Category: People

Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians

Posted on by Leah Hawkins

PROJECT SUMMARY

Mapping the Digital Gap co-researcher Shalarna Thorpe conducting a survey with Tuvesi Williams in Wilcannia
Mapping the Digital Gap co-researcher Shalarna Thorpe conducting a survey with Wilcannia resident

Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians

Focus Area: News and Media
Research Program: People
Status: Active

Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians is a three-year project funded by the Australian Government to measure digital inclusion for First Nations people nationally and track changes in the scale and nature of the digital gap relative to non-First Nations Australians.

By expanding on the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) and acting in conjunction with the Mapping the Digital Gap (MTDG) research project, this project will enable measurement and tracking of progress towards Closing the Gap Target 17 (CTG 17):

‘By 2026, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have equal levels of digital inclusion’.

The project has First Nations leadership and governance throughout, including key staff within the research team, a First Nations steering group, contracting of a First Nations survey company, and partnership with First Nations organisations in targeted regional research sites.

The Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians project is guided by the core values and principles outlined in the NHMRC Guidelines for ‘Ethical Conduct in Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Communities’ (2018), AIATSIS (2021) Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, and Principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (e.g., Kukutai and Taylor 2016), in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).

Data collected in this project will be weighted and merged with data from the ADII and Mapping the Digital Gap project to generate an index of First Nations digital inclusion across Australia. First Nations Index scores will be benchmarked against non-First Nations scores to establish a comparative framework for measuring progress on Closing the Gap Target 17. The data will be shared with the public via an expanded First Nations Dashboard on the ADII website.

To ensure a representative sample of First Nations Australians, the project is partnered with First Nations led survey company Ipsos Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Unit to undertake 1350 surveys in two rounds of data collection across 2025/6 and 2026/7, using a mix of online and face to face surveys.

In addition, the research team partners with First Nations organisations to conduct in-person surveys in 10 regional locations to ensure a nationally representative sample.

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PUBLIC RESOURCES

First Nations Digital Inclusion Dashboard

First Nations Digital Inclusion Dashboard

Target audience: First Nations organisations and communities, government agencies, industry, researchers, general public

This First Nations digital inclusion dashboard enables First Nations organisations and communities to explore the data in ways that suit their own needs and priorities.

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Australian Digital Inclusion Index Dashboard

Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Target audience: Government agencies, researchers, general public

The Australian Digital Inclusion Index uses data from the Australian Internet Usage Survey to measure digital inclusion across three dimensions of Access, Affordability and Digital Ability. We explore how these dimensions vary across Australia and across different social groups.

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2024-5 RESEARCH SITES

Ipsos Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Unit (ATSIRU) collected data using a mix of methods. Working with local First Nations researchers, they conducted 1360 face to face surveys in regional and urban sites, and an additional 630 online and phone surveys via their iMob Panel.

Mapping the Digital Gap researchers conducted partnered research and collected 807 surveys in collaboration with local First Nations co-researchers in 11 remote communities.

The research team also collaborated with First Nations partner organisations to undertake 729 surveys in an additional 10 regional sites. These surveys were not available for inclusion in the 2025 Index, with results to be published in a separate report and dashboard page in early 2026.

MORE INFORMATION

Counting on Connectivity: Measuring Digital Inclusion for First Nations Australians in 2025

12 Nov 2025

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RMIT Notice of Approval
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Swinburne Notice of Approval
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RESEARCH TEAM

Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas

Prof Julian Thomas

Centre Director,
RMIT University

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Daniel Featherstone

Assoc Prof Daniel Featherstone

Principal Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Sharon Parkinson

Assoc Prof Sharon Parkinson

Principal Research Fellow,
Swinburne University

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Kieran Hegarty

Dr Kieran Hegarty

Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Dr Yee Man Louie

Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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RESEARCH SUPPORT

Alison Barton

Alison Barton

Project Manager,
RMIT University

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Leah Hawkins

Leah Hawkins

Research Communications Officer,
RMIT University

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PARTNERS

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This project received funding support from the Australian Government

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Automated informality: generative frictions in ADM systems

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Automated informality: generative frictions in ADM systems

Focus Areas: News & Media
Research Program: People, Data, Machines & Institutions
Status: Active

Informality, especially in economic practice, poses a recurrent problem in development literature. Economic informality is broadly associated with weaker economic outcomes: countries with larger informal sectors have lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker growth in output, investment, and productivity. As such regimes across the globe have sought to intervene in, and formalize the informal sector through worker registration drives, technology transfers, and other interventions which attempt to expand the reach of the formal economy bringing swaths of the working population under regimes of taxation, workplace safety, and enhanced productivity.

Recently, such interventions have turned on the possibilities and promises of automation. While industrial robotics systems boost manufacturing productivity, digital platforms make possible immediate and traceable circulation of funds, even as biometric databases enable automated identity verification in commercial and civic contexts.  Here new technologies of automation hold out the potential to formalize economic practices by extending standardized protocols in the form of apps, database architectures, and machinery.

Scholars of informal work have emphasized that informal and formal economic practices have long been intertwined, and they are connected by exchanges of personnel, ideas, content, and capital as highly contingent interactions. Especially in the Global South, the informal is not exceptional but typical with informality characterizing most economic practices. In India, for example, the rise of formal IT outsourcing firms has been matched by the growth of temporary and unregulated service workers who clean the offices, fix the meals, and provide transportation to professional employees.

In Brazil, wageless trash collectors sort recyclable items from Rio de Janeiro’s municipal waste dumps enabling the operation of this public infrastructure while extracting a livelihood from reselling this waste. Far from eliminating informal economies contemporary regimes of accumulation generate value by weaving formal and informal practices together.

Currently missing from this body of scholarship is a range of contingent and non-standard work that proliferates as a result of the friction that exists within automated systems as complex self-coordinating and self-organising mechanisms. This type of work – which we call small automation – is different from gig work in that it is unregulated, opportunistic, and marginalised; it is largely invisible and opaque, but unlike ghost work, its invisibility is key to its survival.

Small automation is different from both gig work and ghost work in the sense that it encompasses a range of informal enterprises created by informal actors that circumvent, exploit, or co-opt automated systems, rather than being deployed by Silicon Valley to develop new technologies.

This project maps a range of informal automated activities that proliferate within automated systems across various empirical domains, such as click farming, CAPTCHA hacking, phone farming, dropshipping, OTP scams, fraudulent loan apps, and free jacking. The proliferation of automated informality can create unexpected implications for the operation of automated systems and our information environment more generally. Our focus on mapping automated informality works to supplement current research on gig work and ghost work while demonstrating the theoretical and empirical value of examining automated systems in context.

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RESEARCHERS

Dr Dang Nguyen

Lead Investigator,
RMIT University

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Danula Hettiachchi

Dr Danula Hettiachchi

Associate Investigator,
RMIT University

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Adam Sargent

Dr Adam Sargent

Affiliate,
Australian National University (ANU)

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AI ReWired: How communities are using AI to Support Social and Environmental Justice

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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AI ReWired: How communities are using AI to Support Social and Environmental Justice

Focus Areas: News & Media, Mobilities, Health
Research Program: People
Status: Completed

The future we are being sold is an automated wonderland, a techtopia that will use algorithms to heal our ecological crisis and restore social justice. A dream world where we enjoy endless innovation and growth in sparkling smart cities, where we are liberated from the burden of work, where the future of our species lies in billionaire funded missions to Mars.

But what if this promise sounds more like a nightmare?
What are the alternatives?

The AI ReWired project uses co-creative documentary film practice to uncover how diverse communities utilise AI systems to protect the environment, support social justice and promote fairness in their communities.

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RESEARCHERS

Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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ADM+S Chief Investigator Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Dr Damiano Spina

Dr Damiano Spina

Associate Investigator,
RMIT University

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Yolande Strengers

Prof Yolande Strengers

Associate Investigator,
Monash University

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Georgia Van Toorn

Dr Georgia van Toorn

Associate Investigator,
UNSW

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Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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Melissa Gregg

De Mel Gregg

Senior Industry Fellow,
RMIT

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Nonie May

Dr Nonie May

Project support,
Monash University

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Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Focus Areas: News & Media, Social Services, Mobilities, Health
Status: Active

Digital inclusion is about ensuring that all Australians can access and use digital technologies effectively. We are experiencing an accelerating digital transformation in many aspects of economic and social life. Our premise is that everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from digital technologies: to manage their health, access education and services, participate in cultural activities, organise their finances, follow news and media, and connect with family, friends, and the wider world. 

The Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII or “Index”) uses survey data to develop Australia’s key measure of digital inclusion across three dimensions: Access, Affordability and Digital Ability. We explore how these dimensions vary across the country and across different social groups. 

 

 

In partnership with Telstra and through biennial data collections presented through reports and data visualisation dashboards, the ADII is capturing and communicating the evolving state of digital inclusion in Australia. This is complemented by aligned sub-projects with local, state and federal government departments and community partners to examine specific digital inclusion challenges for social groups or geographical regions of interest. 

A detailed measure of digital inclusion for Australia allows us to identify the critical barriers to inclusion. These may be related to accessing networks, the costs of devices or data, or skills and literacies. Through these measures, the Index shapes digital equity policy and initiatives, research, and practice to increase digital inclusion in Australia. 

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MORE INFORMATION

The Australian Digital Inclusion Index uses data from the ADM+S project, Mapping the Digital Gap. Learn more from the project brief below.

PUBLICATIONS

Uncovering digital divide in the western parkland city

Uncovering the digital divide in the Western Parkland City

ADM+S, Telstra, NSW Government, Sydney’s Parkland Councils

Report

Measuring Australia’s Digital Divide: 2023 Australian Digital Inclusion Index

ADM+S and Telstra

Report

Telstra Connected Students: Lessons for Digital Inclusion, 2022

ADM+S and Telstra

Report

Australian Digital Inclusion Index: Measuring Digital Inclusion in North-East Victorian SMEs Summary Findings Brief, 2022

Thomas, J., Parkinson, S., et al.

Report

2021 Digital Inclusion Index

ADM+S and Telstra

Report

RESEARCHERS

ADM+S Chief Investigator Anthony McCosker

Prof Anthony McCosker

Chief Investigator,
Swinburne University

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Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas

Prof Julian Thomas

Chief Investigator,
RMIT University

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Daniel Featherstone

Assoc Prof Daniel Featherstone

Senior Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Assoc Prof Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Senior Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Kieran Hegarty

Dr Kieran Hegarty

Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Jenny Kennedy

Assoc Prof Jenny Kennedy

Associate Investigator,
RMIT University

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Sharon Parkinson

Dr Sharon Parkinson

Associate Investigator,
Swinburne University

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RESEARCH SUPPORT

Katy Morrison

Katy Morrison

Research Coordinator,
RMIT University

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PARTNERS

Telstra

Telstra

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COLLABORATORS

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Victorian Government Department of Government Services

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Victorian Women’s Trust

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Queensland Government Customer and Digital Group

Testbed Australia

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Testbed Australia

Focus Areas: Transport and Mobilities
Research Program: People

Australia has a long history as a site for scientific experimentation. The Australian land and its people have, over the course of its colonial history, been continuously treated as a “low risk” site for the empirical testing of high-risk theories and procedures.

Most recently, Big Tech corporations have begun to experiment with the country’s potential as test bed for new features and products. The streaming service Spotify used Australia as a testing site for its then experimental Discover Weekly playlist. The dating app Tinder piloted features like “Tinder Social” and “Super Like” in the Australian market before releasing it globally. And Facebook trialled its 2018 upvote downvote feature first on users based in Australia and New Zealand.

While techniques like prototyping, beta testing, and other forms of testing “in the wild” are common practices, the impacts of such testing on communities and environments are under-examined.

This project explores the role of testing, prototyping, trialling and other techniques of controlled experimentation for AI and other automated decision-making systems in Australia.

It focuses on transport and mobilities, investigating techniques of testing for the deployment of automated systems, such as those used in Autonomous vehicle (AVs) and commercial delivery drones.

It brings together expertise in feminist science and technology studies (STS), critical legal studies, and media studies to address questions such as:

  • What are the features of the environment and landscape that make Australia well-suited as a site for testing?
  • Which communities are targets for testing?
  • How does policy and other forms of state discourse contribute to creating an ideal regulatory environment for testing?
  • What are the potential harms and benefits involved?

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RESEARCHERS

Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Lead Investigator,
ANU,

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Jake Goldenfein

Dr Jake Goldenfein

Chief Investigator,
University of Melbourne

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Michael Richardson

Assoc Prof Michael Richardson

Associate Investigator,
UNSW

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She’s Not Alone

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PROJECT SUMMARY

She's Not Alone

She’s Not Alone

Focus Area: Transport & Mobilities
Research Program: People

In partnership with Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab and She’s A Crowd, a social enterprise working to end gender-based violence, this drama-documentary invites us to consider: how people and organisations might effectively use automated decision-making (ADM) in the rideshare sector to deliver a safe and trusted service; and where the starting points for design for rideshare ADM systems and technologies should be.

She’s Not Alone is a short film co-produced by ADM+S researchers Jeni Lee and Dr Emma Equilty that highlights some of the safety issues women and gender diverse people experience in and around transport. In a world where automated systems, technology and digital data are increasingly present, the film raises discussion around automated safety features including tracking, surveillance and emergency alerts.

The docu-drama challenges the idea that artificial intelligence is the way to solve problems that arise for so many rideshare users, suggesting instead that we imagine a future where safety involves a combination of technology, human connections and community support.

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SHORT FILM

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RESEARCHERS

Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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She’s A Crowd

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Emerging Technologies Research Lab

Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University

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Collateral Data: Automated Decision-Making and the Future of Credit in India

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PROJECT SUMMARY

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Collateral Data: Automated Decision-Making and the Future of Credit in India

Focus Areas: Social Services
Research Programs: People
Status: Active

This project aims to investigate the increasing use of automated decision-making systems in the provision of automated loans in India. These systems can use a potential borrower’s personal data (including call histories, location, contact lists) to create credit scores for people without formal credit histories. Hailed as a revolutionary step forward in financial inclusion on the one hand and decried as a dangerous invasion of privacy on the other, these new loan products have significant impacts.

Focusing on designers, regulators, and users of automated loans in India, the project asks how these products shape financial inclusion and socio-economic mobility at an everyday level. Through conducting interviews and collecting financial diaries the project aims to elucidate how these technologies are taken up and transform borrowers’ livelihoods and social networks.

Expected outcomes include detailed accounts of how automated financial services can exacerbate inequality even as they expand financial inclusion. Understanding these dynamics will be crucial not only for intervening in social inequality in India but also in regulating the adoption of similar practices of credit-scoring and loan distribution that are already starting to emerge in Australia. In providing a detailed picture of how ADM is changing the landscape of credit and economic inequality in a context where these tools have been widely adopted, the project seeks to provide critical foresight to regulators and industry actors in countries like Australia where data sharing, and alternative data are just beginning to be taken up in the financial sector.

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RESEARCHERS

ADM+S Chief Investigator Heather Horst

Prof Heather Horst

Lead Investigator,
Western Sydney University

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Adam Sargent

Dr Adam Sargent

Affiliate,
Australian National University (ANU)

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Trust in ADM: Rethinking the anticipatory modes of technological determinism

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Trust in ADM: Rethinking the anticipatory modes of technological determinism

Focus Area: News and Media, Transport and Mobility, Health, and Social Services
Research Program: People
Status: Completed

If we are to bring people into the process of ADM technology design then we need to ensure that the conceptual categories that frame theory and practice in innovation account for people.

This project interrogates a suite of anticipatory categories and the arrays of concepts that support them, which are commonly used in innovation narratives, amongst industry and policy stakeholders and in academic disciplines that are complicit with their agenda—such as human-computer interaction research and other computer science and engineering disciplines, and organisation studies.

It identifies the key categories and concepts, analyses how they are mobilised in narratives of innovation, their relationships to solutionist paradigms, how they structure processes of research and how they are actually implied in research and design practice.

The project unpicks the detail of the conceptual frameworks that inform ADM as well as the ways they are engaged in the everyday work practices of developers, designers, businesses and policy makers. It also asks how we might most fruitfully define and engage such categories and concepts, in order to use them to structure interdisciplinary collaboration.

The analysis will include established anticipatory categories common in technology discourses—of trust, barriers, anxiety and acceptance—as well as contemporary (and different types of) categories such as sharing, transparency and others, which are associated with new technologies and automation. Other new and emerging concepts and categories will be identified during the course of the research.

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SUB-PROJECTS

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PUBLICATIONS

Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future, 2023

Pink, S.

Book

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, 2023

Lanzeni, D., Pink, S., et al.

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Trust in Automation, 2022

Pink, S., Lupton, D., et al.

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Digital social work: Conceptualising a hybrid anticipatory practice, 2022

Pink, S., et al.

Journal article

Sensuous futures: re-thinking the concept of trust in design anthropology, 2021

Pink, S.

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Trusting Autonomous Vehicles: an interdisciplinary approach, 2020

Raats, K., Fors, V., Pink, S.

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RESEARCHERS

Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Mark Andrejevic

Prof Mark Andrejevic

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Gerard Goggin

Prof Gerard Goggin

Associate Investigator,
Western Sydney University

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ADM+S partner investigator Vaike Fors

Prof Vaike Fors

Partner Investigator,
Halmstad University

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Kaspar Raats

Dr Kaspar Raats

PhD Graduate,
Monash University

Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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PARTNERS

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Halmstad University

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Highway to the Sky

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Highway to the Sky

Focus Area: Transport & Mobilities
Research Program: People
Status: Completed

Highway to the Sky is a short film co-created with 3 neuro-diverse artists and art therapist Isabelle Ashford from The Art to Wellbeing.

The participants in the workshops used collage, art works and dance to imagine future mobilities and explore what sensations arise from automated travel and what they would like to be automated (or not) in the future.

The creative process elicited reflection and thoughtful responses from the project participants and highlighted their sensory experiences.

Remembering the frustration they may have previously felt on the train, for instance, might create a tightness in their chest or a dizzy sensation.

By documenting experiences of the so-called 17%, the people who see the world differently, this project reveals biases and threats of automated transport mobilities and also uncovers creative opportunity and innovation.

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SHORT FILM

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RESEARCHERS

Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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Flight Paths, Freeways and Railroads

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Flight Paths, Freeways and Railroads

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PROJECT SUMMARY

My phone is my eyes

Flight Paths, Freeways and Railroads

Focus Area: Transport & Mobilities
Research Program: People
Status: Completed

Through a series of short film vignettes, this research project explores how diverse participants currently experience transport mobilities and how automated technologies might be part of our future lives.

These films aim to surface impacts of ADM that haven’t been accounted for and explore barriers and biases propagated and amplified by ADM in society.

In 2021, filmmaker Jeni Lee accompanied and filmed two blind and one deaf participant as they moved around urban and regional spaces. The act of commuting was intended to elicit reflection and thoughtful responses from the research participants. Each participant’s commute forms the backbone and narrative arc of a short film.

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RESEARCHERS

Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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Future Automated Mobilities: Imaginaries and possibilities for a world in crisis

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PROJECT SUMMARY

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Future Automated Mobilities: Imaginaries and possibilities for a world in crisis

Focus Area: Transport & Mobilities
Research Program: People
Status: Completed

Future visions of self-driving cars, digital mobility services, flying taxis and autonomous industrial vehicles dominate industry and policy hype; new mobilities technologies, communities and aspirations are rapidly shaping; and automated and connected mobility technologies are increasingly present, and unevenly distributed in everyday life.

Our research addresses how these and other shifts in and imaginaries of mobilities technologies, services, communities and personal trajectories are changing the landscape of everyday mobility, and reframes emerging automated and connected mobility technologies and data as part of inclusive and diverse everyday worlds and respectful, responsible futures.

