Date of Posting: 10 July 2024
Tattle is a civic tech organization that build tools and datasets to understand and respond to misinformation in India. We support researchers as well as conduct in-house research on platform governance, gendered harassment, and 'responsible' AI. Through our all work we aim to enable more transparent research on misinformation on Indian Social Media.
We are looking for a social scientist to support across different projects. You can read about the active projects on the Tattle website. The candidate should have expertise in one of these fields: media studies, feminist studies, STS, HCI. The candidate should have keen interest in digital/platform governance. Familiarity with impact evaluation is a bonus.
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Location: Remote but must be willing to travel for team and project meetings.
Duration: This is a full time position. For exceptional candidates, we may consider a part time (3+ days a week) position.
Remuneration: Based on experience.
Deadline: Rolling
Tattle works on the policy of "As open as possible. As closed as necessary." We are a FOSS project. You are encouraged to write honestly about research findings, and aren't bound to any prohibitive NDAs.
We are a fully remote team that communicates asynchronously.
At Tattle, we value inter-disciplinary thinking and unconventional life experiences. We provide space to incorporate your unique learnings in all that we make.
We provide a stress free work environment. We have a flexible 8 hours workday policy, without any interruptions from us beyond that.
We are a fully remote team that communicates asynchronously.
At Tattle, we cherish diversity of experiences and perspectives. It adds value to our work. To this end, we strongly encourage candidates, even if they feel they don't meet all the above listed criteria but find alignment with the project and are driven to learn, to apply.