Tama Leaver

@tamaleaver.bsky.social

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🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 3d

Academic folks: I'm looking to try and find one more good, accessible overview article (undergrad level) on the current impact of AI on each of tv, film, music and videogaming for my #WebMedia unit running this (Australian) semester. Recommendations, please?

#AcademicSky

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 3d

Hot damn. 🔥🔥🔥

Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 5d

Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 3d

Have emailed.

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Just sitting down to dinner. Could chat in about 40 mins if that helps?

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 18d

One day all Australian animals will merge together to rule the digital landscape as one hideous unclassifiable megabeast. #NotTheAIApocalypse

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 18d

NB: yes, the image was generated by Al, yes it does have a glaring error in it, yes we thought leaving that error in might provoke people to think about the use of AI for this issue!

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 18d

Call for Papers: The Landscape of Generative AI in Australia: A Critical Look Forward, themed issue of Media International Australia, edited by @suzesrdarov.bsky.social & me.

Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/mia/cal...
Abstracts due Friday 27th February 2026.

#generativeAI

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✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social · 19d

Huge thank you to my amazing PhD supervisors Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social and Crystal Abidin, as well as Eleanor Sandry @zigzaggery.space, and especially all of the friends and colleagues whose support helped me reach this dream milestone. 💖 Excited for what comes next!! ✨

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✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social · 19d

My PhD in Internet Studies was recently conferred by @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, so I'm thrilled to be starting 2026 as *Dr* Rachel Berryman! 🎓🥳 My PhD thesis, "Analysing Virtual Influencers", is now available online - you can download it here: hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937...

🧵Summary below:

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 20d

So: 2026.

Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 20d

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 20d

There is a tsunami of litigation against the social media companies over their harms to teens. It's a little hard to follow because there are so many suits, but a bellwether case is going to trial this month, and Snap just settled its way out of it: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/t...

Snap Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial

www.nytimes.com

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 21d

Quite a few of us did spend a lot of 2025 writing "This is the worst. Do not open." on the box.

No one reads the labels.

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 21d

I apologize for our terrible (possible) export.

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 26d

Sorry to hear that, and I very much feel your pain.

Watching Haidt (and Twenge) get centred staged while most of Australia's media and communications research got summarily ignored for the past two years was ... is ... not great.

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 26d

Maybe that's the unofficial slogan to critical AI thinking this year? ;)

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 29d

The ARC’s processes are back to being farcical, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social

You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone.

How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 29d

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!

This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.

Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.

Reposted by Winnifred R. Louis, Simon J. Greenhill, Martin Tomko , and 5 more Winnifred R. Louis, Simon J. Greenhill, Martin Tomko, Adrian Vickers, Tama Leaver, Joanna Tai, Catherine J. Frieman, Vincent Raoult

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 29d

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · Jan 9

📸 fatfatpankocat

Left image: A cat skeleton in X-ray/CGI above a headline. Right image: A calico cat looking at a computer.

Reposted by David Lazer, Alessandro Nai, Jens Rydgren , and 3 more David Lazer, Alessandro Nai, Jens Rydgren, Tama Leaver, Jill A. Jacobson, Joost van Spanje

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jan 8

PLEASE SHARE

📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”

Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).

Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.

Links in🧵

#commsky

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Jan 8

Great to see the #AoIR2026 🇲🇽 full CFP now up and accepting submissions!
aoir.org/aoir2026/

[Disclaimer: Any fandom references purely coincidental, I'm sure! ;) ]

AI generated image cartoon TARDIS with the #AoIR2026 hashtag, a rainbow painted door and the theme "Regenerations" as a banner.

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Jan 8

The " (not to scale)" really helped! ;)

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jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · Jan 3

Barbra Streisand

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Dec 31

The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Academic Work Tracker Template v2.3 (2026)

docs.google.com

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Dec 25

Feeling very lucky, very spoilt by my partner, and very chuffed my Classic Space #Lego Minifig collection is now complete! #Christmas

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Dec 23

No, it doesn't 'without question' do anything. (Cyber)bullying goes where people go: messaging apps are exempt, games are exempt; the most likely outcome is the same level of bullying takes place on messaging apps like Whatsapp, but it's just less visible to those outside of the bullying dynamic.

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Dec 22

I had a chance to visit a few weeks ago, and absolutely loved it. I was shamed by the lightsaber display at the end, though: several from characters I'd never heard of!

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Dec 19

As we crawl to the end of another unhinged year in Australian research, on behalf of the nation I would just like to say to @arc-tracker.bsky.social

❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE❤️❤️❤️

Have a well-earned break, whoever and wherever you are.

But please don't leave

Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Dec 17

#OutOfOffice on.
Not turning it off until 19 January 2026!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Dec 15

It's reaching that time of year again where I update the Academic Workload Tracker so people can use it in 2026.

If you used it in 2025, please let me know any bugs you encountered, things you wanted that weren't there, or just nice things about how valuable it was.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)

docs.google.com

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