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SUMMARY:How Can Democracy Survive AI?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join the team from the Burning Platforms podcast and esteemed guests for a lively discussion exploring the critical impact of Artificial Intelligence on democracy; the promises and pitfalls of AI; and what’s at stake for all Australians.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI is transforming our world at rapid speed\, raising urgent questions about who benefits\, who loses\, and how we keep control of the future. While the boosters of AI are rushing to transform the world\, citizens are being left in the slipstream\, with little chance to influence how this new technology takes shape. AI systems are built by harvesting the ideas and creations of others\, often without consent\, and are already eroding jobs and reshaping culture on the promise of future productivity. \nAs the Luddites taught us\, the way we adopt technology will be critical to whether it improves people’s lives or cuts a swathe through jobs for the benefit of the few. Many Australians perceive more risk than upside in this new technology\, so why is it being pushed so hard\, with so few guardrails or controls in place? \nPanel  \n\nHon Steven Miles: Leader of the Opposition\, Queensland Parliament\nMichelle Rae: Assistant General Secretary\, Queensland Unions\nProf Nic Suzor: Chief Investigator\, QUT Digital Media Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society\nLizzie O’Shea: Human Rights Lawyer & Chairperson\, Digital Rights Watch\nPeter Lewis: Executive Director\, Essential Media & Fellow\, Per Capita\n\nTiming \n6.00pm – 7.00pm: Panel discussion \n7.00pm – 8.00pm: Networking with drinks and canapés \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1753848326025{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fcirc-2024-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1753848765876{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”568″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. His research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and popular culture. He is the author of four monographs\, including\, most recently Automated Media\, as well as more than 90 academic articles and book chapters. He is a member of the Council for Big Data\, Ethics\, and Society and heads up the Automated Society Working Group at Monash. Before coming to Monash he held positions at the University of Queensland and the University of Iowa.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24994″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ang Peng Hwa\nAng Peng Hwa is Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, where he had served as Dean and Chair. Currently\, he is editor of the Asian Journal of Communication. He was President of the International Communication Association in 2016/1017\, the first Asian to be so elected. His research interests lie in media law and policy and he has consulted on the subject for the governments of Singapore\, Thailand and Bhutan.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24519″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Seyram Avle\nSeyram Avle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication\, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on digital technology cultures and innovation across parts of Africa\, China\, and the United States. This work primarily takes a critical approach towards understanding how digital technologies are made and used\, as well as their implications for issues of labor\, identity\, and futures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”2429″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino\nJose-Miguel Bello y Villarino is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). José-Miguel (name) Bello y Villarino (surname\, altogether) (Lic. Law\, Lic. Pol.Sc. (Santiago de Compostela)\, LLM (CoE\, Brugge)\, LLM (NYU)\, M.A. Int’l Rel. (Diplom. Sch. Madrid) is a Researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society in the governance programme based at the University of Sydney Law School and a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave). His work in the ADM domain is particularly concerned with the policy implications of machine-assisted decision making and its implementation in regulatory terms. He has previously worked for the Commission and the Council of the EU.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24520″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Marianne von Blomberg\nMarianne von Blomberg is a Research Associate at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture where she explores how the evolving Social Credit Systems strengthen\, transform\, and challenge the law. Her current research focuses on reputational sanctions in social credit systems and social credit’s genealogy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24521″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Vincent Brussee\nVincent Brussee is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University\, specializing in the application of data science and natural language processing for contemporary Chinese policy analysis. He is author of the recent book “Social Credit: The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire” (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). Before\, he was an Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24522″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Pengfan Chang\nPengfan Chang is a first-year graduate student in the School of Journalism and Communication\, at Shanghai University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24523″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Wenhong Chen\nWenhong Chen is a professor of media studies and sociology and a Distinguished Scholar in the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT Austin. Dr.Chen’s current project examines how U.S.and Chinese AI policies affect tech and media entrepreneurship.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24524″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yao Chen\nYao Chen is a PhD Candidate in Hebei University\, China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24525″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]David Craig\nDavid Craig is a clinical professor at USC Annenberg\, a visiting scholar at Harvard University\, and a visiting professor at Shanghai JiaoTong University. As a pioneer in the emerging field of creator studies\, along with co-authors and co-editors\, Craig has published multiple texts about the transnational rise of creator culture and its Chinese counterpart\, wanghong culture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24526″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Stuart Cunningham\nStuart Cunningham AM is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications\, Digital Media Research Centre\, Creative Industries Faculty\, Queensland University of Technology. Previously Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation\, he is a leading researcher and advocate for the development of creative industries policies. He managed and oversaw the development of the Trident method of measuring the creative economy which has had international influence and has published key works in the field such as Hidden Innovation: Policy\, Industry and the Creative Sector. He played a critical advisory role in the development of A New Approach’s Insight Report 5: Australia’s cultural and creative economy: A 21st century guide.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24536″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Fankai Dai\nFankai Dai is a graduate student in School of Journalism & Communication\, Tsinghua University\, China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14673″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xin Dai\nXin Dai is an Associate Professor at Peking University Law School. Xin’s research interests include legal theories\, law and society\, economic analysis of law\, information privacy and internet law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24538″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zhang Ding\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24539″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Pengfei Fu\nPengfei Fu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media & Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, China. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance\, digital labour\, and everyday media practices.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24655″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Anthony Y. H. Fung\nAnthony Y. H. Fung is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24657″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Liang Ge\nLiang Ge is a PhD candidate at the Culture\, Media and Creative Industries Department\, King’s College London. Liang’s doctoral project explores the body\, desires and embodiment in Chinese boys’ love culture community.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”15932″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jake Goldenfein\nJake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar at Melbourne Law School and an Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Prior to his appointment at MLS he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech\, Cornell University. Jake studies platform regulation\, data governance\, digital surveillance\, and the governance of automated decision-making. Jake’s first monograph ‘Monitoring Laws’ was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019\, and his current work explores the ways law constructs the data economy\, digital surveillance including facial recognition\, and tools for governing automated decision-making like a ‘human in the loop’ and AI explanations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24659″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Piotr Grzebyk\nPiotr Grzebyk is the vice dean for legal research and international collaboration and associate professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration\, University of Warsaw. He is the head of the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China and the director School of Law and Economy of China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24661″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yicong Guan\nYicong Guan is a doctoral student at the School of Media and Communication ofShanghai Jiao Tong University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24663″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zixin Guo[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24664″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xiao Han\nXiao Han is a Research Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication\, Communication University of China. Her research focuses on the relationship between digital media and women’s empowerment in the Chinese context.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24666″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Qing He\nQing He is Assistant Professor\, Law Faculty\, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications\, China. With a PhD in economic law\, teaching and research interests including data protection\, technology regulation\, economic analysis of law and comparative law\, Dr Qing He specializes in competition law and Internet law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24667″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Renyi He\nRenyi He is a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include nationalism\, identity\, and digital citizenship.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24669″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jiaxi Hou\nJiaxi Hou is a PhD candidate majoring in Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Her research concentrates on how various digital technologies intervene and reshape social inequalities and marginality in East Asia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24670″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Hu Ling\nHu Ling is an Associate Professor of Law in Peking University\, and has a Ph.D Degree from Hong Kong University. His major research area is cyberlaw and legal theory. He has published a number of books\, articles and review essays on Internet governance issues\, including two recent books: Digital Architecture and Law (2024) and Internet with Cooperation (coauthor\, 2024).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24672″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Tingting Hu\nTingting Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication\, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. Her research interest lies in the articulation of film\, media and cultural studies with feminist theories\, transmedia studies in various social and cultural contexts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24676″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jerry Jie Hua\n(Jerry) Jie Hua is an Associate Professor of Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property of Tongji University (Shanghai\, China). Jie is principal investigator of 2 National Social Science Fund of China projects and 3 provincial-level research projects hosted by organs such as P.R.C. Ministry of Justice and Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24794″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Bingxi Huang\nBingxi Huang is a final-year PhD student in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. Her research topic focuses on the self-representation and identity construction of Chinese rural women on short-video platforms Douyin and Kuaishou.