From ned at nedrossiter.org Tue Apr 2 14:05:42 2013 From: ned at nedrossiter.org (Ned Rossiter) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:05:42 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Fwd: ICS Senior Research Fellows - 3 positions References: Message-ID: <3A3AE555-ACF6-486B-89F4-9C6423E6D3D1@nedrossiter.org> Begin forwarded message: > From: Institute for Culture and Society > Subject: ICS Senior Research Fellows - 3 positions > Date: 2 April 2013 4:49:23 AM GMT+02:00 > To: "ics-team at lists.uws.edu.au" > > > > Dear All > > Please see below the advertisement for the ICS Senior Research Fellow positions. > > Feel free to distribute it to your contacts. > > SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS (3 positions) > Institute for Culture and Society > Ref 198/13 > Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your research career? > > Would you like to join a team of vibrant, internationally acclaimed research leaders in our quest to address the multidimensional social and cultural challenges we face in the world today and in the future? > > As a leading research institute, the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney investigates transformations in culture and society in the context of contemporary global change. We champion inter-disciplinary, engaged and collaborative research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for a digital age. Details about our research program can be found on our website, www.uws.edu.au/ics > > We seek to appoint three Senior Research Fellowships in Cultural and Social Research. Applications are sought from forward thinking researchers with great interpersonal skills, clear leadership potential and outstanding track records of research, scholarship and service in at least one of the following areas: > > ? Cultural and Social Statistical Analysis > > ? Cultural and Social Environmental Research > > ? Digital Cultural and Social Research > > You are entrepreneurial, collaborative and passionate about your research with a desire to excel and lead. Ideally, you will have broad interdisciplinary expertise in cultural and social research, and be prepared to contribute to the strategic development of the Institute?s overall research program. Your interest in the role of knowledge practices in contemporary social and cultural change and your experience in Asia-related research activity would be a distinct advantage. > > The positions are full time, ongoing appointments and will be based at our Parramatta campus. > > To apply for this position you must have completed a PhD qualification in a relevant discipline; and are required to submit a research and scholarly activity plan. > > Remuneration Package: Academic Level C $123,713 to $141,913 p.a. (comprising Salary $104,645 to $120,200 p.a., 17% Superannuation, and Leave Loading) > > Position Enquiries: Professor Ien Ang, email i.ang at uws.edu.au > > Closing Date: 21 April 2013 > > To view the position description or to apply, please see the University of Western Sydney current vacancies listing. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 9548 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au Thu Apr 4 01:26:49 2013 From: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au (Gerard Goggin) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 23:26:49 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Genevieve Bell/'Ducks, Dolls & Robots'/Fri 5 April, 2pm/USyd Message-ID: Media @ Sydney presents Genevieve Bell (Intel) 'Ducks, dolls & robots: a genealogy of socio-technical anxieties' 2pm-3.30pm, Friday 5 April, 2013 now in Common Room, upstairs in Woolley A20 - see map: http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?location=12E University of Sydney RSVP essential: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au Abstract: The introductions of new technologies are rarely seamless and silent affairs. There are the inevitable boosters and utopian dreamers who will tell us and sell us on the notion that this new technology will change our lives, in both big and small ways: we will be cleaner, safer, happier, more efficient, more productive, and of course, more modern with all that implies. The message here is everything will be different, better. There are also the equally inevitable naysayers and dystopian dreamers who worry along equally familiar but slightly different lines: we will be less social, less secure, more isolated, and more homogenous. The message here is everything will be different, but perhaps not so much better. Of course, running in between these larger conversations are the practicalities of living with new technologies -- how much does it cost? where does it live? Who should look after it? what will we will do with it? and, in the end, what will we do without it? Perhaps it is no surprise then that we worry, that new technologies are frequently accompanied by anxiety, and sometimes even fear. In this talk, Bell traces the roots of these hopes, fears and anxieties back through our history with machines -- Vaucason's Duck, Edison's Talking Doll, the tea-cup robots of the Edo-period in Japan, Frankenstein's monster and Ned Ludd's polemics are all part of this story. She takes an expansive view, crossing cultures and historical periods, to create a genealogy of our socio-technical anxieties. Ultimately, she suggests a framework for making sense of these anxieties, and in so doing, a new way of thinking about the next generation of technologies we are designing. About the presenter: One of the most important