty and non-tenure-track faculty who are in senior positions with a 3-year contract are eligible.
Terminal degree (Ph.D. or J.D.) in a discipline relevant to public policy.
Demonstrated ability to engage with the broader public and policymakers.
Excellent record of service at the UO with broad connections across disciplines.
Demonstrated strong organizational, administrative, and interpersonal skills that indicate the ability to work as part of a team or independently.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively and utilize a range of communication channels with diverse groups of students, faculty, administrators, staff, and members of the bench and bar from a wide range of backgrounds.
Fundamental understanding of issues and opportunities related to equity and inclusion that advance a diverse staff and fellow cohort.
Process and timeline
Nominations and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The committee will begin reviewing applications on April 8, 2015. The search committee will establish an interview process for finalists. The interview and appointment process is expected to be complete in May 2015. The position is effective on January 1, 2016.
To apply or nominate a candidate
Nominations for the position should be sent to Dan Tichenor, search committee chair.
To apply: send a letter of interest and a current Curriculum Vitae to:
Search Committee, Faculty Codirector
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
280 Knight Law Center
1221 University of Oregon
They are: The Northeastern University Library is an evolving research library with an ambitious vision to expand our digital initiatives and redefine library service in the 21st century through strong partnerships across campus, expanded collaboration in the classroom, continued growth of special collections tied to our Greater Boston communities, new services for creation across media formats, and the development of next-generation digital infrastructure to support these activities and more. They seek out new tools and methods, test them on real-world projects, and make them available to the Northeastern community and beyond. They work every day to expand our understanding of digital scholarship, and help build it through the tools we provide to help Northeastern’s researchers.
You are: A GIS specialist that will help mobilize and design Library services supporting geospatial activities across the University. You are excited to work with diverse groups within the Library and across campus, and proactive in outreach and communication. You are comfortable with providing many forms of education, from developing curricula and teaching classes to providing high-level research support in one-on-one consultations. You are a collegial team member who will work closely with other departments within the Library, serving as a resource for GIS-related tools, services, and systems. You’re enthusiastic about the role of spatial analysis in scholarship across the disciplines, and will develop both this position and the Library into focal points for GIS-related activities across the University.
This position is in: the Digital Scholarship Group, an applied research group within the Library where we work with researchers at all levels on new techniques of representation, analysis, and dissemination that are transforming scholarly research.
Qualifications include:
Minimum of 3 years experience working in a geospatial environment, preferably in an academic setting.
Experience with training for GIS software, including ESRI products.
Working knowledge of spatial data formats and related metadata issues.
Working knowledge of web mapping applications, such as Google Earth.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects from beginning to end.
Aptitude for developing and providing workshops to users.
Excellent interpersonal, marketing, and communication skills.
Masters Degree in GIS, digital geography, or related discipline.
Please note: This is a two-year pilot position with opportunity for extension.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received; first consideration will go to those received by March 23rd, 2015.
Radhika Gajjala is professor of media studies and American culture studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where she teaches courses in global media, international communication, media and cultural studies and feminist research methods. She is the author of Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women and of Cyberculture and the Subaltern:Weavings of the Virtual and Real. She has also co-edited South Asian Technospaces and Cyberfeminism 2.0. She is co-editor of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
Nina Huntemann is associate professor of media studies at Suffolk University and and co-director of Women in Games Boston. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, culture and technology, applying feminist theory and cultural production perspectives to the industrial and social practices of digital gaming. She is co-editor of Gaming Globally: Production, Play and Place and Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games. She is also the associate producer of the film Joystick Warriors: Video Game Violence and the Culture of Militarism and produced and directed Game Over: Gender, Race and Violence in Video Games, both distributed by the Media Education Foundation. She is co-editor of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
Job Summary/Responsibilities:
My interest in New Media studies originates from the same concept, particularly the way it looks at medium as an expressive cultural object. By cultural object I mean a medium that is not self-sufficient or merely related to the archeology of its existence but rather to the genealogy of its reception through the process of communicative act.
Keynote address