To achieve this we will develop critical and innovative methods of research and engagement including documentary film and design materials.

This project will:

  1. Determine how future automated (and automated features of) transport mobilities are being reimagined in post COVID-19 and post-bushfire crisis -across industry, policy and everyday life.
  2. Investigate what can be done to design differently, so that we do not simply replicate the problem-solution paradigm of the innovation paradigm when considering the place of ADM in future mobilities.
  3. Develop innovative interventional and interdisciplinary (design ethnographic) research methods through which to undertake this research
  4. Propose pathways towards open designs that social innovation will play a part in and suggest how ADM might play an ethical, responsible and beneficial (to people) role?

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Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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ADM+S partner investigator Vaike Fors

Prof Vaike Fors

Partner Investigator,
Halmstad University

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Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Kaspar Raats

Kaspar Raats

PhD Student,
Monash University

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Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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Seeing the Road Ahead

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PROJECT SUMMARY

Seeing the road ahead

Seeing the Road Ahead

Focus Area: Transport & Mobilities
Research Program: People
Status: Completed

Vision is central to the field of autonomous vehicle (AV) research. While much of the research into AVs has focused on the technical aspects of vision, such as object recognition and sensor development, this project turns instead to its social, cultural, and political dimensions.

Our goal is to counter corporate and industry visions of self-driving cars by using creative methods to explore alternate visions.

These visions are drawn from Australian popular culture as well as through interactive, creative workshops with everyday Australian people. We hope that these methods help us to develop a uniquely national case study, and to demonstrate the value of using creative methods for understanding speculative and emerging technologies.

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RESEARCHERS

Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Chief Investigator,
Monash University

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Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Affiliate,
Monash University

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Prof Christine Parker

Prof Daniel Angus

Prof Daniel Angus

Prof Ellie Rennie

Prof Ellie Rennie

Prof Fiona Haines

Prof Fiona Haines

Prof Flora Salim

Prof Flora Salim

Prof Frank Pasquale

Prof Frank Pasquale

Prof Haiqing Yu

Prof Haiqing Yu

Assoc Prof James Meese

Assoc Prof James Meese

Assoc Prof Julia Stoyanovich

Assoc Prof Julia Stoyanovich

Karen Yeung

Karen Yeung

Prof Kath Albury

Prof Kath Albury

Prof Maarten de Rijke

Prof Maarten de Rijke

Prof Mark Sanderson

Prof Mark Sanderson

Dr Philip Gillingham

Dr Philip Gillingham

Prof Wolfgang Schulz

Prof Wolfgang Schulz

Prof Yolande Strengers

Prof Yolande Strengers

Prof Ramon Lobato

Prof Ramon Lobato

Hanne Bjellaanes

Hanne Bjellaanes

Julia Robertson

Julia Robertson

Lutfun Nahar Lata

Lutfun Nahar Lata

Dr Damiano Spina

Dr Damiano Spina

Prof Falk Scholer

Prof Falk Scholer

Prof Robert Sparrow

Prof Robert Sparrow

Assoc Prof Rowan Wilken

Assoc Prof Rowan Wilken

Dr Sarah Erfani

Dr Sarah Erfani

Prof Terry Carney

Prof Terry Carney

Deena Shiff

Deena Shiff

Dr Melissa Gregg

Dr Melissa Gregg

Prof Bob Rowthorn

Prof Bob Rowthorn

Penny Harrison

Penny Harrison

Prof Christopher Leckie

Prof Christopher Leckie

Prof Nicolas Suzor

Prof Nicolas Suzor

Assoc Prof Timothy Graham

Assoc Prof Timothy Graham

ADM+S Members at the 2024 ADM+S Symposium

Chief Investigators

Chief Investigators

Professional Staff

Professional Staff

Professional Staff

Joel Stern speaking at the 2023 ADM+S Symposium

Associate Investigators

Associate Investigators

Wiebke Loosen presentating at the 2023 ADM+S Symposium

Partner Investigators

Partner Investigators

Malavika Jayaram and Julian Thomas on stage in front of audience.

International Advisory Board

International Advisory Board

Prof Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Prof Cornelius Puschmann

Prof Cornelius Puschmann

Dr Jake Goldenfein

Dr Jake Goldenfein

Assoc Prof Jeffrey Chan

Assoc Prof Jeffrey Chan

Assoc Prof Jenny Kennedy

Assoc Prof Jenny Kennedy

Prof Ouri Wolfson

Prof Ouri Wolfson

Dr Vaike Fors

Dr Vaike Fors

Prof Wiebke Loosen

Prof Wiebke Loosen

Prof Andrew Roberts

Prof Andrew Roberts

Bianca Vallentine

Bianca Vallentine

ADM+S Members collaborating

Our People

Our People

Dr Abdul Obeid

Dr Abdul Obeid

Taal Hampson

Taal Hampson

Sally Storey

Sally Storey

Prof Jackie Leach Scully

Prof Jackie Leach Scully

Dr Robert Mullins

Dr Robert Mullins

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

Kathy Nickels

Kathy Nickels

Dr Indigo Holcombe-James

Dr Indigo Holcombe-James

Dr Lyndal Sleep

Dr Lyndal Sleep

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Newsletters

Newsletters

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Events

Events

ADM+S Centre

Alternative Data Governance // Alternative Data Economies Seminar Series

Alternative Data Governance // Alternative Data Economies Seminar Series

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Prof Flora Salim appointed to Chief Investigator at ADM+S

Prof Flora Salim appointed to Chief Investigator at ADM+S

ADM+S Centre

Social Issues in Automated Decision Making: Governance, Ethics, Care

Social Issues in Automated Decision Making: Governance, Ethics, Care

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What’s Governing Web3?

What’s Governing Web3?

Dr Aaron Snoswell

Dr Aaron Snoswell

Dr Yong-Bin Kang

Dr Yong-Bin Kang

Dr Xiaofang Yao

Dr Xiaofang Yao

Dr Silvia Montaña-Niño

Dr Silvia Montaña-Niño

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The Australian Search Experience

The Australian Search Experience

ADM+S Students

Students

Students

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The Implications of Dark Ads

The Implications of Dark Ads

Malavika Jayaram and Julian Thomas at the 2022 ADM+S Symposium

News

News

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NSW Police want access to Tinder’s sexual assault data. Cybersafety experts explain why it’s a date with disaster.

NSW Police want access to Tinder’s sexual assault data. Cybersafety experts explain why it’s a date with disaster.

Dr Anjalee de Silva

Dr Anjalee de Silva

Assoc Prof Daniel Featherstone

Assoc Prof Daniel Featherstone

Dr Loup Cellard

Dr Loup Cellard

Dr Danula Hettiachchi

Dr Danula Hettiachchi

ADM+S QUT node meeting

Researchers from ADM+S QUT node share latest projects

Researchers from ADM+S QUT node share latest projects

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Children’s privacy in lockdown: Intersections between privacy, participation and protection rights in a pandemic

Children’s privacy in lockdown: Intersections between privacy, participation and protection rights in a pandemic

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Podcast Series

Podcast Series

Dr Henry Fraser

Dr Henry Fraser

Dr Aitor Jiménez

Dr Aitor Jiménez

Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee

Dr Ash Watson

Dr Ash Watson

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2020 Annual Report Published

2020 Annual Report Published

Dr Emma Quilty

Dr Emma Quilty

Dr Jathan Sadowski

Dr Jathan Sadowski

Dr Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan

Dr Georgia Van Toorn

Dr Georgia Van Toorn

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Facebook and Google used to be the future of news. But now media companies need more strings to their bow.

Facebook and Google used to be the future of news. But now media companies need more strings to their bow.

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ADM+S video highlights research in news and media focus area

ADM+S video highlights research in news and media focus area

Dr Christopher O’Neill

Dr Christopher O’Neill

Alternative Data Governance and Alternative Data Economies Seminar 3 Discussion

International Experts Speak at Alternative Data Governance and Alternative Data Economies Seminar Series

International Experts Speak at Alternative Data Governance and Alternative Data Economies Seminar Series

Dr Jolynna Sinanan

Dr Jolynna Sinanan

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The Automated Decision-Making and Society Podcast Series Has Launched

The Automated Decision-Making and Society Podcast Series Has Launched

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It’s complicated: Australian media firms were breaking up with Facebook long before the infamous 2021 news blackout

It’s complicated: Australian media firms were breaking up with Facebook long before the infamous 2021 news blackout

UNSW Sydney campus

$549,000 Grant Awarded for ‘Cardiac AI: deep learning to predict and prevent secondary cardiovascular events’ Project at UNSW

$549,000 Grant Awarded for ‘Cardiac AI: deep learning to predict and prevent secondary cardiovascular events’ Project at UNSW

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ADM+S researcher awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship

ADM+S researcher awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship

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How sexual consent can help us design better technology

How sexual consent can help us design better technology

Installation

Installation

Former RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Martin Bean CBE

ADM+S Receives $2.16million Investment from Victorian Government

ADM+S Receives $2.16million Investment from Victorian Government

Rosalie Gillett and Jathan Sadowski

Research Fellows Rosalie Gillett and Jathan Sadowski Receive ABC Top 5 Fellowships

Research Fellows Rosalie Gillett and Jathan Sadowski Receive ABC Top 5 Fellowships

Associate Professor Kylie Pappalardo

Associate Professor Kylie Pappalardo

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Citizen science project explores search engine secrets

Citizen science project explores search engine secrets

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How the monetisation of personal metrics is leading to an individualist journalism

How the monetisation of personal metrics is leading to an individualist journalism

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Why smart home devices need a feminist reboot

Why smart home devices need a feminist reboot

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2021 ECR Seed Funding Grants Announced

2021 ECR Seed Funding Grants Announced

Elizabeth (Betsy) Alpert

Elizabeth (Betsy) Alpert

ADM+S Researchers at Summer School event

Affiliates

Affiliates

Prof Jane Farmer

Prof Jane Farmer

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Subscribe

Subscribe

Astari Kusumawardani

Astari Kusumawardani

Prof Anna Hickey-Moody

Prof Anna Hickey-Moody

Prof Paul Harpur

Prof Paul Harpur

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ARC Future Fellowships awarded to ADM+S researchers

ARC Future Fellowships awarded to ADM+S researchers

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Research Projects

Research Projects

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The Australian Search Experience

The Australian Search Experience

Dr Scarlet Wilcock

Dr Scarlet Wilcock

Dr Dang Nguyen

Dr Dang Nguyen

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Decentering ADM: A Review of Automated Decision-Making in the Global South

Decentering ADM: A Review of Automated Decision-Making in the Global South

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The Automated Newsroom in Australia and beyond: Problems and challenges in the use of automated decision-making systems in journalistic practice

The Automated Newsroom in Australia and beyond: Problems and challenges in the use of automated decision-making systems in journalistic practice

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ADM+S Researchers Receive Discovery Early Career Research Award 2022

ADM+S Researchers Receive Discovery Early Career Research Award 2022

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A taxonomy of decision-making machines

A taxonomy of decision-making machines

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Research Training and Capability Development Committee

Research Training and Capability Development Committee

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Equity and Diversity Committee

Equity and Diversity Committee

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Research Infrastructure Committee

Research Infrastructure Committee

Prof Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Prof Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Lauren Ganley – Guest Speaker

Lauren Ganley – Guest Speaker

The Australian Ad Observatory – Registration

The Australian Ad Observatory – Registration

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Considerate and Accurate Multi-party Recommender Systems for Constrained Resources

Considerate and Accurate Multi-party Recommender Systems for Constrained Resources

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Adaptive, Multi-Factor Balanced, Regulatory Compliant Routing ADM Systems

Adaptive, Multi-Factor Balanced, Regulatory Compliant Routing ADM Systems

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Automated Decision-Making Empirical Mapping Project

Automated Decision-Making Empirical Mapping Project

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Civic Automated Decision-Making

Civic Automated Decision-Making

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The Australian Ad Observatory Project

The Australian Ad Observatory Project

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Data capacity and collaboration for ADM in the community sector

Data capacity and collaboration for ADM in the community sector

Research

Research

Research

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Researchers Explore Innovative Methods for Researching ADM in Health and Medicine

Researchers Explore Innovative Methods for Researching ADM in Health and Medicine

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Prof Karen Yeung Guest-Edits Special Issue on Algorithmic Regulation with Dr Lena Ulbricht

Prof Karen Yeung Guest-Edits Special Issue on Algorithmic Regulation with Dr Lena Ulbricht

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Automated Content Regulation (Sexuality Education and Health Information)

Automated Content Regulation (Sexuality Education and Health Information)

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Mapping ADM Machines in Australia and Asia-Pacific

Mapping ADM Machines in Australia and Asia-Pacific

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Data Ethics, Rights, and Markets

Data Ethics, Rights, and Markets

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The Australian Ad Observatory

The Australian Ad Observatory

Research Materials

Diverse Experiences of ADM: Design, Curation and Use

Diverse Experiences of ADM: Design, Curation and Use

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Mapping the Digital Gap

Mapping the Digital Gap

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Mapping ADM Across Sectors

Mapping ADM Across Sectors

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Everyday Data Cultures

Everyday Data Cultures

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Research Programs

Research Programs

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Focus Areas

Focus Areas

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Data mapping and ADM to advance humanitarian action and preparedness

Data mapping and ADM to advance humanitarian action and preparedness

COVID19 Stay safe on mobile device

The Coronavirus Impact

The Coronavirus Impact

Woman online grocery shopping

Australian supermarkets move to robot warehouses and on-demand labour

Australian supermarkets move to robot warehouses and on-demand labour

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Democratic Practices of Governance Given ADM

Democratic Practices of Governance Given ADM

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Governing ADM Use

Governing ADM Use

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Quantifying and Measuring Bias and Engagement

Quantifying and Measuring Bias and Engagement

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Transparent Machines: From Unpacking Bias to Actionable Explainability

Transparent Machines: From Unpacking Bias to Actionable Explainability

Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2021

Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2021 Launch

Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2021 Launch

Deborah Lupton

Prof Deborah Lupton receives 2021 DASSH International Award

Prof Deborah Lupton receives 2021 DASSH International Award

Scholarship Recipient

Meet Rakesh Kumar, ADM+S Scholarship Recipient

Meet Rakesh Kumar, ADM+S Scholarship Recipient

Research Fellows

Research Fellows

Research Fellows

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Platform governance of and by bots

Platform governance of and by bots

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Responsible health consumer data analysis and ADM

Responsible health consumer data analysis and ADM

Scholarship Recipient

Meet Lauren Kelly, ADM+S Scholarship Recipient

Meet Lauren Kelly, ADM+S Scholarship Recipient

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ADM+S Launches Media Training Pilot Program

ADM+S Launches Media Training Pilot Program

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AI, algorithms, and automation changing our media landscape

AI, algorithms, and automation changing our media landscape

Nina Li

Nina Li

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Australian Ad Observatory Project aims to make Facebook’s ‘dark ads’ publicly accessible

Australian Ad Observatory Project aims to make Facebook’s ‘dark ads’ publicly accessible

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Privatising the sky: drone delivery promises comfort and speed, but at a cost to workers and communities

Privatising the sky: drone delivery promises comfort and speed, but at a cost to workers and communities

Audience and panel at the ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium

Tackling the challenges of automation, algorithms and AI in news and media

Tackling the challenges of automation, algorithms and AI in news and media

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Participate in the Automated Decision-Making Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Participate in the Automated Decision-Making Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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The Australian Ad Observatory promotion kit

The Australian Ad Observatory promotion kit

Megan Kelleher (Left) and Kelsie Nabben (Right)

Megan Kelleher and Kelsie Nabben Participate in International Research Sprint

Megan Kelleher and Kelsie Nabben Participate in International Research Sprint

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Read more about the project

Read more about the project

Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2021

Digital inclusion improving nationally, but more to do on affordability and equal access

Digital inclusion improving nationally, but more to do on affordability and equal access

Dr Hao Xue

Dr Hao Xue

Dr Amanda Lawrence

Dr Amanda Lawrence

Algorithms of Oppression

Intersectionalities of Automated Decision Making and Race/Ethnicity

Intersectionalities of Automated Decision Making and Race/Ethnicity

Data centre

Ecological Implications of Data Centres

Ecological Implications of Data Centres

Girl using laptop with dog on her lap

How does Facebook control the ads you see? The truth is out there

How does Facebook control the ads you see? The truth is out there

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Project Updates

Project Updates

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Automating safety: developing better data models to help foster prosocial platforms

Automating safety: developing better data models to help foster prosocial platforms

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Political Economy of Sex Tech

Political Economy of Sex Tech

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Public Interest Litigation for AI Accountability

Public Interest Litigation for AI Accountability

Australian Social Policy Conference

ADM+S Researchers Speak at 2021 Australian Social Policy Conference

ADM+S Researchers Speak at 2021 Australian Social Policy Conference

Algorithms of Oppression

Intersectionalities of Automated Decision Making and Race/Ethnicity

Intersectionalities of Automated Decision Making and Race/Ethnicity

Grandpa and son travelling on public transport

Call for Participants: Seniors Using Transport in Melbourne

Call for Participants: Seniors Using Transport in Melbourne

Prof Axel Bruns, Prof Jean Burgess, Prof Deborah Lupton, Prof Sarah Pink, and Prof Haiqing Yu recognised in The Australian’s 2021 Research Magazine's Top Researchers.

5 ADM+S Investigators Recognised in The Australian’s List of Top Researchers

5 ADM+S Investigators Recognised in The Australian’s List of Top Researchers

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Telstra partners with ADM+S Centre to develop the first comprehensive study of digital inclusion in remote First Nations communities

Telstra partners with ADM+S Centre to develop the first comprehensive study of digital inclusion in remote First Nations communities

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Kate has faced years of abuse on social media. She says it’s time platforms did something about it

Kate has faced years of abuse on social media. She says it’s time platforms did something about it

Professor Jean Burgess

Prof Jean Burgess elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Prof Jean Burgess elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Two people walking through an airport on security screen with their details displayed beside them

Artificial intelligence has probably already made decisions about you. Here’s why that matters

Artificial intelligence has probably already made decisions about you. Here’s why that matters

Warehouse

Burnout by design? Warehouse and shipping workers pay the hidden cost of the holiday season

Burnout by design? Warehouse and shipping workers pay the hidden cost of the holiday season

A male standing with his face pixelated out by a computing device.

Social media companies could soon be forced to end anonymity for online trolls. But will this stop the trolling?

Social media companies could soon be forced to end anonymity for online trolls. But will this stop the trolling?

