[Air-L] Faculty Position in Social Informatics @ Indiana University, Bloomington

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Indiana University- School of Informatics and Computing

Faculty Position in Social Informatics

The School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at Indiana University
Bloomington invites applications for an asst/assoc/full professor position
in social informatics (SI), in the informatics division, to begin in August
2015.  Our intent is to hire the candidate, either senior or junior, best
able to help our SI Group lead the development of Social Informatics, an
opportunity greatly enabled by the recent merger into the SoIC of the IUB
Department of Information and Library Science (ILS). Candidates with
interests in ethnography, social and political values in computing,
economic and policy perspectives on information technology, and internet
and media studies are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should have an established record (senior level) or demonstrable
potential for excellence (junior level) in research and teaching, and a
Ph.D. in a relevant area or (junior level) expected before August 2015.

The SI Group in the Informatics Division currently has six members whose
work is grounded in social science and humanities perspectives, through
which we study the way computing and society co-construct each other. As
part of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, we have strong ties to
other faculty at IUB who share our orientation to Science and Technology
Studies, including those involved in Human/Computer Interaction, the new
IUB Media School, Cognitive Science, and The Information Society journal.
SI faculty and their PhD students share interests in a wide variety of
research areas, including Human-Robot Interaction, Information and
Communication Technology for Development, Community Informatics, the
History of Computing in International Perspective, Organizational
Informatics, Computing and Language, Technology Ethics and the Law,
Participatory Design, and related areas. The person hired will need to
teach in our core curriculum, which includes information ethics and
organizational informatics.

The SoIC is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country,
with unsurpassed breadth.  Its mission is to excel and lead in education,
research, and outreach spanning and integrating the full breadth of
computing and information technology.  It includes Computer Science,
Informatics, and Library and Information Science, with over 85 tenure-line
faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1100 undergraduate majors.  Its degrees
include B.A. and B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Informatics, Master’s in
Computer Science, Security Informatics, Bioinformatics, Human Computer
Interaction Design, Information Science, and Library Science, and Ph.D.s in
Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science.

Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a
culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the
amenities for an active lifestyle. IU is renowned for its top-ranked music
school, high-performance computing and networking facilities, and
performing and fine arts.

 Applicants should submit a CV, a statement of research and teaching, and
names of 6 references (3 for junior level) using the link below
(preferred):

http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/972 (Social Informatics)

or by mail to Faculty Search, SoIC, 919 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Questions may be sent tohiring at soic.indiana.edu.  For full consideration
applications are due by December 1, 2014.

Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2014.

Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer
and a provider of ADA services.  All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race,
religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability
status or protected veteran status.