👨💻 digital sociologist ~~~ catch me at: 🦋 [email protected] (bluesky); 🐘 [email protected] (mastodon); and maybe even 🧵 ben_lyal (threads)
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Glad to finally share this work, just published open-access 🔓 in @policyinternet:
As a lockdown side-project, @PatrickMarple and I dug into 2020-21 parliamentary e-petitions to explore conspiracism in relation to pandemic governing. Link below ⤵️
doi.org/10.1002/poi3.384
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Excited to be speaking at the ‘Instruments of Surveillance’ launch at the new National Communication Museum on November 14! Congrats @tynedaile and @ncm_melbourne 🙌
Tickets are now on sale for Instruments of Surveillance!
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In collaboration with the stellar team at @ncmmelbourne I'm thrilled to launch this new contemporary exhibition about surveillance, AI, hacking, government spies, wiretapping & more
ncm.org.au/exhibitions/instr…
With #AR 🕶️ glasses being hyped again, we discuss public perceptions of the tech. Views on acceptable use differ between users and non-users. A few generations into the big-name glass-game, we still lack firm governance (both softer social contracts and harder regulations).
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Really great to work with @fakaviani @SjaanKoppel, who have done loads of great work to understand risk taking behaviours with devices 🤳
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Book launch & panel: Instruments of Surveillance!
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14th Nov @ncm_melbourne. I'll be in conversation with 3 brilliant panelists to discuss cybersecurity, AI, biometrics, art, cultural representation & all things surveillance.
Tickets & details: ncm.org.au/events/publicatio…
ALT Anti-Surveillance Coat Type II, KOVR, 2017. Photo: Suzanne Waijers.
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🥳 New article published with @M_Zappavigna!
Inwood, O., & Zappavigna, M. (2024). The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation. Visual Communication. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Wonderful interdisciplinary research on
Sharing and scaffolding intergenerational memory
@Penny_VB @TanyaEvans14 @celia_harris @lizbranagh_ Patricia Macabulos and @profajbarnier
Latest agenda-setting article in @MMMJournal
doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.19
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WELCOME TO THE DEADBOT SOCIETY
**AI and MEMORY**
New Gold Open Access Original Article
in Agenda Setting Cambridge @MMMJournal
doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
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New pub! This was an absurdly ambitious piece of work that nearly drowned me BUT it’s ended up saying some important things about research on digital tech use by families with very young children. 🧵tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Join us on Fri 6 Sept for the launch of "Destabilising Masculinism: Men's Friendships & Social Change" by SLSJ's Dr Brittany Ralph (@brittanylralph). Featuring a panel discussion with guest gender scholars @SteveRoberts_, @saba_m_h & @craigh_.
👉Register:bit.ly/DMBbooklaunch
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A new edition of So Fi Zine is out now! Featuring 15 new works of sociological fiction, poetry and visual art by amazing contributors from around the world. Check out edition 15 and the whole back catalogue at sofizine.com #sofizine
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Dating apps have redefined romance for an entire generation of Australians. A/Prof @bradyjay & PhD candidate @joshua_thorburn spoke to WA Today about their specific research focuses, incl. demographics, commodification & safety.
Click, don't swipe, here: watoday.com.au/national/payi…
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So proud of @s_xuechen for writing these reflections on beauty and diaspora. It's been amazing to have Shirley working on the DECRA project and I am always grateful for their insights
archermagazine.com.au/2024/0…
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Re our ARC project on men working in the care sector: We now would like to interview people in *supervisory* or shift or site manager positions in the disability or aged care sector. $50 Gift card in return for 30 mins interview.
Pls share widely #research #men #carework
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Inspired by @TEQSAGov principles 4 assessment in #ChatGPT age (@jasonmlodge @margaret_bea S. Howard) & the "technosceptic" approach to AI (@_joshuanewman @MikeMintrom), I tasked students to use ChatGPT to write a brief to a Minister. Did it work? doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12… @AusJPA
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new article in @JSociology "Risky business: How food-delivery platform riders understand and manage safety at work" from Qingyu Wang and myself on safety in the gig economy @AustSoc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Dave Farrugia + I are looking for someone to take up a PhD scholarship on our young people + side-hustles project based at Deakin. The project is funded by the ARC. More information about the project + the scholarship here: findaphd.com/phds/programme/…
Please share widely!
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#ECRs & #HDRs in #sts, #anthro, #sociology, #drugs, #gender, #history & #philosophy of science, #posthumanisms, submit an abstract to our “Thinking with drugs” workshop @SociologyGold. What insights can research on drugs offer in a time of global change? tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id=134…
🚨🚨 Send your abstracts to our 'Thinking with drugs' workshop!. Can interdisciplinary research on drugs generate new insights in a time of global change? CFP closes 10 May: tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id=134…
org @fay__dennis, @kari_lancaster, @KiranPienaar & @RenaeFomiatti