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Sex Tech Hackathon 2022: Open to expressions of interest

Sex Tech Hackathon 2022: Open to expressions of interest

Tik Tok application on mobile phone

How TikTok could influence next year’s federal election

How TikTok could influence next year’s federal election

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ADM+S research fellows receive international AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award

ADM+S research fellows receive international AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award

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Citizen scientists to drive independent assessment of search engines and social media advertising

Citizen scientists to drive independent assessment of search engines and social media advertising

RMIT University Interim Vice-Chancellor Dionne Higgins marks the launch of the Centre with ribbon cutting

Australian Research Council officially launches the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society

Australian Research Council officially launches the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society

AuSDO Concept Brief

AuSDO Concept Brief

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Directors’ End of Year Message 2021

Directors’ End of Year Message 2021

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ADM+S and Australian Red Cross Partnership – Technology for Society Series

ADM+S and Australian Red Cross Partnership – Technology for Society Series

Health worker using laptop

Digital media for the prevention & mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Digital media for the prevention & mitigation of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

Visions of the Road Ahead

Visions of the Road Ahead: Experimenting with Future Visions of Self-Driving Cars

Visions of the Road Ahead: Experimenting with Future Visions of Self-Driving Cars

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Public Interest Hackathon to Create a New Future for Sex Tech

Public Interest Hackathon to Create a New Future for Sex Tech

Dr Thao Phan: Listening to Misrecognition

Listening to Misrecognition

Listening to Misrecognition

Prof Flora Salim

Prof Flora Salim appointed to ARC College of Experts

Prof Flora Salim appointed to ARC College of Experts

Sex toys and laptop on pink background

Sex Tech Hackathon 2022

Sex Tech Hackathon 2022

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Digital media for the prevention & mitigation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Digital media for the prevention & mitigation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

ADM+S Cultural Walk Tour Group

Summer School Cultural Walk in Melbourne

Summer School Cultural Walk in Melbourne

HealthTech: Today and Tomorrow Workshop Materials

HealthTech: Today and Tomorrow

HealthTech: Today and Tomorrow

Left to right: Anthony Wiltshire, Shaylin Whyman, Brendon Adams, Dr Daniel Featherstone, Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker, and Dr Indigo Holcombe-James

Mapping the Digital Gap research project commences in Wilcannia NSW

Mapping the Digital Gap research project commences in Wilcannia NSW

Visions of the Road Ahead

Visions of the road ahead: Experimenting with Future Visions of Self-Driving Cars

Visions of the road ahead: Experimenting with Future Visions of Self-Driving Cars

Male worker using tablet

Reimagining Global Crowdsourcing for Better Human-AI Collaboration (REGROW)

Reimagining Global Crowdsourcing for Better Human-AI Collaboration (REGROW)

Dr Nonie May

Dr Nonie May

Matt Warren

Matt Warren

Leah Hawkins

Leah Hawkins

Dr Kelsie Nabben

Dr Kelsie Nabben

ABC Brisbane

ADM+S Researchers awarded 2021 ABC Top 5 Media Residency

ADM+S Researchers awarded 2021 ABC Top 5 Media Residency

Dr Daniel Binns

Dr Daniel Binns

Prof Nicholas Carah

Prof Nicholas Carah

Dr Jacinthe Flore

Dr Jacinthe Flore

Dr Pratiwi Utami

Dr Pratiwi Utami

Trang Le

Trang Le

Jiyoon Lee

Jiyoon Lee

Prof Brett Neilson

Prof Brett Neilson

Prof Jeannie Paterson

Prof Jeannie Paterson

Lauren Kelly

Lauren Kelly

Wynston Lee

Wynston Lee

Prof Ned Rossiter

Prof Ned Rossiter

Dr Joshua Hatherley

Dr Joshua Hatherley

Illustration of digital transport

Prof Flora Salim appointed Cisco Chair in Digital Transport at UNSW

Prof Flora Salim appointed Cisco Chair in Digital Transport at UNSW

Dr Iris Maher

Dr Iris Maher

Anand Badola

Anand Badola

Dr Sam Freeman

Dr Sam Freeman

Prof Karen Soldatić

Prof Karen Soldatić

Dr Robert Lundberg

Dr Robert Lundberg

Prof Patrik Wikström

Prof Patrik Wikström

Dr Anna Zhu

Dr Anna Zhu

Dr Vincent Le

Dr Vincent Le

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Fake viral footage is spreading alongside the real horror in Ukraine. Here are 5 ways to spot it

Fake viral footage is spreading alongside the real horror in Ukraine. Here are 5 ways to spot it

Melbourne Design Week

ADM+S at Melbourne Design Week

ADM+S at Melbourne Design Week

Dan Dai

Dan Dai

Dr Emmanuelle Walkowiak

Dr Emmanuelle Walkowiak

Students at Melbourne Student Welcome event

Student Welcome Event – Melbourne

Student Welcome Event – Melbourne

Delighted female person talking to her daughter and holding tablet while sitting in semi position

ADM in Child and Family Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

ADM in Child and Family Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Dr Edgar Gómez-Cruz

Dr Edgar Gómez-Cruz

Guangnan Zhu

Guangnan Zhu

Kanika Mehra

Kanika Mehra

Laura McLean

Laura McLean

Seeing the road ahead

Seeing the Road Ahead

Seeing the Road Ahead

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Twitter is being manipulated with pro-Russia messaging

Twitter is being manipulated with pro-Russia messaging

Assoc Prof Michael Richardson

Assoc Prof Michael Richardson

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Canada eyes Australia’s media code to pay for news but wants more ‘transparency’

Canada eyes Australia’s media code to pay for news but wants more ‘transparency’

Prof Sarah Pink and Prof Flora Salim

Prof Sarah Pink and Prof Flora Salim Finalists in Women in AI Awards 2022

Prof Sarah Pink and Prof Flora Salim Finalists in Women in AI Awards 2022

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Russian government accounts are using a Twitter loophole to spread disinformation

Russian government accounts are using a Twitter loophole to spread disinformation

Dr Damian Clifford

Dr Damian Clifford

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How are alcohol companies targeting young people?

How are alcohol companies targeting young people?

Crowd of people in China

China-Related Research in the Context of COVID-19

China-Related Research in the Context of COVID-19

This article published in The Conversation highlights the critical role First Nations media outlets provide in the day-to-day lives of Indigenous people and even more so in times of crisis.

Natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the crucial role of First Nations media

Natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the crucial role of First Nations media

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Alumni

Alumni

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Is Airbnb using an algorithm to ban users from the platform?

Is Airbnb using an algorithm to ban users from the platform?

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How To’s and FAQ’s

How To’s and FAQ’s

Browser screen

Project Media Coverage

Project Media Coverage

Crowd of people in China

Conducting China-related research in the context of COVID-19

Conducting China-related research in the context of COVID-19

Two-people-writing-on-whiteboard-with-laptop

How To’s and FAQ’s

How To’s and FAQ’s

Person using Facebook on laptop and phone

Project Media Coverage

Project Media Coverage

Person's hand typing on laptop with people standing in the background

Automating Wikimedia: Open Knowledge, Linked Data and Search

Automating Wikimedia: Open Knowledge, Linked Data and Search

ADM+S Tech Talks

ADM+S Tech Talks

Prof Sarah Pink and Prof Flora Salim

Prof Flora Salim and Prof Sarah Pink recognised at Women in AI Awards 2022

Prof Flora Salim and Prof Sarah Pink recognised at Women in AI Awards 2022

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ADM+S Early-Career Researchers Convene Gendered Online Harms Workshop

ADM+S Early-Career Researchers Convene Gendered Online Harms Workshop

Young girl using phone

Digital cultures and sexual health: research & practice roundtable

Digital cultures and sexual health: research & practice roundtable

Nadia Egalita

Nadia Egalita

Edward Small

Edward Small

Thomas Graham

Thomas Graham

Xiyao Liu

Xiyao Liu

Dr Zofia Bednarz

Dr Zofia Bednarz

3 people looking at computer screen in office at night

ABC partners with the ADM+S Australian Ad Observatory project

ABC partners with the ADM+S Australian Ad Observatory project

Cecily Klim

Cecily Klim

Dist Prof Bronwyn Carlson

Dist Prof Bronwyn Carlson

Assoc Prof Jason Bosland

Assoc Prof Jason Bosland

Person scrolling through phone in the dark

Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon

Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon

Dan Angus on ABC News

Prof Daniel Angus discusses targeted advertising on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing

Prof Daniel Angus discusses targeted advertising on ABC’s Afternoon Briefing

People have a right to know how their data is being used by platforms and advertisers to target them. As a society, we need to make sure this data isn't being used to enable unfair discrimination or predatory business practices.

Why we need better oversight of targeted online advertising

Why we need better oversight of targeted online advertising

ASDO Concept Brief

ASDO Concept Brief

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ADM+S researchers awarded ARC Linkage Grant

ADM+S researchers awarded ARC Linkage Grant

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Robots are creating images and telling jokes. 5 things to know about foundation models and the next generation of AI

Robots are creating images and telling jokes. 5 things to know about foundation models and the next generation of AI

Young child's finger pointing at laptop screen

Digital Inclusion for Low Income Families Symposium

Digital Inclusion for Low Income Families Symposium

Kaixin Ji

Kaixin Ji

Arjun Srinivas

Arjun Srinivas

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap in Wilcannia | Feb 22

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap in Wilcannia | Feb 22

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The Australian Ad Observatory project monitors federal election advertising on Facebook

The Australian Ad Observatory project monitors federal election advertising on Facebook

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Project Updates

Project Updates

Join us to launch the anthology Conflict in My Outlook, bringing together contemporary artworks and new texts shedding light on human experience in an era where data is the new oil.

Conflict In My Outlook: Book Launch

Conflict In My Outlook: Book Launch

Nadia Jude

Nadia Jude

Twitter on computer screen

The ‘digital town square’? What does it mean when billionaires own the online spaces where we gather?

The ‘digital town square’? What does it mean when billionaires own the online spaces where we gather?

Melbourne cityscape interconnected

Melbourne’s Future as a Digital City — Melbourne Knowledge Week

Melbourne’s Future as a Digital City — Melbourne Knowledge Week

Melbourne Knowledge Week 2022

ADM+S at Melbourne Knowledge Week

ADM+S at Melbourne Knowledge Week

Screenshot of Australia United Party advertising on YouTube

Facebook, YouTube, games & Grindr: what we know about online ads in the federal election

Facebook, YouTube, games & Grindr: what we know about online ads in the federal election

Dr Robbie Fordyce

Dr Robbie Fordyce

Dr Verity Trott

Dr Verity Trott

Frederic Rauturier

Frederic Rauturier

Amy Boike

Amy Boike

Blurred people walking across yellow crossing

ADM+S Launches Working Paper Series

ADM+S Launches Working Paper Series

Hiruni Kegalle

Hiruni Kegalle

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2021 Annual Report Published

2021 Annual Report Published

Yufan Kang

Yufan Kang

In this new book Everday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies authors show how by rehumanising automation, we can gain deeper understandings of its societal impacts.

New book: Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

New book: Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

Sarah Cupler

Sarah Cupler

Humanitech Summit 2022

Humanitech Summit 2022

Humanitech Summit 2022

3D dissolving human head made with cube shaped particles.

Making sense of deepfakes

Making sense of deepfakes

Colleagues working together on computer

Editorial Committee

Editorial Committee

RMIT building in Melbourne city at night

2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Automated Societies: What do we need to know?’

2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Automated Societies: What do we need to know?’

Pod Man Artwork

Future Automated Mobilities: Imaginaries and possibilities for a world in crisis

Future Automated Mobilities: Imaginaries and possibilities for a world in crisis

My phone is my eyes

Flight Paths, Freeways and Railroads

Flight Paths, Freeways and Railroads

Blurred vision in airplane

Highway to the Sky

Highway to the Sky

Blurred colourful walkway

Trust in ADM: Rethinking the anticipatory modes of technological determinism

Trust in ADM: Rethinking the anticipatory modes of technological determinism

Dr Kacper Sokol

Dr Kacper Sokol

ADM+S researchers Jean Burgess, Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken have brought together their knowledge and expertise in digital media and communication studies in this new book Everyday Data Cultures.

New book: Everyday Data Cultures

New book: Everyday Data Cultures

Ad tagged Clive Palmer billboard

The Australian Ad Observatory: Update on election advertising on Facebook

The Australian Ad Observatory: Update on election advertising on Facebook

University of California Berkeley campus

AI and Humanity Research Cluster at UC Berkeley

AI and Humanity Research Cluster at UC Berkeley

Dr Yasmin Tambiah

Dr Yasmin Tambiah

Person wearing headphones and holding phone

CFP: Digital inequality and automated decision-making workshop

CFP: Digital inequality and automated decision-making workshop

ACMI building in the evening

Enabling digital transformation and considering digital futures within the cultural sector: Evaluating ACMI’s CEO digital mentoring project

Enabling digital transformation and considering digital futures within the cultural sector: Evaluating ACMI’s CEO digital mentoring project

Dr Rita Matulionyte

Dr Rita Matulionyte

Boy in wheelchair laughing with woman

Working Paper: ADM in Child and Family Services

Working Paper: ADM in Child and Family Services

Diverse group of people using digital devices

Data for Social Good: Non-profit sector data projects

Data for Social Good: Non-profit sector data projects

Self-driving care approaching pedestrian crossing

When self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts and insurers need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’

When self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts and insurers need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’

Dr Joel Stern

Dr Joel Stern

Ha Do

Ha Do

Blurred people walking across yellow crossing

Australian Internet Observatory (AIO)

Australian Internet Observatory (AIO)

Graphic with text Duped by Design

Duped by Design

Duped by Design

Angela Blakston

Angela Blakston

Masked medical professional speaking to patient

Emerging Health Technologies in Australia: Developments in automation, AI and more

Emerging Health Technologies in Australia: Developments in automation, AI and more

Dr Frances Shaw

Dr Frances Shaw

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Automated Decision-Making in Disability Services and Accessibility: Mapping What Is Happening and What We Know

Automated Decision-Making in Disability Services and Accessibility: Mapping What Is Happening and What We Know

Dr Simon Coghlan

Dr Simon Coghlan

ADM+S Symposium 2022 – Draft Schedule

ADM+S Symposium 2022 – Draft Schedule

RMIT building in Melbourne city at night

2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Automated Societies: What do we need to know?’

2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Automated Societies: What do we need to know?’

ACM FAccT 2022

Dr Aaron Snoswell and Dr Henry Fraser presenting at ACM FAccT 2022

Dr Aaron Snoswell and Dr Henry Fraser presenting at ACM FAccT 2022

Melanie Trezise

Melanie Trezise

In motion people walking in grey tunnel

Dialogues: Discovering Keywords & Building New Socio-Technical Literacies for ADM Workshop

Dialogues: Discovering Keywords & Building New Socio-Technical Literacies for ADM Workshop

Tram in Melbourne passing RMIT buildings

Automated Societies Panel Discussion

Automated Societies Panel Discussion

Two women looking at phone while painting

Re-imagining Automated Care through Arts-based Methods Workshop

Re-imagining Automated Care through Arts-based Methods Workshop

Facial recognition on TV screen

Kmart, Bunnings and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology in stores

Kmart, Bunnings and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology in stores

Survellience camera identifying faces in city

Public Forum: How Should Australia Regulate Facial Recognition Technology?

Public Forum: How Should Australia Regulate Facial Recognition Technology?

Dr Debora Lanzeni

Dr Debora Lanzeni

Dominique Carlon

Dominique Carlon

Market Analyze with Digital Monitor focus on tip of finger.

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

Dr Andrew Whelan

Dr Andrew Whelan

Two people looking at computer screens

Assessing Prospective Harms (vs Benefits) associated with ADM

Assessing Prospective Harms (vs Benefits) associated with ADM

biometric verification and face detection on lady on mobile phone

Op-ed: Clearview AI facial recognition case highlights need for clarity on law

Op-ed: Clearview AI facial recognition case highlights need for clarity on law

Stephanie Livingstone

Stephanie Livingstone

Ciaran Ryan

Ciaran Ryan

Jackie Leach Scully

ADM+S Prof Jackie Leach Scully Featured on ABC Perspective Shift

ADM+S Prof Jackie Leach Scully Featured on ABC Perspective Shift

Wilcannia, NSW

Mapping the digital gap: Wilcannia, NSW community outcomes report

Mapping the digital gap: Wilcannia, NSW community outcomes report

People in public place with facial recognition

Facial recognition is on the rise – but the law is lagging a long way behind

Facial recognition is on the rise – but the law is lagging a long way behind

Logical Conclusions Automation Effects

Logical Conclusions/ Automation Effects

Logical Conclusions/ Automation Effects

Future Automated Mobilities Film Screening & Report Launch

Future Automated Mobilities: Film Screening & Report Launch

Future Automated Mobilities: Film Screening & Report Launch

Prof Annette Markham

Prof Annette Markham

Crowd of people in China

Let’s Talk about Digital China: Current Issues and Future Topics

Let’s Talk about Digital China: Current Issues and Future Topics

Berwyn Kwek

Berwyn Kwek

Kiah Hawker

Kiah Hawker

New rights to know data access in the context of automated decision-making

New Rights to Know: Data Access in the Context of Automated Decision-Making

New Rights to Know: Data Access in the Context of Automated Decision-Making

Medical professional speaking to female patient

How AI is changing medical practice

How AI is changing medical practice

Girl looking at computer surrounded by targeted advertising

Dark Ads: Public Panel

Dark Ads: Public Panel

Cover for Public Interest Sex Tech Hackathon report

Research report: Public Interest Sex Tech Hackathon

Research report: Public Interest Sex Tech Hackathon

ADM+S Symposium 2022 – Event Program

ADM+S Symposium 2022 – Event Program

Person using online dating app.

Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps

Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps

Person looking at computer screens with data

The Australian Search Experience to analyse over 350 million search results

The Australian Search Experience to analyse over 350 million search results

Warehouse landscape with moving forklift in foreground

Placing Labour, Locating Contemporary Capitalisms Workshop

Placing Labour, Locating Contemporary Capitalisms Workshop

Man walking out of woolworths with Ubereats bag

‘A weird dinging sound that everyone dreads’: what rapid deliveries mean for supermarket workers

‘A weird dinging sound that everyone dreads’: what rapid deliveries mean for supermarket workers

ADM+S researcher Dr Anjalee de Silva awarded a Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Fellowship for her work on creating tangible change for gender equality in Australia.

Dr Anjalee de Silva awarded a Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Fellowship

Dr Anjalee de Silva awarded a Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Fellowship

Partnering with ADM+S Mapping the Digital Gap project, Telstra’s Reconciliation Action Plan provides a pathway to improved digital access for remote communities.

ADM+S and Telstra’s 2022-2025 Reconciliation Action Plan

ADM+S and Telstra’s 2022-2025 Reconciliation Action Plan

Automated Societies Panel Discussion

ADM+S Hosts 2022 Symposium on Automated Societies

ADM+S Hosts 2022 Symposium on Automated Societies

Young woman using touch screen on the street

Public hackathon to reimagine online advertising accountability

Public hackathon to reimagine online advertising accountability

Building an Australian Social Data Observatory

Building an Australian Social Data Observatory

Building an Australian Social Data Observatory

What is governing Web3

What’s Governing Web3?

What’s Governing Web3?

ADM+S Members at the Cultural Walk. (Left to right) Caitlin Learmonth, Taylor Hardwick, Joanna Williams, Kath Albury, Loup Cellard, Haiqing Yu, Dang Nguyen, Nataliya Ilyushina, Damiano Spina, Sally Storey, Edward Small, Elaine McDonnell, Natalie Campbell, Leah Hawkins

ADM+S Cultural Walk to Dights Falls

ADM+S Cultural Walk to Dights Falls

Simons Institute Summer Cluster for AI and Humanity at UC Berkeley

Who is the ‘human’ in human-centred AI? Reflections on the Simons Institute Summer Cluster for AI and Humanity at UC Berkeley

Who is the ‘human’ in human-centred AI? Reflections on the Simons Institute Summer Cluster for AI and Humanity at UC Berkeley

The Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS) council has elected Professor Daniel Angus, Professor Axel Bruns and Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham AM to join the ranks of the academy.

ADM+S members elected to Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences

ADM+S members elected to Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences

Blurred travelers and people in motion in Airport

International Conference on Facial Recognition in the Modern State

International Conference on Facial Recognition in the Modern State

This workshop invites us to investigate the ways that human and other animal relationships are forged through processes of digitisation and datafication. From the care of the companion animal in the smart home to ‘smart’ farming, the tracking and trapping of endangered and ‘pest’ wildlife, memes, GIFs and videos, zoomorphic care robots and the conflict between delivery drones and ravens for airspace, emerging technologies such as biodigital sensors, AI and automated decision-making are increasingly configuring the intertwined lives and bodies of humans and other animals.

