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ADM+S publication highlights for the first quarter of 2025
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Date 8 May 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, ADM+S researchers have published over 70 outputs addressing local and global challenges in automated decision-making systems and AI. Some of the highlights are listed below.
Policy and Regulatory Contributions
In January, Centre researchers submitted a response to the Attorney-General Department’s consultation paper on ADM Reform. The submission argues for a more comprehensive regulatory framework for ADM in the public sector and offers key recommendations including systematic and preventative measures, an independent oversight body, and qualified transparency mechanics.
Generative AI & Journalism
In February, ADM+S launched the report Generative AI & Journalism, exploring how generative AI is reshaping journalistic practices, and how these changes are perceived by both journalists and news audiences.
Digital Inclusion Research
The Centre continued to advance work on digital inclusion. Key outputs included:
- Improving Digital Inclusion for Women in Regional Victoria, a report summarising the impact of the Rural Women Online initiative—a place-based digital learning program co-designed with and for women in regional and rural areas, delivered in Greater Shepparton and North East Victoria in late 2024.
- Digital Divide: A Situational Analysis of Digital Demands and Collective Capabilities in Low-Income Households, which draws on 12 months of qualitative research with low-income households in disadvantaged suburbs in Tasmania. The study highlights how digital connectivity is not solely an individual concern, but also a collective one—an insight often overlooked by approaches focused on individual access and skills.
Data Justice and Governance
The paper Deepening the Data Divide: Marginalised Perspectives and Non-Profit Priorities in Australian Data Sharing Reforms examines public data and data-sharing reforms in Australia (2018–2022), highlighting the risk of these reforms exacerbating existing inequalities. The research calls for stronger inclusion and support for civil society organisations to ensure equitable data practices.
Additional Research and Commentary
Further publications from Q1 include:
Research into regulatory and policy responses to unhealthy food advertising on social media in Australia.
- Regulatory responses to ultra-processed foods are skewed towards behaviour change and not food system transformation
- Unhealthy food advertising on social media: policy lessons from the Australian Ad Observatory
Opinion pieces examining the implications of Meta’s transition from fact-checking services to community notes.
- Meta’s shift to ‘community notes’ risks hurting online health info providers more than ever
- Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
Analysis of the use of AI in social services and its societal impacts.
You can find these publications and more in the ADM+S Publications Library