thinkers in digital technology today, Dr. Genevieve Bell is an Australian-born anthropologist and researcher. As Intel fellow and director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs, Bell leads a research team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists. This team shapes and helps create new Intel technologies and products that are increasingly designed around people's needs and desires. In this team and her prior roles, Bell has fundamentally altered the way Intel envisions and plans its future products so that they are centered on people's needs rather than simply silicon capabilities. In addition to leading this increasingly important area of research at Intel, Bell is an accomplished industry pundit on the intersection of culture and technology. She is a regular public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide, sharing myriad insights gained from her extensive international field work and research. Her first book, Divining the Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, was co-written with Prof. Paul Dourish of the University of California at Irvine and released in April 2011. In 2010, Bell was named one of Fast Company's inaugural '100 Most Creative People in Business.' She also is the recipient of several patents for consumer electronics innovations. From 2008-2010, she was Thinker-In-Residence for the South Australian Government. Moving to the United States for her undergraduate studies, she graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She then attended Stanford University, earning her master's degree (1993) and a doctorate (1998) in cultural anthropology, as well as acting as a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology from 1996-1998. With a father who was an engineer and a mother who was an anthropologist, perhaps Bell was fated to ultimately work for a technology company, joining Intel in 1998. About the host: Media @ Sydney is a series of seminars & talks presented by the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/), newly merged with the Digital Cultures Program (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/). For rsvp and further information, contact Gerard Goggin (gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au). -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Gerard Goggin Professor and Chair Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney Adjunct Professor, Social Policy Research Centre University of New South Wales e: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au p: +61 2 9114 1218 m: +61 428 66 88 24 w: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/gerard_goggin.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au Wed Apr 17 03:02:12 2013 From: Grayson.Cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:02:12 +0000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Associate Professor - School of Arts and Social Sciences SCU In-Reply-To: <1EAA41C3E44E4F40992B1E3CD5F8223B14E1AA38@SINPRD0610MB393.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear fibreculturalists, The below might interest some of you; Assoc. Prof. position as Deputy Head of School for the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University; a particular interest in people with backgrounds in creative industries or creative arts, including new media. The position description is attached. ***** Applications are invited for the following position: Deputy Head of School School of Arts and Social Sciences Lismore Campus Vacancy ID: 13016 Full details available at http://www.scu.edu.au/jobs/index.php/12/ ***** -- Dr Grayson Cooke Course Coordinator Bmedia (acting) Director of Higher Degree Research Training School of Arts and Social Sciences Southern Cross University PO Box 157 East Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: +61 2 6620 3839 http://works.bepress.com/grayson_cooke/ http://www.transformationsjournal.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 13016 Deputy HOS. (SASS) Web Ad.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 203314 bytes Desc: 13016 Deputy HOS. (SASS) Web Ad.pdf URL: From difusion at medialab-prado.es Tue Apr 23 17:46:28 2013 From: difusion at medialab-prado.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Medialab-Prado_Comunicaci=F3n?=) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:46:28 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Open Position for Medialab-Prado's Director Message-ID: <5176ACD4.6030408@medialab-prado.es> Madrid Arte y Cultura S.A (MACSA) announces a job opening for the new Medialab-Prado director. Complete description of the position available for download from: http://medialab-prado.es/article/macsa_director_medialab Candidates must send their applications, together with the required documentation, within a month from the day this announcement is published. -- Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras Calle Alameda, 15. 28014 Madrid difusion at medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado /"Antes de imprimir este documento aseg?rate de que es realmente necesario. ?Gracias por tu colaboraci?n!"/ madrid2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Core teaching staff: Olga Goriunova and Nathaniel Tkacz Other teaching staff: Celia Lury, Emma Uprichard and Will Davies Further details: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/study/prospective_students/ Best Nathaniel Tkacz Assistant Professor Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies The University of Warwick Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: