Peta Mitchell
@petamitchell.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Media at QUT Digital Media Research Centre, researching digital and media geographies, digital cultures, digital inclusion
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How good is it to have a dedicated, publicly funded emergency broadcaster? Grateful to all the ABC local radio teams, keeping us company, making sure we're informed and connected, and bringing comfort to their communities this morning, as #tcalfred finally crosses the coast.
March 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How good is it to have a dedicated, publicly funded emergency broadcaster? Grateful to all the ABC local radio teams, keeping us company, making sure we're informed and connected, and bringing comfort to their communities this morning, as #tcalfred finally crosses the coast.
Ah, it all becomes clear. DOGE's attack on waste is an attack on W.A.S.T.E. Time to unmute the post horn 📯🗑️
As someone who didn’t understand that Pynchon book, this is bad
📬🚨 HUGE NEWS 📬🚨
Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department.
It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.
Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department.
It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.
February 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Ah, it all becomes clear. DOGE's attack on waste is an attack on W.A.S.T.E. Time to unmute the post horn 📯🗑️
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From @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social "The choices academics make now, how we think and talk about the new possibilities which are opening up, alongside many others, will shape the nature of the AI university" @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Generative AI is a hinge point for higher education
Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI st…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social "The choices academics make now, how we think and talk about the new possibilities which are opening up, alongside many others, will shape the nature of the AI university" @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Some reflections with colleagues @nedwatt.bsky.social and @riedlinm.bsky.social at @theconvo-bot.bsky.social on Meta's decision to end its professionally funded fact-checking model in its platforms and adopt the X crowdsourcing model with a new 'community notes'👇 theconversation.com/meta-is-aban...
Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Some reflections with colleagues @nedwatt.bsky.social and @riedlinm.bsky.social at @theconvo-bot.bsky.social on Meta's decision to end its professionally funded fact-checking model in its platforms and adopt the X crowdsourcing model with a new 'community notes'👇 theconversation.com/meta-is-aban...
Deeply unserious government
November 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Deeply unserious government
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I was asked to write a short explainer about Bluesky for The Conversation - I hope I haven't done anything to annoy the more committed community members (I was an ambivalent and pretty slack early adopter). theconversation.com/what-is-blue...
What is Bluesky? Why tens of millions of people are heading for a ‘decentralised’ social media platform
With a name that invokes freedom and a clean start and a design that promises to put control back in our hands, the Bluesky platform is attracting users away from Twitter/X en masse.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:22 AM
I was asked to write a short explainer about Bluesky for The Conversation - I hope I haven't done anything to annoy the more committed community members (I was an ambivalent and pretty slack early adopter). theconversation.com/what-is-blue...
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This time next week we will be welcoming an incredible line-up of researchers to Monash's Caulfield campus in Naarm/Melbourne and via Zoom, for our tenth (!!) Digital Intimacies conference! Draft program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A5...
Digital Intimacies DRAFT PROGRAM November 2024.pdf
drive.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:03 PM
This time next week we will be welcoming an incredible line-up of researchers to Monash's Caulfield campus in Naarm/Melbourne and via Zoom, for our tenth (!!) Digital Intimacies conference! Draft program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A5...
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Super excited about our successfully funded #ARC Discovery #DP25 application on GenAI and the future of academic writing and publishing, led by @riedlinm.bsky.social, with Jake Goldenfein, @jeanburgess.bsky.social, & Aaron Snoswell. Get ready to hear lots more about Research GenAI or #RGAI from us!
November 26, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Super excited about our successfully funded #ARC Discovery #DP25 application on GenAI and the future of academic writing and publishing, led by @riedlinm.bsky.social, with Jake Goldenfein, @jeanburgess.bsky.social, & Aaron Snoswell. Get ready to hear lots more about Research GenAI or #RGAI from us!
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Are you interested in a variety of perspectives and research on automation and society, and in branching out beyond Europe and North America? If the answer's yes, then I have a great starter pack for you
ADM+S Centre Researchers Starter Pack - Connect with our researchers from humanities, social sciences, and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network go.bsky.app/Jgb93KG
November 25, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Are you interested in a variety of perspectives and research on automation and society, and in branching out beyond Europe and North America? If the answer's yes, then I have a great starter pack for you
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A new episode of the @qutdmrc.bsky.social podcast Read Them Sideways is out! Hosted by @svegaard.bsky.social, he chatted with Aljosha Karim Schapals about the release of a new book he has co-edited: Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes.
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Episode 15: International media landscapes with Aljosha Karim Schapals
Read Them Sideways · Episode
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November 24, 2024 at 11:50 PM
A new episode of the @qutdmrc.bsky.social podcast Read Them Sideways is out! Hosted by @svegaard.bsky.social, he chatted with Aljosha Karim Schapals about the release of a new book he has co-edited: Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes.
open.spotify.com/episode/5htz...
open.spotify.com/episode/5htz...
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Here's my analysis on the rushing of the social media ban bill. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If so many experts oppose a social-media age ban, why is the government intent on rushing it through?
Labor has been at pains to say people won’t need digital ID or to hand over their passport – but there’s nothing in legislation preventing it
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Here's my analysis on the rushing of the social media ban bill. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...