Kate Clark
@kateeuph.bsky.social
Researcher on new media and immersive reality technologies 👩💻🎮 exploring the relationship between gender, inclusion, and new media
Founding member of the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research network (cavrn.org)
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Founding member of the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research network (cavrn.org)
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Kate Clark
@kateeuph.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Finally submitted my PhD 🥳 and got around to creating a profile around here 👋
Had a great time yesterday presenting my PhD research at #DiGRAA2025 on VR, embodiment, and how we can rethink how we talk about VRs embodiment in mainstream discourses - looking forward to another fun day today!
February 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Had a great time yesterday presenting my PhD research at #DiGRAA2025 on VR, embodiment, and how we can rethink how we talk about VRs embodiment in mainstream discourses - looking forward to another fun day today!
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At DiGRA Australia's 2025 conference today presenting on my work looking into ways to make games more available in higher education! Excellent opportunity to tap into everyone's expertise and experiences in this area.
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
At DiGRA Australia's 2025 conference today presenting on my work looking into ways to make games more available in higher education! Excellent opportunity to tap into everyone's expertise and experiences in this area.
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I am in Adelaide for DiGRA Australia’s national conference the next three days! There probably won’t be any liveposting because no one really does that any more but here is the great program: digraa.org/post/digraa-...
DiGRAA 2025 Conference Programme – DiGRA Australia
digraa.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I am in Adelaide for DiGRA Australia’s national conference the next three days! There probably won’t be any liveposting because no one really does that any more but here is the great program: digraa.org/post/digraa-...
Can't wait for this book to come out! I have a chapter in here about VR embodiment along with an excellent list of VR scholars. Also amazing work Leighton putting it all together 👏
January 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Can't wait for this book to come out! I have a chapter in here about VR embodiment along with an excellent list of VR scholars. Also amazing work Leighton putting it all together 👏
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Monash University has today admitted to a fresh round of wage theft from casual teachers. Australia’s largest uni has underpaid teachers a further $7.6m, taking Monash’s total underpayments to $17.6m since 2021
January 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Monash University has today admitted to a fresh round of wage theft from casual teachers. Australia’s largest uni has underpaid teachers a further $7.6m, taking Monash’s total underpayments to $17.6m since 2021
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News payments announcement expected today. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese government to force tech giants to keep paying media publishers for news
Announcement expected on Thursday after Facebook’s parent company Meta said it would opt out of a Morrison-era deal to pay for news
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:01 PM
News payments announcement expected today. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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If you are a journalist who is covering OpenAI and its product launches this week, consider also covering this report from myself and AI Now, which sheds light on OpenAI's origins, and how it wields a story about emergent AGI to sell those products and services
Two years into the AI boom, it's imperative we understand the true power of "AGI"—as a narrative tool useful for winning investment, talent and headlines.
My report for AI Now details how OpenAI used the story of a rising AI that will replace humans to replace the need for an actual business model.
My report for AI Now details how OpenAI used the story of a rising AI that will replace humans to replace the need for an actual business model.
Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway.
Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
December 5, 2024 at 6:50 PM
If you are a journalist who is covering OpenAI and its product launches this week, consider also covering this report from myself and AI Now, which sheds light on OpenAI's origins, and how it wields a story about emergent AGI to sell those products and services
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Should other countries follow Australia’s example and ban under-16s from social media?
I was thrilled to finally have @cameronwilson.bsky.social on the show to get the scoop on what’s driving the policy and why it would be better to take a different approach.
I was thrilled to finally have @cameronwilson.bsky.social on the show to get the scoop on what’s driving the policy and why it would be better to take a different approach.
Australia is banning under-16s from social media. What led to that policy. Is it the best approach to address platform harms?
This week @cameronwilson.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the decision and Australia’s broader approach to tech policy.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/253_...
This week @cameronwilson.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the decision and Australia’s broader approach to tech policy.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/253_...
December 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Should other countries follow Australia’s example and ban under-16s from social media?
I was thrilled to finally have @cameronwilson.bsky.social on the show to get the scoop on what’s driving the policy and why it would be better to take a different approach.
I was thrilled to finally have @cameronwilson.bsky.social on the show to get the scoop on what’s driving the policy and why it would be better to take a different approach.
