Come and work with Charles Jeurgens Annet Dekker Tobias Blanke @PaulaHelm12 houda lamqaddam, phd rens bod @rensbod.bsky.social Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social & myself at Media Studies UvA Geesteswetenschappen UvA Amsterdam We are looking for a new assistant professor Critical Archival Studies vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assist…| Deadline June 14

Which academic books have the best introduction? Looking for inspiration(s).

Come be my new colleague! We have a new opening for an associate professor in emerging media tech at the University of Oslo (e.g. media design, media innovation, and the societal and cultural consequences of AI): jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Call for Abstracts (Deadline: September 15, 2024): "En/Countering Tracking. Resisting spatiotemporal media operations in computational culture" A special issue of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies. More information: computationalculture.net/cfps-events/

Job seekers! My department is hiring a game studies prof. Application due Nov. 6. ICCIT jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga is seeking applications for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the area of game studies. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

Calling all game studies scholars: my department is hiring!

Want to learn about disconnective media, i.e. the products that offer disconnection from digital devices? In this paper, Veysel Bozan and I explore how they advocate the ideal image of efficient worker, depoliticising disconnection. Open Access here: shorturl.at/WSqTj

The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection - an edited collection questioning the hypes of our digital era is out! And it is open access! I was happy to contribute an afterword for this volume. nordicom.gu.se/en/publication… #disconnect

"The turns of disconnection, its pushes & pulls, the hard breaks of turning away, the turns towards, & even returns can ... direct attention toward the continuities of connectivity rather than enforcing a distinction between the online & offline." Tero Karppi in The Digital Backlash

Absolutely thrilled to see this piece in the new issue of Grey Room by my former PhD student Julia Irwin. Such an exciting project in a perfect venue: "Artificial Worlds and Perceptronic Objects: The CIA’s Mid-century Automatic Target Recognition" greyroom.org/issues/97/253/…

The one and only application that systematically crashes my Macbook is Zotero. I don’t know why I even bothered trying it out, again.

We are looking for a new colleague on full professor level (=second monograph published etc.), motivated to learn German and to oscillate between conventional (German) media theory and new fields (queer feminist, post-colonial, more-than-human etc.). haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/st…

Is flight-mode a survival mode? @trinesy and Karin Fast talk about The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of #Disconnection nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/is…

The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto offers fully funded PhD student positions to study with Prof. Tero Karppi in the areas of Critical Internet Studies, Media Theory, and Disconnection Studies, and related areas. Deadline Dec. 1: ischool.utoronto.ca/phd-in-informa…

Our #SLSA2024 panel Radical Changes to Human Spaces: From Smart Technology and Rooftop Farming to the Moon, has been rescheduled to today, Friday, 12:30-2:00 pm in the Seminar Theatre. I will be speaking about the LunaNet.

The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”. I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis. Online First PDF here: pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/p…

Join us for Space Out! a symposium dedicated to theorizing how media technologies take us into outer space. In person at the University of Toronto on March 5-6. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/upcoming…