Coventry University is seeking to appoint a Professor of Postdigital
Cultures within the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities. Appointment to this position offers an opportunity to lead
the Centre’s research on digital media and humanities. It also allows
the successful candidate to provide academic leadership in an area of
critical importance to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and to cement
its growing international reputation and ambitious research agenda.
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), established in 2017, builds
on the strong and distinctive track-record of scholars at Coventry
University encompassing a range of disciplines in the arts and
humanities. Led by Professor Gary Hall, the CPC explores how innovations
in postdigital cultures can enable 21st century society to respond to
the challenges it faces in relation to the digital at a global, national
and local level.
The CPC takes an innovative stance in exploring (post)digital phenomena.
It is our position that the “digital” can no longer be understood as a
separate domain of media and culture. If we actually examine the digital
- rather than taking it for granted we already know what it means - we
see that today digital information processing is present in every aspect
of our lives. This includes our global communication, entertainment,
education, energy, banking, health, transport, manufacturing, food, and
water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs to turn from “the
digital”, to the various overlapping processes and infrastructures that
shape and organise the digital, and that the digital helps to shape and
organise in turn. Put another way, what we are interested in is how we
are born out of our relation to media, rather than seeing the media
simply as an external instrument or tool, the latter being the classical
Aristotelian view that has dominated our understanding of media
technologies to date. The CPC investigates such enmeshed digital models
of culture, society, and the creative economy for the 21st century
“postdigital” world.
The successful candidate is expected to have an international reputation
with a successful record of accomplishment in terms of their leadership
experience, high-quality research outputs, income generation and public
profile. Candidates with an expertise in urban postdigital
transformations and Artificial Intelligence are especially encouraged to
apply, but we are open to expertise in other areas of digital media.
More details on the post are available here:
https://staffrecruitment.coventry.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3d608425NJ6C&WVID=1861420Izv&LANG=USA
For more information on the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, see:
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/.
Application closing date: 08/09/19
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Gary Hall, http://www.garyhall.info
Professor of Media, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
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