Luke Munn is a Research Fellow in Digital Cultures & Societies at the University of Queensland. His wide-ranging work investigates the sociocultural impacts of digital cultures, from data infrastructures in Asia to platform labor and far-right radicalisation, and has been featured in highly regarded journals such as Cultural Politics, Big Data & Society, and New Media & Society as well as popular forums like the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. He has written five books: Unmaking the Algorithm (2018), Logic of Feeling (2020), Automation is a Myth (2022), Countering the Cloud (2022), and Technical Territories (2023 forthcoming). His work combines diverse digital methods with critical analysis that draws on media, race, and cultural studies.
Journal Article: Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models
Munn, Luke and Henrickson, Leah (2024). Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models. Learning, Media and Technology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2327024
Journal Article: (Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze
Arora, Vanicka, Magee, Liam and Munn, Luke (2024). (Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze. Journal of Social Archaeology. doi: 10.1177/14696053241237949
Book Chapter: Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI
Munn, Luke (2023). Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI. Introduction to Digital Humanism. (pp. 557-569) Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5_35
Technical territories: data, subjects, and spaces in infrastructural Asia
Munn, Luke (2023). Technical territories: data, subjects, and spaces in infrastructural Asia. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: University of Michigan Press. doi: 10.3998/mpub.12584902
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
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
Munn, Luke (2022). Automation is a myth. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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.
Ferocious logics: unmaking the algorithm
Munn, Luke (2018). Ferocious logics: unmaking the algorithm. Luneburg, Germany: Meson Press.
Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI
Munn, Luke (2023). Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI. Introduction to Digital Humanism. (pp. 557-569) Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5_35
Munn, Luke (2023). 8chan's Playful Hate. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 35-60) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-003
Munn, Luke (2023). Acknowledgements. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 11-14) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-001
Munn, Luke (2023). Contents. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 7-10) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-toc
Munn, Luke (2023). Drawn into Hate. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 15-34) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-002
Munn, Luke (2023). Drawn out of Hate. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 155-174) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-007
Munn, Luke (2023). Frontmatter. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 1-6) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-fm
Munn, Luke (2023). Gab's Friendly Hate. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 125-154) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-006
Munn, Luke (2023). Parler's Patriotic Hate. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 95-124) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-005
Munn, Luke (2023). QAnon's Righteous Hate. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 61-94) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-004
Munn, Luke (2023). References. Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate. (pp. 175-206) Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefeld University Press / transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839466735-008
Munn, Luke (2022). Automation is a myth. Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision. (pp. 289-303) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Chip, body, earth: toxic temporalities of Intel processor production
Munn, Luke (2020). Chip, body, earth: toxic temporalities of Intel processor production. The temporalities of waste: out of sight, out of time. (pp. 47-58) edited by Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan and Karma Eddison-Cogan. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429317170-5
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models
Munn, Luke and Henrickson, Leah (2024). Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models. Learning, Media and Technology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2327024
(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze
Arora, Vanicka, Magee, Liam and Munn, Luke (2024). (Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze. Journal of Social Archaeology. doi: 10.1177/14696053241237949
Fleming, Catharine A. K., Sharma, Deepika, Brunacci, Kaitlyn, Chandra, Shiva, Lala, Girish, Munn, Luke and Third, Amanda (2023). Fix my food: An urgent call to action from adolescents on how they experience and want to see change in their food systems. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 36 (6), 2295-2309. doi: 10.1111/jhn.13228
Toxic play: examining the issue of hate within gaming
Munn, Luke (2023). Toxic play: examining the issue of hate within gaming. First Monday, 28 (9). doi: 10.5210/fm.v28i9.12508
Truth machines: synthesizing veracity in AI language models
Munn, Luke, Magee, Liam and Arora, Vanicka (2023). Truth machines: synthesizing veracity in AI language models. AI & SOCIETY. doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01756-4
Structured like a language model: Analysing AI as an automated subject
Magee, Liam, Arora, Vanicka and Munn, Luke (2023). Structured like a language model: Analysing AI as an automated subject. Big Data & Society, 10 (2) ARTN 20539517231210273. doi: 10.1177/20539517231210273
Tika technology an alternative blueprint for digitalisation
Munn, Luke (2023). Tika technology an alternative blueprint for digitalisation. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 17 (1), 153-168. doi: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.17.1.0153
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. doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01636-x
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
Munn, Luke (2023). Surface and Sublevel Hate. Big Data & Society, 10 (1), 205395172211481. doi: 10.1177/20539517221148136
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
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, 80-97. doi: 10.46580/p67734
Munn, Luke (2022). The uselessness of AI ethics. AI and Ethics, 3 (3), 869-877. doi: 10.1007/s43681-022-00209-w
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. doi: 10.1057/s41599-020-00550-7
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
Injecting failure: data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience
Munn, Luke (2020). Injecting failure: data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience. Information Society, 36 (3), 167-176. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2020.1737607
Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized
Munn, Luke (2020). Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized. Glocalism (1). doi: 10.12893/gjcpi.2020.1.3
From the black atlantic to black-scholes: precursors of spatial capitalization
Munn, Luke (2020). From the black atlantic to black-scholes: precursors of spatial capitalization. Cultural Politics, 16 (1), 92-110. doi: 10.1215/17432197-8017284
Machine readable race: constructing racial information in the Third Reich
Munn, Luke (2020). Machine readable race: constructing racial information in the Third Reich. Open Information Science, 4 (1), 143-155. doi: 10.1515/opis-2020-0011
Subordinated to Oneself: The Switchboard Operator as Early Self Manager
Munn, Luke (2019). Subordinated to Oneself: The Switchboard Operator as Early Self Manager. Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, 4 (2), 51-63. doi: 10.33391/jgjh.58
Alt-right pipeline: Individual journeys to extremism online
Munn, Luke (2019). Alt-right pipeline: Individual journeys to extremism online. First Monday, 24 (6), 1-19. doi: 10.5210/fm.v24i6.10108
Cash burning machine: Uber’s logic of planetary expansion
Munn, Luke (2019). Cash burning machine: Uber’s logic of planetary expansion. TripleC, 17 (2), 1-17. doi: 10.31269/triplec.v17i2.1097
Clouded data: privacy and the promise of encryption
Munn, Luke, Hristova, Tsvetelina and Magee, Liam (2019). Clouded data: privacy and the promise of encryption. Big Data and Society, 6 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1177/2053951719848781
Alexa and the intersectional interface
Munn, Luke (2018). Alexa and the intersectional interface. Angles (7), 1-11. doi: 10.4000/angles.861
Munn, Luke (2018). Rendered inoperable. A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 7 (1), 14-25. doi: 10.7146/aprja.v7i1.115057
Munn, Luke (2017). I am a Driver-Partner. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 11 (2), 7-20. doi: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.11.2.0007
Seeing with software: Palantir and the regulation of life
Munn, Luke (2017). Seeing with software: Palantir and the regulation of life. Studies in Control Societies, 2 (1), 1-17.
“Alexa, can I trust you?”: Small sisters and friendly power
Munn, Luke (2019). “Alexa, can I trust you?”: Small sisters and friendly power. 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 2-5 October 2019. Urbana, IL United States: University of Illinois Libraries. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2019i0.11012