Table of Contents: 1. # Two OA books from mediastudies.press, a new scholar-led publisher # 2. JTS 2021 Call for submissions 3. CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ADD QUESTIONS TO THE 2022 GSS 4. Job posting: Researcher for Product Inclusion at YouTube 5. New book announcement: Creating the Creation Museum -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Two OA books from mediastudies.press, a new scholar-led publisher # We are excited to announce the release of two new open access books from mediastudies.press—the first titles in our Public Domain series: ## Our Master's Voice, by James Rorty (1934) ## “I was an ad-man once,” James Rorty writes in this classic dissection of the advertising industry. A neglected masterpiece, the book is republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Jefferson Pooley. PDF (free) | ePub (free) | Mobi (free) | Paperback ($20) https://www.mediastudies.press/masters-voice ## Liberty and the News, by Walter Lippmann (1920) ## Published a century ago as the young Walter Lippmann’s fifth book, the slim volume merits a fresh read in our post-truth moment. Republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Sue Curry Jansen. PDF (free) | ePub (free) | Mobi (free) | Paperback ($10) https://www.mediastudies.press/liberty-and-the-news *** mediastudies.press is a new, open-access publisher for the media and communication studies fields. Launched in 2019, the press is nonprofit, scholar-led, and fee-free. We publish living works, with iterative updates stitched into our process. And we encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments our authors study: https://www.mediastudies.press/about We publish open access works in three series: * Public Domain: https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series * Open Reader: https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series * History of Media Studies: https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies We are also launching a journal, *History of Media Studies*, in 2021, dedicated to scholarship on the history of media, film, and communication research and education: https://hms.mediastudies.press --------- Jeff Pooley press@mediastudies.press<mailto:press@mediastudies.press> Director, mediastudies.press Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College jeffpooley.com<http://jeffpooley.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2021 Junior Theorists Symposium Held over Zoom on August 6th (additional dates TBD) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, February 19, 2021 We invite submissions of précis for the 15th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS<http://www.asatheory.org/junior-theorist-symposium.html>). The symposium will be held over Zoom on August 6th (additional dates TBD) prior to the 2021 ASA Virtual Annual Meeting. The JTS is a conference featuring the work of up-and-coming sociologists, sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career sociologists who engage in theoretical work, broadly defined. It is our honor to announce that Jean Beaman (University of California, Santa Barbara), Gil Eyal (Columbia University), and Frederick Wherry (Princeton University) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Kyle Green (SUNY Brockport) and Daniel Winchester (Purdue), winners of the 2019 Junior Theorist Award, and Neil Gong (University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego), winner of the 2020 Junior Theorist Award will deliver keynote addresses. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Theorizing for Troubled Times,” with panelists Javier Auyero (University of Texas, Austin), Jennifer Carlson (University of Arizona), Harvey Molotch (New York University), Christina Simko (Williams), and Howard Winant (University of California, Santa Barbara). We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2017 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here<https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1K4eA0QiXgLb0kY8oa_zncFTdcO_vRKB4>. Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal. As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology, we especially encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS. Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via this Google form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJXFAaPBzTuwuR84fZ3FckXYfrPwQ30zJqJNzbFTo2PpcfdA/viewform?usp=sf_link>. Sarah Brothers (Yale) and Laura Halcomb (University of California, Santa Barbara) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com<mailto:juniortheorists@gmail.com> with any questions. The deadline is Friday, February 19th. By mid-March, we will extend up to 12 invitations to present at JTS 2021. Please plan to share a full paper by July 6, 2021. Presenters will be asked to attend the symposium in its entirety in order to hear fellow scholars’ work. Please plan accordingly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The General Social Survey invites proposals to add questions to its 2022 survey. Proposals will be accepted on the basis of scientific quality and scholarly interest; outside funding is not necessary. The deadline for submissions is March 5th, 2021. Please share this call with others. https://gss.norc.org/Documents/other/GSS%202022%20Module%20Competition.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Researcher, Product Inclusion at YouTube YouTube is hiring a user experience researcher to lead product inclusion efforts at the company. The researcher will collaborate with teammates across various roles, including not just other researchers but product managers, engineers, and designers, to bring an inclusive lens to product development. Ideally seeking candidates with a PhD in social sciences and specialization in one or more of the following areas: critical race theory, women's studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, gender studies, disability studies. Apply directly here<https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/116900331339555526-user-experience-researcher-product-inclusion/>, or reach out to Matt Rafalow (mrafalow@google.com<mailto:mrafalow@google.com>) with questions about the role. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creating the Creation Museum<https://nyupress.org/9781479805709/creating-the-creation-museum/> (NYU Press, December 2020) shows how creationists’ museum is a site of social movement activity to protest against the secular mainstream, to persuade people of their point of view, and to provide believers new narratives to defend their beliefs by way of reigniting a culture war on its own grounds. Kathleen C. Oberlin shows us how the largest creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG), built a museum—which has had over three million visitors—to make its movement mainstream. She takes us behind the scenes, vividly bringing the museum to life by detailing its infamous exhibits on human fossils, dinosaur remains, and more. Drawing on over three years of research at the Creation Museum, where she was granted rare access to AiG’s leadership, Oberlin examines how the museum convincingly reframes scientific facts, such as modeling itself on traditional natural history museums. Through a unique historical dataset of over 1,000 internal documents from creationist organizations and an analysis of media coverage, Creating the Creation Museum shows how the museum has real-world consequences in today’s polarized era. -- Andrew M. 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