Had a great time at Digital Intimacies today, where I got the chance to talk about some of my PhD research! It was my first conference post-submission and it's so great to finally get my research out there
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Had a great time at Digital Intimacies today, where I got the chance to talk about some of my PhD research! It was my first conference post-submission and it's so great to finally get my research out there
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Digital Intimacies X in full swing!
We were so lucky to hear from our original conference organisers about the event and the field of digital intimacies, with excellent provocations from current scholars in the field: Embrace vulnerability. Think community, not citations. Open up the space.
We were so lucky to hear from our original conference organisers about the event and the field of digital intimacies, with excellent provocations from current scholars in the field: Embrace vulnerability. Think community, not citations. Open up the space.
December 4, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Digital Intimacies X in full swing!
We were so lucky to hear from our original conference organisers about the event and the field of digital intimacies, with excellent provocations from current scholars in the field: Embrace vulnerability. Think community, not citations. Open up the space.
We were so lucky to hear from our original conference organisers about the event and the field of digital intimacies, with excellent provocations from current scholars in the field: Embrace vulnerability. Think community, not citations. Open up the space.
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In session in the Federal Court for Monash Uni’s wage theft case. I’ll be live posting from this hearing today. The NTEU alleges Australia’s largest university has not lawfully paid hundreds, perhaps thousands, of its casual teachers going back to 2016. Justice Snaden is the judge.
December 3, 2024 at 11:18 PM
In session in the Federal Court for Monash Uni’s wage theft case. I’ll be live posting from this hearing today. The NTEU alleges Australia’s largest university has not lawfully paid hundreds, perhaps thousands, of its casual teachers going back to 2016. Justice Snaden is the judge.
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Wrote a little thing about the Unpacking scam game situation on the Nintendo eShop, with a few words from the Witch Beam folks and @vook64.bsky.social.
These are all still up in the store, one week later.
www.patreon.com/posts/unpack...
These are all still up in the store, one week later.
www.patreon.com/posts/unpack...
December 2, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Wrote a little thing about the Unpacking scam game situation on the Nintendo eShop, with a few words from the Witch Beam folks and @vook64.bsky.social.
These are all still up in the store, one week later.
www.patreon.com/posts/unpack...
These are all still up in the store, one week later.
www.patreon.com/posts/unpack...
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Excellent overview of key findings from our study of LGBTQ+ young people's experiences of workplace sexual harassment. The full report is out today (see link in the article) theconversation.com/new-research...
New research: 77% of LGBTQ young people have faced workplace sexual harassment
In a landmark study of 1,000 LGBTQ young people, we found many experience threats to “fix” them through sexual violence.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Excellent overview of key findings from our study of LGBTQ+ young people's experiences of workplace sexual harassment. The full report is out today (see link in the article) theconversation.com/new-research...
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A big win for the NTEU. Australia’s vice-chancellors are amongst the highest paid in the world but they’ve been poor stewards of higher education, unable to explain its national importance or to advocate effectively for HASS. This is long overdue:
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
November 25, 2024 at 8:23 PM
A big win for the NTEU. Australia’s vice-chancellors are amongst the highest paid in the world but they’ve been poor stewards of higher education, unable to explain its national importance or to advocate effectively for HASS. This is long overdue:
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
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Scrolling through user reception to this (very long-awaited) feature in VRC and seeing obvious concerns about data privacy, desires for adult social spaces (safe spaces away from children!), and expectations for the silo-ing of players (fears of being stuck in ‘Quest kid day care’).
Introducing Age Verification - a new system designed to increase trust between VRChat users.
youtu.be/odiNjIFUNvw
youtu.be/odiNjIFUNvw
Introducing Age Verification | Developer Update #vrchat
YouTube video by VRChat
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Scrolling through user reception to this (very long-awaited) feature in VRC and seeing obvious concerns about data privacy, desires for adult social spaces (safe spaces away from children!), and expectations for the silo-ing of players (fears of being stuck in ‘Quest kid day care’).
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"Germany bears considerable complicity."
A group of prominent German intellectuals say their country should be held accountable for Israeli crimes in Gaza and be forced to pay reparations for the massive destruction.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/3s86v8
A group of prominent German intellectuals say their country should be held accountable for Israeli crimes in Gaza and be forced to pay reparations for the massive destruction.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/3s86v8
November 29, 2024 at 7:20 PM
"Germany bears considerable complicity."
