The Social Media Collective (SMC), a research group at Microsoft Research Labs, is hiring a social sciences post-doc. As the SMC website states:
This is an ideal opportunity for a new Ph.D. to conduct original research that brings empirical and critical perspectives to bear on a variety of complex sociotechnical issues. Postdoctoral researchers are expected to devise their own research agendas. We are especially interested in candidates whose work can speak to one of these themes:
- the intersectional dimensions of identity as they are entangled with sociotechnical systems, including: race, caste, and indigeneity; gender and sexual identities; socioeconomic status and class
- how institutions, organizations, networks, and infrastructures (across sectors and domains) configure and are configured by sociotechnical systems
- notions of cooperation, mutual aid, and community engagement and their relationships to the design and governance of responsible technologies
- political economies and emerging organizational forms in digital labor, community, government, non-profit, creator economy, and private-sector contexts
- the politics and public responsibilities of algorithms, generative AI, machine learning, platforms, metrics, and other manifestations of computational cultures
Details on how to apply are available at the SMC website.
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