In the context of the sector plan for the Humanities titled ‘Tradition in transition’, the faculty currently has a vacant Assistant Professor position as part of the research theme Humane AI. Within this research theme the focus is on how data, platforms, and AI are involved in social, cultural, and economic change.
What are you going to do? You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. Your research will be part of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), one of the five research schools of the
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.
The Department of Media Studies seeks an Assistant Professor in New Media Histories. Internet, web and more recently social media history have developed considerably since the early discussions of distributed networks, the end-to-end principle, and the idea that the ‘internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it’. Cyberspace, the metaverse and even data wrangling share similar literary origins, and this scholarship continues in varied forms including a revival of the study of imaginaries. There has been considerable interest in the historical materiality (and even in the colonial or parochialism) of the internet from the locations of root servers, the routes of underground cables and more recently the multi-polar, geopolitical splinternet. The historical data in web archives, together with their gaps and affordances, provide new historiographical avenues. The position concerns itself with the multiple ways in which to study the history of erstwhile ‘new media’.
Tasks and responsibilities: - designing and conducting independent research on new media histories, resulting in academic publications in peer-reviewed international journals and/or books;
- actively pursuing external funding for research, notably funding from research councils, national as well as European;
- actively contributing to and developing national and international research networks and other forms of cooperation;
- actively contributing to the research activities of ASH;
- developing, coordinating and teaching courses in both Dutch and English, in the Bachelor and Master programmes;
- supervising Bachelor and Master theses and tutoring students; co-supervising PhD theses;
- actively contributing to the development and improvement of the broader teaching programmes in the department;
- taking part in committees and working groups, and carrying out departmental administrative tasks as directed;
- actively contributing to the interdisciplinary collaboration of the sector plan research theme Cultural Heritage and Identity.