Job: Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance @ YorkU, Canada
Apologies for cross-posting
Dear all,
Rob Gehl, Tesh Dagne, and myself are inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Visitor (PDV) in AI & Governance to work with us for 1-year (in the first instance). Deadline 20 December 2024.
We are three Ontario Research Chairs based at Yorks new Markham Campus, Toronto, in the Public Policy Research Cluster. The PDV position is funded with money from the CFREF initiative Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society and will be based at the Institute for Technoscience & Society.
The PDV will be expected to collaborate us on research on the governance of artificial intelligence, broadly conceived, including assisting us with research activities and especially developing and writing research grant applications. More details about the role are contained in the job ad: https://www.yorku.ca/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2024/11/FSc-PDV-job -posting-Postdoctoral-Visitor-in-AI-Governance.pdf
More details about "Connected Minds" can be found here: https://www.yorku.ca/research/connected-minds/
More details about the Institute for Technoscience & Society can be found here: https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/
Please forward to anyone you think would be interested.
Thanks, Kean
Kean Birch
Director & Professor, Institute for Technoscience & Society
Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Co-Editor, Science as Culture
Series Editor, Technoscience & Society Book Series, University of Toronto Press
Editorial Board Member, Science, Technology & Human Values; Social Epistemology; Progress in Economic Geography; IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society; Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology; and Digital.
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NEW BOOKS
Birch, K. (2023) Data Enclaves, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Scott, S. et al. (eds) (2023) Business and Society: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition), London: Bloomsbury.
Birch, K. & Muniesa, F. (eds) (2020) Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, Cambridge MA: MIT Press. [Open Access]
NEW ARTICLES
Birch, K., Komljenovic, J. and Sellar, S. (forthcoming) Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in higher education, New Media + Society. [Open Access]
Miroshnichenko, A. and Birch, K. (forthcoming) Constructing digital assets through blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Social Studies of Science. [Open Access]
Komljenovic, J. et al. (online) Digitalised higher education: Key developments, questions, and concerns, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. [Open Access]
Komljenovic, J., Birch, K. and Sellar, S. (online) Monetising digital data in higher education: Analysing the strategies and struggles of EdTech startups, Postdigital Science & Education. [Open Access]
Birch, K., Komljenovic, J. and Sellar, S. (online) Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups, Learning, Media & Technology. [Open Access]
Komljenovic, J., Sellar, S. and Birch, K. (online) Turning universities into data-powered organisations: Dimensions of change, Higher Education. [Open Access]
Birch, K., Marquis, S. and Silva, G.C. (2024) Understanding data valuation: Valuing Google's data assets, IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society 5(2): 183-190. [Open Access]
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2024) Assetization and the new asset geographies, Dialogues in Human Geography 14(1): 9-29. [Open Access]
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2024) Response: Struggling over new asset geographies, Dialogues in Human Geography 14(1): 47-50. [Open Access]
Birch, K. (2024) Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance: Knowledge, education, and personal data in the UNs System of National Accounts, Economy & Society 53(1): 15-38. [Open Access]
Amuchastegui, M., Birch, K. and Kaltenbrunner, W. (2023) The intersections between sociology and STS: A Big Data approach, Sociological Perspectives 66(5): 868-887. [Open Access]
Birch, K. (2023) There are no markets anymore: From neoliberalism to Big Tech, State of Power 2023 Report, The Transnational Institute (3 Feb) [Open Access].
Birch, K. and Ward, C. (2023) Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership, Environment and Planning A 55(6): 1429-1437. [Open Access]
Birch, K. (2023) Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation, Social Studies of Science 53(1): 29-48 [Open Access].
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