[Air-l] 5 positions at U. of Toronto

[Greg Elmer]

Information studies

The University of Toronto is recruiting five faculty members to join the Faculty of Information Studies (FIS) in playing a leading international role in its field. As recognized in the Faculty’s 2004-2010 Academic Plan (available from http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/activities/planning/FISAcademicPlan.pdf), society’s information practices are being reconfigured and transformed by material shifts in underlying systems, technologies, and networked infrastructures. Candidates are sought from all ranks to collaborate in exploring these new and evolving practices, as part of a major, multi-year process of Faculty renewal. Consideration will be given to all specialisations fitting within the Plan - from historical roots through present practice to multiple emerging futures. Rank, tenure status, and salary would be commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and academic accomplishments. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Documentary and Information Practices: The s
election, representation, classification, organization, management, curation, and preservation of organizational and cultural records and objects, including provision of effective and equitable access, as transformed by emerging technologies of digitization, reproduction, classification, and distribution; Health and Medical Informatics: Information practices and behaviour in a wide variety of health fields - including novel uses of information systems, reconfigured knowledge and information practices, and other consequences for health care of evolving systems and networks; Communication, Culture, and Media: The social, cultural, and political aspects of the socio-technical practices of information system design, development, implementation, uptake, reconfiguration, and use; Books, Documents, and Records: The evolving nature and use of books, documents, collections, records, and other knowledge and information media, in a wide range of contexts, genres, organizations, and comm
unities; Information Systems and Management: The strategic design, development, and management of new informational systems and practices, parlaying emerging technologies and infrastructures into new and reconfigured practices in business, education, the public sector, and civil society; Information Interaction and Retrieval: Human-computer interaction, information retrieval, web- and network-based systems for classification and organization, metadata schemes and standards, proposals for a semantic web, and other aspects of the design, configuration, and use of computer systems supporting information practice; and Information Policy: Issues of information policy, including privacy, identity, security, public access, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, etc., and how these are being influenced by on-going developments in information technology infrastructures and associated socio-economic transformations. Candidates must have a Ph.D., preferably with excellent teaching
 and research experience. Duties include research and teaching at the graduate level. Applicants should (i) send curriculum vitae, teaching dossier, copies of three representative papers/publications, and a statement outlining current and future research interests, and (ii) arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent, under separate cover, preferably electronically, to: Email: facultysearch at fis.utoronto.ca, or on paper to: Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 140 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6, Canada; Phone: (416) 978-3202. Application review will begin on December 17, 2004, and continue until all positions are filled. The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct research and live in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. The Faculty of Information Studies provides a context in which to work in an emerging interdisciplinary environment and in a range of collaborative progr
ams including Knowledge Media Design, Book History and Print Culture, Women’s Studies, and Aging and the Life Course. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Greg Elmer, PhD
Bell Globemedia Research Chair
Rogers Communications Centre/School of Radio-TV Arts 
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario
Canada      M5B 2K3

416-979-5282
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Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces
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