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24680″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Gejun Huang\nGejun Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Media andCommunication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research mainly toucheson the digital game industry\, media entrepreneurship\, digital inequalities\, and digitalprivacy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24681″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yingjia Huang\nYingjia Huang is a master’s student in the School of New Media\, Peking University. She is interested in human-machine communication and digital society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24683″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xiufeng Jia\nXiufeng Jia is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her work explores how digital technology\, especially AI and data-driven technologies\, are experienced in everyday life. She considers questions of privacy\, human and data agency\, and issues of data and discrimination. She also boasts expertise in Big Data analytics\, digital methods\, digital health\, and app studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24685″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Qianhui Ju\nQianhui Ju is a Master’s student in the Television School at the Communication University of China\, with a research focus on Internet Cultures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24686″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Michael Keane\nMichael Keane is adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre. Prof Keane’s key research interests are digital transformation in China; East Asian cultural and media policy; television in China\, and creative industries and cultural export strategies in China and East Asia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24687″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jianfeng Lan\nJianfeng Lan is a Ph.D. student in School of Media and Communication\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He’s interested in the socio-psychological effect of human-robot interaction.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”2924″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Wynston Lee\nWynston Lee is a PhD candidate at RMIT’s School of Media and Communications. His research intersects between studies of economy\, technology and society\, with a focus on Asian contexts. His doctorate thesis takes a comparative approach to examining China’s social credit systems.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24689″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jiayue Li\nJiayue Li is a doctoral student at the College of Journalism and Communications\,University of Florida\,U.S.A.She is interested in investigating human-robot and human-human interactions using a phenomenological approach.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24691″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yuzheng Li\nYuzheng Li is a Ph.D. candidate in marketing at RMIT University. Her current research focuses on the marketisation and consumption of the female gaze\, critically examining the gendered power dynamics between male beauty influencers and their female consumers within live-streaming e-commerce.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24692″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Wenyu Liao\nWenyu Liao is a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Pennsylvania.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24693″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Fen Lin\nFen Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include state-media dynamics\, media and social change\, information governance\, technology and innovation\, social movements\, and political communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24695″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jian Lin\nJian Lin is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches platform societies\, cultural industries\, creative labor\, and digital cultures in the global Chinese context.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24697″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zhi Lin\nZhi Lin a PhD student in the School of Journalism and Media\, The University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores global political communication\, media technology\, social media with a focus on the structure of communication and the construction of meaning using mixed-methods.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24699″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Chuncheng Liu\nChuncheng Liu is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective and a forthcoming Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northeastern University. His research interests span science and technology studies (STS)\, political sociology\, critical data studies\, economic sociology\, medical sociology\, and mixed methods.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24700″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jindong Leo-Liu\nJindong Leo-Liu is a PhD candidate from the School of Journalism and Communication\, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Human–Machine communication\, VR/AR Metaverse\, popular culture\, critical analysis\, and new media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24701″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jun Liu\nJun Liu is an award-winning author and Associate Professor in the Centre for Tracking and Society\, the University of Copenhagen. His research areas cover political communication\, political sociology\, ICTs\, comparative and computational social science. He is leading a four-year comparative study on political movements in China\, EU\, and the US.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24702″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Shujun Liu\nShujun Liu is a Research Associate of School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University\, where she works as a part of ESRC project “Understanding [Online/Offline] Society: Linking Surveys with Twitter Data”. Her key research interests include digital media studies\, computational social science\, climate communication\, political communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24704″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Tingting Liu\nTingting Liu is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in Guangzhou\, China. Dr. Liu’s academic pursuits delve deeply into media anthropology\, digital culture\, and popular entertainment\, with a keen regional focus on both China and Australia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24706″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xiyao Liu\nXiyao Liu is a PhD candidate in the school of Media\, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her research examines the culture values (trust and credibility) embedded in the China’s Social Credit System.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”1023″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ramon Lobato\nRamon Lobato is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the RMIT School of Media and Communication. The analytical focus of his research is on digital distribution networks\, and how they structure audience access\, discovery\, and content diversity. Ramon has published widely within film and television studies\, digital media studies\, media industry studies\, and cultural policy studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24707″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jiajie Lu\nJiajie Lu is a lecturer at Dongguan University of Technology. He received his doctoral degree at Queensland University of Technology. Before teaching at university\, he had been working for AGB Nielsen Media Research and Shenzhen Media Group. His research interests including media use and identity of Chinese diaspora\, digital reading\, and video game.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24708″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yuguo Luo\nYuguo Luo\, a Master’s student in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\, with a research focus on Intelligent Communication and Automated Decision Making.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24709″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yunjuan Luo\nYunjuan Luo is a professor in School of Journalism and Communications\, South China Univeristy of Technology. Her research interests include digital media use and effects\, international communication\, and public opinion research.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24710″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Aifang Ma\nAifang Ma is a Boya Postdoctoral Scholar and a Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She is the author of China as a Double-Bind Regulatory State: How Regulators’ Predicament Produces Regulatees’ Autonomy (2024\, Palgrave MacMillan). Her research interests: internet regulation of China\, platform governance\, governance of artificial intelligence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24711″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Tianchan Mao\nTianchan Mao is an incoming Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Journalism\, Fudan University. She is a joint Ph.D of Fudan University and the National University of Singapore (2020-2023). Her research primarily focuses on platform studies and media industry studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24712″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jing Meng\nJing Meng is an assistant professor in media studies with Peking University HSBC Business School. Her research interests reside in digital journalism and digital technologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24714″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ziying Meng\nZiying Meng is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her thesis explores video creators’ cross-platform practices on Chinese and US-based social media services. Her research interests include digital platforms\, influencer and creator cultures\, Chinese social media\, digital ethnography and smart technologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24724″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yi Mou\nYi Mou\,Ph.D.\,is Professor at the School of Media and Communication of ShanghaiJiao Tong University.Her research interest is centered on Human-MachineCommunication\,particularly psychological effect and social impacts of artificialintelligence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24725″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Elisa Oreglia\nElisa Oreglia is a Reader in Global Digital Cultures\, King’s College London. She studies the circulation\, adoption\, and use of digital technologies in Asia\, with a specific focus on China and the Global South in general. She is interested in the localized socio-technical practices that emerge from technology users who are far from urban centres and advanced economies\, as well as the political economy that surrounds technology development and circulation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24726″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Biying Wu Ouyang\nBiying Wu Ouyang is a PhD candidate in communication from Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include affective\, news and political mechanism and consequences of emerging media including algorithm\, social media\, mobile media\, HCI.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24727″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yulu Ouyang[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14676″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jack Linchuan Qiu\nJack Linchuan Qiu is Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology\, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information\, Nanyang Technological University. He has published extensively in English and Chinese exploring issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor\, class\, globalization\, and sustainability.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24733″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yuanbo Qiu\nYuanbo Qiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in School of Journalism and Communications\, South China University of Technology. His research investigates the political and social implications of digital media\, particularly when they relate to intersections between participation and datafication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”5155″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ned Rossiter\nNed Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and Society and Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts\, Western Sydney University. He is noted for his research on network cultures\, the politics of cultural labour\, logistical media\, and data politics. His major publications include Organized Networks: Media Theory\, Creative Labour\, New Institutions (2006)\, Software\, Infrastructure\, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016)\, and (with Geert Lovink) Organization after Social Media (2018).