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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]
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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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