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Today's Topics:
1. X masked or musked (Sherry)
2. Re: Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the
campaign
(Geert Lovink)
3. Re: Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the
campaign
([email protected])
4. Program of Platform Blues - November 21, 2024 - University
of
Canberra (Geert Lovink)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:44:30 -0500
From: Sherry <[email protected]>
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Subject: <nettime> X masked or musked
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x and mask or musk
ex libris
franz g?rtner**
gestalt
gleichschaltung***
present time
download
reproached
diagnosed
exposed?
?Around me were soldiers from all walks of life: secular Tel
Avivians,
Ethiopians, Kibbutzinks, religious Jews from the West Bank,
Americans, and
city kids from Jerusalem. We were all together in this fight to
defend all
the citizens of Israel - Jewish, Arab, Christian, Muslim, of
every walk of
life, color of skin and country of origin.? ****
?Every Ukrainian photographer dreams of capturing an image that
will bring
an end to the war. This aspiration has long been deeply personal
for each
of us. And yes, there is nowhere for us to flee. This is our
land.? by Maks
Levin *****
invisible rules for living in foreign country, foreign universe
via
someone?s simple verse
?MY IVEN,
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACH OUT, HOW TO GET YOU, HOW TO... I
REALLY DON'T.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH TIME (what is time?) I AM
SITTIng IN THE
DARK STARRING AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN WAITING FOR A LETTER, AWORD
FROM YOU.
DID YOU NOTICE HOW A and W FIT TOGETHER: AW - LIKE THEY ARE
DESIGNED TO BE
TOGETHER. WE HAVE TO GET BACK TOGETHER, AND HERE IS THE NEWS: I
AM COMING
TO LAAS FULBRIGHT STUDENT SOON - I GOT IT BECAUSE? DOES IT
REALLY MATTER? I
JUST WANT ME AND YOU to BE TOGETHER. AGAIN. FOREVER.
YOU CAN COME TO LA IF YOU WANT TO. I WANT YOU TO COME TO LA.?
?WHAT? YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU HAVe A russian-jewish WIFE. WHY? IS
SHE
EMBARRASSING? IS SHE YOUR AGE? I KNOW I AM ABOUT YOUR SON?S AGE,
BUT WHERE
IS THE PROBLEM IF WE ARE SO ClOSE? INTELLECTUALLY, CULTURALLY,
MORALLY, EDUCATIONALLY,
SOCIALLY? IS SHE ThERE, NEXT TO YOU WHILE YOU ARE READING MY
LETTERS?? DO
YOU SLEEP TOGETHER? I THINK I HAVE SLEEP PARALYSIS. WE HAVE TO
TALK.. TELL
ME IF YOU WANT TO TALK. TELL ME WHEN do YOU WANT TO TALK? ******
?I have never been materially active in politics before, but
this time I
think civilization as we know it is on the line.
If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in America,
then Trump
must win.? Elon M.
Guess who? At the opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show: ?National
Socialist
Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And
it wants
peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact
that no
war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in
Europe... The
principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the
nation...