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24734″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Sofiya Sayankina\nSofiya Sayankina is a researcher at the Center for International Cooperation and Strategy\, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\, in Seoul\, Republic of Korea. Her research focuses on cybersecurity and emerging technology policy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24736″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Florian Schneider\nFlorian Schneider’s research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong\, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment\, recent Chinese economic developments\, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He is also managing editor of the academic journal ‘Asiascape: Digital Asia’.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24737″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Chunmeizi Su\nChunmeizi Su is a Lecturer of Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on algorithms\, and digital entertainment industry\, including but not limited to platform studies\, Chinese tech industry studies\, screen industry studies\, and cultural soft power.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24738″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yinuo Sun\nYinuo Sun is a doctorate student of literature\, Journalism and Communication at Nanjing Normal University. Her research interests include internet governance\, cross-cultural communication and new media studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24739″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yu Sun\nYu Sun is the Lecturer in Media and Sociology at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests involve online deliberation\, the public sphere\, feminist media studies\, data in social movements and activism\, mediated publics\, internet and digital infrastructure\, algorithms and social governance\, Global and Chinese media\, etc.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24740″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Igor Szpotakowsk\nIgor Szpotakowski is a PhD Candidate at Newcastle University and a Deputy Convenor of the Law and Futures Research Group within the Newcastle Law School. His research explores the development of and intersection between private law and emerging technology\, specifically focusing on the further regulation of generative AI services.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24741″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Na Ta\nNa Ta is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication\, Renmin University of China. Her research interests include online socialnetworks\, platformization and new media\, computational communication\, andintelligent communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24742″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zixue Tai\nZixue Tai is the head of the Media Arts and Studies program in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky. His research interests pertain to a multitude of issues in the new media landscape of China. He is the author of The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society (Routledge\, 2006).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24743″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jingxin Tan\nJingxin Tan is a Master’s candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in Guangzhou\, China. Ms Tan received the Bachelor degree from South China University of Technology\, Guangzhou\, China. Her research interest focuses on digital labour and gender.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24744″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Wenjia Tang\nWenjia Tang is a PhD candidate at Discipline of Media and Communications\, University of Sydney. Her research is now on the platform industry and digital glocalisation\, with a particular interest in entertainment media\, platform policies & regulation\, metaverse and web3\, and global culture consumption.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24746″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Leiyuan Tian\nLeiyuan Tian (B.A. Media and Arts/Art History\, Duke Kunshan University) is a graduate student currently pursuing her MSc in Media and Communications (Research) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on digital media cultures and the impacts of new technology on political participation and civic engagement.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24747″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Paulina Uznańska\nPaulina Uznańska is a PhD candidate in law at the Doctoral School for Social Sciences\, the University of Warsaw. Paulina serves as the Deputy Head of the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24748″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Gabriel Wagner\nGabriel Wagner is an MPhil candidate at the Division of Public Policy at the Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology where he focuses on AI governance. His broaderresearch interest concerns science\, technology\, and innovation policy in contemporary China. He is an affiliate with Concordia AI\, a Beijing-based social enterprise focused on AI safety and governance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24749″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Haiyan Wang\nHaiyan Wang is an associate professor for the Department of Communication at the University of Macau. Her academic and research interests include the impact of digital media on journalism and political communication. She is the author of The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China: From Journalists to Activists (2016\, Lexington Books).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24750″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Weijia Wang\nWeijia Wang is a graduate student in College of Media and International Culture\, Zhejiang University\, China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24751″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Wilfred Yang Wang\nWilfred Yang Wang is a lecturer in Media and Communications Studies at the University of Melbourne\, Australia. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance\, the biopolitics of ageing\, diasporic media\, digital geography and China. He is the author of the book\, Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou (Rowman & Littlefield International\, 2019).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24752″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yingwei Wang\nYingwei Wang is a graduate student in School ofJournalism and Communication\,Shanghai University.His research interests aremedia effects and new media users.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24753″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zhiwei Wang\nZhiwei Wang is a fourth-year PhD student in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include national identity; digital and social media; cyberpunk culture; biopower; digital health; social capital; Marxism; neoliberalism; digital labour; agency and structure; surveillance; deviance; and East Asia. The topic of his PhD research is discursive (re)production of Internet-mediated Chinese national identity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24754″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Daniel Whelan-Shamy\nDaniel Whelan-Shamy is a New Zealand-born PhD student at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research areas of interest include digital ethics\, computational propaganda\, misinformation/disinformation and changing perceptions of how we view and interact with automated and highly automated actors online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24756″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yang Wu\nYang Wu is an PhD student in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. His research examines media convergence and diffusion of digital human technologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24795″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Hao Xu\nDr. Hao Xu is a Lecturer in Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His research spans multiple areas in corporate communications\, including corporate social responsibility communication and corporate activism. Dr. Xu’s most recent projects focus on corporate digital responsibility\, discussing the societal impacts of artificial intelligence governance for businesses. His research also involves the application of computational methods in communication research.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24796″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jian Xu\nJian Xu is Senior Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University. He researches Chinese digital media culture and celebrity studies. He is co-convenor of the Asian Media\, Culture and Society Research Group at Deakin University and is series editor of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies with Bloomsbury.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24759″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Kun Xu\nKun Xu is an Assistant Professor ofEmerging Media at the College of Journalism and Communications\, University ofFlorida\,U.S.A. His research centers on the mutual shaping of humans and technologies in the contexts of human-robot interaction\, human-computer interaction\, and computer-mediated communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19505″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Fan Yang\nFan Yang studies the effects of large-scale international digital technologies with their cross-jurisdictional tensions and expectations\, and their cross-boarder effects on political activity and identity. Her research interest intersects Chinese technologies and governance\, migration studies\, innovative digital research methods\, and postcolonial technoscience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24760″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Guobin Yang\nGuobin Yang is Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches social movements\, digital culture\, global communication\, and contemporary China. Guobin Yang is also Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society\, Interim Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication\, and Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24761″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yi Yang\nYi Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in platform studies\, digital labor studies\, and digital memory studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24762″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yufan Yang\nYufan Yang\, a Master’s student in the Television School at the Communication University of China\, with a research focus on Digital Inequality and Digital Inclusion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24764″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xiaoyu Ye\nXiaoyu Ye is a MA student at the School of Media and Communication of ShanghaiJiao Tong University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24765″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]TianjieYi[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”16708″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Haiqing Yu\nHaiqing Yu is Professor of Media and Communication and ARC Future Fellow at RMIT University. She is also a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her current projects examine the social implications of China’s social credit system\, technological innovation and digital transformation; China’s digital presence in Australasia; and Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24766″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Kaiyi Yu\nKaiyi Yu is a master student in Hubbard school\, university of Minnesota.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24767″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Peter Yu\nPeter Yu is Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He has held a number of visiting professorshi p at international universities. Peter is the founder of Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24768″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xue Yu\nXue Yu\, hold mater degree in Media and Communication Studies\, currently working as a media researcher from China Media Group CCTV Pioneer Media Research Center.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24769″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yuehong Yu\nYuehong Yu is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication\, Renmin University of China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24770″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zizheng Yu\nDr. Zizheng Yu is a lecturer in promotional media at the Department of Communications\, Drama and Film\, at the University of Exeter. Zizheng’s recent work is concerned with consumer activism/nationalism\, AI/algorithmic resistance\, advertising/promotional media\, social media platforms (e.g.\, TikTok/Douyin)\, media activism\, and digital media practices.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24772″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jing Zeng\nJing Zeng is an assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies atUtrecht University.Her research concerns the sociocultural implications of digitaltechnologies\,with a particular focus on developing innovative computational methodsfor empirical research.