Digitised and Datafied Animals: Emerging Technologies and Human-Animal Entanglements

Digitised and Datafied Animals: Emerging Technologies and Human-Animal Entanglements

Dr Kelly Lewis

Dr Kelly Lewis

Mohammad Faisal

Mohammad Faisal

Woman holding phone to ear with text: Siri, where am I

Future Automated Mobilities: Towards hope, justice, and care

Future Automated Mobilities: Towards hope, justice, and care

Siri where am I

Future Automated Mobilities: Towards hope, justice, and care

Future Automated Mobilities: Towards hope, justice, and care

Woman standing in city street with lights

International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

RMIT University sign on building

ADM+S collaborates with RMIT media students

ADM+S collaborates with RMIT media students

Brimbank City Council garbage truck

An AI governance framework for garbage truck-mounted machine vision systems

An AI governance framework for garbage truck-mounted machine vision systems

Young Indian woman looking at letter while using laptop

Collateral Data: Automated Decision-Making and the Future of Credit in India

Collateral Data: Automated Decision-Making and the Future of Credit in India

Seeking positive change to social media policies, Dr Zahra Stardust and fellow academic and community experts have brought together the voices of stakeholders and advocates to develop the Manifesto for Sex Positive Social Media.

How can social media platforms be more sex positive?

How can social media platforms be more sex positive?

Crowd of people in China

Global China as Method

Global China as Method

Alexa Scarlata

Alexa Scarlata

Dante Aloni

Dante Aloni

Marwah Alaofi

Marwah Alaofi

Marwah Alaofi

Yunus Yigit

Yunus Yigit

Lesley Luo

Lesley Luo

Yueqing Xuan

Yueqing Xuan

Dr Andrew Brooks

Dr Andrew Brooks

Automation is widely recognised as one of the most central and powerful organising systems of everyday life, yet key questions about its historical, cultural and epistemological specificity remain unanswered. The symposium brings together researchers and representatives from key centres and projects focused on the study of automation.

Life in the Age of Automation: Cultural and Creative Perspectives

Life in the Age of Automation: Cultural and Creative Perspectives

Woman writing on notebook next to laptop

Kelly Lewis and Alexa Scarlata selected for Consumer Advocacy Placement Program at CHOICE

Kelly Lewis and Alexa Scarlata selected for Consumer Advocacy Placement Program at CHOICE

Caitlin Learmonth

Caitlin Learmonth

An audit of advertising transparency of major digital platforms conducted by The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) and ADM+S researchers has found that none of the platforms are transparent enough for the public to understand what advertising they publish, and how it is targeted.

How dark is ‘dark advertising’? We audited Facebook, Google and other platforms to find out

How dark is ‘dark advertising’? We audited Facebook, Google and other platforms to find out

COVID-19 app

Automation, Wellbeing and Harms in a COVID Age

Automation, Wellbeing and Harms in a COVID Age

Woman and child sitting at table with laptop

Policing Insecurity: Debt, Fraud, Data and the Automated Welfare State

Policing Insecurity: Debt, Fraud, Data and the Automated Welfare State

A newly published study has found that people with high levels of problematic news consumption are also more likely to have worse mental and physical health. This article provides 4 tips to stop doomscrolling.

Doomscrolling is literally bad for your health. Here are 4 tips to help you stop

Doomscrolling is literally bad for your health. Here are 4 tips to help you stop

Woman using ipad in bed

Big Data, Sexual Surveillance and Alternative Governance

Big Data, Sexual Surveillance and Alternative Governance

Wouter van Loon

Wouter van Loon

ADM+S welcomes Visiting Scholars from around the world to foster collaborations and exchange ideas.

Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Man looking at smart TV

Op-ed: Smart TVs are watching what you watch – and selling your data to advertisers

Op-ed: Smart TVs are watching what you watch – and selling your data to advertisers

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández speaking at 2022 ADM+S Symposium

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández receives Discovery Early Career Research Award 2023

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández receives Discovery Early Career Research Award 2023

Peter Waters

Peter Waters

She's Not Alone

She’s Not Alone

She’s Not Alone

She's Not Alone

ADM+S partners with She’s A Crowd to investigate ADM in ridesharing

ADM+S partners with She’s A Crowd to investigate ADM in ridesharing

Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies book cover

Digital and data literacies for sexual health: Exploring histories of sexual technologies with Dr. Bo Ruberg

Digital and data literacies for sexual health: Exploring histories of sexual technologies with Dr. Bo Ruberg

Flora Salim

Prof Flora Salim appointed to Chief Investigator at ADM+S

Prof Flora Salim appointed to Chief Investigator at ADM+S

Louisa Bartolo

Louisa Bartolo

FAM 2022 – Event Program

FAM 2022 – Event Program

Event Transcript: Disciplining The Market Or Being The Market – Alternative Data Governance // Economies

Event Transcript: Disciplining The Market Or Being The Market – Alternative Data Governance // Economies

Tram in Melbourne passing RMIT buildings

PhD Scholarship – Systems for Automated Decision-Making

PhD Scholarship – Systems for Automated Decision-Making

ADM+S Members at the 2024 Hackathon

Jobs

Jobs

Indigenous man using myGov website

Mapping the Digital Gap Community Outcomes Report from Wujal Wujal and Background Paper

Mapping the Digital Gap Community Outcomes Report from Wujal Wujal and Background Paper

Dr Aimee Brownbill (FARE), Lucy Westerman (VicHealth), Kate Bower (CHOICE) and Erin Turner (CPRC).

Dark ads public panel: Issues of online advertising and accountability

Dark ads public panel: Issues of online advertising and accountability

A bot performing a turing test while a human looks over in cyberspace, ultrarealistic

ADM+S Essay: Bots as more than human?

ADM+S Essay: Bots as more than human?

Dominique Carlon presenting

Dominique Carlon winner of the inaugural ADM+S HDR Essay Prize

Dominique Carlon winner of the inaugural ADM+S HDR Essay Prize

Dr Dorothy Kwok

Dr Dorothy Kwok

Podcast Transcript: Automated Decision-Making in Transport and Mobilities

Podcast Transcript: Automated Decision-Making in Transport and Mobilities

Machine Habitus cover image

Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Massimo Airoldi, author of Machine Habitus (2022) and ‘Stealth Love’ (2019)

Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Massimo Airoldi, author of Machine Habitus (2022) and ‘Stealth Love’ (2019)

Rhyle Simcock

Rhyle Simcock

Flightpaths, freeways and railroads image

ADM+S documentary ‘Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads’ to be broadcast on SBS

ADM+S documentary ‘Flightpaths, Freeways and Railroads’ to be broadcast on SBS

Resisting AI event image

Resisting AI: A discussion with Dan McQuillan about his new book

Resisting AI: A discussion with Dan McQuillan about his new book

This idea uses the existing Australian Ad Observatory dataset and the WAIST(why am I seeing this?) data collected alongside statistical data associated with postcodes to identify discriminatory patterns such as proxy and price discrimination.

Using Postcodes to Identify Discriminatory Patterns in Online Advertising Data

Using Postcodes to Identify Discriminatory Patterns in Online Advertising Data

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Empowering Users to Protect Themselves from Harmful Advertising Online

Empowering Users to Protect Themselves from Harmful Advertising Online

Dr Daniel Featherstone and co-researcher Yuŋgirrŋa Bukulatjpi surveying resident Jesselina Dhamarrandji in Galiwin'ku (Elcho Island)

Australia’s digital divide is even greater for Indigenous Australians

Australia’s digital divide is even greater for Indigenous Australians

Person playing game on mobile phone

Gamifying Private and Ethical Ad Donation

Gamifying Private and Ethical Ad Donation

Platform Economies Research Network (PERN)

PERN

PERN

Automation, Wellbeing and Harms in a COVID Age – Event Program

Automation, Wellbeing and Harms in a COVID Age – Event Program

Body+ helps people understand how effective different social media services are at protecting young people from content that contains harmful body image ads. 

Reducing the amount of harmful body image advertising experienced on social media

Reducing the amount of harmful body image advertising experienced on social media

ADM+S Policy Pack

ADM+S Policy Pack

Jigya Khabar

Jigya Khabar

Zoe Horn

Zoe Horn

Woman standing in city street with lights

ADM+S to host International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

ADM+S to host International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

Prof Janet Roitman

Prof Janet Roitman

Close up of person using mobile phone

Helping Social Media Users Capture and Report Dark Ads

Helping Social Media Users Capture and Report Dark Ads

Woman with lights shining on her

Technology for Society: Humanitech and ADM+S partnership

Technology for Society: Humanitech and ADM+S partnership

Doors of NDIS building

NDIS plans rely on algorithms to judge need – the upcoming review should change that

NDIS plans rely on algorithms to judge need – the upcoming review should change that

This idea suggests using a set of dance steps to invite people to understand and visualise their own advertising algo- rhythms in relation with each other, and to share them with researchers, regulators, story tellers, artists and journalists.

Dance Steps to Understand and Visualise Personal Advertising Algo-Rhythms

Dance Steps to Understand and Visualise Personal Advertising Algo-Rhythms

ADM+S Hackathon generates new ideas for investigating “dark advertising”

ADM+S Hackathon generates new ideas for investigating “dark advertising”

Platform Economies Research Network (PERN)

ADM+S launches collaboration with the Platform Economies Research Network (PERN)

ADM+S launches collaboration with the Platform Economies Research Network (PERN)

What is governing Web3

What’s Governing Web3? Conference

What’s Governing Web3? Conference

Ad tagged Clive Palmer billboard

Monitoring Election Advertising on Facebook

Monitoring Election Advertising on Facebook

Laura Vodden

Laura Vodden

Lucinda Nelson

Lucinda Nelson

Miguel Gomez-Hernandez

Miguel Gomez-Hernandez

Twitter bird image generated by DALL-E

Is Twitter’s ‘blue tick’ a status symbol or ID badge? And what will happen if anyone can buy one?

Is Twitter’s ‘blue tick’ a status symbol or ID badge? And what will happen if anyone can buy one?

University of Sheffield campus (Credit: ES Kwon)

Prof Jean Burgess to join College of Experts for new Digital Good Network

Prof Jean Burgess to join College of Experts for new Digital Good Network

Hack/Hackers Brisbane will be hosting the winning team from the Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon to share their winning idea.

Identifying Discriminatory Patterns in Online Advertising Data

Identifying Discriminatory Patterns in Online Advertising Data

Mastodon app

What is Mastodon, the ‘Twitter alternative’ people are flocking to? Here’s everything you need to know

What is Mastodon, the ‘Twitter alternative’ people are flocking to? Here’s everything you need to know

The ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon generated big questions that are only the beginning of the conversation about online advertising.

3 Big Questions from the ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon

3 Big Questions from the ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon

Dr Marc Trabsky

Dr Marc Trabsky

Dr Kobi Leins

Dr Kobi Leins

Aerial view of Kalumburu in Western Australia's Kimberley region.

Starlink internet access arrives in the Kimberley, but it may be too costly for some.

Starlink internet access arrives in the Kimberley, but it may be too costly for some.

In November a number of ADM+S researchers presented papers at the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) conference in Dublin. At this event we will hear from five of those researchers from UQ and QUT, followed by an open discussion.

AoIR Showcase

AoIR Showcase

Miguel Loor Paredes

Miguel Loor Paredes

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post slider

With so many changes to Twitter what are the threats we are likely to see now? If you are thinking of leaving the platform, taking a break or want to better secure your data this is a must read.

Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the right way to do it

Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the right way to do it

Dark Ads Hackathon team presenting to Hack/Hackers group

ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon winners share new methods for better transparency in online advertising

ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon winners share new methods for better transparency in online advertising

Edward Small with People's Choice Award at CReD’22

ADM+S researchers’ poster voted Peoples’ Choice at CReD’22

ADM+S researchers’ poster voted Peoples’ Choice at CReD’22

Advertising images

What would an ad-free internet look like?

What would an ad-free internet look like?

Woman holding phone with Twitter on the screen.

A timeline of Twitter changes and commentary from ADM+S researchers

A timeline of Twitter changes and commentary from ADM+S researchers

Galaxy

The Galactica AI model was trained on scientific knowledge – but it spat out alarmingly plausible nonsense

The Galactica AI model was trained on scientific knowledge – but it spat out alarmingly plausible nonsense

Prof Haiqing Yu

Prof Haiqing Yu appointed to Chief Investigator at ADM+S

Prof Haiqing Yu appointed to Chief Investigator at ADM+S

Person with colourful text overlay

The Toxicity Scalpel: Prototyping and evaluating methods to remove harmful generative capability from foundation models

The Toxicity Scalpel: Prototyping and evaluating methods to remove harmful generative capability from foundation models

What do alternative social media platforms look like and how could they change the future of social media as we know it?

What is happening outside of the digital town square? A glimpse into the street corners and alleyways that also make Internet social

What is happening outside of the digital town square? A glimpse into the street corners and alleyways that also make Internet social

What’s Governing Web3 – Full Event Program

What’s Governing Web3 – Full Event Program

What’s Governing Web3 – Public Conference Program

What’s Governing Web3 – Public Conference Program

Products and services may make claims such as ‘sustainable’, ‘carbon neutral,’ etc, but the vague and broad nature of the claims means that consumers are not able to verify them. So, how can we make green claims work for consumers?

What can we do to improve green claims for consumers?

What can we do to improve green claims for consumers?

Snapshots from students' final outputs as part of ADM+S and RMIT Media Studio Program

RMIT and ADM+S Media Studio Ouputs

RMIT and ADM+S Media Studio Ouputs

2022 Dean's Award recipients. Left to right: Dr Indigo Holcombe-James, Dr James Meese, Dr Daniel Binns

ADM+S researchers receive Dean’s Awards at RMIT University

ADM+S researchers receive Dean’s Awards at RMIT University

Left to Right: Alice Cartmill, Eleanor Angus, William Smyth and Rehan Dutta.

Young ICT Explorers competition finalists hosted at ADM+S

Young ICT Explorers competition finalists hosted at ADM+S

Cover of Position Statement: Recommnedar systems and algorithms

The eSafety Commissioner releases new position statement on recommender systems and algorithms

The eSafety Commissioner releases new position statement on recommender systems and algorithms

The ABC has published an interactive explainer that examines the

The “Black box” of algorithms and automated decision-making

The “Black box” of algorithms and automated decision-making

MediaFutures: Artist for Media track Arjun Srinivas

Arjun Srinivas to lead research for MediaFutures supported project

Arjun Srinivas to lead research for MediaFutures supported project

The ADM+S Working Papers series publishes new research by ADM+S Centre members and collaborators in an open access format.

Working Papers

Working Papers

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Uninstall

Uninstall

Banner: APO Top Content 2022 Top Tens: most clicked across 15 subject areas MVPs: interesting and influential content

ADM+S publications recognised in the APO’s Top Content for 2022

ADM+S publications recognised in the APO’s Top Content for 2022

Working with the Consumer Policy Research centre, ADM+S researchers are searching the Ad Observatory to identify how frequently consumers are targeted with green advertising, and how misleading these claims are.

Environmental Claims and Greenwashing

Environmental Claims and Greenwashing

Buy now pay later on mobile phone

Consumer Finance Advertising

Consumer Finance Advertising

Alcohol bottle in small trolley in front of computer screen with credit card options

Alcohol Advertising

Alcohol Advertising

2x mobile phones: one with casino online screen and the other with sport bet screen

Gambling Advertising

Gambling Advertising

Person on coach looking at unhealthy food options on laptop screen

Advertising for Unhealthy Foods

Advertising for Unhealthy Foods

ADM+S researchers have been awarded funding from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Workshops Program to convene leading stakeholders to investigate issues of harmful online advertising and the potential for public interest litigation.

Workshop to investigate public interest litigation in harmful digital marketing awarded Academy of Social Sciences funding

Workshop to investigate public interest litigation in harmful digital marketing awarded Academy of Social Sciences funding

ADM+S members at Strategic Planning Retreat

2022 End of Year Highlight Video

2022 End of Year Highlight Video

ADM&CS Conference Program

ADM&CS Conference Program

Robot dog

Is it OK to kick a robot dog?

Is it OK to kick a robot dog?

Lauren Ganley

Lauren Ganley

TV remote control pointing at Smart TV

Op-ed: Why your smart TV might not last as long as you’d hope

Op-ed: Why your smart TV might not last as long as you’d hope

Woman standing in city street with lights

International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

Event Transcript: ADM in Child and Family Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Event Transcript: ADM in Child and Family Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Event Transcript: ADM in Disability Services and Accessibility: Mapping What Is Happening and What We Know

Event Transcript: ADM in Disability Services and Accessibility: Mapping What Is Happening and What We Know

Event Transcript: ADM in Social Security and Employment Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Event Transcript: ADM in Social Security and Employment Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Event Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium 2021: Members Welcome

Event Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium 2021: Members Welcome

Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium: Event Highlights

Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium: Event Highlights

Event Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium 2021: Conclusion

Event Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium 2021: Conclusion

Twitter on screen

Elon’s Twitter ripe for a misinformation avalanche

Elon’s Twitter ripe for a misinformation avalanche

Event Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium Public Welcome

Event Transcript: ADM+S News and Media Research Symposium Public Welcome

Event Transcript: ADM+S Tech Talk: RADio

Event Transcript: ADM+S Tech Talk: RADio

Event Transcript: AI for Social Good – ADM+S Tech Talks

Event Transcript: AI for Social Good – ADM+S Tech Talks

Event Transcript: Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In Conversation with Massimo Airoldi

Event Transcript: Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In Conversation with Massimo Airoldi

Event Transcript: Australian Digital Inclusion Index Launch 2021

Event Transcript: Australian Digital Inclusion Index Launch 2021

Event Transcript: Automated Societies Panel: What do we need to know?

Event Transcript: Automated Societies Panel: What do we need to know?

Event Transcript: Automating Wikimedia: Open Knowledge, Linked Data and Search

Event Transcript: Automating Wikimedia: Open Knowledge, Linked Data and Search

Transcript: Axel Bruns Interviewed on QUT’s Real World News

Transcript: Axel Bruns Interviewed on QUT’s Real World News

Event Transcript: Data for (Self/Business/Democratic) Governance – Alternative Data Governance // Economies

Event Transcript: Data for (Self/Business/Democratic) Governance – Alternative Data Governance // Economies

Event Transcript: Digital Cultures and Sexual Health, Research, and Practice Roundtable

Event Transcript: Digital Cultures and Sexual Health, Research, and Practice Roundtable

Event Transcript: Intersectionalities of Automated Decision-Making and Race/ Ethnicity

Event Transcript: Intersectionalities of Automated Decision-Making and Race/ Ethnicity

Event Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap Stakeholder Update Presentation

Event Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap Stakeholder Update Presentation

Event Transcript: Organisations & Intermediaries in the Data Economy – Alternative Data Governance // Economies

Event Transcript: Organisations & Intermediaries in the Data Economy – Alternative Data Governance // Economies

Event Transcript: Preserving Integrity in Online Social Media – ADM+S Tech Talks

Event Transcript: Preserving Integrity in Online Social Media – ADM+S Tech Talks

Event Transcript: Rethinking Data in the Platform World: Alternative Data Governance // Alternative Data Economies

Event Transcript: Rethinking Data in the Platform World: Alternative Data Governance // Alternative Data Economies

Event Transcript: Social Data for Public Empowerment in the USA – Social Data in Action

Event Transcript: Social Data for Public Empowerment in the USA – Social Data in Action

Event Transcript: The ADM+S Australian Ad Observatory Project

Event Transcript: The ADM+S Australian Ad Observatory Project

Event Transcript: The Australian Search Experience Project

Event Transcript: The Australian Search Experience Project

Event Transcript: We are AI: Towards Robust Public Participation in ADM Oversight – Social Data in Action

Event Transcript: We are AI: Towards Robust Public Participation in ADM Oversight – Social Data in Action

Transcript: What is the ADM+S Centre?

