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
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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
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
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
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
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
2023
Journal Article
Surface and Sublevel Hate
Munn, Luke (2023). Surface and Sublevel Hate. Big Data & Society, 10 (1), 205395172211481. doi: 10.1177/20539517221148136
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
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
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
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
2022
Book
Automation is a myth
Munn, Luke (2022). Automation is a myth. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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