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Ben Lyall 💾
@benlyall.bsky.social
👨‍💻 Digital sociologist
🔴 RMIT / Lecturer, Digital Communication
💬 Digital civic lives / wearables / data cultures
👣 On unceded Bunurong & Wurundjeri lands
➖ Em dash enthusiast / Nintendo apologist
but my organisation works so efficiently when it cross-posts across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Teams, and defaults to making announcements for each these via email (the wonderful Outlook) 🥺🥺🥺
October 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Didn't think I'd encounter this again in the wild, but here we are. An example of how to use AI to summarise existing materials, with an AI figure as the example. It's giving "the call is coming from inside the house"...
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
'Generative AI and Broken Futures' in Qualitative Inquiry details an AI-method approach that takes the fieldwork and generates broken visions of futures which participants then 'fix' with their realistic, ground-truth-led understandings of the realities of their industry.
Generative AI and Broken Futures - Sarah Pink, Hannah Korsmeyer, Ben Lyall, 2025
In this article we consider and demonstrate the use of Generative AI (GenAI) in the design of qualitative futures research materials. We discuss how GenAI, and ...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
'Quiet Sustainability' is an in-depth sample of our qualitative fieldwork, ft. two participants and their work in the context of uncertain climate futures. The book is *chef's kiss* 👨‍🍳 if you have any interest in wildly deep fieldwork, storytelling, the climate crisis, and skills/labour.
Quiet Sustainability | 6 | Tacit Knowledge and Emic Capacities in Buil
Notions of “digital transformation” capture an imagined future in which day-to-day work, in many industries, undergoes sweeping digitalisation and automation.
www.taylorfrancis.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
watch out for BFHCs at the local
June 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
the Myers-Briggs for dads
June 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
glad to learn I'm not the only one 😅
June 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
it's been widely reported that this game was in development for a long time... you can tell because DK's main animation is dabbing
June 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM