Luke Munn
@lukemunn
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Researcher in Digital Cultures & Societies @ UQ, author of Unmaking the Algorithm (2018), Logic of Feeling (2020), and Automation is a Myth (2022), he/him.
Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia
Joined August 2007
RT @Adarsh_Badri: New article up! 🙂. In this new article for the New Media and Society, @LukeMunn and I ask: how is the culture made comput….
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"From Dreary to Theory": EOI for our workshop on creative theorizing is now open. Learn, get inspired, and get feedback on your own projects with us at UQ City.
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RT @syllabus_tweets: Using AI to simulate its architects and generate alternate histories, our hidden gem of the week revisits Chile’s Cybe….
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RT @ConversationEDU: It's 'the intelligence age', say tech titans – but information will not save us. Luke Munn explains, in his timely Fri….
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It’s claimed that more information can solve our crises, from climate change to Gaza. But the world today shows how this vision of reason has tipped over into unreason, anger, and barbarism.
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1 million downloads, includes my chapter on 'Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI'
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This chapter examines the role that platform labor plays in the development of contemporary AI systems. While such systems are often touted as magical innovations, they are typically propped up by...
Our two books on #DigitalHumanism have been downloaded 1 mio times what a success. Huge thanks to all the authors, my co-editors Carlo Ghezzi Jeff Kramer @LeeEdwardA @BNuseibeh @Nida_Ruemelin @ErichPrem @AKStanger and to all those who participated.
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Will be in central Tokyo from 13-20 November. Scholars or orgs doing work on critical AI, environmental media, digital labour feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to connect.
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RT @TNInstitute: Jason Hickel explains how we can easily solve the climate crisis 🌍. Full video: .
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RT @JoshuaPHilll: Thinking about how “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets cl….
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platforms are "optimizing" work for a world that no longer exists. #climatechange.
Dear @deepigoyal, please look into this A @zomato delivery boy had to wade through knee-deep water in Ahmedabad during a heavy downpour to complete an order. For their safety, should #Zomato suspend orders in flooded areasâť“. CC:@mansukhmandviya @LabourMinistry @SumitaDawra @ilo
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Looking forward to this super interesting and timely workshop by @richardson_m_a tracing the longer arc of synthetic media and its epistemic implications. Join us next Thursday if you're in Meanjin.
events.humanitix.com
Get tickets on Humanitix - Interrogating Synthetic Data: A Workshop on Politics, Epistemologies, and Synthesis. Find event information.
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RT @elenablock1: Wonderful #COMU7304 Digital Media lecture and workshops today. Thank you @lukemunn for a super interesting and provoking t….
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RT @anshul_rai_shar: The recent global disruption is a perfect moment to revisit Like Munn’s 'Technical Territories,' where he dissects glo….
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Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia by Luke Munn explores how today’s territories are defined through data infrastructures
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RT @billmckibben: The Hajj is about 1,600 years old. But the globe is hotter now than any time in the last 125,000 years. This news is so….
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At least 320 of the dead are from Egypt and Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress
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RT @AkshatRathi: “The heart has to sometimes pump two to four times more blood each minute than it would on a cooler day.”. Why heat waves….
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As we get older, our bodies become less adept at responding to high temperatures. On a warming planet with an aging population, that’s a problem.
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🚨 Great response to this workshop on journal writing so far, with ~30 registered: sign up ASAP if you want to attend. @UQ_News @DGTL_CulturesUQ.
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Get tickets on Humanitix - The Write Stuff: How to Craft a 🔥 Journal Article. Find event information.
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RT @BigDataSoc: Revisit this article by Luke Munn (@lukemunn) which explores how 'hate is stratified into layers of different intensity, mo….
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Making More of "Us" - my latest article for the Conversation is on the rise of pronatalism.
theconversation.com
Pronatalism is inextricably tied to nationalism alongside race, class and ethnicity. Such a framing can quickly become xenophobic.
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