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24773″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Haoyang Zhai\nHaoyang Zhai is a PhD candidate at the School of Culture and Communication\, University of Melbourne. Her doctoral project explores the intersection of spirituality and digital media\, specifically focusing on Chinese social media platforms. She is also interested in investigating the impact of platform governance and Internet censorship on digital culture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24774″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dino Ge Zhang\nDino Ge Zhang is a media anthropologist teaching at the School of Creative Media\, City University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on socio-technics\, aesthetics\, and affective ecologies of contemporary (live)streaming media/platforms in the Sinophone world. For more info\, please visit anthropos.live.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13315″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Han Zhang\nHan Zhang is an associate professor at Shenzhen University. She received her doctoral degree at Wuhan University. Her research interests focus on digital publishing\, digital reading\, and digital journalism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24775″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xue Zhang\nDr. Xue Zhang is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS)\, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)\, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)\, Singapore. Her research interests include information\, media and health literacy\, information management\, and counter-misinformation/disinformation measures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24777″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yiyan Zhang\nYiyan Zhang (Ph.D.\, Boston University) is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on digital media effects\, international communication\, and computational communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24778″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xinyang Zhao\nXinyang Zhao earned his PhD in media\, culture and creative arts from Curtin University. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities\, Tongji University in Shanghai. His research focuses on the cultural and social implications of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI)\, with a particular emphasis on their manifestations in China. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24779″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Pei Zhi\nPei Zhi is a PhD student interested in political communication\, especially the election campaign in Hong Kong Legislative Council election. His dissertation topic is about the nexus of political logic and media logic in the political elite-making process in Hong Kong.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24780″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Haoming Zhou\nHaoming Zhou is a current PhD student in the Department of Communicaion and Media at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research interests mainly include digital technologies\, marginalized populaions\, and criical cultural studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24781″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ruiming Zhou\nRuiming Zhou is a “Hundred Talent Program” research fellow in College of Media and International Culture\, Zhejiang University\, China[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24782″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Shouhui Zhou\nShouhui Zhou is a Master’s student in Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen\, with a minor in Finance and Accounting from Copenhagen Business School. Besides\, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics\, majoring in Finance and Artificial Intelligence. My research interests are Data Science and Computational Social Science\, including machine learning\, natural language processing\, political communication\, social media\, fintech\, etc. He has participated in research on China’s health insurance policy as a research assistant at Tsinghua University. And I am a research group member in the Center for AI and Digital Policy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24783″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Guangnan Zhu\nGuangnan (Rio) Zhu is a PhD candidate in School of Communication\, Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the development and application of computational methods and machine learning techniques in communication and digital media\, especially in detecting and analysing online disinformation and misinformation. His PhD project focuses on the detection of coordinated inauthentic behaviour using multimodal data.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24784″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jiawen Zhu[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24785″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ju Zou\nJu Zou is deputy dean of School of Journalism and Communication\, Nanjing Normal University. He is a correspondent reviewer for the National Social Science Foundation of China\, the secretary-general and the executive council member of the Media Regulations and Ethics Committee of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication\, and the executive director of Jiangsu Media Arts Research Committee. He researches media regulations and ethics and cyberspace governance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24786″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Zhengyu Zuo\nZhengyu Zuo is a PhD student at School of Economics\, Renmin University of China. Her research interest includes corporate finance and Chinese economy. Her research has been published in journals such as China Economic Review and Systems Engineering-Theory and Practice. Her works are presented at the ABFER\, CFRC\, and China Finance Annual Conference\, etc.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/how-can-democracy-survive-ai/
LOCATION:The Atrium\, P Block Level 6\, QUT Gardens Point\, Gardens Point Road 60A\, Brisbane City\, QLD\, 4000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Public Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250910T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250910T123000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250806T212447Z
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SUMMARY:Using GenAI to Supercharge Your Research
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ADM+S Members are invited to join this session where colleagues will share their insights on the GenAI tools and methods they are using in their research.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]GenAI tools and methods they have chosen to use in their work so far\, and critically\, how and why they decided on those platforms/models. Many signature projects across ADM+S are interested in the use of GenAI methods and tools for use in their research. \nThis 1.5-hour Q&A session\, hosted by the ADM+S Infrastructure Research Committee aims to provide valuable insights and foster discussion on the use of GenAI platforms/models in research. \nSpeakers include: \n\nZafaryab Rasool from Critical Capabilities for Inclusive AI project\nAshwin Nagappa\, Oleg Zendel and Kateryna Kasianenko from the Australian Search Experience 2.0\nDaniel Binns on implementations of generative AI\n\nRegister for this event via the ADM+S Calendar invite (Zoom link provided in invite) \nPresented by the ADM+S Research Infrastructure Committee\nImage Credit: Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture / AI is Everywhere  / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/using-genai-to-supercharge-your-research/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250805T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250805T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250623T025814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250629T222902Z
UID:29593-1754402400-1754406000@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Financial Platforms: Infrastructures for Value Creation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for this discussion led by Professor Janet Roitman\, from RMIT University in Melbourne\, who will examine Financial Platforms: Infrastructures for Value Creation.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Financial platforms are generally seen as the basic infrastructure of platform capitalism. They are therefore taken to be the basis for the exercise of ‘infrastructural power.’ The latter transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However\, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms and infrastructures depending on geographical location. \nFor example\, financial platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization on a global scale and are generally seen as the basic infrastructure of platform capitalism. They are therefore taken to be the basis for exercise of ‘infrastructural power.’ The latter transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However\, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms and infrastructures depending on geographical location. For example\, while financial platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization on a global scale\, they are reduced to processes of financial inclusion when referencing the ‘Global South.’ Analyses of financialization as a one-way-vector – Global North to Global South – overlook the variability\, the limits\, and responses to financialization. In contrast\, a focus on market devices illustrates the specificities of value creation via digital platforms.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]RSVP via the ADM+S Calendar invite.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1750647521944{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]Janet Roitman is a Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia. She is the founderdirector of The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre\nof Excellence for Automated Decision-making and Society (ADM+S) at RMIT University. She serves on the Council of Advisors for the Platform Cooperativism Consortium. Her research focuses on financial practices\, digital technologies\, and emergent forms of value. She is the author of Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (Princeton University Press) and Anti-Crisis (Duke University Press). \nProfessor Roitman serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cultural Economy\, Cultural Anthropology\, Finance & Society\, and Platforms & Society. Her research has received funding support from the Ford Foundation\, the MacArthur Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the United States Social Science Research Council\, Agence française du développement\, The Institute for Public Knowledge\, and the United States National Science Foundation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/financial-platforms-infrastructures-for-value-creation/
LOCATION:QUT Kelvin Grove – Z9-607\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,ECR Students,HDR Students,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250731T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250731T110000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250707T044406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250707T053723Z
UID:29679-1753956000-1753959600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Efficiency is not the only goal: An examination of the role of public consultation in administrative law
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for this presentation by ADM+S Research Fellow Alexandra Sinclair\, who will examine the purposes and values of human consultation in administrative law and whether those values can be satisfied in a context of simulated participation and consultation.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This presentation is situated within a context of increasing calls for Gen AI simulation of human  participation and consultation in legislative and democratic processes. The presentation examines  the  purposes and values of human consultation in administrative law. It analyses how consultation has both instrumentalists aims in improving the quality of law-making and decision-making and also recognises wider values pertaining to human dignity and democratic legitimacy.   The presentation questions whether those values can be satisfied in a context of simulated participation and consultation.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]RSVP via the ADM+S calendar invite which will include a Zoom link for online attendees.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1750647521944{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”28383″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Dr Alexandra Sinclair is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sydney Law School. She has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science examining the application of English judicial review doctrines to automated decision-making by the British state. Alexandra previously worked as a research fellow at the Public Law Project\, focusing on public law and technology. Her work with the Public Law Project on frontline automated decision-making in government was covered by the Guardian.  Alexandra has published in the Modern Law Review and Public Law. She is a frequent online contributor and has written for the UK Constitutional Law Association Blog\, the Digital Constitutionalist\, the Law Society Gazette and Prospect Magazine\, among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/efficiency-is-not-the-only-goal-an-examination-of-the-role-of-public-consultation-in-administrative-law/
