APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 6, 2020 Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for advanced PhD students to join the Social Media Collective (SMC) for its 12-week Internship program. The Social Media Collective (SMC), a network of social science and humanistic researchers, spans several Microsoft Research labs. The SMC PhD interns work in the MSRNE Lab …
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Now hiring: Research Assistant position at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
Check out this great opportunity to work with our colleague Sean Rintel in the MSR UK lab! ... The Human Experience & Design group is seeking a Research Assistant to support work on communication technology projects, with a focus on video-mediated communication. This is a 12-month full-time position on-site in Cambridge, UK. This is an …
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MSRNE is seeking postdocs… social media scholars are encouraged to apply!
This year our Microsoft Research, New England lab is seeking to fill an open postdoctoral line - for which social media candidates are eligible. We strongly encourage applicants with expertise that complements those of the Social Media Collective, and that bridges between our interests and other areas of our lab (economics, ICT4D, machine learning and …
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Welcome our new SMC postdoc, Elena Maris!
We're thrilled to announce our newest postdoc in the Social Media Collective, based in the New England lab of Microsoft Research! Elena Maris, University of Pennsylvania Elena received her Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the ways media/tech industries and audiences work to influence …
read an excerpt from Mike Ananny’s new book, Networked Press Freedom
In my new book Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear [MIT Press | Amazon] I critically examine what press freedom means today. I argue that, as news production, circulation, and interpretation are increasingly distributed across a new and unstable set of humans and nonhumans—from journalists and algorithms to platform designers …
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Custodians
I'm thrilled to say that my new book, Custodians of the Internet, is now available for purchase from Yale University Press, and your favorite book retailer...
The Senate Talks to Zuck
(or: "I will get back to you on that, Senator.") Here is an early response to Zuckerberg's testimony before the US Senate today. If you want my overall score, as of 3:30 ET I think Zuckerberg is doing quite well, but some of the things being discussed need a lot of unpacking. Those Poor Fools …
Content moderation is not a panacea: Logan Paul, YouTube, and what we should expect from platforms
What do we expect of content moderation? And what do we expect of platforms? There is an undeniable need, now more than ever, to reconsider the public responsibilities of social media platforms. For too long, platforms have enjoyed generous legal protections and an equally generous cultural allowance, to be "mere conduits" not liable for what …
Call for applications! 2018 summer internship, MSR Social Media Collective
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 19, 2018 Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for advanced PhD students to join the Social Media Collective (SMC) for its 12-week Internship program. The Social Media Collective (in New England, we are Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, and Mary Gray, with current postdocs Dan Greene and Dylan Mulvin) bring together empirical and …
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We are hiring a Postdoc
The Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for a social media postdoctoral researcher (start date: July, 2018). This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar whose work draws on anthropology, communication, media studies, sociology, and/or science and technology studies to bring empirical and critical perspectives to complex socio-technical issues. Application deadline: …
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