Journalist and critic Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has invigorated both academic and journalistic critique of Spotify, while arming musicians with a powerful set of arguments for imagining alternative platforms and economic models for music.
Journalist and critic Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has invigorated both academic and journalistic critique of Spotify, while arming musicians with a powerful set of arguments for imagining alternative platforms and economic models for music.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they explore how we can reimagine XAI by drawing upon a broad range of relevant interdisciplinary findings.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they introduce the three core components of surrogate explainers: data sampling, interpretable representation and explanation generation in view of text, image and tabular data.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne
All ADM+S members are invited to participate, no previous or technical experience necessary. We are looking for team participants, team mentors/leaders, and roving mentors.
ADM+S Members, Melbourne, Public Event
Three leading experts – spanning conflict reporting, environmental disasters and politics – dissect the evolving challenges of trust, credibility and media integrity in perilous times.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Presented by A/Prof Joanna Strycharz, this interactive workshop explores how scholars can study digital vulnerabilities in the context of advertising and branded communication.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Presented by A/Prof Joanna Strycharz, this talk addresses the evolving relationship between consumer empowerment and regulatory governance in the context of data-driven advertising.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne
ADM+S is welcoming EOIs from our ADM+S research community to submit session ideas for our 2026 ADM+S Summer School.
The challenges faced by public service media in the face of the dominance of commercial tech platforms, and PSM’s infrastructural dependence on them, are global and urgent.
Public service media across the world are currently facing a series of challenges. Funding is under threat, trust in institutions is declining, and organisations have to compete in a media ecosystem dominated by platforms. In parallel, research and development of future technologies demands strong streams of innovation focused on the public good. How can public service media meet these challenges? What does this mean for democracy?
The International Workshop on Vulnerabilities in Generative Systems for Information Retrieval (VulGen'26) will be held as a full-day workshop at the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'26) in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on 24 July 2026.