Lisa Bode
lisabode.bsky.social
Lisa Bode
@lisabode.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, UQ. Author of Making Believe: screen performance and special effects in popular cinema (Rutgers UP, 2017). interests: film and technology history; AI aesthetics and culture; silent cinema; animals, food
Buster’s last truly great film ❤️
February 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This is why its so important for those of us who teach to refuse unnecessary uncritical use of AI to think, read, write, create.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.
Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you.

The effort is the point.
February 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Saw Emilie K. Sunde give a brilliant presentation yesterday at Artificial Visionaries symposium- definitely a scholar to watch!
Out now - Special issue ‘Seeing Photographically’ (Media Theory 8.1, 2024), edited by Scott McQuire, Celia Lury, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, Daniel Palmer and Emilie K. Sunde.

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November 28, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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A petition started by Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, co-presidents of the ad hoc group of film professionals Missing Movies, is calling on Academy leadership, including president Janet Yang and Kramer, to rehire the 16 employees who were “summarily fired.” www.thewrap.com/academy-film...
Indie Film Community Calls Gutting of Academy Archive 'Disastrous' | Exclusive
The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library.
www.thewrap.com
November 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Hey friends! I went and quickly put together a starter pack for those of us who research media technology history. It's got some glaring ommisions at the moment, so please send me more names.
November 18, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Today is publication day for my book DIGITAL VICTORIANS, part of @stanfordpress.bsky.social 's excellent series in Text Technologies www.sup.org/books/litera... (use code FYFE20 for a discount!)
Digital Victorians | Stanford University Press
Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, the...
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October 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Buster Keaton - The Cook (1918)

#oldhollywood #damfino #busterkeaton #silentfilms
November 13, 2024 at 10:25 AM