Transcript: What is the ADM+S Centre?

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Overview of Critical Challenges and Opportunities in News & Media Around Automated Decision Making

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Overview of Critical Challenges and Opportunities in News & Media Around Automated Decision Making

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Search Engines and Recommendation Systems

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Search Engines and Recommendation Systems

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Search Personalisation and Polarisation

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Search Personalisation and Polarisation

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – News and Automation

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – News and Automation

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Automated Content Curation and Moderation Problematic and ‘Borderline’ Content

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Automated Content Curation and Moderation Problematic and ‘Borderline’ Content

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Platform Governance Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Platform Governance Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Digital Inclusion and Media Use in Remote First Nations Communities

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Digital Inclusion and Media Use in Remote First Nations Communities

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Facebook Advertising the Australian Ad Observatory Project

Event Transcript: News and Media Symposium – Facebook Advertising the Australian Ad Observatory Project

Event Transcript: Road Testing Community Data CO-OPs – Social Data in Action

Event Transcript: Road Testing Community Data CO-OPs – Social Data in Action

Podcast Transcript: Bots as More Than Human?

Podcast Transcript: Bots as More Than Human?

Podcast Transcript: The Implications of Dark Ads

Podcast Transcript: The Implications of Dark Ads

Podcast Transcript: Everyday Data Cultures

Podcast Transcript: Everyday Data Cultures

Podcast Transcript: Intersectionalities of Automated Decision-Making and Race/ Ethnicity

Podcast Transcript: Intersectionalities of Automated Decision-Making and Race/ Ethnicity

Podcast Transcript: ADM in Child and Family Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Podcast Transcript: ADM in Child and Family Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Podcast Transcript: AI for Social Good

Podcast Transcript: AI for Social Good

Podcast Transcript: Making Sense of Deepfakes

Podcast Transcript: Making Sense of Deepfakes

Podcast Transcript: How Does Political Advertising Target Voters on Social Media?

Podcast Transcript: How Does Political Advertising Target Voters on Social Media?

Podcast Transcript: Foundation Models and ‘Creative’ AI’s

Podcast Transcript: Foundation Models and ‘Creative’ AI’s

Podcast Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap

Podcast Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap

Podcast Transcript: ADM+S and Australian Red Cross Partnership

Podcast Transcript: ADM+S and Australian Red Cross Partnership

Podcast Transcript: Digital Data Literacies For Sexual Health Practices

Podcast Transcript: Digital Data Literacies For Sexual Health Practices

Podcast Transcript: Modelling Algorithms From Ant Behaviours

Podcast Transcript: Modelling Algorithms From Ant Behaviours

Podcast Transcript: Using Fake Followers to Shape Public Opinion

Podcast Transcript: Using Fake Followers to Shape Public Opinion

Podcast Transcript: Facebook ‘Unfriends’ Australian News

Podcast Transcript: Facebook ‘Unfriends’ Australian News

Podcast Transcript: How Metrics and Algorithms Are Changing Journalism

Podcast Transcript: How Metrics and Algorithms Are Changing Journalism

Podcast Transcript: Automated Decision-Making and Society

Podcast Transcript: Automated Decision-Making and Society

Podcast Transcript: How Do Search Engines Decide What We See Online?

Podcast Transcript: How Do Search Engines Decide What We See Online?

Podcast Transcript: The Spread of Conspiracy Theories Transcript

Podcast Transcript: The Spread of Conspiracy Theories Transcript

International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies

ADM+S Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

ADM+S Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

Equity, Diversity and inclusion panel at the ADM+S Symposium

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Data Relations Summer School

Data Relations Summer School

Data Relations Summer School

Data Relations Summer School

Enrolments are now open for Data Relations Summer School

Enrolments are now open for Data Relations Summer School

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ADM+S partners with New South Wales Ombudsman to analyse the use of automated systems in NSW government sectors

ADM+S partners with New South Wales Ombudsman to analyse the use of automated systems in NSW government sectors

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Joanna Williams’ research cited in Meta Oversight Board Decision

Joanna Williams’ research cited in Meta Oversight Board Decision

Dr Awais Hameed Khan

Dr Awais Hameed Khan

Infographic with event date, time and location details.

Trust, Mistrust and AI: Intimacy, Consent, Affect

Trust, Mistrust and AI: Intimacy, Consent, Affect

Left to right: Dr Jake Goldenfein, Prof Daniel Angus

Prof Daniel Angus and Dr Jake Goldenfein appointed Chief Investigators at ADM+S

Prof Daniel Angus and Dr Jake Goldenfein appointed Chief Investigators at ADM+S

Lucy Valenta

Lucy Valenta

Maria-Gemma Brown

Maria-Gemma Brown

Michelle Keating as Lina in She's Not Alone

She’s Not Alone launches Monday 6 February

She’s Not Alone launches Monday 6 February

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3 in 4 people experience abuse on dating apps. How do we balance prevention with policing?

3 in 4 people experience abuse on dating apps. How do we balance prevention with policing?

First meeting of First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group in Adelaide

ADM+S researchers join Albanese Government’s First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group

ADM+S researchers join Albanese Government’s First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group

Transcript: Highway to the Sky (2022)

Transcript: Highway to the Sky (2022)

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Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Lucas LaRochelle

Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Lucas LaRochelle

Transcript: She’s Not Alone (2022)

Transcript: She’s Not Alone (2022)

Michelle Keating as Lina in She's Not Alone (2022)

She’s Not Alone premieres on ADM+S YouTube

She’s Not Alone premieres on ADM+S YouTube

2023 Summer School – Program

2023 Summer School – Program

Crowd in motion in busy precinct

Risk, Rule-setters and Rule-takers: Regulatory approaches to risk in AI-supported and AI-automated decision-making for general welfare

Risk, Rule-setters and Rule-takers: Regulatory approaches to risk in AI-supported and AI-automated decision-making for general welfare

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Book talk: ‘Wizards of the Web’ by Professor Jakob Svensson

Book talk: ‘Wizards of the Web’ by Professor Jakob Svensson

Data relations exhibition

Data Relations Exhibition and Summer School

Data Relations Exhibition and Summer School

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Facebook’s advertising WAIST tags

Facebook’s advertising WAIST tags

PERN Salon - “There’s No Data Like More Data” Automatic Speech Recognition and Algorithmic Culture

“There’s No Data Like More Data:” Automatic Speech Recognition and Algorithmic Culture

“There’s No Data Like More Data:” Automatic Speech Recognition and Algorithmic Culture

Highway to the Sky workshop

Watch Highway to the Sky on ADM+S YouTube

Watch Highway to the Sky on ADM+S YouTube

Radio Transcript: Meta’s roll out of a paid blue tick verification and Twitter’s change to two-factor authentication

Radio Transcript: Meta’s roll out of a paid blue tick verification and Twitter’s change to two-factor authentication

Meta logo on mobile phone with Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp logos in the background

Facebook and Instagram to trial paid verification in Australia as Twitter charges for two-factor SMS authentication

Facebook and Instagram to trial paid verification in Australia as Twitter charges for two-factor SMS authentication

ADM+S researcher's analysis of Twitter data shows that impressions of billionaire owner’s tweets went up 737% after a reported algorithm change.

Twitter data appears to support claims new algorithm inflated reach of Elon Musk’s tweets

Twitter data appears to support claims new algorithm inflated reach of Elon Musk’s tweets

The University of Skövde has appointed Prof Deborah Lupton, its first Honorary Doctorate in the field of Health in the Digital Society.

Prof Deborah Lupton appointed Honorary Doctor at the University of Skövde

Prof Deborah Lupton appointed Honorary Doctor at the University of Skövde

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Meta targets content creators with new blue tick verification bundle

Meta targets content creators with new blue tick verification bundle

Plastic figure resembling a human who sits on a table infront of a laptop in a dark room. Long shadows disseminate a gloomy mood.

How should we respond to ChatGPT?

How should we respond to ChatGPT?

The 2023 ADM+S Symposium brings together researchers, industry, advocacy groups and policymakers to showcase the findings of our work together to date, and to address the most pressing emerging challenges associated with automated systems in the digital media, information, and entertainment environment. 

2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media

2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media

Robot hand writing an essay

ChatGPT – Is it hype or the next step in AI?

ChatGPT – Is it hype or the next step in AI?

Dr Futoon Abushaqra

Dr Futoon Abushaqra

Dr Luke Munn

Dr Luke Munn

Event Transcript: Policing Insecurity: Debt, Fraud, Data and the Automated Welfare State

Event Transcript: Policing Insecurity: Debt, Fraud, Data and the Automated Welfare State

A washing machine with green earth landscape inside

Research investigates “greenwashing” advertising on social media

Research investigates “greenwashing” advertising on social media

DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality. To celebrate International Women's Day we're recognising ADM+S members researching representation, women in AI, gender-based violence, and more.

Recognising ADM+S Researchers for International Women’s Day 2023

Recognising ADM+S Researchers for International Women’s Day 2023

Dr César Albarrán-Torres

Dr César Albarrán-Torres

Three women chatting amongst themselves

ADM+S Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy Launch

ADM+S Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy Launch

Dr Kieran Hegarty

Dr Kieran Hegarty

Peibo Li

Peibo Li

Identifying stakeholders in shared e-scooter services

Identifying stakeholders in shared e-scooter services

A two-day PhD-led workshop for an emerging cohort of interdisciplinary researchers in Australia and the Pacific conducting critical studies of technologies. Come share knowledge, build a network and map our work.

PhD Winter Workshop in Critical Technology Studies

PhD Winter Workshop in Critical Technology Studies

Research article on visual mis/disinformation in journalism and public communication voted as top paper published in the Q1 journal, Journalism Practice, in 2022-23.

Visual mis/disinformation in journalism and public communications article wins top paper award

Visual mis/disinformation in journalism and public communications article wins top paper award

Tracy De Cotta

Tracy De Cotta

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The Australian Ad Observatory uncovering the hidden world of targeted advertising

The Australian Ad Observatory uncovering the hidden world of targeted advertising

More than Human

More-than-Human Wellbeing

More-than-Human Wellbeing

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More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition at UNSW Sydney

More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition at UNSW Sydney

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Angieszka Leszczynski on “Urban platform materialities: aesthetics, glitches, amenities”

Angieszka Leszczynski on “Urban platform materialities: aesthetics, glitches, amenities”

Sydney Innovation Program participants at the formal dinner

ADM+S partners with Sydney Law School to present the 2023 Sydney Innovation Program

ADM+S partners with Sydney Law School to present the 2023 Sydney Innovation Program

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Dr Kacper Sokol visits Università della Svizzera italiana to deliver new course on machine learning explainability

Dr Kacper Sokol visits Università della Svizzera italiana to deliver new course on machine learning explainability

Edward Small presenting poster at the 2022 ADM+S Symposium

Edward Small selected for research program at the University of Bristol

Edward Small selected for research program at the University of Bristol

Lauren Hayden

Lauren Hayden

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Project to counter misinformation receives Meta Foundational Integrity Research funding

Project to counter misinformation receives Meta Foundational Integrity Research funding

ADM+S Annual Report 2022

ADM+S Annual Report 2022

Prof Gerard Goggin

Prof Gerard Goggin

Joel Cooper

Joel Cooper

Daniel Whelan-Shamy

Daniel Whelan-Shamy

Brooke Coco

Brooke Coco

Universitat Bremen building

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández awarded ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Bremen

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández awarded ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Bremen

Assoc Prof Michelle Riedlinger

Assoc Prof Michelle Riedlinger

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Queer social sorting: Control and resistance in China’s LGBTQ+ activism

Queer social sorting: Control and resistance in China’s LGBTQ+ activism

Teenage boy using phone

How digital marketing of legal but harmful products escalates health threats to the most vulnerable

How digital marketing of legal but harmful products escalates health threats to the most vulnerable

Pictured left to right: Kunal Kaveesh Chand, Dominiqe Carlon & Anand Badola

ADM+S Higher Degree Research students selected for the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme

ADM+S Higher Degree Research students selected for the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme

Prof Yolande Strengers sitting with students at Superbots Industry Immersion Program

Superbots Industry Immersion Program inspires girls in STEM

Superbots Industry Immersion Program inspires girls in STEM

Vote for us in SXSW Sydney Select Session

Vote for us! ADM+S and ABC pitch proposals for SXSW Sydney line-up

Vote for us! ADM+S and ABC pitch proposals for SXSW Sydney line-up

Dr Fabio Mattioli

Dr Fabio Mattioli

Towards a positive internet

Towards a Positive Internet

Towards a Positive Internet

In motion people walking by office building

Mapping automated decision-making tools in administrative decision-making in NSW

Mapping automated decision-making tools in administrative decision-making in NSW

Woman's face with artificial intelligence graphic on right side

Trauma-informed AI: Developing and testing a practical AI audit framework for use in social services

Trauma-informed AI: Developing and testing a practical AI audit framework for use in social services

Person typing on laptop with graphic overlay

Designing Automated Tools to Support Welfare Rights Advocacy

Designing Automated Tools to Support Welfare Rights Advocacy

Sexy Messy Symposium

Sexy Messy: A Digital Sexual Cultures Symposium

Sexy Messy: A Digital Sexual Cultures Symposium

Person looking at laptop screen with ChatGPT on screen

What is ChatGPT, and what does it mean for clinical practice?

What is ChatGPT, and what does it mean for clinical practice?

Thumb scrolling on ChatGPT OpenAI

ChatGPT: Hype or the Next Big Thing? Everything you should know

ChatGPT: Hype or the Next Big Thing? Everything you should know

Economies of Virtue Book cover and event information

Economies of Virtue Book Launch Event and Celebration

Economies of Virtue Book Launch Event and Celebration

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Understanding Wikimedia as a Digital Media Platform: research seminar/workshop

Understanding Wikimedia as a Digital Media Platform: research seminar/workshop

Abstract image of man looking at house through iPhone

RentTech platforms making renting that much harder

RentTech platforms making renting that much harder

Seth Lazar portrait

Seth Lazar: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention

Seth Lazar: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention

LiDAR sensing concept

Automation and Public Space

Automation and Public Space

Vishnu Padinjaredath Suresh

Vishnu Padinjaredath Suresh

Chathurika Akurugoda

Chathurika Akurugoda

Chathurika Akurugoda

Avantik Tamta

Avantik Tamta

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap in Wilcannia | February 2022

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap in Wilcannia | February 2022

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap in Erub

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap in Erub

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap Stakeholder Update Presentation

Transcript: Mapping the Digital Gap Stakeholder Update Presentation

Join us for a thought-provoking and illuminating discussion with researchers and industry experts on the future of the internet.

Internet Futures

Internet Futures

Family looking at bills

After Robodebt

After Robodebt

Family travelling with luggage

ADM in Migration Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

ADM in Migration Services: Mapping what is happening and what we know

Dr Georgia Van Toorn

Dr Georgia van Toorn awarded three-month fellowship at Cardiff University’s Data Justice Lab

Dr Georgia van Toorn awarded three-month fellowship at Cardiff University’s Data Justice Lab

Netflix button on TV remote

Netflix and other streaming giants pay to get branded buttons on your remote control. Local TV services can’t afford to keep up

Netflix and other streaming giants pay to get branded buttons on your remote control. Local TV services can’t afford to keep up

2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media

2023 ADM+S Symposium to highlight latest research in AI and automation in news, media and entertainment

2023 ADM+S Symposium to highlight latest research in AI and automation in news, media and entertainment

ADM+S Centre Welcome Pack

ADM+S Centre Welcome Pack

Drone in sky

Testbed Australia

Testbed Australia

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández elected member of the AoIR executive committee

Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández elected member of the AoIR executive committee

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PhD Scholarship – Automated Decision-Making (ADM) and Chinese Society

PhD Scholarship – Automated Decision-Making (ADM) and Chinese Society

The Australian Ad Observatory – Privacy Policy

The Australian Ad Observatory – Privacy Policy

TikTok open on smartphone

A TikTok ban isn’t a data security solution. It will be difficult to enforce – and could end up hurting user

A TikTok ban isn’t a data security solution. It will be difficult to enforce – and could end up hurting user

Bluesky open on a smartphone

What is Bluesky and how’s it different to Twitter?

What is Bluesky and how’s it different to Twitter?

Margaret Wilson

Margaret Wilson

Left to right: Dr Dang Nguyen, Dr Damiano Spina and Prof Annette Markham

ADM+S researchers appointed to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

ADM+S researchers appointed to the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

Person walking and looking at their phone

ADM+S & PERN explore the use of “Economization” in the study and analysis of digital platforms

ADM+S & PERN explore the use of “Economization” in the study and analysis of digital platforms

Jing Qian

Jing Qian

Person using ChatGPT on phone

Generative AI: Language models and multimodal foundation models

Generative AI: Language models and multimodal foundation models

Alcohol bottle in small trolley in front of computer screen with credit card options

Research informs government debate on targeted advertising of harmful products

Research informs government debate on targeted advertising of harmful products

Assoc Prof James Parker

Assoc Prof James Parker

Web Search Revolution

The Web Search Revolution

The Web Search Revolution

The Web Search Revolution Public Debate

Generative AI Should Be Stopped! The Web Search Revolution Public Debate

Generative AI Should Be Stopped! The Web Search Revolution Public Debate

More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition

More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition opens at UNSW

More-than-Human Wellbeing Exhibition opens at UNSW

2021 ADM+S Centre Launch

2021 Annual Report

2021 Annual Report

2022 ADM+S Hackathon

2022 Annual Report

2022 Annual Report

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2020 Annual Report

2020 Annual Report

2022 ADM+S Hackathon

2022 ADM+S Annual Report released

2022 ADM+S Annual Report released

Left to right: Dr Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Dr Aitor Jiménez, Dr Emilia Gómez, Prof Kimberlee Weatherall, Dr Henry Fraser, Melanie Trezise, Dr David Fernández Llorca

European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency hosts collaborative workshop with ADM+S

European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency hosts collaborative workshop with ADM+S

This month Hacks/Hackers Brisbane is partnering with ADM+S to explore the challenges of understanding and responding to everyday misogyny in online discussions about gender-based violence.  How might we begin to better address the subtler, ‘civil’ discourses that normalise violence against women, alongside the more extreme manifestations of online misogyny?

Where misogyny hides: Exploring everyday online discussions of violence against women

Where misogyny hides: Exploring everyday online discussions of violence against women

Paulina Noches Pareja

Paulina Noches Pareja

Brain concept on blue background

Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Allan McCay

Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Allan McCay

Telstra, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology are proud to launch the 2023 Australian Digital Inclusion Index, including a new First Nations dashboard.

Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2023 launch

Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2023 launch

RAI UK logo on blue background

ADM+S joins new Responsible AI UK network

ADM+S joins new Responsible AI UK network

54th Annual Academy of the Humanities Symposium - Between humans & machines exploring the pasts & futures of automation

54th Annual Academy of the Humanities Symposium – Between humans & machines: exploring the pasts & futures of automation

54th Annual Academy of the Humanities Symposium – Between humans & machines: exploring the pasts & futures of automation

CACM article - Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization

Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization

Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization

University of Bristol campus (Image credit: University of Bristol / Flickr)

The Explanatory Multiverse: Maximising User Agency in Automated Systems

The Explanatory Multiverse: Maximising User Agency in Automated Systems

Dr Samantha Mannix

Dr Samantha Mannix

Professor Jean Burgess

Prof Jean Burgess inducted as Fellow of the International Communication Association

Prof Jean Burgess inducted as Fellow of the International Communication Association

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Can generative AI expose companies to risk?