Germany needs peace and desires peace!? *******
boycott x twitter as free will of people
outcry disinvest revolt
make up your mind
donate enroll
CONTROL via FREE WILL
uncontrolled lordless ZEAL
** German Minister of Justice who provided official sanction and
legal
grounds for a series of repressive actions under the Nazi regime
from 1933
until his death in 1941
*** process of Nazification by which Hitler successively
established a
system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects
of German
society "from the economy and trade associations to the media,
culture and
education /Strupp, Christoph/
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/marking-eighty-years-since-hitler-took-power-in-germany-a-880565.html>
**** is a letter written by a 24-year-old who grew up in
suburban Maryland,
to his family. He served in Israel serving in the Israeli
Defense Forces as
a sergeant in the Givati Brigade. He is one of hundreds of
American
volunteer soldiers in the IDF known as ?lone soldiers. /From
The Israel
Forever Foundation/
***** On March 13, 2022, Maks Levin embarked on a car journey to
the
village of Huta-Mezhyhirska, located approximately 40 km from
Kyiv,
together with soldier and former photographer Oleksiy
Chernyshov. Their
purpose was to capture drone photos of the occupied area. They
proceeded
towards the village of Moshchun in search of their lost drone,
following
which all communication with them ceased. On April 1st, Maks
Levin?s
lifeless body was discovered by the police. He had been fatally
shot by the
occupiers. /From the Ukrainer/
****** quotations from circulating letters of M.K. to their
former
professor or mentor
******* from the website of Gordon State College Home | Gordon
State
College <https://www.gordonstate.edu/>
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:12:57 +0200
From: Geert Lovink <[email protected]>
To: nettime-l <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and
join the
campaign
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Dear all,
all your responses so far to the campaign to ban X in the EU,
which only launched last Friday, have been exetremely
interesting and encouraging. Finally there is a debate about
what?s to be done with X.
I am not behind this initiative, the person who initiated it
wants to remain anonymous (for the time being). This person has
not got to do anything with ?Brussels? (neither are sponsered by
the EU or any institution, for that matter). I see this campaign
design first and foremost as a conceptual artwork in the
poltical category. This very much comes from the nettime scene,
let that be clear. And many of you will know why. It is a
tactical media aka post-situationist/communication guerrilla
action (with a very serious intention).
Unfortunately, a call to ban X in the EU will not come from the
so-caled progressive-liberal ?civil society? organizations such
as Bits of Freedom, Netzpolitik and all others of the European
Digital Rights network (https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/)
and campaign should be, first and foremost, read as a radical
call to exactly these organizations to take a stand and follow
the Brazilian example.
There is something bold and desperate in this call, and I
believe there is a need to acknowledge that before we move
on. The stagnation needs to end. Over a decade ago the social
media monopolies were already causing havoc, both on the
political and the mental health levels. At our Institute of
Network Cultures we brought these initiatives together in
2011-2013 under the network name of 'Unlike Us'
(https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/), which, at the time,
already felt a bit late (this was just after the failed Arab
spring). This was launched together with Korinna Patelis, who
was teaching in Cyprus at the time. A Facebook Farewell Party
and similar initiatives followed but nothing happened. It all
ended up in platform capitalism and then, even worse,
techno-feudalism. Calls to fix the broken internet were made,
some alternatives were developed, but none of this found much
resonance amongst the userbase at large.
Europe has so failed to develop an alternative to the US ?free
speech? contruct and thus all discussions, also inside the EU,
are ultimately measured around that constitutional-legal term
(or ideology, for that matter). All regulation effforts will
remain to be framed as censorship and thus all alternatives
remain futile. At best Brussels can send fines to Silicon
Valley? 5-10 years after the fact. No public money is invested
in alternatives.
To say that calling for a ban is lame and will not work and that
we have to emphasize alternatives instead has nothing achieved
anything over the past decade. It is important to admit this. To
merely say this again simply ignores the failure of the
?alternatives? approach. Fediverse-Mastedon etc. might work ok
but still fails to attract many. In particular journalists and
PR crowds continue to be hooked onto X, as are most of the
political class. The dialectics between news media and the
political class remains toxic (to use a very polite word). Cade
Diehm has already said it so much better than I do here. Neither
regulation nor alternatives have achieved much. It is urgent to
come together and have an open dialogue what strategic next
steps might make a real difference.
Yours, Geert
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:02:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: <nettime> Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and
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Dear Geert, This is a HUGE Personal thank you.
More on it later
all the very best
nina cz
Quoting Geert Lovink via nettime-l
<[email protected]>:
Dear all,
all your responses so far to the campaign to ban X in the EU,
which
only launched last Friday, have been exetremely interesting and
encouraging. Finally there is a debate about what?s to be done
with X.
