We're excited to share some fellowship opportunities, sponsored by Microsoft Research, that support sociotechnical researchers who are thinking about AI, and would like to collaborate with researchers in our group, and others across Microsoft Research. In our research group we are working hard to research the difficult social and ethical implications of AI, especially in …
Continue reading announcing AI & Society fellowships, sponsored by MSR
Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. They will join a team of social scientists who use qualitative or quantitative, empirical or critical methods to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape technologies and their consequences. Our work …
Continue reading Apply for the 2024 SMC summer internships in sociotechnical systems
Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. They will join a team of social scientists who use empirical and critical methods to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape technologies and their consequences. Our work draws on and …
Continue reading Seeking an SMC postdoc on sociotechnical systems
We are very proud to announce that more than 30 current and past Social Media Collective researchers will be presenting their work at this year’s Association of Internet Researchers conference in Philadelphia. The SMC and AoIR go way back—the SMC’s Senior Principal Research Manager Nancy Baym led organizing efforts for the first AoIR conference in …
Apply here: https://aka.ms/msrne-sts/predoc-apply Deadline: November 1, 2023. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.) NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. to accept the position. Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with Nancy Baym, danah boyd, Tarleton Gillespie, and Mary L. Gray on issues …
Continue reading Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)
The Social Media Collective is VERY EXCITED to welcome a new STS Predoctoral Research Assistant to the Microsoft Research New England Lab!! Sarah Snyder (she/they) holds a Master of Information with a specialization in Culture and Technology from the University of Toronto iSchool. In her research, she reads social media content as literature to gain …
We are excited to welcome three new members to the research team! Ryland Shaw recently joined us as a predoctoral research assistant; he is completing his MA in Communication from Simon Fraser University. And this month we are joined by two new postdoctoral researchers, Zoë Glatt and Chuncheng Liu! Zoë just completed her PhD from …
Continue reading Two new SMC postdocs and a new SMC predoctoral research assistant
The Verge decided to select the best non-fiction books about technology of all time. As they put it, "Technology craves a narrative but often has a short memory for history. As a publication that contributes to that — The Verge lives in the news cycle, after all — we wanted to praise the form of …
The MSR Social Media Collective put the call out for PhD students studying sociotechnical systems from interdisciplinary perspectives that foster careful (and caring) critique. We were, once again, BLOWN away by the amazing applications (the force is strong in us, friends!) Here is the intern cohort joining us for our 2023 cycle: Negin Alimohammadi is …
Continue reading Meet the 2023 SMC Sociotechnical Systems PhD Interns!
Apply here: https://aka.ms/msrne-sts/predoc-apply Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. to accept the position. The Microsoft Research Social Media Collective, based at the Cambridge, MA lab location, consists of Nancy Baym, danah boyd, Tarleton Gillespie, and Mary L. Gray, as well as postdoctoral …
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