LOCATION:QUT Kelvin Grove – Z9-607\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250704T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250704T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250521T050119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T053210Z
UID:29178-1751623200-1751641200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Re/Framing Field Lab
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Expressions of Interest Invited” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2024\, Re/Framing brought together industry\, academia and creative industries to map the landscape of creativity and AI. This landscape\, of course\, has since been terraformed multiple times over. \nFollowing this year’s ADM+S Symposium in Brisbane\, this satellite event invites scholars\, creatives\, and collaborators to join a focused co-lab on generative AI\, critical media practice\, and creative research.  \n\n\nThis time\, we zoom in — shifting from discussion to co-creation. Together\, we’ll explore themes like signal\, noise\, agency\, embodiment\, authenticity\, tools\, systems\, and workflows\, with a view to generating tangible outcomes: co-authored papers\, creative NTROs\, white papers\, infographics\, tech demos\, speculative systems\, special issues\, zines — or whatever else wants to emerge. \nThis is a space to find your plot on the landscape and plant some seeds – to pitch\, partner\, and prototype ideas. \nWe’re excited to bring together people across disciplines\, roles\, and modalities who want to experiment at the messy intersections of theory\, practice\, and speculative media/design. \nTo express interest\, please email Daniel Binns by Monday 2 June with a current CV and short precis of your motivation for attending. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/this-satellite-event-invites-scholars-creatives-and-collaborators-to-join-a-focused-co-lab-on-generative-ai-critical-media-practice-and-creative-research/
LOCATION:The University of Queensland\, Sir Fred Schonell Drive\, Saint Lucia\, Brisbane City\, 4067\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250705
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250227T230037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T064931Z
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SUMMARY:2025 ADM+S Symposium - Automated Social Services: Building Inclusive Digital Futures
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This Symposium unites ADM+S researchers\, technologists\, social service professionals\, and policymakers to showcase innovative responses to the challenges of building inclusive\, ethical\, and responsible automated social services.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSocial services provide benefits to the whole community by improving outcomes for diverse and disadvantaged people through education\, health and housing. Often social services are targeted to respond to people experiencing poverty\, child neglect or harm\, domestic and family violence\, migration and settlement\, homelessness and disability\, the effects of disaster and many other situations. Social services are delivered by a range of actors in the community including governments\, the not-for-profit sector\, social enterprises and business and have sought to innovate through data-driven systems and increasingly automated technologies. As such social services mediate engagement with highly diverse people and populations\, often experiencing complex circumstances of disadvantage or discrimination\, and often digitally excluded. \n  \n\nAutomation in social services is highly diverse and at very different stages of development reflecting resourcing differences across government and the voluntary not-for-profit community sector. Despite the sensitivities of social services\, automation offers increased capacity and enhanced personalisation amidst growing demands within constrained resources. There is extensive interest in the potential of both predictive and generative AI. Observers have long pointed to the tensions between the objectives of improving efficiency and providing care and support to individuals\, families and communities. Increasing surveillance and reduction of human connections have too often led to growing inequalities. Even well intentioned systems have unintentionally caused harm. \n  \n\nIn the wake of nation-scale failures like Robodebt\, approaches to social service automation remain cautious. Social service providers want greater legal and regulatory clarity alongside professional upskilling to help them develop and deploy data- and AI-driven technologies ethically\, safely and responsibly. Calls for authentic co-design of algorithmic-enabled services with service users provides a further challenge to building cross-professional work. But the pace of change in the sector presents considerable difficulties for research\, governance and regulation. \n\n  \nThese are fundamental issues for Automated Decision Making and Society\, inviting collaboration across technical\, legal and social science disciplines with the government and not-for-profit sector and the community members most affected. \n  \n  \n\nSymposium Location and Program \nThe Symposium will be held at the University of Queensland | St Lucia campus\, in Brisbane. Many sessions will be offered in hybrid mode.  \n\nTuesday 1 July 2025\n10.00am-7.30pm\nSatellite events\, HDR workshops & Welcome reception\nWednesday 2 July 2025\n8.30am-6.30pm\nMain 2025 Symposium: Automated Social Services – Building Inclusive Digital Futures\nThursday 3 July 2025\n8.30am-4.30pm\nADM+S Centre Signature Projects Workshops. (Limited to ADM+S Signature Project teams (closed event)\n\nFriday 4 July\n8.30am-1.00pm\nADM+S Centre Signature Projects Workshops. (Limited to ADM+S Signature Project teams (closed event)\n\nPlease note: we will not be able to accommodate dietary needs on registrations received after COB 24 June 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1749786350150{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #DD9933 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ED612B” custom_text=”#FFFFFF” size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fadms-symposium.com%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1748820088813{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #DD9933 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTRATION NOW OPEN” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ED612B” custom_text=”#FFFFFF” size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fadms-2025-symposium|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1740695969092{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”568″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. His research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and popular culture. He is the author of four monographs\, including\, most recently Automated Media\, as well as more than 90 academic articles and book chapters. He is a member of the Council for Big Data\, Ethics\, and Society and heads up the Automated Society Working Group at Monash. Before coming to Monash he held positions at the University of Queensland and the University of Iowa.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/2025-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Queensland\, Brisbane\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250528T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250515T015455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T051920Z
UID:29151-1748453400-1748458800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:What do News Audiences Want from AI?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”In this talk\, T.J. Thomson discusses news audiences’ experiences with AI-generated or -edited content in journalism\, identifying the social-ethical-legal issues that news audiences think exist in this area.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLast February\, Dr. T. J Thomson presented at Hacks/Hackers Brisbane on the perceptions\, challenges and opportunities for generative AI in newsrooms. \nNow\, as many newsrooms have started experimenting and are looking to solidify and mature their policies on AI\, T.J takes a timely look at what the audience is thinking. \nAI can be used for a number of purposes in journalism from brainstorming and enriching to optimising\, editing\, creating\, and presenting. Yet it also has serious potential ethical and legal implications\, including around bias\, inaccuracies\, copyright\, labour\, creativity\, and credibility. \nAcknowledging this tension\, this talk will explore news audiences’ experiences with AI-generated or -edited content in journalism and identify the social-ethical-legal issues that news audiences think exist in this area. \nSo what are the expectations news audiences have for how AI should be used in journalism and how comfortable they are with around two dozen specific use cases? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1747273915297{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19426″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]T.J Thomson \nDr TJ Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is a researcher on two ADM+S signature projects: Critical Capabilities for Inclusive AI and Generative Authenticity. TJ is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. \nTJ’s research is united by its focus on visual communication. A majority of his research centres on the visual aspects of news and journalism and on the concerns and processes relevant to those who make\, edit\, and present visual news. He has broader interests in digital media\, journalism studies\, and visual culture and often focuses on under-represented identities\, attributes\, and environments in his research. T.J. is committed to not only studying visual communication phenomena but also working to increase the visibility\, innovation\, and quality of how research findings are presented\, accessed\, and understood.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/what-do-news-audiences-want-from-ai/
LOCATION:ABC South Brisbane\, 114 Grey St\, Brisbane\, QLD\, 4101
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Public Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250513T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250513T153000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20250430T022932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T015352Z
UID:28954-1747126800-1747150200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Workshop - Reason-giving in the Automated State
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Bringing together leading scholars working at the intersection of artificial intelligence\, legal reasoning and administrative law.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Hosted by The University of Queensland ADM+S Node\, this day long workshop considers the duty to give reasons in the context of the growing reliance on automation in administrative and legal decision-making. It will bring together leading Australian scholars working at the intersection of artificial intelligence\, legal reasoning\, and administrative law. Questions addressed during the workshop will include: \n\nTo what extent can reason-giving act as a corrective to improper use of automation in the administrative state? Would more stringent enforcement of the duty to give reasons have helped to avoid scandals such as Robodebt?\nIs the use of various forms of generative AI in administrative and legal decision-making compatible with the common law duty to give reasons?\nIs reason-giving a form of explanation\, and does the common law duty to give reasons protect the “right to explanation”?\nThe extent to which different forms of automated systems are capable of giving effect to the duty to give reasons?\nInsights comparing the approaches of the Netherlands\, the UK and Australia to automated decision-making and their duty to give reasons.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fworkshop-reason-giving-in-the-automated-state-tickets-1312419314499%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/workshop-reason-giving-in-the-automated-state/
LOCATION:Sir Llew Edwards (Building 14)\, UQ St Lucia Campus\, Campbell Road\, Saint Lucia\, Brisbane\, 4067\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online,Public Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250217T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250217T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20241222T224904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T033936Z
