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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Tel.: (+1) 416-736-2100
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4700 Keele Street Toronto ON, Canada M3J 1P3
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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