Can generative AI expose companies to risk?

Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink awarded 2023 Australian Laureate Fellowship

Prof Sarah Pink awarded 2023 Australian Laureate Fellowship

Digital and data capabilities: new models for sexual health policy and practice

Digital and data capabilities: new models for sexual health policy and practice

Digital and data capabilities: new models for sexual health policy and practice

National NAIDOC Awards 2023 (Image credit: NAIDOC Week / Flickr)

Lala Gutchen receives Caring for Country and Culture award at the National NAIDOC Awards Ceremony

Lala Gutchen receives Caring for Country and Culture award at the National NAIDOC Awards Ceremony

People writing on whiteboard

Impact Narrative Masterclass with Prof Swee Mak

Impact Narrative Masterclass with Prof Swee Mak

People looking at a computer screen

Protected: Publications

Protected: Publications

Electronics board

What is ‘AI alignment’? Silicon Valley’s favourite way to think about AI safety misses the real issues

What is ‘AI alignment’? Silicon Valley’s favourite way to think about AI safety misses the real issues

Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood

Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood

Suvradip Maitra

Suvradip Maitra

Prof Daniel Palmer

Prof Daniel Palmer

Dr Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson

Dr Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson

Assoc Prof Yang Song

Assoc Prof Yang Song

Jenn Wilson

Jenn Wilson

Sara Allawati

Sara Allawati

Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight

Electronic circuit board in natural plants, generative ai

Electronics Ecologies Series

Electronics Ecologies Series

Web Search Revolution - Image created by Falk Scholer using Bing Image Creator

The Web Search Revolution

The Web Search Revolution

Dr Aditya Joshi

Dr Aditya Joshi

Ned Watt

Ned Watt

Join this half-day workshop exploring the intersection of human-computer interaction, design, and health information.

Health Information Ecologies

Health Information Ecologies

RMIT University sign on building

PhD Scholarship – Regional News and Journalism

PhD Scholarship – Regional News and Journalism

Dr Jessica Balanzategui

Dr Jessica Balanzategui

Person repairing technology

Call for Papers: Electronics Ecologies REPAIR

Call for Papers: Electronics Ecologies REPAIR

Minister Rowland speaking at FNDIP launch in Sydney

First Nations Digital Inclusion Plan launched to address the digital divide

First Nations Digital Inclusion Plan launched to address the digital divide

ADM+S Researchers at the 2023 ADII Launch

ADM+S and Telstra launch 2023 Australian Digital Inclusion Index

ADM+S and Telstra launch 2023 Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Web Search Revolution - Image created by Falk Scholer using Bing Image Creator

Evening Debate | The Web Search Revolution

Evening Debate | The Web Search Revolution

ADM+S recipients, Prof Yolande Strengers and Dr James Meese

ADM+S Researchers awarded 2023 ARC Future Fellowships

ADM+S Researchers awarded 2023 ARC Future Fellowships

Dr TJ Thomson

Dr TJ Thomson

Rhea Erica D’Silva

Rhea Erica D’Silva

Electronics Ecologies Event

Electronics < > Ecologies #1 — REPAIR

Electronics < > Ecologies #1 — REPAIR

Dr Fan Yang

Dr Fan Yang

Dr Giselle Newton

Dr Giselle Newton

VIC iWards

ADM+S Research Fellow Yong-Bin Kang recognised at the prestigious VIC iAwards 2023

ADM+S Research Fellow Yong-Bin Kang recognised at the prestigious VIC iAwards 2023

Pictured from left: Anand Badolo, Dominique Carlon & Kunal Chand.

ADM+S Higher Degree Research Students build global connections at Oxford Internet Institute

ADM+S Higher Degree Research Students build global connections at Oxford Internet Institute

The Data Broker Economy

The Data Broker Economy

Thao Phan

Dr Thao Phan Elected to the National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science

Dr Thao Phan Elected to the National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science

TJ Thomson

ADM+S researcher awarded 2023 Max Crawford Medal

ADM+S researcher awarded 2023 Max Crawford Medal

Vaughan O'Connor with artefacts from te More-than-Human mini show

More-than-Human wellbeing mini show joins policy impact exhibition

More-than-Human wellbeing mini show joins policy impact exhibition

Public lecture by Dr Sun-ha Hong: Predictions Without Futures

Public lecture by Dr Sun-ha Hong: Predictions Without Futures

Image by Takver from Australia, Wikimedia Commons

Dr Amanda Lawrence awarded Wikimedia Research Fund Grant

Dr Amanda Lawrence awarded Wikimedia Research Fund Grant

2023 eSafety Position Statement on Generative AI

ADM+S acknowledged for contributions to eSafety Commissioner Report on Generative AI

ADM+S acknowledged for contributions to eSafety Commissioner Report on Generative AI

Crowd in motion

ADM+S Submission to the Commonwealth Government’s Discussion Paper on Safe and Responsible AI

ADM+S Submission to the Commonwealth Government’s Discussion Paper on Safe and Responsible AI

Dr Damiano Spina at SIGIR Conference 2023

ADM+S research featured in leading search engine conference SIGIR 2023

ADM+S research featured in leading search engine conference SIGIR 2023

AI Companions

Artificial companions: Fantasies, imaginaries and play

Artificial companions: Fantasies, imaginaries and play

Digital Energy Futures documentary has won the Social Impact Award from the Royal Institution of Australia SCINEMA International Film Festival.

Digital Energy Futures documentary wins Social Impact Award at SCINEMA International Film Festival

Digital Energy Futures documentary wins Social Impact Award at SCINEMA International Film Festival

man and women working on laptop together

Is Pricing Discriminatory: Testing Automated Decision-Making Systems in Online Insurance Markets

Is Pricing Discriminatory: Testing Automated Decision-Making Systems in Online Insurance Markets

E-waste

Call for Papers: Electronics Ecologies WASTE

Call for Papers: Electronics Ecologies WASTE

Rubbish in front of Mountain

Electronics < > Ecologies #2 — WASTE

Electronics < > Ecologies #2 — WASTE

Big Data Warehouse Data Lake Platform Analytics Technology

China’s artificial intelligence is a great leap forward: Australia’s opportunity?

China’s artificial intelligence is a great leap forward: Australia’s opportunity?

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Google turns 25: The search engine revolutionised how we access information, but will it survive AI?

Google turns 25: The search engine revolutionised how we access information, but will it survive AI?

Lego figure looking through glasses

‘Fact-checking used to be easy’

‘Fact-checking used to be easy’

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and Telstra invite you to attend the online launch of the first Mapping the Digital Gap Annual Outcomes Report. Hear from leading industry and academic experts on the first year findings from ten diverse remote First Nations communities across Australia.

Mapping the Digital Gap 2023 Outcomes Report Launch

Mapping the Digital Gap 2023 Outcomes Report Launch

Dr T.J. Thomson and Dr James Meese of RMIT University

ADM+S researchers appointed to the Communication Research and Practice editorial board

ADM+S researchers appointed to the Communication Research and Practice editorial board

Our premise is that everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from digital technologies: to manage their health, access education and services, participate in cultural activities, organise their finances, follow news and media, and connect with family, friends, and the wider world.

Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Australian Digital Inclusion Index

CIRC 2024 Call for Papers

Call for Papers: 21st Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC 2024)

Call for Papers: 21st Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC 2024)

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ADM+S researchers recognised at 2023 Australian Good Design Awards

ADM+S researchers recognised at 2023 Australian Good Design Awards

Danielle Hynes

Danielle Hynes

2023 Hancock Lecture

ADM+S Research Fellow invited to deliver the 2023 Hancock Lecture

ADM+S Research Fellow invited to deliver the 2023 Hancock Lecture

Libby Young

Libby Young

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Humans, Machines, and Decision Responsibility

Humans, Machines, and Decision Responsibility

Thanh Tran

Thanh Tran

PERN Salon Flyer

PERN Salon: Surveillence and Capture: An Exploration of Computational Perception with Alexander R. Galloway

PERN Salon: Surveillence and Capture: An Exploration of Computational Perception with Alexander R. Galloway

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Research supports call for improved safety of dating apps

Research supports call for improved safety of dating apps

Indigenous Artwork depicting Information Retrieval on Country

Information Retrieval on Country

Information Retrieval on Country

Jaia Guildford-Carey talking to Prof Christine Parker

Australian Ad Observatory features on Hungry Talks

Australian Ad Observatory features on Hungry Talks

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ADM+S acknowledged for contribution to Commonwealth Governments’ discussion paper on Safe and Responsible AI

ADM+S acknowledged for contribution to Commonwealth Governments’ discussion paper on Safe and Responsible AI

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30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own

30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own

Indigenous Artwork depicting Information Retrieval on Country

ADM+S Statement of support for the Voice to Parliament

ADM+S Statement of support for the Voice to Parliament

Gangan co-researcher Djamika Ganambarr using the communities public phone.

ADM+S And Telstra launch the 2023 Mapping the Digital Gap Annual Outcomes Report

ADM+S And Telstra launch the 2023 Mapping the Digital Gap Annual Outcomes Report

Prof Nicola Ferro

Prof Nicola Ferro

Gangan co-researcher Djamika Ganambarr using the communities public phone.

Remote First Nations communities are among the most digitally excluded people in Australia: Report

Remote First Nations communities are among the most digitally excluded people in Australia: Report

IVLA award recipient Dr T.J Thomson

ADM+S researcher awarded international recognition for visual literacy research

ADM+S researcher awarded international recognition for visual literacy research

Book seminar: Algorithic Institutionalism

Book Seminar: Algorithmic Institutionalism

Book Seminar: Algorithmic Institutionalism

Young ICT Explorers visit QUT

Young ICT Explorers visit ADM+S at QUT

Young ICT Explorers visit ADM+S at QUT

Magazine Collage

Decoding AI: Media Studio Expo

Decoding AI: Media Studio Expo

RMIT Media Studio Exhibition

Media students explore the impact of automated decision-making on the everyday

Media students explore the impact of automated decision-making on the everyday

Working Paper Series

Working Paper Series

Working Paper Series

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ADM+S on Medium

ADM+S on Medium

Strategy documents

Strategy documents

Strategy documents

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Annual Reports

Annual Reports

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Social Issues in ADM

Social Issues in ADM

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Media Releases

Media Releases

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Resources

Resources

ADM+S PhD student Edward Small from RMIT University has returned to Melbourne after completing a four-month research program with Machine Learning and Computer Vision (MaVi) at the University of Bristol.

RMIT PhD Student Visiting Researcher at University of Bristol

RMIT PhD Student Visiting Researcher at University of Bristol

Prof Seth Lazar

Prof Seth Lazar

Professor Rachel Thomas

ADM+S Affiliate recognised in 2023 Top 100 People in Artificial Intelligence

ADM+S Affiliate recognised in 2023 Top 100 People in Artificial Intelligence

Mapping the Digital Gap Co-researcher Guruwuy Ganambarr using her mobile phone to connect to wifi in Gäṉgaṉ homeland, East Arnhem Land, NT.

‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online

‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online

Tanita Northcott

Tanita Northcott

Jiaru Tang

Jiaru Tang

Robert Morsillo

Robert Morsillo

ADM+S researchers at UbiComp/ISWC 2023

ADM+S researchers recognised at the International Symposium on Wearable Computing

ADM+S researchers recognised at the International Symposium on Wearable Computing

University of Amsterdam Visiting Researchers 2024

ADM+S Members Selected for 2024 Visiting Researcher Program

ADM+S Members Selected for 2024 Visiting Researcher Program

Dr David Beesley

Dr David Beesley

Weronika Łajewska

Weronika Łajewska

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Electronics < > Ecologies #3 — ENERGY

Electronics < > Ecologies #3 — ENERGY

ADM+S Research Fellow José-Miguel Bello y Villarino has received the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence at the University of Sydney, for outstanding achievement in research at the University that contributes to the overall advancement of our communities.

The Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence awarded to ADM+S Research Fellow

The Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence awarded to ADM+S Research Fellow

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How apps and influencers are changing the way we sleep, for better or for worse

How apps and influencers are changing the way we sleep, for better or for worse

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AI ReWired: How communities are using AI to Support Social and Environmental Justice

AI ReWired: How communities are using AI to Support Social and Environmental Justice

Professor Jean Burgess

ADM+S Associate Director Jean Burgess appointed Distinguished Professor at QUT

ADM+S Associate Director Jean Burgess appointed Distinguished Professor at QUT

The Royal Statistical Society Data Governance and Ethics Section is hosting a series of panel discussions on ‘International approaches to the legal, governance and ethical challenges of social media and digital behavioural data for researchers and research infrastructures’.

International approaches to the legal, governance and ethical challenges of social media and digital behavioural data for researchers and research infrastructures – Australia

International approaches to the legal, governance and ethical challenges of social media and digital behavioural data for researchers and research infrastructures – Australia

Dr Ruth Richards

Dr Ruth Richards

Colourful data landscape

$2.6M in ARC Discovery Grants for 6 projects

$2.6M in ARC Discovery Grants for 6 projects

Joel Stern, Sean Dockray, and James Parker presenting 'Machine Listening Songbook'

ADM+S Artists Residency at Unsound Festival, Poland

ADM+S Artists Residency at Unsound Festival, Poland

Zotero Library

Zotero Library

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Automated informality: generative frictions in ADM systems

Automated informality: generative frictions in ADM systems

TPSearch

TPSearch

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ADM+S research featured at the SXSW Sydney Conference

ADM+S research featured at the SXSW Sydney Conference

Yueqing Xuan (right) and Prof Maarten de Rijke at the University of Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam visit leads to future collaborations for ADM+S student

University of Amsterdam visit leads to future collaborations for ADM+S student

This month Hacks/Hackers Brisbane is partnering with ADM+S to explore the legal and social challenges that have arisen in the wake of massive changes to film and television distribution in Australia.

Islands in the Streaming: Local and niche content discovery in a global TV distribution market

Islands in the Streaming: Local and niche content discovery in a global TV distribution market

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Who will write the rules for AI? How nations are racing to regulate artificial intelligence

Who will write the rules for AI? How nations are racing to regulate artificial intelligence

Dr Aitor Jiménez 

ADM+S researcher awarded prestigious Ramón y Cajal grant

ADM+S researcher awarded prestigious Ramón y Cajal grant

Dr Lida Ghahremanlou

Dr Lida Ghahremanlou

Emma Finlay

Emma Finlay

A new research project conceived at the ADM+S Hackathon has been awarded $10,000 to develop an AI co-pilot strategy to reduce human and machine bias in large language models such as ChatGPT.

Hackathon develops methods to mitigate bias in large language models

Hackathon develops methods to mitigate bias in large language models

The deepening integration of the technology sector with the FIRE sector—finance, insurance, real estate—is a profoundly consequential development in modern capitalism. Separately these sectors are among the most powerful forces in society, with access to untold wealth and the ability to act like private forms of governance. When working together, they boost each other to new levels of dominance. Going by terms like fintech, insurtech, and proptech, these interdisciplinary enterprises have acquired an inescapable influence over our lives, even if we only notice a fraction of the ways they interact with us. These terms are large umbrellas under which vast arrays of systems are clustered, each one aiming to deploy digital solutions that serve the needs of technological and financial capital.

Futures at the Edge symposium: F.I.R.E. and Data public panel

Futures at the Edge symposium: F.I.R.E. and Data public panel

The transformation of work lies at the centre of our social and political present and future.  This panel explores dimensions of this transformation through a relational approach to work and traverses the possibilities it offers to re-imagine work futures.

Futures at the Edge symposium: Work Futures

Futures at the Edge symposium: Work Futures

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Friction and Promise in Data Labor

Friction and Promise in Data Labor

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Early Career Researchers extend collaborations across ARC Centres of Excellence

Early Career Researchers extend collaborations across ARC Centres of Excellence

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Electronics < > Ecologies #4 — MANUFACTURING

Electronics < > Ecologies #4 — MANUFACTURING

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Futures at the Edge symposium: Future Automated Mobilities Launch

Futures at the Edge symposium: Future Automated Mobilities Launch

CARES Project

CARES Project

Critical Infrastructure Lab

Do Labs Have Politics?

Do Labs Have Politics?

Joe Brailsford

Joe Brailsford

Dr Tegan Cohen

Dr Tegan Cohen

ADM+S Chief Investigators Prof Heather Horst from Western Sydney University, and Prof Axel Bruns from Queensland University of Technology, have been elected two of 31 new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

ADM+S researchers elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

ADM+S researchers elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Rebecca Ralph

Rebecca Ralph

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YouTube’s News Conundrum

YouTube’s News Conundrum

Wilcannia Community Update Report 2023

Wilcannia Community Update Report 2023

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The government has announced plans to regulate smart TV home screens: what the new rules mean for you

The government has announced plans to regulate smart TV home screens: what the new rules mean for you

News and Media Report

News and Media Report

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Call for stricter regulations on green claims in online advertising

Call for stricter regulations on green claims in online advertising

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Social media ads are littered with ‘green’ claims. How are we supposed to know they’re true?

Social media ads are littered with ‘green’ claims. How are we supposed to know they’re true?

Released today, the AI and Automated Decision-Making in News and Media report describes the latest phase of media automation, driven by recent advances in artificial intelligence. It draws on peer-reviewed research to map emerging challenges associated with the use of generative AI and automated decision-making across the news and media environment.

New Report: Emerging technology and challenges of AI and Automated Decision-Making in News and Media

New Report: Emerging technology and challenges of AI and Automated Decision-Making in News and Media

Wujal Wujal Community Update Report 2023

Wujal Wujal Community Update Report 2023

News and Media Report

News and Media Report

Studies have demonstrated the perils of digital platforms and automated systems: algorithmic bias, algorithmic harm, data privacy, and deep fakes. What is less clear are the myriad ways that digital platforms structure economic/financial relations and transactions. This 2-day conference consolidates and showcases programmatic research on processes of data valuation.

Digital Platform Economies – Value from Data?

Digital Platform Economies – Value from Data?

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Documentaries

Documentaries

Ned Watt standing in front of QUT building

ADM+S researcher shares insights on Generative AI at 2023 STEMFest

ADM+S researcher shares insights on Generative AI at 2023 STEMFest

Canaan Yung

Canaan Yung

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Our mental health has gone digital

Our mental health has gone digital

Covers from ADM+S Publications named in APO's Top Ten

ADM+S publications named in APO’s 2023 Top Ten

ADM+S publications named in APO’s 2023 Top Ten

Paria Eskandarpour

Paria Eskandarpour

Dr Ehsan Dehghan

Dr Ehsan Dehghan

Smart speaker in home with family in the background

Could smart speakers protect women against intimate partner violence? New research asks whether we should embrace “Big Sister”

Could smart speakers protect women against intimate partner violence? New research asks whether we should embrace “Big Sister”

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Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators

Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators

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Collective ideas to drive the future of automated mobilities

Collective ideas to drive the future of automated mobilities

Illustration of human head with machinery morphed in brain

2023 was the year of generative AI. What can we expect in 2024?

2023 was the year of generative AI. What can we expect in 2024?

Dr José-Miguel Bello y Villarino (left) and Dr Henry Fraser (third from right) with colleagues from ADM+S, the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre

Research informs leading AI risk management framework

Research informs leading AI risk management framework

Audience at 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Dr Aaron Snoswell shares novel research methods at leading international conference on Natural Language Processing

Dr Aaron Snoswell shares novel research methods at leading international conference on Natural Language Processing

ADM+S Working Paper Series 8: Regulating AI in Australia

ADM+S Working Paper Series 8: Regulating AI in Australia

Warakurna Community Outcomes Report 2023

Warakurna Community Outcomes Report 2023

Searching Large Collections of Paper - Web Banner

Searching Large Collections of Paper – Research Seminar by Doug Oard

Searching Large Collections of Paper – Research Seminar by Doug Oard

Five robots gather around an oversized contract and hardcover law book using their own laptops, a tablet, and oversized magnifying glasses, illustrating the concept of law or paralegal work being performed by artificial intelligence.