I am not behind this initiative, the person who initiated it
wants
to remain anonymous (for the time being). This person has not
got to
do anything with ?Brussels? (neither are sponsered by the EU or
any
institution, for that matter). I see this campaign design first
and
foremost as a conceptual artwork in the poltical category. This
very
much comes from the nettime scene, let that be clear. And many
of
you will know why. It is a tactical media aka
post-situationist/communication guerrilla action (with a very
serious intention).
Unfortunately, a call to ban X in the EU will not come from the
so-caled progressive-liberal ?civil society? organizations such
as
Bits of Freedom, Netzpolitik and all others of the European
Digital
Rights network (https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/) and
campaign
should be, first and foremost, read as a radical call to
exactly
these organizations to take a stand and follow the Brazilian
example.
There is something bold and desperate in this call, and I
believe
there is a need to acknowledge that before we move on. The
stagnation needs to end. Over a decade ago the social media
monopolies were already causing havoc, both on the political
and the
mental health levels. At our Institute of Network Cultures we
brought these initiatives together in 2011-2013 under the
network
name of 'Unlike Us' (https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/),
which,
at the time, already felt a bit late (this was just after the
failed
Arab spring). This was launched together with Korinna Patelis,
who
was teaching in Cyprus at the time. A Facebook Farewell Party
and
similar initiatives followed but nothing happened. It all ended
up
in platform capitalism and then, even worse,
techno-feudalism. Calls
to fix the broken internet were made, some alternatives were
developed, but none of this found much resonance amongst the
userbase at large.
Europe has so failed to develop an alternative to the US ?free
speech? contruct and thus all discussions, also inside the EU,
are
ultimately measured around that constitutional-legal term (or
ideology, for that matter). All regulation effforts will remain
to
be framed as censorship and thus all alternatives remain
futile. At
best Brussels can send fines to Silicon Valley? 5-10 years
after the
fact. No public money is invested in alternatives.
To say that calling for a ban is lame and will not work and
that we
have to emphasize alternatives instead has nothing achieved
anything
over the past decade. It is important to admit this. To merely
say
this again simply ignores the failure of the ?alternatives?
approach. Fediverse-Mastedon etc. might work ok but still fails
to
attract many. In particular journalists and PR crowds continue
to be
hooked onto X, as are most of the political class. The
dialectics
between news media and the political class remains toxic (to
use a
very polite word). Cade Diehm has already said it so much
better
than I do here. Neither regulation nor alternatives have
achieved
much. It is urgent to come together and have an open dialogue
what
strategic next steps might make a real difference.
Yours, Geert
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:44:59 +0200
From: Geert Lovink <[email protected]>
To: nettime-l <[email protected]>
Subject: <nettime> Program of Platform Blues - November 21, 2024
-
University of Canberra
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Location: Building 1, Level A, Room 21 (Theatre), Bruce (ACT),
Australia
More information:
https://networkcultures.org/events/platform-blues-one-day-conference-at-university-of-canberra/
Free entrance but please register here:
https://events.humanitix.com/platform-blues
Opening: 10:00 ? 10:15am
Welcome ? Geert Lovink and Denise Thwaites
Session 1: 10: 15 ? 11:15am
Hiding in and from the internet: Avoidance and Dissociation
Moderator: Nicole Curato
Ella Barclay ? Visualising Messy Connectivity in Contemporary
Art
This talk provides an overview of her current research,
including her recent institutional solo exhibition Unkempt
Cognition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space and her research as
a 2024 fellow at ZK/U: The Centre of Art and Urbanistics,
Berlin. Ella?s work engages with thematics of agency and fatigue
in a 21st Century connected landscape.
Caroline Fisher ? Young People, Internet and News Avoidance
More than two-thirds of Australians actively avoid the
mainstream news, higher than in many other countries. News
avoidance is particularly high among Gen Z and Y, who have the
lowest interest in mainstream news and feel the most ?worn out?
by it. This sense of fatigue is strongly linked to the use of
social media and feeling unable to avoid unwanted news in their
feeds. Drawing on ten years of news consumption data and
qualitative research, this presentation examines these news
avoidance trends among young Australians in the context of an
everchanging hybrid media landscape.
