Jess Perriam
@jessamyp.bsky.social
Digital sociologist, cybernaut, Senior Lecturer (ANU Cybernetics), Associate Professor (ITU Technologies in Practice).
Researching public sector tech.
Recent writing: Digitalization in Practice: intersections, implications and interventions (DeGruyter)
Researching public sector tech.
Recent writing: Digitalization in Practice: intersections, implications and interventions (DeGruyter)
Hey English speaking journos! I know that non English names can be a minefield but please try to call people by their name in addition to their job title. Just watching a news story about Greenland meetings and journos talk about US people by name and the Greenlanders and Danes by their job title.
January 14, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Hey English speaking journos! I know that non English names can be a minefield but please try to call people by their name in addition to their job title. Just watching a news story about Greenland meetings and journos talk about US people by name and the Greenlanders and Danes by their job title.
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If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia
It is 2016. I am in an apartment in Balaclava, Melbourne, working on the issue of Robodebt
It is 2026. I am in Tungamah, assisting a client to register for compensation in the Robodebt class settlement
It is 2026. I am in Tungamah, assisting a client to register for compensation in the Robodebt class settlement
January 12, 2026 at 8:27 AM
If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia
Oh hurrah. It’s the annual return from Christmas break to discover the work laptop has lost all sense of time and bricks itself moment. Last year, IT support decided that no support was the best support and I had no functioning work laptop for a month.
January 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Oh hurrah. It’s the annual return from Christmas break to discover the work laptop has lost all sense of time and bricks itself moment. Last year, IT support decided that no support was the best support and I had no functioning work laptop for a month.
I was overseas when the Bondi shooting happened and there was a stark difference in how media was pushed to me between earlier in the week in Denmark and now that I’m back in Australia.
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I was overseas when the Bondi shooting happened and there was a stark difference in how media was pushed to me between earlier in the week in Denmark and now that I’m back in Australia.
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Gave a talk this morning about how AI FOMO isn't a strategy and several Qs afterwards were asking if may be FOMO *should* be the driving force. But if 89% of the public think proven safety should come first, then it feels like a good idea to respect that
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Gave a talk this morning about how AI FOMO isn't a strategy and several Qs afterwards were asking if may be FOMO *should* be the driving force. But if 89% of the public think proven safety should come first, then it feels like a good idea to respect that
I don’t know what algorithmic magic pushed ‘I Thought About That A Lot’ under my nose a few weeks ago. But I’m glad they did. It’s an anonymous essay a day in the lead up to Christmas. An essay advent calendar, if you will. And it’s great. www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
I thought about that a lot – 24 essays by 24 contributors
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I don’t know what algorithmic magic pushed ‘I Thought About That A Lot’ under my nose a few weeks ago. But I’m glad they did. It’s an anonymous essay a day in the lead up to Christmas. An essay advent calendar, if you will. And it’s great. www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Is… The New Yorker ok? If you have fans of digital surveillance on your gift list, may I suggest backing away slowly?
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Is… The New Yorker ok? If you have fans of digital surveillance on your gift list, may I suggest backing away slowly?
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“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute.
Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...
Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute.
Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...
Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...
Book club nerds of Canberra unite!
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Book club nerds of Canberra unite!
Australia news live: Husic says ‘driest minds’ in treasury and finance need to see science as an investment not a cost after CSIRO jobs slashed
👏🏼 Preach. Don’t they know the fine folks at CSIRO invented WiFi?👏🏼
👏🏼 Preach. Don’t they know the fine folks at CSIRO invented WiFi?👏🏼
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Australia news live: Husic says ‘driest minds’ in treasury and finance need to see science as an investment not a cost after CSIRO jobs slashed
👏🏼 Preach. Don’t they know the fine folks at CSIRO invented WiFi?👏🏼
👏🏼 Preach. Don’t they know the fine folks at CSIRO invented WiFi?👏🏼
Hello EU/UK #STS and #digitalsociology folks! I’ll be in the area in April 2026 to host a symposium in London and am looking for some side trips to make it worth the CO2. If you or your research group have a symposium / workshop / conference etc worth my time then I’d love to hear from you.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Hello EU/UK #STS and #digitalsociology folks! I’ll be in the area in April 2026 to host a symposium in London and am looking for some side trips to make it worth the CO2. If you or your research group have a symposium / workshop / conference etc worth my time then I’d love to hear from you.
It’s a hard no from this card carrying Anglican and digital sociologist.
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It’s a hard no from this card carrying Anglican and digital sociologist.
I’m currently reading a benchmarking report about digital government from the year 2000 and it’s rather jarring reading about the internet and pre-euro currencies in one document.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’m currently reading a benchmarking report about digital government from the year 2000 and it’s rather jarring reading about the internet and pre-euro currencies in one document.
Obligatory Aurora Australis pics 💁🏻♀️
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Obligatory Aurora Australis pics 💁🏻♀️
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Data colonialism in the most literal sense
Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials www.afr.com/technology/g...
Google to build data centre on Christmas Island
The search engine giant signed a cloud deal with the Department of Defence this year to build the facility, whose details remain secret, on Christmas Island.
www.afr.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Data colonialism in the most literal sense
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When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
A soggy mortarboard fished out the creek is surely a metaphor for something. Just not sure what 🤔
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
A soggy mortarboard fished out the creek is surely a metaphor for something. Just not sure what 🤔
On this very day, the 1st of November I heard the first Christmas song blared over the speakers at the shopping centre. Thankfully it wasn’t Last Christmas so I didn’t lose Whamageddon before it even started 😑
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
On this very day, the 1st of November I heard the first Christmas song blared over the speakers at the shopping centre. Thankfully it wasn’t Last Christmas so I didn’t lose Whamageddon before it even started 😑
Book launch o’clock! DOUBLE book launch o’clock! Anna Munster’s ‘Deep Aesthetics’ and Adrian Mackenzie’s ‘1000 Platforms’.
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Book launch o’clock! DOUBLE book launch o’clock! Anna Munster’s ‘Deep Aesthetics’ and Adrian Mackenzie’s ‘1000 Platforms’.
I attended an event yesterday about creative bureaucracy and I posed the question to senior public servants on the panel: Creativity is perceived as something only middle/upper class have the luxury of doing. How do you give licence for all your staff or colleagues to be creative in their roles?
March 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I attended an event yesterday about creative bureaucracy and I posed the question to senior public servants on the panel: Creativity is perceived as something only middle/upper class have the luxury of doing. How do you give licence for all your staff or colleagues to be creative in their roles?
I haven't posted anything yet! Quick! I'll do 9 fun facts in honour of my 9 followers/bots who followed me sight unseen.
1) I'm currently listening to a Father John Misty song.
1) I'm currently listening to a Father John Misty song.
March 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I haven't posted anything yet! Quick! I'll do 9 fun facts in honour of my 9 followers/bots who followed me sight unseen.
1) I'm currently listening to a Father John Misty song.
1) I'm currently listening to a Father John Misty song.