[Air-L] Postdoc: 1-year position studying social media posts

[May Friedman]

Hello,

Thank you for your message. I will be out of the office and away from email until August 2, 2022. I’ll be happy to reply to your message upon my return.  

For questions or concerns related to the graduate program in social work, please email Dr. Funke Oba at funoba at ryerson.ca

Warm regards,
May


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May Friedman (she/her)
Professor
School of Social Work and School of Fashion
Toronto Metropolitan University
350 Victoria St. Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Office: 208-D Eric Palin Hall
416-979-5000 x552525
may.friedman at ryerson.ca


On Jul 30, 2022, at 8:35 AM, Raymond Drainville via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Located at the University of Waterloo, Canada, Project Figleaf is
> looking for an experienced social media researcher to join us as a
> postdoc starting 1 October 2022. The postdoc will help collect and
> filter social media data regarding racist and conspiracist discourse.
> The position lasts for one year and comes with a salary of CAD$70,000,
> money for conference travel, and hardware/software purchases.
> 
> What is Project Figleaf? What is a Figleaf?
> The Project is an interdisciplinary venture between philosophy and
> social media studies. It focuses on "figleaves"—a snippet of
> communication (textual or visual) that serves to mitigate the
> violation of social norms when relaying racist or conspiracist
> content, making the content more palatable to undecided readers. The
> Project aims to identify common figleaf terms in both racist and
> conpiracist discourse, the venues/forums where they are used, and the
> comparative success of figleaves to spread racist or conspiracist
> content.
> 
> More Information
> More information about the position, its requirements, and how to
> apply may be found here:
> https://projectfigleaf.org/postdoctoral-position-with-project-figleaf/.
> For more about the Project and figleaves, please see the main page:
> https://projectfigleaf.org/. Further questions may be forwarded to Ray
> Drainville (ray.drainville at uwaterloo.ca).
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