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 …
The incoming 2019 summer interns for the Social Media Collective!
The SMC internship doesn't just bring us bright students, eager to take on original research projects and be part of the SMC and MSRNE community for the summer. It certainly does that. But it also makes us grow - we get blown open every time we welcome such a startling range of people, of topics, …
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The SMC is hiring a Research Assistant in the New England lab
The Social Media Collective is looking for a Research Assistant to work with us at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MSR Social Media Collective in New England currently consists of Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, Mary L. Gray, and Elena Maris in Cambridge, as well as faculty visitors and Ph.D. interns affiliated with the MSR New England. …
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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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The call! 2019 summer internships with the MSR Social Media Collective
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 18, 2019 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 postdoc Elena Maris) bring together empirical and critical perspectives to …
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Playing to the NYC Crowd and other SMC outings
As I hope you've heard by now, the SMC is publishing books like mad. Tarleton Gillespie's Custodians of the Internet is blazing a trail through the content moderation debate, Mary Gray and Sid Suri's Ghost Work will be out in May, and my own Playing to the Crowd has hit the road seeking readers. In that vein, here are some upcoming …
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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...
Social Media Collective 