YorkU Jobs: Two Ontario Research Chairs in Technology Governance

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From: Kean D. Birch <ke...@YORKU.CA>

Dear all,

These jobs might interest everyone here, but also please pass on to people you know.

Ontario Research Chairs, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University – Markham Campus

The Faculty of Liberal Arts Professional Studies, York University, invites highly qualified

candidates to apply for two 2 positions as Ontario Research Chairs (ORC) in Technology

Governance, to join a cluster of Ontario Public Policy Research Chairs. One appointment will be

to the ORC in Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI). and the second appointment will be to the

ORC in Digital Governance for Social Justice Both appointments are to a professorial stream,

tenure track appointment at the Assist ant or Associate Professor level, to commence July 1, 2022.

The appointments will be made to the most appropriate Department or School in the Faculty,

which is contributing to Markham programming, depending on the expertise and qualifications of

the succes sful applicants. The successful candidates will be based at York University’s new

Markham Centre Campus when operational (expected in Fall 2023) and become members of the

first cohort of resident faculty members Between July 1, 2022, and the opening of th e new

campus, the appointee s will assume a combination of teaching responsibilities at York’s Keele

campus and contribute to the development of academic and research programming planned for

the new Markham Campus. Salary will be commensurate with qu alifications and experience. All

York University positions are subject to budgetary approval.

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Cheers

Kean

Kean Birch

 

Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change

Co-Editor, Science as Culture

Series Editor, Technoscience & Society Book Series, University of Toronto Press

Editorial Board Member, Science, Technology, & Human Values

Editorial Board Member, Social Epistemology

 

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NEW ARTICLES

Kaltenbrunner, W., Birch, K. and Amuchastegui, M. (2021) Editorial work and the peer review economy of STS journals, Science, Technology, & Human Values [Open Access].

Birch, K. and Cochrane, D.T. (2021) Big Tech: Four emerging forms of digital rentiership, Science as Culture. [Open Access]

Birch, K., Cochrane, T. and Ward, C. (2021) Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech, Big Data & Society [Open Access].

Birch, K. (2020) Automated neoliberalism? The digital organization of markets in technoscientific capitalism, New Formations 100-101: 10-27 [Open Access].

Birch, K., Chiappetta, M. & Artyushina, A. (2020) The problem of innovation in technoscientific capitalism: Data rentiership and the policy implications of turning personal digital data into a private asset, Policy Studies 41(5): 468-487 [Open Access].

Birch, K. (2020) Technoscience rent: Toward a theory of rentiership for technoscientific capitalism, Science, Technology and Human Values 45(1): 3-33 [Open Access].

 

NEW BOOKS

Birch, K. & Muniesa, F. (eds) (2020) Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, MIT Press [Open Access].

Birch, K. (2019) Neoliberal Bio-economies? The Co-construction of Markets & Natures, Palgrave Macmillan.