Job Announcement

The Telecommunications Department at Indiana University is hiring at the tenure-track Assistant Professor level. The announcement is here.

The announcement is rather vanilla - it is an open-field, best-horse-in-the-race search. However, I can report from the inside that the department seems very much in the mood to bet on horses with skin tones reflecting games, social media, and virtual worlds. There's also an interest in advertising and health communications.

Method is somewhat open. We're a social science department with a media production wing. Scholars whose work has no systematic empirical component will be facing an uphill battle. Production applicants face the usual and oft-bemoaned hurdle that you must have a PhD or an MFA to apply. Other than that, though, the search is open to all kinds of disciplinary approaches: Psychology, Anthro, Law, Policy, Economics, Political Science, whatever.

Bloomington is a fantastic place to live and the department is a friendly, warm, dare I say happy group. They often say that they want people with 'spark.' More than any in recent memory, this seems to be a pure 'spark' search. What's spark? Like many good things, its intangible, but the core idea I guess is a combination of imagination and analytics. The concept is not well-represented by this or this. It's more like this or this or this. 

If interested, please apply, and if you have questions, send me an email!

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[jccalhoun]

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Over at the Communication and Culture department at IU we're also looking for someone for Social Media including videogame studies:

Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture Digital and Social Media

The Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Digital and Social Media to begin Fall 2011.

We seek a humanities-trained Ph.D. whose primary area of research expertise and training is in digital media studies focused specifically on the social dimensions and potentials of digital media. This applicant will be expected to interact productively with colleagues in one or more of the department?s three areas: Rhetoric and Public Culture; Film and Media Studies; and Performance and Ethnographic Studies. The applicant must have a well-developed research program and teaching experience in digital and social media. She or he will be responsible for developing an introductory lecture course and advanced undergraduate courses, as well as for actively shaping and teaching graduate offerings in this field of study.

We particularly encourage applicants whose research involves specialization in areas such as:

Social networking

New technologies of political advocacy

Ethnographies of new media

Convergence and participatory cultures

Digital video

Games and gaming

Candidates are expected to have a strong research agenda and a commitment to excellence in teaching. Preference will be given to those who have their Ph.D. in hand by the date of appointment. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Barbara Klinger, Chair, Digital/Social Media Search, Department of Communication and Culture, 800 E. 3rd Street, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2010 and continue until the position is filled.

Indiana University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. The university actively encourages applications and nominations of women, minorities, applicants with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups.

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