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Academic Title: Associate Professor of Communication & Media in Social Media & Digital ... theory, as well as core courses within the curriculum. In addition to teaching courses, other ...

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Media and Society- Department of Media and Cinema Studies

Urbana, IL • On-site

University of Illinois
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TheDepartment of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University ofIllinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (100% FTE)tenure-track assistant professor position. We seek a scholar whose innovativeresearch is at the intersection of media, technology, and society. Theexpected start date is August 16, 2027. 

This search is part of a cluster hiringinitiative in the College of Media, with each of it's academic department-Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies- conducting an independentsearch for an assistant professor whose scholarship and teaching align with thepriorities of their respective departments. Ideal candidates for the Media and CinemaStudies position will possess the potential for high-quality research,publication, and teaching.

We are particularly interested in candidates who draw on interdisciplinary bodies of media theory, and may engage with qualitative, quantitative, historical,interpretive, computational, or mixed-methods approaches. Applicants'research should demonstrate a capacity for methodological rigor andintellectual creativity, including, but not limited to:

  • New Media theory or historiography: critical, cultural and/or historicalapproaches to media studies.
  • Media forms: video game studies, television studies, sound studies, socialnetworks, interactive media.
  • Media industries: convergence, platforms, labor, production cultures,political economy, network & infrastructure studies, governance, publicpolicy.
  • Media & democracy: publics and counter-publics, social inequalities& justice, gender & new media, race & technology, eco-criticism, mediaimpacts on historically underserved groups.
  • International, global and/or transnational media: forms, industries,audiences, practices.
  • New media in everyday life: audience & fan studies, smart objects, mediain relation to environments and space.
  • New directions in media praxis.
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