Morning break (15mins)
Session 2: 11:30 ? 1:30pm
Volatile Spaces: Toxicity and Transformation
Moderator: Ashley van den Heuvel
Erin K. Stapleton ? Catastrophic Loss in Computational Systems:
Mass Accumulation
My personal archive is on Instagram.
I rely on cloud computing for my externalised visual memory.
And at any moment, it could all be lost.
And that is completely beyond my control.
The term ?catastrophic loss? describes total, irretrievable
destruction. While it is a term generally used to describe
environmental disasters, the mechanics of digital storage
beckons for archival loss on a parallel scale. Here, I explore
catastrophic loss as the tension between permanence and
instability in digital systems and the constant threat of
accumulative overwhelm, irretrievable glitches, absolute
obsolesce they offer, while operating in response to the
processes of material destructions that loom across our material
and social worlds. Computational systems are designed for
automation, smoothing difference and complexity into binary,
hierarchical and comparative data categories. The storage of
digital data operates through reduction of complexity and
automated efficiencies, risking the complexities of the
information it stores. Simultaneously, digital storage
efficiencies encourage the mass production, dissemination and
accumulation of data across social media platforms. An
abundance of images, videos, sound, artefacts, the
possibilities of access to these overwhelm, mirroring and
distracting from the material destructions that produced them.
David Nolan ? A Fast-Moving Slow-Motion Car Crash: The 2023
Voice Referendum in Today?s Media Ecology
14 October 2023 was one of the bluest days in recent memory,
taking its place among a roll call of dates of extreme
settler-colonial violence in Australian history. This paper
reflects on the dynamics of a media ecology that constituted
both a structure and vehicle of that violence, positioning it as
a moment of realism and disillusionment. We have lived through
two decades in which resistant practices deploying the
affordances of social media have offered crumbs of hope that
platforms might offer an ?innovative? alternative space to
contest and disrupt oppressive mediated politics. This paper
reflects on findings relating to the communicative dynamics at
play during the 2023 Referendum on an Indigenous Voice to
Parliament to argue that this position is fundamentally flawed.
Despite, and in some respects because of, the desire,
celebration and performance of fresh online voices and
interventions, the contemporary media ecology contributes to and
constitutes a politics that remai
ns and is increasingly - perhaps overwhelmingly - dank in
nature.
Temple Uwalaka ? Social Media Activism in Nigeria
Socio-political activism and its relationship with digital media
diffusion are an ongoing subject of considerable debate among
observers and scholars of social movement. This work discusses
the research trajectory on the impact of networked
activism. Using the Nigerian economic and socio-political arena
as a case study, the paper investigates the contributions of
social media in the implementation of contentious politics in
Nigeria. It argues that social media platforms play significant
roles in the success of socio-political protest movements in the
country. The paper discusses how social media platforms give
voice and visibility to Nigerians and how this prominence is
eroding the power of the political class, as well as creating
alternative deliberative arenas. The paper demonstrates how this
innovative use of technology has shaken the political nerve
centre of Nigeria. Finally, reactions from the political elites
about these changes are outline.
Phoebe Quinn ? Live Polis Experience: Tackling Academic Flying
and Climate Change
This interactive session invites participants to experience
Polis, a digital democracy platform that has been touted as a
'pro-social' alternative to conventional social media. Drawing
from recent research, we?ll have a mini-conversation on a hot
topic within universities: what to do about staff air travel
emissions. Through this hands-on demo, we'll experience the
platform?s design features and critically examine Polis'
capacity to foster productive democratic discussions.