UID:27600-1739790000-1739793600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Report Launch: Generative AI & Journalism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for the official launch of our comprehensive report Generative AI and Journalism: Content\, Journalistic Perceptions\, and Audience Experiences.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Generative AI\, a technology that has captivated global attention in 2023\, is reshaping journalism. From AI-generated text and images to videos and audio\, this technology offers new ways to automate\, enhance\, and even disrupt traditional journalistic practices. While its potential is vast\, it also raises complex questions around ethics\, bias\, and the future of news production. \nThis new report brings together six discrete research and engagement activities which span multiple countries  over a three-year period (2022-24) and focuses on AI in journalism within three broad domains: AI-generated content in journalism\, journalists’ perceptions of and use of AI in journalism\, and news audiences’ perceptions of and reactions to this technology being used in journalism. \nAt this launch\, report authors will present key insights\, and feature a discussion on the implications of AI in journalism\, focusing on the practical applications\, challenges\, and ethical considerations that journalists and news organisations must navigate. Participants will have the opportunity to explore how AI is reshaping storytelling\, content creation\, and audience engagement\, as well as the emerging policies and best practices for its responsible use. \nWhether you’re a journalist\, media professional\, academic\, or simply interested in the intersection of AI and news\, this event will provide a comprehensive overview of how Generative AI is transforming journalism and what it means for the future of news production.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1734050874463{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM TBC” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1733808675799{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fai-policy-co-design-toolkit-development-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1734669181298{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE REPORT” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]This output joins other reports that focus on AI in journalism (including those produced by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism\, the BBC\, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism\, and the Centre for Media Transition at UTS) but largely adopts a distinct focus on multi-modal\, visual AI and offers a broader scope over multiple domains (production\, editing\, and audience reception and interpretation). It also complements with depth\, nuance\, and richness the breadth of other survey work focused on AI and journalism\, particularly in the domain of news audiences. \nThis report aims to familiarise the reader with a wide array of AI in journalism use cases\, provide grounding on the legal and ethical issues that journalists and audiences identify regarding this technology within journalism\, and reveal news audiences’ expectations regarding how this technology should or should not be used. The report ends with a series of questions for journalists and news organisations to consider as they work through their experimentation with and guidelines around AI use in journalism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1734669304950{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE AUTHORS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19426″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]T. J. Thomson\, RMIT University\nDr T. J. Thomson is a senior lecturer at RMIT University and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. As a former visual journalist and editor\, T. J. brings a depth of media industry experience and expertise from an international scholarship on visual media and visual communication. He co-leads The News\, Technology and Society Network at RMIT University and is an affiliated researcher of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. He is also the lead guest editor of a special issue in Digital Journalism on “Reimagining visual journalism theory and practice in the digital age” (co-edited with Ryan J. Thomas\, Iuliia Alieva\, and Shangyuan Wu) that is expected to be published in 2025.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”27603″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ryan J. Thomas\, Washington State University\nDr. Ryan J. Thomas is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Production and Director of Graduate Studies in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. His teaching and research center on issues pertaining to journalism and democracy\, journalism ethics\, and the sociology of news production. He has won a variety of awards recognising his research\, teaching\, and academic service\, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award. He is the member of the editorial boards of four journals and\, from January 2025\, the editor of the Journal of Media Ethics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”17878″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Michelle Riedlinger\, Queensland University of Technology\nMichelle Riedlinger is an associate professor in the School of Communication\, chief investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre and an affiliated researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her research focusses on emerging environmental\, agricultural and health research communication practices\, platformised fact checking\, and roles for “alternative” communicators of scientific research. She co-leads the Global Engagement Theme in the Global Journalism Innovation Lab and is the editor of the international Journal of Science Communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”26829″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Phoebe Matich\, Australian Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at QUT\nPhoebe Matich is a post-doctoral research fellow at the QUT node of the ADM+S centre who is examining generative AI and authenticity in journalism and human rights media. Having completed her PhD studies at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre in 2024\, her research considers how journalists represent reality and social issues. Phoebe is particularly interested in how journalists strive to achieve normative goals like objectivity in practice amid conjunctures like misinformation\, radicalisation\, or generative AI. In these contexts\, she considers the nexus between journalism practice\, discourse\, politics\, and audience trust to examine best and worst news practices\, and opportunities for improvements.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/report-launch-generative-ai-journalism/
LOCATION:KG-Q430 Seminar Room\, Q Block\, QUT Kelvin Grove\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250102
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
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SUMMARY:Woodford Festival: Unveiling the Digital Self through Data Donation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Discover the Digital You at the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival. The data donation booth offers festival-goers a chance to explore their digital selves in a fun and informative way — by revealing the hidden world behind their data.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the data donation booth\, trained algorithm whisperers will bring your digital footprint to life to uncover the secrets of elusive algorithms. \nParticipate in a mystical exchange: offer data\, receive personalised readings\, and illuminate the shadowy pathways of digital fate. Your digital data will contribute to a collective public understanding of our shared online culture. Facebook ad preferences\, Spotify top artists\, TikTok follows\, will be used as data droplets\, growing into the Woodford tree of data. \nJoin researchers from ADM+S\, QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre and the Australian Internet Observatory at the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival for a deeper understanding of the intersection between digital media\, society\, and the pressing issues of our time. For more details on these sessions and timings\, visit the Woodford Folk Festival website. \nDiscover more events hosted by QUT DMRC at the Woodford Folk festival. \nThe Australian Internet Observatory is an initiative of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society in partnership with RMIT University\, Queensland University of Technology\, The University of Queensland\, The University of Melbourne\, Swinburne University of Technology and Deakin University. The AIO received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1734050874463{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM TBC” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1733808675799{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fai-policy-co-design-toolkit-development-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”27057″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is a Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication at QUT. His research focuses on the development of computational analysis methods for communication data\, with a specific focus on interaction data. His novel computational methods have improved our understanding of the nature of communication in medical consultations\, conversations in aged care settings\, television broadcast\, social media\, and newspaper reporting.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/woodford-festival-unveiling-the-digital-self-through-data-donation/
LOCATION:Woodford Folk Festival\, Woodrow Road 87\, Woodford\, QLD\, 4514\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240619T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240619T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
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SUMMARY:wikihistories 2024: Wikipedia and/as Data
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”What is Wikipedia’s relationship to data? What should Wikipedia’s relationship to data be?” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1686532788622{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2024 wikihistories symposium is co-located with ICA Gold Coast and brought to you by the wikihistories project at the University of Technology Sydney in partnership with the Centre for Media Transition\, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\nand Wikimedia Australia. \nCall for Papers due 15 February [/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”FIND OUT MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1EjCAX9RZnDWLAHVA-sUxTQdP3Jg8jDDekrAaftx91E8%2Fedit”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1686532788622{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wikipedia has always been a critical source of data for computer science projects\, offering data scientists a massive store of open data. Researchers and developers use Wikipedia to work on natural language processing (NLP) tasks and applications\, model user interactions with content and other users\, deliver factual statements to users in automated question-answering tasks\, and find nearby features as represented by Wikipedia articles (Iliadis\, 2022; Iliadis & Ford\, 2023). \nThese practitioners use Wikipedia as a store of facts assuming that it expresses an established consensus as a result of its policies and processes. Yet\, Wikipedia’s natural language could contain meanings that resist translation into data and whose classifications might be open to interpretation and critique (Ford & Iliadis\, 2023). For example\, articles about complex topics such as Jerusalem do not easily align with standard ways of representing entities like cities. Jerusalem’s infobox reflects Wikipedia’s power to make important decisions about how we understand facts and the meanings that are associated with them (Ford & Graham\, 2016). This power is intensified when entire Wikipedia articles are translated into structured datafied knowledge bases of machine-readable statements – by the Wikidata project\, for example\, which started in 2012 as a project of the Wikimedia Foundation (Ford\, 2020). \nHow researchers measure Wikipedia’s sociocultural biases also depends on the datafication of Wikipedia’s content and how such processes may be questioned rather than taken for granted. Measuring the extent to which Wikipedia represents Australians\, for example\, could simply be achieved by counting articles that are categorised in the “Australians” data category\, and yet this category itself is not an objective representation of Australianness but rather the result of particular practices that resist stable referents (Falk et al.\, 2023). As Wikipedia’s content is increasingly used to power virtual assistants such as Amazon Alexa and more recently large language model applications like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard\, Wikipedia participates in the global information ecosystem in ways that go well beyond its role as a web-based encyclopaedia (McDowell & Vetter\, 2023). Thus\, it is important to understand Wikipedia’s relationship to data\, not as a given\, but as something to be critically investigated. \nThis symposium will gather together social scientists\, humanists\, critical technologists\, and others to investigate Wikipedia’s connection to data and the importance of this relationship for the global information ecosystem and the production of knowledge. The workshop will be organised as a day-long\, face-to-face event prior to the annual International Communication Association conference on the Gold Coast in Australia. \nParticipants will be invited to share short presentations and to participate in discussions focused on the questions “What is Wikipedia’s relationship to data?” and/or “What should Wikipedia’s relationship to data be?” Participants will also agree to read a few background papers prior to the gathering. The workshop will result in a collaborative document that maps out possible areas for researching these questions from a sociotechnical lens and the option to continue the collaboration post-symposium. \nTo participate\, please complete the following web form\, including a 250-300 word abstract outlining your contribution to the symposium themes. \nLead curator and contact: Heather Ford[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1709609203818{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ORGANISERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22951″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Centre for Media Transition[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22950″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22944″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850522092{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”19631″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nDr T.J. Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. T.J.’s research is united by its focus on visual communication. A majority of his research centres on the visual aspects of news and journalism and on the concerns and processes relevant to those who make\, edit\, and present visual news. \nHe has broader interests in digital media\, journalism studies\, and visual culture and often focuses on under-represented identities\, attributes\, and environments in his research. T.J. is committed to not only studying visual communication phenomena but also working to increase the visibility\, innovation\, and quality of how research findings are presented\, accessed\, and understood. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850530206{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cover image: Invasion Day Melbourne 2021\, Matt Hrkac\, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/wikihistories-2024-wikipedia-and-as-data/
