[Air-L] Postdoctoral Fellow Position, Creative Labour and Critical Futures, University of Toronto

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Hello!

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with us in our Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project at the University of Toronto. Please check details here and spread the word:
https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/sites/utsc.utoronto.ca.acm/files/docs/CLCF%20Postdoctoral%20Fellow%20Posting.pdf

Here is the position overview:

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join our team at the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). In collaboration with 10 local and international partners and 25 scholars, this cluster based at UTSC studies the potential for creative workers to generate transformative technological and social futures in Canada and internationally today. What, how, and why do we need a set of critical ethical approaches to digital research in the wake of challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) – the latest in a series of technological transformations not just to the creative sector but to society itself? How can we imagine and design critical and creative futures for creative workers considering this latest AI context?

A multi-disciplinary approach is required to address urgent needs arising from the sprawling, often exploitative digital worlds where we live and work. The environments, working conditions, and ways of working in these worlds usually intensify rather than mitigate social inequities. The CLCF cluster brings together faculty across several arts, culture, and media fields of study to offer collaborative and community engaged approaches that can address racialized, gendered, colonial, economic, and geopolitical power dynamics at play in the AI context. While addressing such conditions is important for the sector and the workers therein, there is a larger socio-cultural contribution we aim to make: to critically imagine and design insightful and joyful futures in the context of ubiquitous digital demands and opportunities, including the recent explosion of AI in our work worlds and lives. Our project has four thematic areas:


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Theme 1: Contexts and Constraints: Political Economy of AI and the Digital Today
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Theme 2: Creativity: Artistic Responses to AI in a Digital World
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Theme 3: Conditions for Change: Policies and Practices for Sustainable Working Conditions
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Theme 4: Collectivities: Grassroots Organizing for and against AI

This position offers an opportunity to join a new project that seeks to advance interdisciplinary responses to the AI context considering arts, culture and media sectors, developing policy-oriented and community-oriented research. In addition to working on their own research, the postdoctoral fellow will collaborate with the co-leads of this project, MaryElizabeth (ME) Luka and Rafael Grohmann, to advance the research and outreach program of the cluster through organizing and participating in research working groups, workshops and seminars, leading academic publications, engaging with community leaders and policymakers in Toronto and around the world, and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students involved in the cluster. The postdoc will be expected to work in person at the University of Toronto.

Job posting: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/sites/utsc.utoronto.ca.acm/files/docs/CLCF%20Postdoctoral%20Fellow%20Posting.pdf
Closing date: September 20, 2024.

best,

Rafael


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dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>

Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/>

University of Toronto

2024-2025 Faculty Fellow, [http://qtrl Cohort 2024-25 – Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies]Queer and Trans Research Lab, Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/>

Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>

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