Regulation and oversight needed for responsible AI

Regulation and oversight needed for responsible AI

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ADM+S Publications Library

ADM+S Publications Library

Arjun Srinivas at ABC

Internship at ABC unlocks insights into news distribution on YouTube

Internship at ABC unlocks insights into news distribution on YouTube

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Electronics < > Ecologies #5 — ENERGY Part 2

Electronics < > Ecologies #5 — ENERGY Part 2

Sachin best oral presentation

ADM+S student awarded Best Oral Presentation at Information Access Evaluation Conference

ADM+S student awarded Best Oral Presentation at Information Access Evaluation Conference

Winning Hackathon team stading in front of Microsoft sign

Hackathon project explores multimodal AI to grapple with human and machine bias

Hackathon project explores multimodal AI to grapple with human and machine bias

Robotic arm throws man in garbage can_web

AI personality tests for hiring are here. Now what?

AI personality tests for hiring are here. Now what?

ADM+S Working Paper Series 9: The Australian Ad Observatory Technical and Data report

ADM+S Working Paper Series 9: The Australian Ad Observatory Technical and Data report

ADM+S Working Paper Series 9: The Australian Ad Observatory Background Paper

ADM+S Working Paper Series 9: The Australian Ad Observatory Background Paper

Automated Decision-Making for Future Transport Mobilities Stakeholder Perspectives

Automated Decision-Making for Future Transport Mobilities Stakeholder Perspectives

Futuristic people walking

ADM+S research cited in Australian Government’s Interim Response to Safe and Responsible AI paper

ADM+S research cited in Australian Government’s Interim Response to Safe and Responsible AI paper

Julian Bagnara

Julian Bagnara

AI Generated image: large blue face overlooking person with computers

Generative visual AI in news organisations: perceptions, challenges, and opportunities

Generative visual AI in news organisations: perceptions, challenges, and opportunities

Circuit board with emission cloud

Getting beyond Net Zero dashboards in the information technology sector

Getting beyond Net Zero dashboards in the information technology sector

DMRC & ADM+S 2024 Summer School

2024 Summer School

2024 Summer School

Paul Harpur OAM

Medal of the Order of Australia awarded to ADM+S Investigator

Medal of the Order of Australia awarded to ADM+S Investigator

ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Ash Watson has recently completed a three-month research visit at the ESCR Centre for Socio Digital Futures, collaborating with field-leading researchers on innovative social science methods.

ADM+S Research Fellow collaborates with field-leading sociologists at the University of Bristol

ADM+S Research Fellow collaborates with field-leading sociologists at the University of Bristol

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ADM+S student paper accepted at prestigious Web Conference 2024

ADM+S student paper accepted at prestigious Web Conference 2024

Prof Doug Oard

Prof Doug Oard

Black and white image of people at Invasion Day March in Melbourne 2021

wikihistories 2024: Wikipedia and/as Data

wikihistories 2024: Wikipedia and/as Data

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Nine was slammed for ‘AI editing’ a Victorian MP’s dress. How can news media use AI responsibly?

Nine was slammed for ‘AI editing’ a Victorian MP’s dress. How can news media use AI responsibly?

In loving memory of Arjun

In loving memory of Arjun Srinivas

In loving memory of Arjun Srinivas

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The Facebook trick online gambling is using to target Australians

The Facebook trick online gambling is using to target Australians

Abastract image people crossing road

Research as intervention: navigating ethical inclusion, solidarity, and activism in data justice research

Research as intervention: navigating ethical inclusion, solidarity, and activism in data justice research

Erub Community Update Report 2023

Erub Community Update Report 2023

Hello Kitty display from CUTE exhibition at Somerset House, UK

ADM+S researcher writes for international CUTE exhibition

ADM+S researcher writes for international CUTE exhibition

Jose Miguel Bello y Villarino and colleagues at the AI for education hearing on Jan 30

ADM+S Research Fellow invited to provide evidence to the Federal Parliament

ADM+S Research Fellow invited to provide evidence to the Federal Parliament

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ADM+S researchers appointed to new Federal Government artificial intelligence expert group

ADM+S researchers appointed to new Federal Government artificial intelligence expert group

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Fact Check Research

Fact Check Research

2024 Summer School participans standing under world globe

ADM+S/DMRC Summer School supports next generation researchers in digital media and automated decision-making

ADM+S/DMRC Summer School supports next generation researchers in digital media and automated decision-making

City buidling with Bank sign at front

ADM+S report finds regional bank closures are further disadvantaging remote First Nations communities

ADM+S report finds regional bank closures are further disadvantaging remote First Nations communities

Julie Stuart

Julie Stuart

View the program for Digital Platform Economies - Value from Data?

Digital Platform Economies – Value from Data? Program

Digital Platform Economies – Value from Data? Program

Dawn Anderson is the founder of Bertey, a digital marketing agency focusing specifically on SEO based in Manchester, UK. Dawn has been an SEO professional since 2007 and in addition to SEO consulting via her agency, Dawn periodically delivers training, and lectures in digital marketing and SEO.

Life of An SEO – Riding the Waves of Google’s Many Algorithmic Updates

Life of An SEO – Riding the Waves of Google’s Many Algorithmic Updates

Social media influencer recording

Research reveals the real cost of TikTok superstar economy

Research reveals the real cost of TikTok superstar economy

Coles and Woolworths, the supermarket chains that together control almost two-thirds of the Australian grocery market, are facing unprecedented scrutiny. Both supermarkets are implementing technologies that treat the supermarket as a “problem space” in which workers are controlled, customers are tracked and profits boosted.

The secret sauce of Coles’ and Woolworths’ profits: high-tech surveillance and control

The secret sauce of Coles’ and Woolworths’ profits: high-tech surveillance and control

Generative AI tools can create image, video and voice replicas of real people saying and doing things they never would have done. And these tools are becoming increasingly easy to access and use.

So, you’ve been scammed by a deepfake. What can you do?

So, you’ve been scammed by a deepfake. What can you do?

Indigenous community consultation sitting at outdoor table

New online platform to improve disaster preparedness using community sourced data, resource mapping and AI: report

New online platform to improve disaster preparedness using community sourced data, resource mapping and AI: report

Julian Stoyanovich UN

ADM+S Partner Investigator invited to speak about responsible AI at the United Nations

ADM+S Partner Investigator invited to speak about responsible AI at the United Nations

Zeros and ones appearing in a blackhole

New Media & Society special issue: Automated responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

New Media & Society special issue: Automated responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Researcher explores future of smart home technologies for older adults at the University of Amsterdam

Researcher explores future of smart home technologies for older adults at the University of Amsterdam

On 23 February 2024 Assoc Prof Ramon Lobato, Dr Alexa Scarlata and Dr Jessica Balanzategui from RMIT University presented evidence at the Senate Communications and Environment Committee hearing into the Media Reform Bill (Prominence and Anti-Siphoning) at Parliament House in Canberra.

ADM+S researchers present evidence at Senate Committee hearing into Media Reform Bill

ADM+S researchers present evidence at Senate Committee hearing into Media Reform Bill

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Research nominated for prestigious UK National Health Service Innovation Award

Research nominated for prestigious UK National Health Service Innovation Award

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ADM+S Publications: August 2024

ADM+S Publications: August 2024

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ADM+S research informs NSW Artificial Intelligence Inquiry

ADM+S research informs NSW Artificial Intelligence Inquiry

On March 15 ADM+S Chief Investigator Dr Jake Goldenfein was invited by the Association for Australian Information Commissioner’s to speak at Victoria’s Parliament House about how software supply chains, outsourcing, and human oversight requirements affect transparency into automated decision-making systems.

Dr Jake Goldenfein invited to present on AI in government decision-making at Parliament House

Dr Jake Goldenfein invited to present on AI in government decision-making at Parliament House

Angel Felipe Magnossao de Paula

Angel Felipe Magnossao de Paula

Sadia Sharmin

Sadia Sharmin

PIctured: Prof Daniel Angus, Prof Debbie Terry AC, Prof Margaret Sheil AO, Prof Carolyn Evans Assoc Prof Nic Carah, Dr Susan Grantham at Queensland Parliament House for Queensland Future Conversations event

ADM+S researchers share perspectives on the digital future with Queensland Parliament

ADM+S researchers share perspectives on the digital future with Queensland Parliament

Malavika Jayaram

Malavika Jayaram

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2024 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Mobilities

2024 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Mobilities

Will Cesta

Will Cesta

Shahriar Rahman

Shahriar Rahman

Samantha Floreani

Samantha Floreani

Kari Dahlgren

Kari Dahlgren

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2024 ADM+S Symposium: Call for Papers, Creative Practice Presentations and Posters

2024 ADM+S Symposium: Call for Papers, Creative Practice Presentations and Posters

Chinese Internet Research Conference

Chinese Internet Research Conference: Politics and Geopolitics of Automated Decision-Making on the Global Chinese Internet

Chinese Internet Research Conference: Politics and Geopolitics of Automated Decision-Making on the Global Chinese Internet

Meg Thomas

Meg Thomas

The Mobile Observation Ad Toolkit – Privacy Policy

The Mobile Observation Ad Toolkit – Privacy Policy

Re/Framing is an academic/creative/industrial gathering that will explore the transformation of creativity and the creative fields by generative artificial intelligence tools; in particular, this event will explore the opportunities and innovations enabled by the sustainable and ethical use of tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Leonardo.Ai, and Suno, in film, TV, music, advertising, audio production, and other areas.

Re/Framing – creativity / culture / computation

Re/Framing – creativity / culture / computation

This page offers basic GenAI terms and examples, developed in collaboration with ADM+S and the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC).

GenAI Concepts

GenAI Concepts

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Australian media need generative AI policies to help navigate misinformation and disinformation

Australian media need generative AI policies to help navigate misinformation and disinformation

2022 ADM+S Hackathon

2023 Annual Report

2023 Annual Report

Kylie Pappalardo

Dr Kylie Pappalardo joins the Federal Government’s new copyright and AI reference group

Dr Kylie Pappalardo joins the Federal Government’s new copyright and AI reference group

Midjourney image of Australian countryside in the 1800s

Visualising the 1800s or designing wedding invitations: 6 ways you can use AI beyond generating text

Visualising the 1800s or designing wedding invitations: 6 ways you can use AI beyond generating text

Social Media apps blurred

Dr Zahra Stardust joins call for accountability for police online racial profiling

Dr Zahra Stardust joins call for accountability for police online racial profiling

glossary

glossary

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Experts suggest evidence-based stories about harmful online marketing will drive policy action

Experts suggest evidence-based stories about harmful online marketing will drive policy action

ADM+S 2023 Annual Report Cover

2023 ADM+S Annual Report released

2023 ADM+S Annual Report released

The Facebook QUT DMRC Business App – Privacy Policy

The Facebook QUT DMRC Business App – Privacy Policy

Mark Sanderson SIGIR Academy

Prof Mark Sanderson inducted into the 2024 SIGIR Academy

Prof Mark Sanderson inducted into the 2024 SIGIR Academy

ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Dang Nguyen has collaborated with the Asian Development Bank Institute to develop an E-learning short course which explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social impact.

Short Course: Artificial Intelligence for Social Impact

Short Course: Artificial Intelligence for Social Impact

Congratulations to Dr Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino from the University of Sydney and Dr Jessica Balanzategui from RMIT University who are amongst just 50 recipients of the 2024 ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship grants.

ADM+S Members Awarded 2024 ARC Early Career Industry Fellowships

ADM+S Members Awarded 2024 ARC Early Career Industry Fellowships

Chinese Internet Research Conference

21st Chinese Internet Research Conference Program

21st Chinese Internet Research Conference Program

GenAI Concepts

GenAI Concepts

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OVIC and the ADM+S launch GenAI Concepts: A curated index for understanding AI terms

OVIC and the ADM+S launch GenAI Concepts: A curated index for understanding AI terms

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Novel algorithmic assessment toolkit to guide the development of AI systems that focus on human wellbeing

Novel algorithmic assessment toolkit to guide the development of AI systems that focus on human wellbeing

Aerial view of city intersection

Building a trauma-informed algorithmic assessment toolkit

Building a trauma-informed algorithmic assessment toolkit

ADM+S researchers Dr Aaron Snoswell, Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess and William He from the new GenAI lab at QUT in collaboration with ADM+S Associate Investigator Dr Daminao Spina (RMIT University) and Dr Tariq Choucair from QUT have been announced as one of nine finalists in the Prosocial Ranking Challenge.

ADM+S researchers finalists in UC Berkeley Prosocial Ranking Challenge

ADM+S researchers finalists in UC Berkeley Prosocial Ranking Challenge

2024-33 Decadal Plan for Social Science Research infrastructure

ADM+S partner on the 2024-33 Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure in Australia

ADM+S partner on the 2024-33 Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure in Australia

How is Automation Impacting Public and Shared Space? based on the ADM+S project Automation and Public Space, features project co-lead Assoc Prof Michael Richardson alongside researchers Dr Thao Phan, Dr Jake Goldenfein, Dr Andrew Brooks and Zoe Horn, who provide critical insights into their work on Drone Delivery, Automated Crowd Control, and Digital Twins.

New ADM+S Project Film: Automation and Public Space

New ADM+S Project Film: Automation and Public Space

Congratulations to ADM+S researchers and the ADM+S operations team, who have been recognised for their impact and engagement at the 2023 RMIT Vice Chancellors Awards, RMIT Research Awards, and Research Service Excellence Awards.

ADM+S members recognised at RMIT Annual Research Awards

ADM+S members recognised at RMIT Annual Research Awards

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New report highlights the environmental benefits and costs of generative AI

New report highlights the environmental benefits and costs of generative AI

Colourful advertisements swiping past person

Australian Ad Observatory: Key Insights and Future Plans

Australian Ad Observatory: Key Insights and Future Plans

Theresa Pham

Theresa Pham

Future Worlds event banner

Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries

Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries

On Friday 24 May 2024 the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee delivered its final report on Bank closures in regional Australia, citing the ADM+S submission, as well as evidence provided by Centre Director Prof Julian Thomas.

ADM+S research informs Senate report on Bank Closures in Regional Australia

ADM+S research informs Senate report on Bank Closures in Regional Australia

UNSW campus

PhD Scholarship – AI and Ecosystems

PhD Scholarship – AI and Ecosystems

Purple/blue circuit board with AI text on it

Decoding Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making: A blueprint for AI ‘guardrails’?

Decoding Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making: A blueprint for AI ‘guardrails’?

Search Recommender systems

ADM+S Student presents at the 2024 World Wide Web Conference in Singapore

ADM+S Student presents at the 2024 World Wide Web Conference in Singapore

The ADM+S podcast has released five new episodes following the 25-26 April event ‘Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data’, in collaboration with PERN.

New podcast episodes from an ADM+S/PERN collaboration

New podcast episodes from an ADM+S/PERN collaboration

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Age verification for pornography access? Our research shows it fails on many levels

Age verification for pornography access? Our research shows it fails on many levels

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New major infrastructure initiative for social data and digital platform research in Australia

New major infrastructure initiative for social data and digital platform research in Australia

The Research Fellow will contribute to a number of projects within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), with a particular focus on the cultural and linguistic diversity in automated decision-making (ADM) concerning the impacts, politics and geopolitics of ADM development.

Research Fellow – Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in ADM Systems

Research Fellow – Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in ADM Systems

Prof Neil Selwyn

Prof Neil Selwyn

Dr Jonathon Hutchinson

Dr Jonathon Hutchinson

Wenqi Tan

Wenqi Tan

This three-year initiative aims to explore and mitigate the risks posed by generative AI in disrupting critical services, while developing and evaluating defenses to safeguard legitimate users.

Research Fellow – Generative Artificial Intelligence

Research Fellow – Generative Artificial Intelligence

Dr Joanne Gray

Dr Joanne Gray

ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Zahra Stardust recently joined the World Association for Sexual Health as a panellist for their 10-year anniversary of the WAS Declaration of Sexual Rights Webinar.

ADM+S Research Fellow featured in the World Association for Sexual Health’s Sexual Rights Webinar

ADM+S Research Fellow featured in the World Association for Sexual Health’s Sexual Rights Webinar

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Australian Ad Observatory: Investigating mobile and dynamic advertising via computational and participatory approaches

Australian Ad Observatory: Investigating mobile and dynamic advertising via computational and participatory approaches

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ADM, Ecosystems and Multispecies Relationships

ADM, Ecosystems and Multispecies Relationships

Developing strategies for intervening in the automated flow of culture to advance Centre priorities of responsive, ethical, and inclusive automated decision making.

Evaluating Automated Cultural Curating and Ranking Systems with Synthetic Data

Evaluating Automated Cultural Curating and Ranking Systems with Synthetic Data

Examining the impacts of diverse search queries on the breadth and quality of search engine outputs.

The Australian Search Experience 2.0

The Australian Search Experience 2.0

Addressing the knowledge, skills and literacies – the critical capabilities – needed to achieve inclusive AI in Australia.

Critical Capabilities for Inclusive AI

Critical Capabilities for Inclusive AI

Developing and testing a novel suite of generative and data driven simulations, useful for depicting current and future urban scenarios, including in mobility, urban policymaking, and health domains.

GenAISim: Simulation in the Loop for Multi-Stakeholder Interactions with Generative Agents

GenAISim: Simulation in the Loop for Multi-Stakeholder Interactions with Generative Agents

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Generative Authenticity

Generative Authenticity

Examining the broad range of regulatory questions raised by ADMs, their supply chains, and deployments, as well as the role of ADMs as regulatory tools.

The Regulatory Project

The Regulatory Project

Investigating the challenges and opportunities for cultural and linguistic diversity in automated decision-making and AI across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM: Australia in the Asia Pacific

Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM: Australia in the Asia Pacific

William He

William He

Experience an exclusive advanced screening of the Superbots short film, created during Brentwood Secondary College's 2023 Superbots program, before its official release later this year.

Superbots: Film Advanced Screening

Superbots: Film Advanced Screening

Dr Kevin Witzenberger

Dr Kevin Witzenberger

The 74th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) conference was held on the Gold Coast in Queensland from 20-24 June, where ADM+S members from across Australia showcased their research around the 2024 theme of ‘Communication and Global Human Rights’.

ADM+S Research Featured at the 74th Annual International Communication Association Conference

ADM+S Research Featured at the 74th Annual International Communication Association Conference

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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society announces new key research projects

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society announces new key research projects

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If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling

If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling

Bjoern Komander

Bjoern Komander

Sarah Erfani Women in AI Awards 2024

ADM+S Associate Investigator Sarah Erfani receives Women in AI Award for Defence and Intelligence

ADM+S Associate Investigator Sarah Erfani receives Women in AI Award for Defence and Intelligence

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Australian Ad Observatory Webinar program

Australian Ad Observatory Webinar program

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ADM+S researchers to reveal findings from the largest collection of online targeted advertisements

ADM+S researchers to reveal findings from the largest collection of online targeted advertisements

Through the Australian Ad Observatory researchers have been able to identify more than one hundred unlawful scam ads showing photoshopped pictures of celebrities such as David Koch and advertising unlawful ‘get rich quick’ style scams.

Scam Ads

Scam Ads

A new study using the Australian Ad Observatory has found that unhealthy food and drinks are promoted online in ways designed to appeal to parents and carers of children, and children themselves. Additionally, young men in the study were being targeted by fast-food ads.