LOCATION:Queensland University of Technology – Kelvin Grove campus\, Kelvin Grove\, QLD\, 4059\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240306T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240306T103000
DTSTAMP:20260422T230428
CREATED:20240208T021031Z
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SUMMARY:Research as intervention: navigating ethical inclusion\, solidarity\, and activism in data justice research
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join this event to hear panellists discuss research as intervention: navigating ethical inclusion\, solidarity\, and activism in data justice research.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1686532788622{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Amidst growing evidence of the harms caused by ubiquitous datafication\, research focused on data politics is now intersecting in meaningful ways with broader struggles for social justice. For some researchers\, these politics form the backdrop of social inquiry. For others\, research is a way of intervening in these politics\, to create new agendas for data justice\, often through sustained engagement with community organising and activism. This approach to research problematises the notion of the dispassionate scholar\, who merely observes and analyses the objects of their critique. Instead\, it commits researchers to a specific praxis of solidarity with the people and communities most directly affected by the harms and oppressions of datafication.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Panellists: Joanna Redden\, Data Justice Lab/University of Western Ontario; Jackie Leach Scully\, Disability Innovation Institute\, ADM+S/ UNSW; Meg Young\, Data and Society; Zahra Stardust\, ADM+S/Queensland University of Technology; Anjalee de Silva\, ADM+S/University of Melbourne. \nChair: Georgia van Toorn (UNSW\, ADM+S)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850514122{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850522092{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”19631″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nDr T.J. Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. T.J.’s research is united by its focus on visual communication. A majority of his research centres on the visual aspects of news and journalism and on the concerns and processes relevant to those who make\, edit\, and present visual news. \nHe has broader interests in digital media\, journalism studies\, and visual culture and often focuses on under-represented identities\, attributes\, and environments in his research. T.J. is committed to not only studying visual communication phenomena but also working to increase the visibility\, innovation\, and quality of how research findings are presented\, accessed\, and understood. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850530206{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/research-as-intervention-navigating-ethical-inclusion-solidarity-and-activism-in-data-justice-research/
LOCATION:University of NSW\, Kensington campus
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240228T173000
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SUMMARY:Generative visual AI in news organisations: perceptions\, challenges\, and opportunities
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join Hacks/Hackers Brisbane in-person at ABC South Bank with ADM+S researcher\, Dr T.J Thomson who will share findings from interviews with leading news organisations across three continents\, about the opportunities and challenges they see in using generative visual AI and the principles and policies that would inform their use.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1686532788622{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]AI services that provide responses to prompts\, such as ChatGPT\, have ignited passionate discussions over the future of learning\, work\, and creativity. AI-enabled text-to-image generators\, such as Midjourney\, pose profound questions about the purpose\, meaning\, and value of images yet have received considerably less research attention\, despite the implications they raise for both the production and consumption of images. \nDrawing on interviews with leading news organisations across three continents\, including Australia\, this presentation identifies how news editors or equivalent perceive generative visual AI and outlines the challenges and opportunities they see for the technology in relation to their news operations. It also identifies the extent to which these newsrooms have policies governing how generative visual AI is used or\, if not\, the principles that would inform their development.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”19631″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nDr T.J. Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. T.J.’s research is united by its focus on visual communication. A majority of his research centres on the visual aspects of news and journalism and on the concerns and processes relevant to those who make\, edit\, and present visual news. \nHe has broader interests in digital media\, journalism studies\, and visual culture and often focuses on under-represented identities\, attributes\, and environments in his research. T.J. is committed to not only studying visual communication phenomena but also working to increase the visibility\, innovation\, and quality of how research findings are presented\, accessed\, and understood. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cover image by T.J Thomson on Midjourney[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/generative-visual-ai-in-news-organisations-perceptions-challenges-and-opportunities/
LOCATION:ABC South Brisbane\, 114 Grey St\, Brisbane\, QLD\, 4101
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online
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SUMMARY:Electronics < > Ecologies #1 — REPAIR
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”REPAIR is the first workshop in a series created by Dr Melissa Gregg. The Electronics <> Ecologies series aims to map the environmental costs of AI.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs electronics repair a right? And if so\, who needs it? \nConsumers’\, advocates’\, and resellers’ demands for a “Right to Repair” seems to be gaining broader acceptance. Policymakers around the world have responded to campaigns from groups including iFixit and The Repair Association with repairability ratings and guides\, effectively discouraging manufacturers from continuing restrictive features such as proprietary fasteners and soldered-in components. A new wave of startups including Fairphone and Framework have found a significant and growing market for durable consumer electronics\, and have provoked a range of responses from established players who are now promoting repairable product concepts\, “circular” design principles and a growing marketplace for parts\, tools and manuals. \nBut even if a robust right to repair was enshrined by governments everywhere\, would this stem the flood of e-waste generated by the existing business model for computer hardware? AI is just the latest in a long line of software hype cycles that have accelerated hardware obsolescence\, created increased demand for specialized systems and components\, and disincentivized repair and reuse. Are companies moving fast enough to arrest the amount of physical hardware exhausted and abandoned in the move to a data-centric economy? \nGiven our dwindling supply of rare earth minerals\, emissions from manufacturing and transport\, and the staggering amount of electronics either discarded or sent to hibernation globally every day\, the benefits of keeping electronic devices in circulation for as long as possible seem obvious. But proprietary software\, especially when deployed by vertically-integrated firms\, erects barriers to the many business opportunities\, digital inclusion benefits and sustainable livelihoods that a healthy repair ecosystem creates. \nREPAIR will bring together experts\, industry practitioners\, activists and emerging researchers to discuss the ecological impact of current technology consumption\, and the planetary problem of electronics repair. This event gets to the heart of the repair debate\, asking: Can repairable electronics really solve the problem of product obsolescence? And what does electronics repair look like at scale? \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Felectronics-ecologies-1-repair-program%2F|title:ELECTRONICS%20%3C%20%3E%20ECOLOGIES%20%231%20%E2%80%94%20REPAIR%20Program”][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDINGS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLE_y90GftjpbQr8TyY-md0znvPrsrfHd8|title:ELECTRONICS%20%3C%20%3E%20ECOLOGIES%20%231%20%E2%80%94%20REPAIR%20Program”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”LOCATION” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This event will be held in-person at The Ship Inn\, South Bank Campus\, Griffith University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”CALL FOR PAPERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Researchers interested in being considered for a select number of presentation slots are invited to submit a 2-page position paper by 4 August 2023. Learn more.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”1076″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dr Melissa Gregg\nMelissa Gregg is a consultant on sustainable and responsible technology design and an International Advisory Board Member for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). For the past decade\, she led User Experience Research in the Client Computing Group at Intel\, driving a range of product initiatives including the research that launched Intel EVO laptops. As Senior Principal Engineer in the Software and Advanced Technology Group\, she established the first product team focused on carbon reduction and green software to achieve corporate-wide Net Zero commitments. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19481″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Prof Leanne Wiseman\nLeanne Wiseman is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Professor of Law at Griffith University\, Brisbane Australia and Chair of the Australian Repair Network. Leanne’s current research expertise focuses on the intersection between law and new technologies\, with particular attention to balancing IP rights with genuine access to information. She is currently researching legal and regulatory responses to the International Right to Repair movement.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19485″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Prof Josh Lepawsky\nJosh Lepawsky is Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Questions informing his research include where and how are contemporary discards made? Where do they travel and where do their effects accumulate? Who gets what discards\, where\, how\, and under what conditions? He is also interested in how maintenance and repair\, broadly conceived\, might offer both literal and figurative lessons for figuring out how to live well together in permanently polluted and always breaking worlds. