Timothy Graham

@timothyjgraham.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 5h

Note to self; less caffeine before radio interviews

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6h

My matchbox car whispering “do it”

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 6h

If this was the premise of a Philip K. Dick novel, I’d think it was a step too far.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

futurism.com

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats Emily!!!

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 1d

🇮🇹 Oh look what just arrived in the office – I guess I’ve been published in Italian again ! Congratulations on a fine collection, @gboccia.bsky.social (and what a cover !)…

Guess now we know how many Zs it takes to translate “destructive polarisation” into Italian, too (‘polarizzazione’ 😲).

Cover of

Democrazia ai Margini: Disinformazione e Manipolazione dell’Opinione Pubblica nell’Era Digitale

Edited by Giovanni Boccia Artieri

Title page of

Spiegazioni Semplici in un Mondo Complesso: Dall’Iperconnettività alla Polarizzazione Distruttiva

By Axel Bruns

Reposted by Timothy Graham

Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 1d

ARC DECRA funding news is out - congrats especially to my fantastic @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kathaesa.bsky.social & @zahrastardust.bsky.social, and the brilliant @amymcquire.bsky.social @emvdn.bsky.social @hansasenbaum.bsky.social, all successful this round. 🎉

rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Research Management System - Scheme Round Statistics for Approved Applications - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026 round 1

RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...

rms.arc.gov.au

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 1d

Laure, the point is that most people still conceptualise technology - platforms included - as neutral “tools”. I’ve been trying for over a decade now to change that perception. I invite you to engage with the body of work I’ve linked above, if you’d like me to take your post seriously.

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 1d

eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/1/A_c...

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 1d

Further reading for your interest

scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl...

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 1d

And you know what really sucks about this move? Elon Musk made it virtually impossible now to collect data at scale to map and analyze CIB networks, because the academic API was shut down and the free API does nothing.

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 1d

X now reveals the locations of user accounts, pulling back the curtain on the scale and scope of manipulation and “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on the platform. At the least, I hope it helps us reevaluate platforms as “neutral” infrastructure.

www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...

X erupts after the platform reveals the locations where accounts are based

X, formerly Twitter, launched a feature that shows accounts' locations, in an effort to promote transparency.

www.businessinsider.com

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Timothy Graham, Daniel Angus

QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 2d

PhD researcher Kate FitzGerald has a new article out in The Conversation today looking at generative AI chatbots and conspiracy theories.

AI chatbots are encouraging conspiracy theories – new research

If you interact with chatbots about conspiracy theories, research shows you can can easily fall down the rabbit hole.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Christian Odendahl, Will Jennings , and 28 more Jan W. Mueller, Christian Odendahl, Will Jennings, Peter Thorne, Steve Peers, Iain Davidson, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, Ian Hall, Melissa R. Michelson, Fabián Muniesa, Anders Nilsson, Juan Cole, Edgar Morgenroth, Michelle Everson, Göran Bolin, Smith, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jonathan Hopkin, Melanie C. Green, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, McKenzie Wark, Gerald Friedman, Timothy Graham, Brian Keegan, Mark Rice, Philipp Sarasin, Jeremy S. Pal, Tim Stephens, Manisha Sinha

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 2d

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 8d

Coz the regime don’t like it, man.

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 11d

For anyone wondering how I find the time to do creative projects

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 11d

(Not my usual content on this account, so please excuse the cross-post.)

I’ve just released a game about representation, mimesis, and escape. You load an image from your computer and it converts it to an ascii dungeon for you to try and escape.

EIKASIA

#indiegames #indiedev #philosophy

Tim Graham Games @timgames.bsky.social · 11d

Humbly presenting EIKASIA

A #roguelike game like no other, where a demon of Greek myth entraps you in an image dungeon, and you are the one who chooses this prison. Will you reach the higher truth?

Download for free on Mac, Windows, and Linux now

timothyjgraham.itch.io/eikasia

Eikasia by Timothy Graham

A traditional roguelike where a demon has trapped you inside an image. Plot twist: YOU choose the image!

timothyjgraham.itch.io

Reposted by Timothy Graham

Tim Graham Games @timgames.bsky.social · 11d

Eikasia by Timothy Graham

A traditional roguelike where a demon has trapped you inside an image. Plot twist: YOU choose the image!

timothyjgraham.itch.io

Reposted by Timothy Graham

Tim Graham Games @timgames.bsky.social · 12d

New thing just dropped on @itch.io. Can you find that one perfect glitch setting in the infinite sea of e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶s̶ possibilities?

For the 0.00000014% of people on the planet who see beauty in destructive generativity.

timothyjgraham.itch.io/glitchify

#art #glitch #indiegames #graphics #beauty

Glitchify by Timothy Graham

Create glitch art from source images with ease and a growing sense of power and madness

timothyjgraham.itch.io

Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you. Some excellent work from my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues being done right now!

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 16d

Vale John Laws.

Back in 1993 there was no fucking around. Prime Minister Paul Keating went into the studio and told the listeners directly what was happening on the Mabo decision. PMs can't do that these days. #auspol
youtu.be/pn1SnTVYe_4

Paul Keating 2UE - 1992 on Mabo - Talk Back Radio - John Laws

YouTube video by Luke McMahon

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 19d

Nice! Love the islands

Reposted by Fabio Giglietto, Timothy Graham

Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New preprint 🚨
Can AI agents coordinate influence campaigns without human guidance? And how does coordination arise among AI agents? In our latest research, we simulate LLM-powered AI agents acting like users on an online platform, some benign, some running an influence operation

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