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Ben Lyall Mar 29, 2023

Tama Leaver Mar 29, 2023

I enjoyed chatting with Michelle Elias about the now (in)famous Balenciaga Pope images. To me, they're most interesting not because many people thought they were real, but because they're a good way to start a conversation about how we need to stop presuming photos (or photorealistic images) are true unless we actually know or check the context. Living in generative AI times demands new forms of literacy!

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/balenciaga-pope-might-not-have-been-real-but-its-impact-is/61v1i9h3x

‘Balenciaga Pope’ might not have been real. But its impact is

The image of the 86-year-old wearing high fashion in Rome surprised many. It was too good to be true.

SBS News

Ben Lyall Mar 28, 2023

Jesse Adams Stein Mar 27, 2023

The Speakers' Biographies and Abstracts for the All Hands on Deck 2023 Symposium are now available, check out all the amazing delegates and topics

https://allhandsondeck2023.com/speakers/

#allhandsondeck2023 #symposium #uts #utsdab #design #humangeography #interdisciplinary #climatechange #transitions #justtransitions #work #futureofwork #skills #skillshortage #timingold #alicetwemlow #environmentallabourstudies #environmentalhumanities #craft #makers #making #skill

Speakers’ Bios & Abstracts - All Hands on Deck 2023

Prof Dr Alice Twemlow Prospects and Vestiges of Post-Design Times (in person Keynote) Alice Twemlow is a Professor in the Wim Crouwel Chair in the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a Research Professor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). Her research,

All Hands on Deck 2023 - All Hands on Deck: A cross-disciplinary symposium at UTS Sydney July 2023

Ben Lyall Mar 20, 2023

Fenwick McKelvey Mar 20, 2023

Registeration now open for (un)Stable Diffusions symposium, free online and in person at Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.

Please sign up here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unstable-diffusions-tickets-547903402827

Keynote panels announced too:
Dr. Beth Coleman
Dr. Marion Fourcade
Dr. Mona Sloane
Dr. Lucy Suchman

Follow me and the website for more details:
https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/unstable-diffusions/

(un)Stable Diffusions

A two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations

Eventbrite

Ben Lyall Mar 16, 2023

sorry folks, so-called generative AI won't be able to stop you accidentally doing a 'reply all' to your entire organisation

Ben Lyall Mar 14, 2023

Jesse Adams Stein Mar 14, 2023

What is "All Hands on Deck"? It's a genuinely cross-disciplinary symposium @ UTS 19-21 July 2023, investigating the future of work, skill requirements and material production at a time of human and environmental calamity. It asks: What kinds of work – paid and unpaid – will be genuinely needed in the future, and what sorts of skills and capacities will this require? https://allhandsondeck2023.com/

Convened by myself and Dr Chantel Carr. The keynote speakers are Prof Alice Twemlow and Emeritus Prof Tim Ingold. The Speakers' bios and abstracts info is due out in a matter of days... and the full schedule and registration will be available soon after that.

#allhandsondeck2023 #futureofwork #futureskills #labourstudies #energyfutures #decarbonisation #justtransitions #environmentallabourstudies #design #designstudies #humangeography #labourgeographies #UTS #materialculture #repair #trades #skill #technicalskill #craft #manufacturing #production #workers #industrialrelations

All Hands on Deck Symposium 2023

All Hands on Deck Symposium 2023. Work, skill & material production at a time of human & environmental calamity. UTS, Sydney. Convenors: Dr Jesse Adams Stein, Dr Chantel Carr.

All Hands on Deck 2023 - All Hands on Deck: A cross-disciplinary symposium at UTS Sydney July 2023

Ben Lyall Mar 13, 2023

Me: [typing a quick note to someone on a new collaboration]

Automatic email subject line generation in Gmail: "the final project"

Great omen for a Monday.

Ben Lyall Feb 22, 2023

In this new paper we explore #career information sources used by young people in Australia (both from #government and private enterprise).

We draw on extensive multimethod work done during the pandemic: focus groups, surveys, and online data scraping.

Excited to share after a long period of #policy transition work and embargoes.

https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3010020

Young Australians Navigating the ‘Careers Information Ecology’

The policy orientations of advanced neoliberal democracies situate young people as rational actors who are responsible for their own career outcomes. While career scholars have been critical of how this routinely ignores the unequal effects of structural constraints on personal agency, they have long suggested that young people should have access to the best available ‘roadmaps’ and advice to navigate the uncertainties baked into the contemporary economic landscape. Complementing the significant attention that is given to the (potentially emancipatory) experience of formal careers guidance, we present findings from a multi-method study. We explore young Australians’ (aged 15–24) navigation of careers information through a nationally representative survey (n = 1103), focus groups with 90 participants and an analysis of 15,227 social media comments. We suggest that the variety of formal and informal sources pursued and accessed by young people forms a relational ‘ecology’. This relationality is twofold. First, information is often sequential, and engagements with one source can inform the experience or pursuit of another. Second, navigation of the ecology is marked by a high level of intersubjectivity through interpersonal support networks including peers, family and formal service provision. These insights trouble a widespread, but perhaps simplistic, reading of young people having largely internalised a neoliberal sensibility of ‘entrepreneurial selfhood’ in their active pursuit of a range of career advice. Throughout our analysis, we attend to the ways that engagement in the career information ecology is shaped by social inequalities, further underscoring challenges facing careers guidance and social justice goals.

MDPI

Ben Lyall Feb 14, 2023

Very well played...

https://apo.org.au/node/321501

The Australian Centre for Disease Control (ACDC): highway to health

The authors of this report argue that the Albanese Government’s promised Australian Centre for Disease Control, or ACDC, could provide the wake-up call Australia needs - but only if preventing chronic disease is a core part of its mission.

Ben Lyall Dec 27, 2022

Kathy Reid Dec 27, 2022

Excellent piece from @mikejones and @bestqualitycrab for @theconversationau covering the funding issue with #Trove at the National Library of Australia (who I don't think are on Mastodon).

Trove is an #API, which I've demo'd before at places like VALA, which makes the NLA's collections easily query-able.

Trove is #digitalinfrastructure for #digitalhumanities, #socialscience, #archives, #museums and other #GLAM activities.

And it's invisible. Which means it doesn't attract the funding or attention it deserves. Trove archives over 6 billion digital items. Items which speak to Australia's #CulturalHeritage.

If Trove were a supercomputer, it would be funded. If our digitalhumanities were as sexy as #STEM, Trove would be funded. But they're the same type of thing - digital #infrastructure that helps research. Trove is #ResearchInfrastructure. And we should fund it properly.

https://theconversation.com/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-and-the-national-library-is-threatening-to-pull-the-plug-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-197025

Trove's funding runs out in July 2023 – and the National Library is threatening to pull the plug. It's time for a radical overhaul

Seven years after the #fundtrove campaign, the National Library’s Trove is once again under threat – and it’s part of a broader neglect of Australia’s cultural institutions.

The Conversation

Ben Lyall Dec 18, 2022

When the exit strategies from big social are 80% talking about 'where we can find you'...

Yeah, we're going to be figuring this out this transition for a while.

🎓 uni research profile	https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/ben-lyall
🔍 things I research	Spinning plates in areas of: work futures, self-tracking, digital health, youth transitions, public services
📑 things I've written	https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=33KxaVUAAAAJ&hl=en
❓ non-work tidbits	Long-armed, Nintendo apologist with two dogs. Managing ulcerative colitis 💩 Grew up on a banana farm 🍌 he/him