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14676″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Prof Jack Linchuan Qiu \nDr. Jack Linchuan Qiu is Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has published more than 130 research articles\, chapters\, and reports\, and 10 books in English and Chinese including Goodbye iSlave (University of Illinois P\, 2016)\, World Factory in the Information Age (Guangxi Normal U P\, 2013)\, and Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press\, 2009). He is a recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media\, Markets and Democracy\, and an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19831″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Prof Steven Jackson \nSteven Jackson is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University with additional graduate field appointments in Communication and Public Affairs. He is past Chair of Information Science; Dean of William Keeton House\, a vibrant living-learning community in Cornell’s West Campus housing system; and since July 2023\, Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation at Cornell. He also directs the Computing On Earth Lab\, dedicated to investigating the planetary dimensions and consequences of computing\, from problems of sourcing and extraction\, to energy and water consumption\, to technology waste and repair. \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19832″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Nathan Proctor\nNathan Proctor is the Senior Director for PIRG’s Right to Repair campaigns\, which stretch across dozens of states and includes shareholder\, Congressional and federal advocacy to protect people’s ability to repair modern electronics. A member of the Grist 50 “list of emerging leaders from across the U.S. who are working on fresh\, real-world solutions to our world’s biggest challenges\,” Nathan lives in Arlington\, Mass. with his wife and two children. \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19833″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]MC Forelle\nMC Forelle is an assistant professor of Engineering & Society at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. They received their PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California before becoming a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar at Cornell University. They are researching the US automotive industry’s shift from hardware manufacturing to software development\, particularly as those shifts impact the repair\, maintenance\, and modification of vehicles. \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19834″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Michelle Miao Lu\nMichelle Miao Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies\, Lingnan University. Her research interests include critical media studies\, science and technology studies\, and Global China studies. Her past and current research investigates China’s digital rise in Africa. \n \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13315″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Yifan Wang\nYifan Wang is a tech journalist\, artist and independent researcher working with codes\, video games\, digital sounds and images. Embracing DIY spirits and wild imaginations\, her works seek to interrogate and demystify contemporary forms of power such as digital governmentality and financialized neo-feudalism. Her practice also looks for tangible\, concrete\, everyday acts of resistance and subversion.  \n \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19835″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Changwen Chen\nChangwen Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. He is a critical/cultural scholar interested in the social history of learning and work culture\, and its intersections with technology\, development\, and post-socialist politics. \n \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19836″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Assoc Prof Adrian Athique\nAdrian Athique is based at the University of Queensland\, having previously served as the Chair of Arts at the University of Waikato and the director of the Media\, Culture and Society programme at the University of Essex. His research addresses the culture\, sociology and economics of the media\, especially in Asia. He is author of The Multiplex in India (2009\, Routledge\, with Douglas Hill)\, Indian Media (2012\, Polity)\, Digital Media and Society (2013\, Polity) and Transnational Audiences (2016\, Polity). Adrian has also edited a number of recent volumes on media and digital economies\, including The Indian Media Economy (2018\, 2 Vols\, with Vibodh Parthasarathi and SV Srinivas)\, Digital Transactions in Asia (2019\, with Emma Baulch) and Platform Capitalism in India (2020\, with Vibodh Parthasarathi). \n \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”1023″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Assoc Prof Ramon Lobato\nRamon Lobato is Associate Professor of Media and Communication (ARC Future Fellow) at RMIT University. A media industries researcher\, he has a special interest in video distribution\, and has written widely on piracy and informal media. Ramon’s books include Shadow Economies of Cinema (British Film Institute\, 2012)\, The Informal Media Economy (Polity\, 2015\, with Julian Thomas)\, Netflix Nations (NYU Press\, 2019)\, and the edited collection Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders (NYU Press\, 2023\, with Amanda Lotz).   \n \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”19837″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Nancy Mauro-Flude\nNancy Mauro-Flude is a digital caretaker raised in lutruwita/Tasmania. She lectures in computing arts at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre\, RMIT University\, Melbourne and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures\, Amsterdam. Her artistic research is driven by the demystification of technology and the ‘mystification’ that lies in and through the performance of the machinic assemblage. Her works have been commissioned for Ghetto Biennale\, Port au Prince; ACCA Melbourne; Artspace\, Critical Path; Sydney; Transmediale\, Berlin; Dark Mofo\, Mona Foma\, Tasmanian Museum of Art and Contemporary Art. Recent essays include The Thorny Conversation about Art and Economy (2023) Chicago; Computabilities Dancing (2023) MIT; Towards a Feminist Server Stack (2022); Codesign and Writing the Feminist Internet (2021) Continuum. \n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Learn more about the Electronics <> Ecologies Series” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Felectronics-ecologies%2F”][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423152655{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915647056{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”THEMES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference will address the following thematic questions: \n\nHow is ADMS understood in the Chinese context? And who are the key players/stakeholders?\nWhat are its key features and trajectories?\nWhat is China’s ambition in the area of ADM\, domestically and internationally?\nHow are ADM technologies and systems used in different settings and institutions in Chinese societies?\nHow are ADM systems governed? For example\, will China’s Personal Information Protection Law set a global standard in regulating Internet platforms conducting automated decision-making through algorithms?\nWhat’s China’s role in the current debates on frameworks in governing data security\, rights or ownership\, ethics\, and transactions?\nWhat are the new\, emerging or hidden dynamics and politics in Chinese communities around the world as they encounter or engage with ADM technologies and systems in their everyday life and businesses?\nHow do people—Chinese\, non-Chinese\, or foreign citizens of Chinese cultural heritage —view or interpret China’s roles in ADM? And why?\nWhat do Western anxieties about digital China and its ADM systems like the social credit system tell us about the new geopolitics between China and the West/US?\nWhat roles Chinese societies can play in ensuring fair\, inclusive\, responsible\, and ethical ADM systems that benefit the people rather than the few with power\, money and knowledge?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423190791{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years\nParticipants who are with relevant skills\, expertise or experience such as fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\, including sociologists\, anthropologists\, political scientists\, and others working in the humanities and social sciences.\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions.Who are the organisers?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/electronics-ecologies-1-repair/
LOCATION:The Ship Inn\, South Bank Campus\, Griffith University\, Sidon St\, Brisbane\, QLD\, 4101
CATEGORIES:Brisbane
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230708
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SUMMARY:Towards a Positive Internet
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This interactive workshop aims to identify the necessary building blocks of a more positive internet including platform policy\, conditions for meaningful community formation and personal wellbeing.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Creating positive internet futures for everyone\, including children and young people\, requires attention to the already successful elements of the internet and social media. By identifying the spaces where the internet supports human flourishing we can create a more positive internet and social media spaces. This workshop aims to identify the necessary building blocks of a more positive internet including platform policy\, conditions for meaningful community formation and personal wellbeing. This will be achieved by bringing together experts from across Australia to direct future research attention to internet spaces where people experience joy\, fun and connection as understanding these spaces can help build a better internet for everyone. \nThis interactive workshop seeks to generate creative responses to the perceived internet ‘crisis’. The internet\, and specifically social media\, is often positioned as a threat to democracy and a disruption to a functioning society\, to which the only solution is to ‘turn it off’. Critiques of the internet are important work\, however\, in this workshop we seek to move away from ‘big critique’ (Burgess\, 2022) and focus on the conditions that could produce a more positive version on the internet. Drawing from the work of Halberstam (2011) this workshop seeks to uncover alternative internet futures that “dwell in the murky waters of a counterintuitive\, often impossibly dark and negative realm of critique and refusal” (2011\, p. 2). \nThis workshop focuses on what Halberstam might consider the “rewards of failure” (p. 3) by focusing on where the internet has functioned and produced positive and pro-social outcomes amongst its many shortcomings. Through hands-on and engaging activities\, the focus of this workshop is to combine the expertise of our participants and collectively generate new research-informed insights that help us move towards a positive internet. The workshop aims to bring together a diverse range of academics\, from HDR students to senior researchers\, to collaboratively tackle this question and consider how we can build a better internet by rescuing the failures of this present. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1597387665503{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 75px !important;background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Themes” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This workshop focuses on the following key themes: \n\nDesigning internet spaces\nThe technological affordances that support human flourishing online.\nExisting success\nIdentifying ‘successful’ internet space and critically examining how and why they work.\nLooking back to look forward\nWhat lessons can we apply from the internet past to create a positive internet in the future?\nSpeculative internet futures\nUsing their expertise\, attendees will design what their ‘ideal’ future internet would look like.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1597387665503{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 75px !important;background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Objectives” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The objectives of this workshop are to: \n\nBring together scholars who are working broadly in the area of a ‘positive internet’\nCreate a collective\, public-facing manifesto for ‘building a positive internet’\nCreate a community of practice across social science disciplines that are working on identifying and designing for human flourishing online\nGenerate open-access academic outputs that speak to the theme of a positive internet\nContribute to imagining better internet futures\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1597387665503{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 75px !important;background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Participate” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Expressions of Interest for this event have now closed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1597387665503{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 75px !important;background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Sponsors” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This event is co-sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and the ARC of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1597387665503{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 75px !important;background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Questions” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]If you have any questions\, please contact towardsapositiveinternet@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/towards-a-positive-internet/
LOCATION:QUT\, Brisbane\, 4000
CATEGORIES:Brisbane
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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