The India China Institute is pleased to announce its annual Student Travel Grant for 2018-2019. The grant is open to all full-time students, from undergraduate to PhD students. The amount is $3500. The application deadline for this grant is November 5th, 2018. The link to
GREAT BOOKS IN MEDIA RESEARCH FALL 2018 TAUGHT BY: JULIA SONNEVEND SECTION: A CRN: 7020 Credits: 3 This course introduces graduate students to canonic books in media research written in multiple disciplines. Most graduate courses assign book chapters or articles; I would like to counter
A Phd Position in a Research Project on Empathy and Formal Features of Audio-Visual Narratives Leipzig University (Germany) and Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Application deadline: July 27, 2018 The project An investigation of how formal features in audio-visual narratives influence audience members™ empathy and
Technology Fellow [SPT-04] American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Speech, Privacy & Technology Project (NY or SF) For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed
Immediacy is a student-centered, online journal of the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York. Emphasizing the School’s philosophy for the integration of media theory, history, and myriad forms of media practice, the purpose of the journal is to provide a space
The collaboration of Academic Platform, Sakarya University, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University and Bursa Technical Universitycordially invites you to submit a research paper for ISITES 2018, 6th International Symposium on Innovative Technologies in Engineering and Science, to be held at Wome Deluxe 5 star Hotel in Alanya/Antalya Turkey between 9th and 11th of November, 2018.
NEW SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD COMPETITION – DEADLINE MARCH 15, 2018 We are very pleased to let you know about a new university-wide competition for student research funding (broadly defining research to include the full scope of scholarly, creative, and professional practices covered across the colleges
Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture & Technology graduate program is currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2018 issue of gnovis, our student-operated, peer-reviewed academic journal. About the Journal gnovis is devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of communication, culture, and technology. Published once each semester,
The 2017 International Field Program & United Nations Summer Study Conference Information Session Friday, September 15th 12:30pm – 6:00pm Kellen Auditorium University Center, 66 Fifth Avenue 1:00pm – Balkans The Balkans IFP traced the physical, political, legal, social and human terrain of the refugee ‘crisis’ unfolding
Opportunity for a smart, enthusiastic, organized student. For several years I have been working on a feature documentary that is now going into its last stages. I’m looking for a student who can help do research on individuals or groups that will have interest in
Marcus Turner Assistant Professor of Filmmaking in the School of Media Studies is looking for a Research Assistant to serve as Editor/Post Production Supervisor on the documentary film “Teacher Confidential”. This is a paid position. “Teacher Confidential is a film exploring the future of public education. It’s
POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR FALL AND SPRING 2017-18 4 research-related positions are available with Prof. Sumita Chakravarty for graduate students in Media Studies. Please see below for details. Position # 1: RA (5 hrs/wk @ $ 18.40 an hr for 30 weeks) Duties: overall management
SPE Internal Fulbright Deadlines *Priority deadline for essays to FPA for feedback: Monday July 10th *Deadline to confirm/reconfirm you will be applying (via email) to the FPA/start Embark online application:
Assistant Professor of Music Daniel Walzer (University of Massachusetts Lowell) is seeking survey participants! His doctoral research looks at how educators use adult learning concepts to help non-traditional learners improve their understanding of music, media, and computer technology. If you work with adults in any capacity
INTEGRATIVE PHD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SEMINARS Through the aegis of the Integrative PhD Program, Mellon Foundation funds are available for New School faculty to develop collaborative courses to be first offered in 2018 – 19. Supplemental salary of $5,000 per faculty member ($10,000 per
Fully-funded 4-year Ph.D. position on “Fearful Technologies: Historical and ethical perspectives on the role of fear in pro-technology discourses” The PhD position is interdisciplinary with a shared advisory team from the Technology, Innovation and Society Group (dr. Kalmbach, prof.dr. v.d. Vleuten) and the Philosophy &
The IFP combines pre-departure preparation, in-country seminars, summer fieldwork, & independent research with faculty supervision. We are still accepting applications for the following sites: Argentina Colombia Ethiopia Please Note: Cuba, South Africa, and Turkey are unable to receive any new applicants. Apply online to the 2016 IFP! Deadline Extended to Wednesday,
Faculty member, Shannon Mattern is a fellow in the new Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought. On Friday, November 7, 2014 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in the University Center, Rm 411, she will be presenting her work on “Intellectual Furnishings.” You can find
Faculty member Shannon Mattern will be participating in the “City by the Numbers: Big Data and the Urban Future” symposium at Pratt Institute on Saturday, October 11, 2014. The symposium is co-sponsored by Places Journal, where Mattern is a columnist, and which very recently launched a redesigned website
On September 24, 2014, Shannon Mattern, will speak about alternative modes of scholarly publishing at the “Publishing Without a Publisher” panel at Columbia University. For more information, see the Columbia University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Program website.
Shannon Mattern participated as an invited presenter, in an international symposium on “Code and the City”, September 3rd through September 4th. The two-day workshop hosted a number of the foremost thinkers on the intersection of software, ubiquitous computing and the city, at the National University of
Shannon Mattern recently delivered the closing plenary lecture at the conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association: http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2014/06/27/in-rare-fashion-my-rbms-plenary-presentation/
Shannon Mattern’s review of the design radio show and posdcast 99% invisible was recently published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians: http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2014/06/18/tuning-into-the-invisible-my-99-invisible-review-in-jsah/
See more on recent article and interview about Shannon’s Archives, Libraries and Databases class http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2014/06/09/library-as-infrastructure-and-library-of-congress-interview-published/
http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2014/05/12/animated-spaces-published-in-senses-society/ “I wrote an article about the challenges of designing exhibitions for interaction design and architecture. It was recently published in Senses and Society”. ~Shannon Mattern
http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2014/04/28/urban-interfaces-article-in-places/ “I wrote about “urban interfaces” — the points of point of engagement where people interface with, and experience, our cities’ “operating systems.” You can find my “Interfacing Urban Intelligence” at Places. ” ~Shannon Mattern
Faculty member Shannon Mattern will be speaking at Johns Hopkins University about “Library as Emergent Infrastucture”. On her blog she provides the abstract for the lecture: For millennia libraries have acquired resources, organized them, preserved them, and made them accessible to patrons. But the forms of those
Faculty member Shannon Mattern’s essay, Embracing the Formalist Mantle, was included in the themed 50th Anniversary issue of The Journal of Visual Culture on Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. About the essay Mattern writes “My piece […] is about how McLuhan gave me license to say, ‘Oh, what the hell —
FEBRUARY 18, 2014: Leader of Faculty Workshop on “Working with WordPress,” The New School. FEBRUARY 21-22, 2014: Workshop on “Zonal Logics of Modernity,” New York University and The New School (convened by Jonathan Bach and Tom Looser). MARCH 7, 2014: “Media, Materiality, Infrastructure” workshop, New York
What do corporate smart-city programs have in common with D.I.Y. science projects and civic hackathons? “Theirs is a city with an underlying logic,” writes Shannon Mattern, “made more efficient — or just, or sustainable, or livable — with a tweak to its algorithms or an