Lunch (1hr)
Session 3 : 2:30 ? 4:30pm
Bittersweet Stories: Making Sense of Uncertainty and Chaos
Moderator: Geert Lovink
Sophie Dumaresqu ? Inter-Species Connection to Find Joy and Love
Among Platform Blues
What is in a postcard? Baby, I Just Want to Make You Smile is an
ongoing series of recorded and live cinematic endurance
performances. The performances consist of the artist (Sophie
Dumaresq) attempting to share a sunset with her handmade 100
kilo, 5 metres long mechanical shark(Baby) by pulling the shark
up a hill. Frankie, the artists' dog is equipped with their own
camera recording and sharing in the performance with
Dumaresq. In this talk, the artist will discuss their experience
in collaborating with both humans and non-humans in creating the
different iterations in which the work exists. The artist
explores how the goofy and vulnerable nature of hybrid material
and digital collaborative performance work can liberate the
romantic from the Romantic with a capital R.
Catherine Page Jefferey ? Collective Anxiety and Media Panics in
an Age of Social and Digital Media
Collective concern about young people?s access to digital media
technologies has increased significantly in recent years,
culminating in widespread calls to ban social media completely
for young people under a certain age both in Australia as well
as overseas. These concerns are based on a range of purported
harms including the impacts of social media on young people?s
mental health, online bullying, exposure to pornography and
violent content, algorithmic profiling, and online extremism.
These calls have emerged against the backdrop of a long history
of media panics about young people and digital media.
Tyne Sumner ? TLDR: The Failure of the Internet Novel
What would happen if we read the internet like a novel? Or, what
happens when novelists write about the internet? The rise of the
so-called ?internet novel? genre suggests that there is
something worth pausing at in the relation between the novel and
contemporary online culture?its immediacy, its banality, its
humour, its loneliness, and its fragmentation. But why would
someone want to read about the dystopian hellscape that many of
us now actively try to get away from? Is it possible to find
leisure in the very thing that produces so much anxiety? Perhaps
the proliferation of the internet novel can be explained by the
innately masochistic drive in human nature. As Sylvia Plath, for
instance, wrote: ?I desire the things which will destroy me in
the end.? This paper begins by asking why several recent
internet novels are so terrible. It ends with an attempt to be
reasonable, and possibly even optimistic.
Mathieu O?Neil ? Countering Platform Blues: Strategies against
Disinformation, Toxicity and Polarisation
When people can no longer tell truth from fiction, we are in an
epistemic crisis. For Haidder and Sundin this primarily stems
from algorithmic curation by online platforms: information is
increasingly volatile (the origins or status of fast-changing
newsfeed content is uncertain), fragmented (complex knowledge is
re-arranged in continuously shifting shapes), and personalised
(access is individualised). Aggravating factors are hostile
influence campaigns seeking to worsen social divisions. The
crisis increases distrust towards the institutions of liberal
democracy such as the news media, science, and representative
politics. Alternative sources are on the rise. Health
influencers have huge audiences; toxic masculinists are idolised
by boys and young men. How can democratic education systems
counter platform blues? In this talk will I outline three
strategic avenues: against disinformation: instilling effective
information processing and curating skills; against toxicity:
reclaiming ma
rtial arts; against polarisation: fostering collaborative
values.
Afternoon break (15 mins)
I got the Right to Sing the Blues
Session 4: 4:45 ? 6:30pm
Moderator: Denise Thwaites
Melinda Rackam ? The Tawdry Nostalgia for Past Forms
I didn?t care about the legacy of -empyre- global media arts
list founded in 2002 as part of my PhD in Virtual Worlds. Then,
after 22 years of robust dialogues between many hundreds of
guests and thousands of members, books, in-person meet ups and
exhibitions including Documenta 12, it went silent. A
cybersecurity sweep of the servers at UNSW Art & Design had
disappeared it and they weren?t talking (to me). My simultaneous
umbrage and tawdry nostalgia for the lost -empyre- has generated
an internal debate on list death as an urgent loss to research
culture necessitating reconstruction, or a prompt to forget it
and move on?
