[Jobs] utd

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Emergent Media and Communications

The School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas  
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in  
Emerging Media and Communications. Applicants' scholarly interest  
should focus on the social effects of digital networked media and  
include one or more of the following areas: role of communication and  
information technologies in social change, history of communication  
and media, new media and globalization, evolution of community, social  
networking media, critical theory of media, legal and ethical  
questions such as copyright, privacy, and surveillance society.  
Candidates should have a background in media studies and/or the social  
sciences.

With a growing program that focuses on both production and critical  
examination of emerging technologies we seek an individual who is both  
a scholar and a participant in these new media structures.    
Candidates must demonstrate a commitment to research and teaching.  
Teaching opportunities will be at the undergraduate and graduate  
level. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to a  
transdisciplinary approach to studying emerging media and  
communications that includes faculty from various disciplinary  
approaches.

Appointment for fall 2008. Ph.D. required by time of employment.

UTD is a dynamic, growing research institution with a diverse student  
body and a strong research faculty. Salary competitive. Review of  
applications begins Jan 31, 2008. Applicants should send a letter of  
application, writing, sample, curriculum vitae, samples of course  
syllabi if available, and three letters of recommendation to:

Academic Search #1050
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road, AD 42
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu 
)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.  
--Byron