The LIS department and iSchool at Rutgers is hiring for 2 full time teaching faculty positions in data science - programming fundamentals, and critical perspectives on data and society. Please circulate! Review of apps begins soon, March 18. 🙏

Rutgers is seeking a full time teaching faculty member (non-tenure track) to teach and manage staffing for a class with many sections co-listed in our iSchool's undergrad IT&I program, and Data Science major: "Data in Context" (critical data studies). jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/220002

I am recruiting a postdoc at School of Information to work on emotion AI (and other tech that infers sensitive info about people)+ethics/justice/privacy. Remote may be possible. Review starts now and applications accepted until 3/8. Salary 65-70K. Start date May 1-Sep 1. apply.interfolio.com/141255

The MI Colloquium presents “How Online Platforms Govern User Activities and Why That Matters,” hosted by #RUSCI Assistant Professor @Shagunjhaver! Interested in joining this discussion? Register for the Zoom here: ow.ly/jBWY50QzNPo

When we started, few papers estimated the effect of deplatforming. Now, there are many great papers focusing on different social media platforms: Reddit: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… Twitter: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34… Facebook: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Manoel Shagun Jhaver

Does observing why someone's post got removed influence an observer's online behavior? Come see me talk about a project Koustuv Saha and I conducted to answer this question tomorrow in 313B at 9 am #CHI2024 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

SFL Social Futures Lab current members and alumni at #chi2024! We’ve got Tony Li, Kevin Feng, Shagun Jhaver, Lawrence Tan, Nick Vincent, Gloria Guo, Leijie Wang, Emelia, and Alicia Guo!!!

Question: what's the earliest use of 'flag' or 'report' as a moderation feature on any online platform that you can remember? Did early online communities (I'm thinking early 90's and before) use flags?

If you're a recently graduated or about-to-graduate PhD looking for a postdoc in the space of auditing AI systems, epistemic risks of generative AI, and thinking about human-centric ways of addressing these risks, please apply and reach out: apply.interfolio.com/147302

My biggest project to date just landed in Berlin 🫣🤖 After many years of research, writing, and revision, I'm so excited to hear what you all think about 'The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation.' A short 🧵of summary and thanks:

Have you ever flagged a social media post or account? We are conducting a study to examine users’ motivations and concerns about the flagging process. Please join us for a 60-90 minute interview and tell us about your experiences by submitting this form: forms.gle/FtiFLUtiyYYay8…

What an insane decade it’s been this week.

Bryan 🇺🇸for🇺🇦 It’s Christian

Come join our department. Great university, great location, and great colleagues. I am on the search committee for (human centered) AI and please DM for questions.