Litia Roko ? Performance
Questioning examples of institutional trolling as
community-building praxis or fleeting antidote in the face of a
culture of 24/7 networked dejection, this lecture-performance
will pick at the ways that museums relate to platforms. In an
all-consuming landscape of doom-scrolling, fragmentation, and
the general misery of the bind in which we find ourselves, why
do institutions continue to approach platforms and the internet
as a tool rather than a culture, and how can we intervene?
Geert Lovink ? From Sad by Design to Platform Brutalism
Brutalism is the title of Achille Mbembe?s 2020 book. Known as
the 1950s rough-concrete architecture style, Mbembe presents the
concept as a ?thought image? that can be seen as a not-so
elegant synonym for the economic laws associated with the term
capitalism in which the emphasis shifts from profit to
violence. Mbembe explains: ?Brutalism is the name given to this
gigantic process of eviction and evacuation as well as to the
draining of vessels and emptying of organic substances.? This
results in naturalizing social war, a development many see
unfolding since Covid and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. In this
lecture I will map my own trajectory, from Zoom fatique and the
use of memes as copium to the weaponization of social media
today. Once we?re stuck on the platform long enough, will the
mood inevitably turn violent?
?
Speaker biographies:
Ella Barclay is a Senior Lecturer at ANU?s School of Art and
Design on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Australia. Her
written, curatorial, and contemporary art practices engage with
network aesthetics and the politics of technological
development. Recent exhibitions include Unkempt Cognition,
Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2024); Openhaus, ZK/U, Berlin
(2024); No Easy Answers, MAMA, Albury (2023); The Ramsay Art
Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia (2021); Stacks and
Sleeves: a PostHuman Landscape, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
(2019); Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media
Art (2017-2020); Curious and Curiouser, Bathurst Regional Art
Gallery (2018-19); Soft Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre,
Western Sydney (2018); Light Geist, Fremantle Art Centre
(2016-17); Bodies Go Wrong, Orgy Park, NY (2016); That Which
Cannot Not Be, Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2016); Almost, Instant
42, Taipei (2016); I Had to Do It, UTS Art, Sydney (2016); and
Elemental Phenomena, Gr
iffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2015). Her work resides
in multiple government, institutional, corporate, and private
collections and she has received several commissions,
residencies, scholarships, and awards.
Nicole Curato is a Fillpina sociologist best known for her
academic work on deliberative democracy, and her media work
providing academic commentary on politics in the
Philippines. She took her bachelor's degree of Sociology at the
university of the Philippines Diliman and her Master's and
Doctoral Degrees in Sociology in the UK. Curato is the recipient
of Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship at the
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the
University of Canberra. The award is funded by the Australian
Research Council.
Sophie Dumaresq is an interdisciplinary artist who brings
perspectives of absurdity, queerness and humour to creative,
critical robotics, automata and mechanics. Working across
photography, video installation, sculpture and performance, her
work explores what it is to try and communicate in a universe
filled with beings whose brains, existence and or bodies are
built inherently differently to that of your own. Her artistic
practice explores what it means to share joy, love and laughter
in our relationships with both other humans and non-humans.
Caroline Fisher is an Associate Professor of Communication, and
core member of the News and Media Research Centre at in the
Faculty of Arts and Design. Caroline is a co-author of the
annual Digital News Report: Australia and CI on two ARC
Discovery Projects: ?The rise of mistrust: Digital platforms and
trust in news media?; ?Valuing News: Aligning Individual,
Institutional and Social Perspectives?. Prior to academia
Caroline worked in journalism and politics.
Ashley van den Heuvel teaches in the Heritage and Indigenous
Studies program at the University of Canberra. She is completing
a PhD at UC called 'Flight across Country' under an ARC Linkage
project called Heritage of the Air. Her research interests link
visual culture, technology, connections to Country and
storying. Her research interests link visual culture,
technology, connections to Country and storying. These interests
are linked to her cross-cultural experiences as a Walbanja woman
from the South Coast of NSW.