Junk food is promoted online to appeal to kids and target young men, our study shows

Junk food is promoted online to appeal to kids and target young men, our study shows

Madhurima Khirbat

Madhurima Khirbat

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Why an ‘AI health coach’ won’t solve the world’s chronic disease problems

Why an ‘AI health coach’ won’t solve the world’s chronic disease problems

With guidance from industry partners from ABC and Google, Hackathon participants were invited to design systems that could rank or assess content according to public service values such as social responsibility, cultural diversity, and the public interest.

2024 Future You Summit features interactive Ad Observatory workshop

2024 Future You Summit features interactive Ad Observatory workshop

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Research finds Large Language Models are biased – but can still help analyse complex data

Research finds Large Language Models are biased – but can still help analyse complex data

Rural Women Online: Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Era

Rural Women Online Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Era

Rural Women Online Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Era

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This Hideous Replica

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Machine Listening performance at Soft Centre

Machine Listening performance at Soft Centre

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ADM+S Artist-Researchers Featured in 2024 Now or Never Festival

ADM+S Artist-Researchers Featured in 2024 Now or Never Festival

Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel

Julia Tomassetti

Julia Tomassetti

Artificial Visionaries

Artificial Visionaries: Exploring the intersections of machine vision, computation, and our aural and visual cultures

Artificial Visionaries: Exploring the intersections of machine vision, computation, and our aural and visual cultures

On 2-4 July 2024, researchers, artists, industry partners and collaborators joined forces at RMIT University to explore the transformation of creativity and the creative fields by generative artificial intelligence tools at RE/FRAMING – Creativity / Culture / Computation.

Recordings available from RE/FRAMING – Creativity / Culture / Computation

Recordings available from RE/FRAMING – Creativity / Culture / Computation

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used in Australia for various purposes, with new laws expanding its use in digital identification systems. This recent survey reveals that while Australians support its use for government services and criminal identification, there is significant concern about its application for commercial purposes and a strong preference for transparency and consent.

Australians like facial recognition for ID but don’t want it used for surveillance, new survey shows

Australians like facial recognition for ID but don’t want it used for surveillance, new survey shows

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Australian social media inquiry: Researchers highlight key issues ahead of Government’s interim report

Australian social media inquiry: Researchers highlight key issues ahead of Government’s interim report

Dr Aimee Brownbill

Dr Aimee Brownbill

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Social media algorithms are shrouded in secrecy. We’re trying to change that

Social media algorithms are shrouded in secrecy. We’re trying to change that

Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw

Dr Adam Sargent

Dr Adam Sargent

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I studied how rumours and misleading information spread on X during the Voice referendum. The results paint a worrying picture

I studied how rumours and misleading information spread on X during the Voice referendum. The results paint a worrying picture

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Developing best practice strategies for Australian Centres of Excellence

Developing best practice strategies for Australian Centres of Excellence

Prof Mark Sanderson writes that Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling against Google acknowledges its high-quality search engine while exposing its illegal monopoly, which complicates the impact of advertising on search result quality and the potential improvements through competition and AI.

A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’?

A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’?

Mapping ADM Across Sectors

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Mapping ADM Across Sectors

Focus Areas: News and Media, Transport and Mobility, Health, and Social Services
Research Programs: Data, Machines, Institutions, and People
Status: Active

ADM systems have the potential to greatly improve the overall quality of life in society, but they may also exacerbate social, political, and economic inequality. The role they play in reinforcing, reproducing, and reconfiguring power relations is, as recent events demonstrate, a key concern with respect to the deployment of automated decision making systems. When such systems are used to decide how benefits, resources, services, or information are allocated in society, they bear directly on the character and quality of life in that society. We are interested in both the potential benefits of the deployment of the technology and the potential harms. We do not treat such systems in the abstract, but are centrally concerned with the social, political, and economic relations in which they are embedded and which shape their deployment. A key question for the ADM+S Centre, in other words, is not just how best to design and deploy the technology, but what economic and political arrangements are most compatible with their fair, ethical, responsible, and democratic use.

The Social Issues in Automated Decision-Making report brings together material collected from discussions with leaders in the Centre’s focus areas and feedback from an international collection of experts in their respective domains. For each focus area we followed a similar methodology for canvassing key social issues. We started by discussing key social issues with Focus Area leaders and their teams. We then canvassed the academic literature, reports by industry groups and relevant independent organisations, and media coverage. For each area, we sought to identify key applications of ADM and the possible social benefits and harms with which they are associated. We also sought to identify continuities in these social issues both within and across the Centre’s main focus areas.

This is neither a final nor a definitive report. It marks the first step in the Centre’s ongoing social issues mapping project. The document will develop over time to reflect the insights that emerge from ongoing collaborations.

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PUBLICATIONS

Social issues in ADM

Social Issues in Automated Decision Making, 2022

O’Neill, C., Sadowski, J.,  Andrejevic, M. et al

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RESEARCHERS

Mark Andrejevic

Prof Mark Andrejevic

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Paul Henman

Prof Paul Henman

Chief Investigator,
University of Queensland

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ADM+S Investigator Ramon Lobato

Assoc Prof Ramon Lobato

Associate Investigator,
RMIT University

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Jathan Sadowski

Dr Jathan Sadowski

Associate Investigator,
Monash University

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Georgia Van Toorn

Dr Georgia van Toorn

Associate Investigator,
UNSW

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Kelly Lewis

Dr Kelly Lewis

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Christopher O'Neill

Dr Christopher O’Neil

Research Fellow,
Monash University

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Daniel Binns

Dr Daniel Binns

Affiliate,
RMIT University

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Dr Lyndal Sleep

Affiliate,
Central Queensland University

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Mapping the Digital Gap

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Mapping the Digital Gap

Focus Area: News and Media
Research Program: People
Status: Active

Improving digital inclusion outcomes and access to services in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is critically important for informed decision making and agency. We are experiencing an accelerating digital transformation in many aspects of economic and social life.

However, there is a digital inclusion gap between First Nations Australians and other Australians, with those living in the 1,545 remote First Nations communities and homelands among the most digitally excluded people in Australia.

Mapping the Digital Gap is a supplementary project of the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII), established through the ADM+S Centre in partnership with Telstra in 2021 to address a lack of data on remote First Nations digital inclusion. The objectives are to:

  1. Generate a detailed account of the distribution of digital inclusion across Indigenous communities;
  2. Track changes in measures of digital inclusion for these communities over time;
  3. Inform the development and evaluation of appropriate local strategies for improving digital inclusion capabilities and services enabling informed decision making; and
  4. Provide evidence to inform policy and program resourcing by government and industry.

Mapping the Digital Gap utilises a communicative ecologies approach to data collection that considers all ways that remote First Nations communities access and share information; from internet access and digital services to basic telephony, TV and radio and face-to-face communication. The research team partners with local organisations and employs co-researchers in each community to ensure Indigenous leadership is involved in all steps of the process, and local engagement in the project.

Working in partnership with 12 local First Nations organisations in remote communities over three years across 2022-2024, the ADII and Mapping the Digital Gap found a national digital gap of 7.5 between First Nations people and other Australians. This gap widens significantly with remoteness to 24.4 for remote First Nations people and 25.4 for very remote.

Mapping the Digital Gap has been renewed for an additional four years and will commence research in new sites from 2025-2028, continuing to track progress against Closing the Gap target 17 and inform government and industry on targeted policy and program investment in First Nations digital inclusion.

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PUBLIC RESOURCES

Australian Digital Inclusion Index

Target audience: Government agencies, researchers, general public

The Australian Digital Inclusion Index uses data from the Australian Internet Usage Survey to measure digital inclusion across three dimensions of Access, Affordability and Digital Ability. We explore how these dimensions vary across Australia and across different social groups.

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First Nations Digital Inclusion Dashboard

Target audience: Government agencies, researchers, general public

This First Nations page provides a snapshot of the scale of the Digital Gap for First Nations people compared with other Australians, by remoteness categories. It includes results from 10 remote and very remote communities surveyed under the Mapping the Digital Gap project (2022-2024).

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OUTCOMES REPORTS

2024 Outcomes Report

3 December 2024

The Mapping the Digital Gap project was the first comprehensive study of remote First Nations communities’ participation in, and access to, the digital economy. It examines progress against Closing the Gap Target 17 that by 2026, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have equal levels of digital inclusion. Between 2022 and 2024, project researchers undertook 32 site visits to 12 communities, conducting data collection in partnership with local First Nations organisations. This report updates the 2023 Outcomes Report, with a focus on the most significant changes registered over the 2022-2024 period. During this time, there has been significant investment in improving telecommunications infrastructure, including a new mobile service and roll-out of Wi-Fi mesh networks or hotspots in several communities.

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Mapping the digital gap 2023 outcomes report

2023 Outcomes Report

27 September 2023

This first outcomes report provides an overview of the first year findings from 2022 research visits. It covers key survey results and indicators of the digital gap; context and findings for each of the ten research sites; and analysis of results across the three ADII dimensions of digital inclusion – Access, Affordability and Digital Ability – as well as the crucial role of service delivery and news and media access in these communities. Case studies, photos and quotes from interviews highlight the on-the-ground experience for residents and service providers across the research sites.

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COMMUNITY REPORTS

Mapping the Digital Gap publishes comprehensive reports from each visit to remote First Nations communities each year. You can find a complete directory of the Community Outcomes and Update reports on the project website

RESEARCHERS

Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas

Prof Julian Thomas

Chief Investigator,
RMIT University

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Lauren Ganley

Lauren Ganley

Head of First Nations Strategy & Engagement,
Telstra

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Daniel Featherstone

Dr Daniel Featherstone

Senior Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Principal Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Sharon Parkinson

Assoc Prof Sharon Parkinson

Principal Research Fellow,
Swinburne University

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Kieran Hegarty

Dr Kieran Hegarty

Research Fellow,
RMIT University

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Jenny Kennedy

Assoc Prof Jenny Kennedy

Associate Investigator,
RMIT University

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RESEARCH SUPPORT

Alison Barton

Alison Barton

Project Manager,
RMIT University

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Leah Hawkins

Leah Hawkins

Research Communications Officer,
RMIT University

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Telstra

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Diverse Experiences of ADM: Design, Curation and Use

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Diverse Experiences of ADM: Design, Curation and Use

Focus Areas: News and Media, Transport and Mobility, Health, and Social Services
Research Program: People
Status: Active

The ‘Diverse Experiences of ADM’ is the overarching thematic title for a collection of studies that examine the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of how people understand and experience ADM and other new and emerging technologies. This project explores how members of diverse communities shape existing, emerging and future practices of ADM in an effort to understand and develop equitable futures. Several studies address disabled people’s lived experiences of ADM and other emerging technologies and what services they would like to see introduced to better support their care and wellbeing. Others look at health technology startups and the thinking behind developers’ visions of future technologies and identify how health and medical technologies are portrayed in Australian industry websites and news reports. One strand addresses gender, sexual health and digital contraception technologies.

Digital mental health is also a focus of some of the studies conducted in this project. There is a strong emphasis on using participatory, experimental, creative and arts-based methods to conduct research and to engage in community research translation and engagement, including artworks, zines and exhibitions. There is also a more-than-human orientation across this project, identifying the entanglements of humans not only with digital devices, software and data but with other animals and living things and the physical elements of the ecosystems in which these technologies are imagined, developed, promoted, used or resisted.

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PUBLICATIONS

The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age, 2023

Lupton, D.

Book

Health information in creative translation: establishing a collaborative project of research and exhibition making, 2023

Watson, A., Wozniak-O’Connor, V., Lupton, D.

Journal article

More-than-Human Wellbeing, 2023

Lupton, D., Watson, A., et al.

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Talking/Flowers, 2023

Watson, A.

Zine

Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies, 2022

Pink, S., Lupton, D., et al.

Book

Digitized and datafied embodiment: a more-than-human approach, 2022

Lupton, D., Clark, M., et al.

Book chapter

Everyday automation: setting a research agenda, 2022

Lupton, D., Pink, S., et al.

Book chapter

The quantified pandemic: digitised surveillance, containment and care in response to the COVID-19 crisis, 2022

Lupton, D.

Book chapter

Re-Imagining Care Through Arts-Based Methods, 2022

Watson, A., Rose, M.

Zine

The futures of qualitative research in the COVID-19 era: experimenting with creative and digital methods, 2022

Lupton, D., Watson, A., et al.

Book chapter

Remote fieldwork in homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: video-call ethnography and map drawing methods, 2022

Watson, A., Lupton, D.

Journal article

The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method, 2022

Lupton, D., Watson, A., et al.

Journal article

Research-creations for speculating about digitised automation: bringing creative writing prompts and vital materialism into the sociology of futures, 2022

Watson, A., Lupton, D.

Journal article

From human-centric digital health to digital One Health: crucial new directions for planetary health, 2022

Lupton, D.

Journal article

(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: the sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences, 2022

Flore, J.

Journal article

The COVID digital home assemblage: transforming the home into a work space during the crisis, 2021

Watson, A., Lupton, D., et al.

Journal article

Pandemic fitness assemblages: the sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis, 2021

Clark, M., Lupton, D.

Journal article

The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world, 2021

Lupton, D., et al.

Journal article

Living in, with and beyond the ‘smart home, 2021

Lupton, D., Pink, S., Horst, H.

Book chapter

RESEARCHERS

ADM+S Chief Investigator Heather Horst

Prof Heather Horst

Lead Investigator,
Western Sydney University

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Prof Deborah Lupton

Lead Investigator,
UNSW

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Sarah Pink

Prof Sarah Pink

Lead Investigator,
Monash University

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Prof Jackie Leach Scully

Chief Investigator,
UNSW

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Georgia Van Toorn

Dr Georgia van Toorn

Associate Investigator,
UNSW

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Cecily Klim

Cecily Klim

PhD Student,
UNSW

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Megan Rose NEW

Dr Megan Rose

PhD Student,
UNSW

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Jacinthe Flore

Dr Jacinthe Flore

Affiliate,
University of Melbourne

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PARTNERS AND COLLABORATING ORGANISATIONS

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Consumers Health Forum of Australia

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Health Consumers NSW

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The Automated Newsroom in Australia and beyond: Problems and challenges in the use of automated decision-making systems in journalistic practice

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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The Automated Newsroom in Australia and beyond: Problems and challenges in the use of automated decision-making systems in journalistic practice

Focus Area: News and Media
Research Program: People
Status: Active

This interview-driven research project provides a comprehensive overview of current journalistic designs and values following the implementation of automated tools and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Australian commercial and public service newsrooms. It delves into the current configurations of editorial automation, specifically during the pandemic and before the development of generative AI times in datafied societies. The study explored how journalists, editors, and developers imbue with journalistic ideals the creation and industrialisation of automation processes, data-centric tools and types of AI in different stages of editorial work ranging from information gathering, data journalism, automated writing and summarising, producing and editing, visualising, distributing and recommending.

Drawing on a purposeful sampling method, that is, choosing practitioners who were most likely to be working on a daily basis with automated technologies, 17 journalists from the leading national and regional outlets, were interviewed out of 100 professionals invited to participate during the pandemic years. The study concludes that while this critical incident impelled journalists to be more familiar with data journalism practices and data management processes, the situation was not enough to accelerate complex automated processes such as, for example, automated text generation or any ML uses. The amount of COVID-19-related data being monitored, collected and then delivered to newsrooms by government and public entities (e.g., cases, infections, deaths, hospitalisations, and numbers of vaccinated Australians, among other structured data) animated some journalists and developers in Australia to incorporate, adapt and reassess to a certain extent some data tasks embedded in the production routines during this acute incident. However, automated-generated text during the pandemic was not sustainable in the long term due to the characteristics of the Australian news market, and audience news avoidance. Some participants reported that these automating processes were challenging to sustain also because of the evolving consumption trends during the pandemic. On the other hand, the study also outlines increasing uses of AI commercial tools, such as transcription applications and some advances in implementing news recommender systems (NRS) and voice assistants, such as the ABC emergency voice assistance.
Commercial outlets have progressively adopted algorithmic systems regarding news recommendations, but the development “is still in its infancy”. Although the study could not cover the popularisation of generative AI, unveils trends and perceptions of AI, which would require an expansion in a second round of interviews.

The second stage of this project replicates the Australian study in Latin American newsrooms (with a project agreement titled: Envisioning automated journalism in Latin America). Currently, collaborators on this project from La Sabana and the lead investigator are interviewing outlets practitioners in the region. To undertake the Latin American study, the lead investigator submitted an ethics extension based on Project 421 to be able to interview participants in that region until 2024.

The project developed one important ramification and collaboration with the Centre-affiliated investigators and one Latin American University. With the ADM+S affiliated researcher, Dr Michelle Riedlinger, from the Global Journalism Innovation Lab (GJIL) and the Digital Media Research Centre, and Dr Victor Garcia Perdomo from Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia), as well as Dr Marina Joubert from Stellenbosch University, we submitted a project to the Research Foundational Integrity Meta Grant. This study was awarded funding in December 2022 and started in 2023. It incorporates questions on automated fact-checking in counteracting misinformation and disinformation. The overarching investigation delves into the uses of social media algorithmic tactics deployed by Meta-affiliated fact-checkers in the Southern Hemisphere to counteract COVID-19 vaccine problematic content. These organisations follow the Meta fact-checking policies and have access to automated and AI platform tools for misinformation detection. We explored their uses and algorithmic practices with a particular focus on the Southern Hemisphere.

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RESEARCHERS

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Dr Silvia Ximena Montana-Nino

Project lead,
University of Melbourne

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ADM+S Associate Director Jean Burgess

Prof Jean Burgess

Chief Investigator,
QUT

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Axel Bruns, Chief Investigator with the ADM+S Centre

Prof Axel Bruns

Chief Investigator,
QUT

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ADM+S Chief Investigator Heather Horst

Prof Heather Horst

Chief Investigator,
Western Sydney University

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Decentering ADM: A Review of Automated Decision-Making in the Global South

Posted on by Katherine Nickels

PROJECT SUMMARY

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Decentering ADM: A Review of Automated Decision-Making in the Global South

Focus Areas: News and Media, Transport and Mobility, Health, and Social Services
Research Program: People
Status: Active

The Decentering Automated Decision-Making report offers a framework for studying automated decision-making technologies and their social effects that challenges and subverts this framing of ADM as spreading from the West. This is the centre that we aim to destabilize and displace by offering accounts of how ADM is being done otherwise. Here we do not limit ourselves to redemptive stories of emancipatory projects involving ADM, although readers may find elements of this. Rather we aim both to challenge dominant narratives of unidirectional flows of algorithmic power while also demonstrating what accounts that do not presume such dynamics might look like.

To do this we focus on parts of the world that are often left out of global narratives of ADM by bringing together academic and grey literature, online resources and interviews with key stakeholders in underrepresented regions (Africa, Caribbean, China, Latin America, Pacific Islands, South and Southeast Asia). We frame this as contributing to the Centre of Excellence as contributing to this broader project of decentering who, where, and how engagement with automated decision-making takes place. prioritise places and contexts in the world that were less visible in the field to demonstrate the diversity of ways in which ADM was being imagined, anticipated or practiced in different parts of the world.

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PUBLICATIONS

5G and the digital imagination: Pacific Islands perspectives from Fiji and Papua New Guinea, 2023

Horst, H., Foster, R.

Journal article

Framing Fashion: Human-machine learning and the Amazon Echo Look, 2022

Horst, H., Mohammid, S.

Book chapter

Looking professional: How women decide what to wear with and through automated technologies. 2021

Horst, H., et al.

Journal article

RESEARCHERS

ADM+S Chief Investigator Heather Horst

Prof Heather Horst

Lead Investigator,
WSU

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Adam Sargent

Dr Adam Sargent

Affiliate,
Australian National University (ANU)

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PARTNERS

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Australian Red Cross

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