[Air-L] two positions at Simon Fraser University

Wed Jun 17 20:50:50 PDT 2009

Sorry for cross-posting,

The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University invites applications 
for a
tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of 
Global
Communication and Social Justice.

Qualified candidates should have a Ph.D. with research specialization in one 
or
more of the following fields: communication rights and legal and policy 
activism
around world communication issues; critical assessment of conceptual 
assumptions,
institutions and policies related to technology, science and international
development; alternate and new media practices and social advocacy in the 
Global
South. Area research in South Asia, Africa or Latin America, and experience 
in
applied research or advocacy would be assets. Ability to teach research
methodology related to these fields would also be considered an advantage.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority.

Simon Fraser University is committed to employment equity and welcomes
applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities,
aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, gay men and lesbians. All
appointments are subject to funding. Under the authority of the University 
Act,
personal information that is required by the University for academic 
appointment
competitions will be collected. For further details, see
http://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/Faculty_Openings/Collection_Notice.html.

Applications should include a CV, a statement of research and teaching 
interests,
a sample of published work (or a work prepared for publication), and the
names/contact information for three referees. Applications must be received
by July 15, 2009, addressed to:

Dr. Martin Laba, Director
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
http://www.cmns.sfu.ca/

______________________________________________________________________

The School of Communication at Simon Fraser University invites applications 
for
a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of
Communication and Social Change.

Qualified candidates should have a Ph.D. with research specialization 
related to
communication and social change, such as the following fields: social 
historical
approaches to the transition from old to newer media, including industries 
and
regulatory regimes; issues around urban communication, environmental
communication, and/or health communication; communication and the
transformation in gender, labour, and other forms of social power relations;
advocacy and/or activist communication; public or political communication in
relation to social change.

Duties will include undergraduate and graduate teaching, research and 
service.
In addition to having an active research agenda in the field of 
communication and
social change, including scholarly publications, the qualified candidate 
will have
experience teaching in the field.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority.

Simon Fraser University is committed to employment equity and welcomes
applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities,
aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, gay men and lesbians. All
appointments are subject to funding. Under the authority of the University 
Act,
personal information that is required by the University for academic 
appointment
competitions will be collected. For further details,
see http://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/Faculty_Openings/Collection_Notice.html.

Applications should include a CV, a statement of research and teaching 
interests,
a sample of published work (or a work prepared for publication), and the
names/contact information for three referees. Applications must be received 
by
July 15, 2009, addressed to:

Dr. Martin Laba, Director
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
http://www.cmns.sfu.ca/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Hall" <gary.hall at connectfree.co.uk>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:07 AM
Subject: [Air-L] Liquid Book - The Post-Corporate University

(Apologies for cross-posting)

The Post-Corporate University

We would like to bring to your attention an online experiment that is
currently taking place titled The Post-Corporate University. Edited and
curated by Davin Heckman, it is the second volume in Culture Machine’s
Liquid Books series. The volume is available now online and is open for
discussion, contributions and open collaboration. Please visit:
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/The+Post-Corporate+University

The Post-Corporate University starts from an assumption that the
University is in crisis and that this crisis has been caused by the
social and economic characteristics of neoliberalism. Asking the
question, Is Another University Possible?, it provides space for
multiple answers and interventions.
Please visit the site, read Davin Heckman’s chapter, 'Neoliberal Arts
and the 21st Century University', and contribute to the discussions, the
bibliography and the book.

About the Liquid Books Series
Culture Machine’s online ‘liquid books’ – to which everyone is invited
to contribute – are written and developed in an open, cooperative,
decentralised, multi-user-generated fashion: not just by their initial
‘authors’, ‘editors’, ‘creators’ or ‘curators’, but by a multiplicity of
collaborators distributed around the world.

They are freely available for anyone, anywhere, to read, reproduce and
distribute. Once they have requested access, users are also able to
rewrite, add to, edit, annotate, tag, remix, reformat, reinvent and
reuse them, or even produce alternative parallel versions of them. In
fact, they are expressly invited and encouraged to do so, as the project
relies on such an intervention.

It is hoped that the Liquid Books project will raise a number of
important questions for ideas of authorship, attribution, publication,
citation, accreditation, fair use, quality control, peer review,
copyright, intellectual property, content creation and cultural studies.
For instance, with its open editing and free content, the project
decentres the author and editor functions, making everyone potential
authors/editors. It also addresses an issue raised recently by Geert
Lovink: why are wikis not utilised more to create, develop and change
theory and theoretical concepts, instead of theory continuing to be
considered as the ‘terrain of the sole author who contemplates the
world, preferably offline, surrounded by a pile of books, a fountain
pen, and a notebook’?

At the same time, in ‘What Is an Author?’, Michel Foucault warns that
any attempt to avoid using the concept of the author to close and fix
the meaning of the text risks having a limit and a unity imposed on it
in a different way: by means of the concept of the ‘work’. To what
extent does users’ ability to rewrite, remix, reversion and reinvent
this liquid ‘book’ then render untenable any attempt to impose a limit
and a unity on it as a ‘work’? And what are the political, ethical and
social consequences of such ‘liquidity’ for ideas that depend on the
concept of the ‘work’ for their effectivity: those concerning
attribution, citation, copyright, intellectual property, academic
success, promotion, tenure, and so on?

To find out more, please go to the first Liquid Book, New Cultural
Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader:
http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader

For a quick and easy-to-read guide on how to collaborate on the writing,
editing and curating of a Liquid Book, please visit:
http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/How-to-Contribute-to-a-Liquid-Book

Clare Birchall and Gary Hall

-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine
http://www.culturemachine.net
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info

Latest book: Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need 
Open Access Now
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hall_digitize.html

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