This position is part of an Invest Syracuse Initiative in Social Differences, Social Justice.* The faculty member will draw on critical perspectives to inform our understanding of the design and use of existing socio-technical systems and the interrelationship between technology and society in today’s world. Critical design in human‐computer interaction (position #075548).Examples of research areas include creating smarter and more livable cities and communities analyzing complex, interdependent infrastructures and developing systems and/or sociotechnical solutions to respond to climate change and other risks. This position is part of an Invest Syracuse Initiative in Energy and Environment.* The faculty memberwill bring both technical and social perspectives to understanding how infrastructures and smart cities are designed, built, managed and improved using information technologies and data analytics. Smart city technologies and analytics (position #075547).This position is part of an Invest Syracuse Initiative in Citizenship and Democratic Institutions.* The faculty member will bring both technical and social expertise to the research and education on understanding information behavior around misinformation creation, circulation, and consumption, and/or developing methods and tools for curbing misinformation. Digital misinformation and democracy (position #075546).This position is part of an Invest Syracuse Initiative in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and the Human-Technology Frontier.* The faculty member will bring an active empirical research approach to topics such as collaboration between humans and autonomous systems, labour effects in algorithmic management or platform work, development of skills in the face of autonomous systems or design at the human-technology frontier. Future of work at the human-technology frontier (position #075545).This position is part of an Invest Syracuse Initiative in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and the Human-Technology Frontier.* The faculty member will bring expertise in areas such as causal networks, network science, social cognition, social contagion, relationship science, social networks or group decision making. Network social dynamics (position #075554).The faculty member will bring expertise in topics such as information equity and justice, information/knowledge representation and organization, library leadership and management, special collections and archives, digital data/digital curation/digital humanities, children and youth library services. Library and information science (position #075550).
We are specifically seeking applicants with interests in the following areas, broadly construed: We seek applicants whose topic areas and skills adopt this philosophy, and who can speak to overlapping areas within the school.
Our research and teaching often adopt a socio-technical approach, recognizing that important problems are not simply technical nor just about people, but rather require both social and technological insights. The successful candidates will join our “Faculty of One”: a highly collegial environment that values interdisciplinary collaboration among our school’s faculty and with other members of the university and beyond. Successful candidates will demonstrate a history of or strong potential for sustained research excellence in an information-related field and will contribute to the development of students and courses in our degree programs in information systems, data science and data analytics, library and information science and information science and technology. Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (the iSchool, ) invites applications for scholars to fill six open-rank tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2021. Six Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Positions, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, Syracuse, NY