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Dr Luke Munn
Dr

Luke Munn

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Overview

Background

My work explores the digital cultures that increasingly shape our lives, combining a deep understanding of technical logics (code, infrastructures, architectures) with a critical awareness of race and class, gender and labor, epistemologies and ecologies. This interweaving “offers new and critical insight” (Prof Starosielski, NYU) and makes me an “original voice” (Prof Pasquale, Cornell), leading to my current role as an ARC Future Fellow. I have developed an international profile through six monographs with leading presses such as Automation is a Myth (Stanford), Technical Territories (Michigan) and Red Pilled (Transcript) as well as 45 articles as lead or solo author, with 25 in high ranked (Q1 or Q2) journals. My work has shaped current debates, being cited by The Guardian, the Washington Post, and appearing in Scientific American. My teaching has been praised by scholars and students and draws directly on my cutting-edge research to diagnose contemporary conditions. I actively mentor the next generation of scholars through regular workshops, seminars, and collaboration on real-world projects.

Availability

Dr Luke Munn is:
Available for supervision

Works

Search Professor Luke Munn’s works on UQ eSpace

55 works between 2017 and 2025

21 - 40 of 55 works

2023

Journal Article

The five tests: designing and evaluating AI according to indigenous Māori principles

Munn, Luke (2023). The five tests: designing and evaluating AI according to indigenous Māori principles. AI & SOCIETY, 39 (4), 1673-1681. doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01636-x

The five tests: designing and evaluating AI according to indigenous Māori principles

2023

Book

Red pilled - The allure of digital hate

Munn, Luke (2023). Red pilled - The allure of digital hate. Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735

Red pilled - The allure of digital hate

2023

Book

Countering the cloud: thinking with and against data infrastructures

Munn, Luke (2023). Countering the cloud: thinking with and against data infrastructures. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003341185

Countering the cloud: thinking with and against data infrastructures

2023

Journal Article

The end of prediction? AI technologies in a no-Analog world

Munn, Luke (2023). The end of prediction? AI technologies in a no-Analog world. Sub-Stance, 52 (2), 59-73. doi: 10.1353/sub.2023.a907149

The end of prediction? AI technologies in a no-Analog world

2023

Journal Article

Red territory: forging infrastructural power

Munn, Luke (2023). Red territory: forging infrastructural power. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11 (1), 80-99. doi: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1805353

Red territory: forging infrastructural power

2023

Journal Article

Surface and Sublevel Hate

Munn, Luke (2023). Surface and Sublevel Hate. Big Data & Society, 10 (1), 205395172211481. doi: 10.1177/20539517221148136

Surface and Sublevel Hate

2022

Journal Article

Have faith and question everything: understanding QAnon's allure

Munn, Luke (2022). Have faith and question everything: understanding QAnon's allure. Platform: Journal of Media and Communication, 9 (1), 80-97. doi: 10.46580/p67734

Have faith and question everything: understanding QAnon's allure

2022

Journal Article

The uselessness of AI ethics

Munn, Luke (2022). The uselessness of AI ethics. AI and Ethics, 3 (3), 869-877. doi: 10.1007/s43681-022-00209-w

The uselessness of AI ethics

2022

Journal Article

Thinking through silicon: cables and servers as epistemic infrastructures

Munn, Luke (2022). Thinking through silicon: cables and servers as epistemic infrastructures. New Media and Society, 24 (6), 1399-1416. doi: 10.1177/1461444820977197

Thinking through silicon: cables and servers as epistemic infrastructures

2022

Journal Article

Dying on Airbnb: digital infrastructures and deadly spaces

Munn, Luke (2022). Dying on Airbnb: digital infrastructures and deadly spaces. The Information Society, 38 (3), 218-225. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2022.2071217

Dying on Airbnb: digital infrastructures and deadly spaces

2022

Book

Automation is a myth

Munn, Luke (2022). Automation is a myth. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Automation is a myth

2022

Journal Article

Sustainable hate: how Gab built a durable "platform for the people"

Munn, Luke (2022). Sustainable hate: how Gab built a durable "platform for the people". Canadian Journal of Communication, 47 (1), 219-240. doi: 10.22230/cjc.2022v47n1a4037

Sustainable hate: how Gab built a durable "platform for the people"

2022

Journal Article

Twinned power: formations of cloud-edge control

Munn, Luke (2022). Twinned power: formations of cloud-edge control. Information Communication and Society, 25 (7), 975-991. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1808043

Twinned power: formations of cloud-edge control

2022

Book Chapter

Automation is a myth

Munn, Luke (2022). Automation is a myth. Materializing digital futures: touch, movement, sound and vision. (pp. 289-303) edited by Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Automation is a myth

2021

Journal Article

Data and the new oil: Cloud computing’s lubrication of the petrotechnical

Munn, Luke (2021). Data and the new oil: Cloud computing’s lubrication of the petrotechnical. Journal of Environmental Media, 2 (2), 211-227. doi: 10.1386/jem_00063_1

Data and the new oil: Cloud computing’s lubrication of the petrotechnical

2021

Journal Article

More than a mob: Parler as preparatory media for the Capitol storming

Munn, Luke (2021). More than a mob: Parler as preparatory media for the Capitol storming. First Monday, 26 (3). doi: 10.5210/fm.v26i3.11574

More than a mob: Parler as preparatory media for the Capitol storming

2021

Journal Article

Sand, silica, silicon: Singapore's triple territories

Munn, Luke (2021). Sand, silica, silicon: Singapore's triple territories. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 7 (1), 220-246. doi: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.7.1.0220

Sand, silica, silicon: Singapore's triple territories

2020

Book

Logic of feeling: technology's quest to capitalize emotion

Munn, Luke (2020). Logic of feeling: technology's quest to capitalize emotion. London, United Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield.

Logic of feeling: technology's quest to capitalize emotion

2020

Journal Article

Angry by design: toxic communication and technical architectures

Munn, Luke (2020). Angry by design: toxic communication and technical architectures. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7 (1) 53, 1-11. doi: 10.1057/s41599-020-00550-7

Angry by design: toxic communication and technical architectures

2020

Journal Article

Staying at the edge of privacy: edge computing and impersonal extraction

Munn, Luke (2020). Staying at the edge of privacy: edge computing and impersonal extraction. Media and Communication, 8 (2), 270-279. doi: 10.17645/mac.v8i2.2761

Staying at the edge of privacy: edge computing and impersonal extraction

Funding

Current funding

  • 2026 - 2030
    After the Future of Work: Platformised Labour in a Hotter Australia
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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