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and
activist. His recent books: Organization after Social Media
(with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019), Stuck on the
Platform (2022) and Extinction Internet (2022). He studied
political science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and
received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2003 he
was postdoc at the University of Queensland. In 2004 he founded
the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University
of Applied Sciences (HvA). In 2022 he was appointed Professor of
Art and Network Cultures at the University of Amsterdam (UvA),
art history department.
David Nolan is Associate Professor in the News and Media
Research Centre at the University of Canberra. His work focuses
on journalism studies and contemporary mediated politics,
particularly in relation to the politics of race, ethnicity and
belonging. He has led major research projects and produced a
wide range of international research outputs related to these
themes, and in 2021-2022 was President of the Australia and
Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA).
Mathieu O?Neil is Professor of Communication in the University
of Canberra?s Faculty of Arts and Design and Honorary Associate
Professor of Sociology at the Australian National
University. His research interests lie at the intersection of
political communication and sociology. Mathieu co-founded the
Australian National University?s Virtual Observatory for the
Study of Online networks.
Catherine Page Jefferey is a lecturer and researcher in the
Discipline of Media and Communication at the University of
Sydney. Catherine?s current research addresses digital media and
families, with a particular focus on parenting in the digital
age. She is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC funded
Discovery Project exploring digital sexual literacy amongst
Australian adults.
Phoebe Quinn is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the
University of Melbourne, and associate of the Centre for
Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University
of Canberra. Her work focuses on community wellbeing in the
context of climate change and disasters. Through her doctoral
research, she is exploring the role of innovations in digital
democracy in addressing these challenges, conducting action
research using the platform Polis.
Melinda Rackham is adjunct research professor at UniSA Creative
in Adelaide. She woves tales of intimacy and identity in
networked and virtual worlds when the net was young. Founder of
-empyre-, an online platform for other voices in media arts,
their practice expanded to curate, direct, mentor and
produce. Melinda?s latest book CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions
since 2008, co-authored with Elvis Richardson, probes the
persistence of gender asymmetry in Australia?s artworld.
Litia Roko is an artist interested in the politics of art, the
politics of technology, and the politics of art +
technology. She lives and works on unceded Ngunnawal land.
Erin K Stapleton is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the
University of Canberra. They research in the intersections
between gender, colonialism and queer theory, digital and media
cultures, critical theory, and continental philosophy. Their
book The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and
Media: A Philosophy of Expenditure After Georges Bataille was
published by Amsterdam University Press in 2022.
Tyne Sumner is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in
English & Digital Humanities at the Australian National
University. Her primary research areas are C20th and C21st
literature, surveillance studies, and digital humanities. She
also has expertise in poetry and poetics, critical
infrastructure studies, and digital culture. Her current project
is SurveiLit <https://www.surveilit.com/>, which examines the
representation of new and emerging forms of surveillance in
contemporary global literature. She has published widely on
topics ranging from facial recognition technology and
surveillance software to Australian poetry and cultural
databases. She is President of the Australasian Association for
Digital Humanities (aaDH) and is on the international steering
committee of the Art, AI & Digital Ethics
<https://www.unimelb.edu.au/caide/research/caide-art,-ai-and-digital-ethics>
research collective.
Denise Thwaites is a curator, writer and researcher specialising
in contemporary cultural economies, who is currently Senior
Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of
Canberra. Denise was awarded her PhD in Aesthetics through The
University of New South Wales (Australia) and l?Universit? Paris
8, Vincennes ? Saint-Denis (France), before joining UNSW iCinema
Research Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has worked in the
contemporary arts sector at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia
Council for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art
Australia, and has curated independent projects for cultural
organisations across Australia and internationally. Her research
harnesses poetic, experimental and collaborative modes of
working to destabilise political, cultural and economic
imaginaries.
Temple Uwalaka is a Research Fellow at the Centre for
Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance and a Research
Associate at the News and Media Research Center. He also
lectures at the School of Arts and Communication, Faculty of
Arts and Design, University of Canberra, Australia. His research
interests include digital activism, digital journalism, brand
activism, social marketing campaigns and the use of online and
mobile media to influence political change.
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