A group of prominent German intellectuals say their country should be held accountable for Israeli crimes in Gaza and be forced to pay reparations for the massive destruction.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/3s86v8
A group of prominent German intellectuals say their country should be held accountable for Israeli crimes in Gaza and be forced to pay reparations for the massive destruction.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/3s86v8
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The Australian government rushed through legislation to ban under 16s from using social media - a measure widely criticised by experts.
But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts.
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But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts.
🤷♀️
November 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM
The Australian government rushed through legislation to ban under 16s from using social media - a measure widely criticised by experts.
But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts.
🤷♀️
But after 18 months they haven't been able to implement a total ban on gambling ads to protect children - a measure almost unanimously supported by experts.
🤷♀️
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Shameful. If this actually translates to any meaningful action, those who support it now will quickly come to regret it. I also suspect this will be extremely difficult to undo.
Children to be banned from social media from next year after parliament votes through world-first laws
The government and opposition moved fast to ram through the bill before the end of the parliamentary year, sparking calls for more scrutiny from some Coalition MPs, independents and the Greens.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Shameful. If this actually translates to any meaningful action, those who support it now will quickly come to regret it. I also suspect this will be extremely difficult to undo.
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All you need to know about how much the government actually understands youth online safety: Apparently YouTube is "primarily for the purposes of education and health support"
www.pm.gov.au/media/social...
www.pm.gov.au/media/social...
www.pm.gov.au
November 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
All you need to know about how much the government actually understands youth online safety: Apparently YouTube is "primarily for the purposes of education and health support"
www.pm.gov.au/media/social...
www.pm.gov.au/media/social...
Excited to be speaking on my PhD research at Digital Intimacies this week 🤓
Digital Intimacies is shaping up beautifully! We look forward to welcoming a wonderful group of scholars to Monash next week.
You can check out the program here: digintx2024.tumblr.com and register here to attend in-person or join the livestream: events.humanitix.com/digital-inti...
You can check out the program here: digintx2024.tumblr.com and register here to attend in-person or join the livestream: events.humanitix.com/digital-inti...
Digital Intimacies X
December 4, 5, & 6; Monash University, Caulfield + Livestream Sponsored by Monash University and...
digintx2024.tumblr.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Excited to be speaking on my PhD research at Digital Intimacies this week 🤓
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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Elon Musk’s X/Twitter is claiming ownership of all accounts on its platform in the Infowars bankruptcy case, where The Onion has purchased all assets
This reminds you that you do not own your social media accounts
"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."
🔗 www.404media.co/xs-objection...
This reminds you that you do not own your social media accounts
"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."
🔗 www.404media.co/xs-objection...
November 26, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Elon Musk’s X/Twitter is claiming ownership of all accounts on its platform in the Infowars bankruptcy case, where The Onion has purchased all assets
This reminds you that you do not own your social media accounts
"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."
🔗 www.404media.co/xs-objection...
This reminds you that you do not own your social media accounts
"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."
🔗 www.404media.co/xs-objection...
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ADM+S researchers from our ‘Critical Capabilities for Inclusive #AI’ project recently hosted a workshop at the Australian Red Cross 2024 Humanitech Summit, inviting participants to consider the potential of community data for building community resilience.
🔗 www.admscentre.org.au/critical-cap...
🔗 www.admscentre.org.au/critical-cap...
November 26, 2024 at 3:19 AM
ADM+S researchers from our ‘Critical Capabilities for Inclusive #AI’ project recently hosted a workshop at the Australian Red Cross 2024 Humanitech Summit, inviting participants to consider the potential of community data for building community resilience.
🔗 www.admscentre.org.au/critical-cap...
🔗 www.admscentre.org.au/critical-cap...
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This is an essential story and well done to everyone interviewed for it. Mark Serrel. @serrels.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Australian gaming journalism has 'pretty well evaporated' and video game creators say that's a problem
Australians spent $4.4 billion on video gaming last year, but finding information on how best to spend their money is challenging.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM
This is an essential story and well done to everyone interviewed for it. Mark Serrel. @serrels.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...