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SUMMARY:Electronics < > Ecologies #3 — ENERGY
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The third instalment in our Electronics < > Ecologies series\, ENERGY foregrounds the work of engineers and activists influencing the trajectory of resource use in today’s tech industry.” 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\nThe IT sector currently accounts for somewhere between 1-4% of global greenhouse gas emissions\, with some scholars suggesting this will rise to at least 14% by 2040. These estimates predate the release of popular AI applications such as ChatGPT\, and reflect generations of engineering training and business incentives that measured success in terms of size\, accuracy and latency.  \nENERGY begins with a book roundtable with the authors of Digital Energetics\, and an overview of environmental advocacy in tech companies and global non-profits. (Download Digital Energetics for free in advance of the discussion; and take a look at recent reports by Tamara Kneese for AI Now and the Green Software Foundation). The third talk will share findings from new research on engineers grappling with sustainability questions in daily work.  \nImage credit – Zane Griffin Talley Cooper. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nWednesday 22nd AU / Tuesday 21st US (Hybrid) \nDigital Energetics – A book roundtable \n\nZane Cooper\, University of Pennsylvania\nCindy Lin\, Penn State University\nAnne Pasek\, Trent University\nJordan Kinder\, Wilfrid Laurier University\n\n  \nFrom Socially Useful to Responsible Tech: Learning From Histories of Environmental Justice and Labor Rights in Silicon Valley and Beyond \n\nTamara Kneese\, Data & Society\n\n  \nMaking it Work: What AI Developers Do and Don’t Want to Do to Reduce Emissions \n\nDawn Nafus\, Intel Labs\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”VIEW PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Felectronics-ecologies-3-energy-program%2F|target:_blank”][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_y90GftjpY1jBRaT0kdJxZV1SkF2-Zm|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/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]All talks for Day 1 and Day 2 will be online. \nThe Day 2 afternoon workshop will be held in-person at the ADM+S Centre\, RMIT University\, and requires separate registration.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1698280222650{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 21 September 2023. Learn more.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1698732935229{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 disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”20929″ 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]Sylvia Downing\nSylvia Downing is a Senior Principal Engineer focused on sustainability and AI in the electronics industry. She specializes in bringing new technologies to market across diverse disciplines: crafting industry display standards for encryption and link integrity\, delivering Intel’s first client AI accelerator\, Intel®️GNA for low-power noise suppression and speech recognition\, and developing methods to calculate and measure the carbon cost of computation. Her patents are related to signal integrity\, power savings\, economical routing\, fiber optic implementation\, content protection\, and audio analysis solutions.  \nSylvia earned her BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. She likes to spend her free time on long bicycle rides with her husband and friends\, or playing music. \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=”20924″ 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]Dawn Nafus\nDawn Nafus is a Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs\, where she manages the Sociotechnical Systems team. Her current research focus is on AI and climate change\, with an emphasis on the changing infrastructures of computation. She is the editor of Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life (MIT Press\, 2016)\, co-author of Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and co-editor of Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World (Manchester University Press\, 2018). \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=”20887″ 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]Zane Griffin Talley Cooper\nZane Griffin Talley Cooper is a PhD Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania\, and a Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication. His research broadly concerns the intersections and relations between data infrastructures\, energy production\, and resource extraction in the Arctic. A multimodal scholar with a passion for sustainability\, he has held positions at Intel\, the Civic Software Foundation\, and the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology\, where\, in various capacities\, he has explored the nexus of technology and environmental justice. His work has found its way into journals\, art exhibits\, design projects\, film festivals\, and he is the Co-Principal Investigator of Geographies of Digital Wasting: Electronic Waste From Mine to Discard and Back Again\, a global grant project funded by the Internet Society Foundation. Cooper holds an M.A. in History from California State University San Marcos and a B.F.A. in Film Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. [/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=”20890″ 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]Cindy Lin\nCindy Lin is an ethnographer and information science assistant professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Her first single-authored book project explores statecraft and computing practices in the environmental and mapping sciences in Indonesia and the professional identities and government institutions that emerged from these efforts.[/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=”20889″ 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]Anne Pasek\nAnne Pasek is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Media\, Culture\, and the Environment at Trent University\, cross-appointed between Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment. Her research explores the cultural politics of climate change\, with a particular emphasis on the social and technical means through which carbon is enumerated and mobilized within the tech sector\, academia\, and the arts. She is also the director of the Low-Carbon Research Methods Group\, a network of scholars examining the social impacts of decarbonizing academic work\, and the Experimental Methods & Media Lab\, a hub for critical making at Trent.[/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=”20931″ 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]Jordan B. Kinder\nJordan B. Kinder is a scholar of media studies and the energy and environmental humanities from a resource town in what is now called northern British Columbia\, Canada. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta\, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. For the 2023-2024 academic year\, he is also a research associate with the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Jordan’s first sole-authored book\, Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media\, will be out with the University of Minnesota Press in Spring 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=”20930″ 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]Tamara Kneese\nTamara Kneese is a Senior Researcher and Project Director of Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab. Before joining D&S\, she was Lead Researcher at Green Software Foundation\, Director of Developer Engagement on the Green Software team at Intel\, and Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Director of Gender and Sexualities Studies at the University of San Francisco. Tamara holds a PhD in Media\, Culture and Communication from NYU and is author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.[/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-3-energy/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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SUMMARY:Do Labs Have Politics?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join Maxigas in discussing the role of academic labs in bringing about desired futures.” 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\nThe “science shop” movement pioneered in the Netherlands directly linked academic institutions with social movements to counterbalance techniques of management tied to capital. These moves have reverberated through the growth of ‘labs’ of science technology and society with normative goals. The Citizens Lab (U of T)\, Critical Infrastructures Lab\, and in some ways ADM+S\, reflect modes of thinking through ways to affect wider cultural\, political\, technological changes\, with the limited capacities and budgets of public academic modes of engagement. We ask what do the examples of working in an academic setting with an institutionalised mandate for social change map to\, feel like\, and what can we learn from them? \nIf you’d like join discussion and reflection on the continuing evolution of ‘labs’\, please respond to Luke.h@Deakin.edu.au to secure a spot. \nAccess:\nTower 2\, Level 12/727 Collins St\, Melbourne VIC 3008.\nOnce in the building\, entering under the large yellow sculptures\, and turning left ‘tower two’ lobby\, Deakin Downtown is on the 12th floor. Walk into the lobby and find the escalators up to the second set of elevators\, press Deakin 12 on the touch screen to be assigned an elevator up. Check with the front desk for room for “CDII – Do Labs have Politics”. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1698280222650{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 21 September 2023. Learn more.[/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/do-labs-have-politics/
LOCATION:Deakin Downtown\, Melbourne\, VIC\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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SUMMARY:54th Annual Academy of the Humanities Symposium - Between humans & machines: exploring the pasts & futures of automation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Convened by ADM+S Centre Directors Prof Jean Burgess FAHA and Prof Julian Thomas FAHA\, the 54th Annual Academy of the Humanities Symposium will explore the possibilities and hazards of automation\, and the complexities of human-machine relations.” 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]Since the late eighteenth century\, the changing ‘machinery question’ has continued to spark deep social divisions and to stimulate new fields of imaginative thinking\, creative speculation\, and social and cultural enquiry (including political economy\, cybernetics\, STS\, AI ethics\, critical data studies\, and digital ethnography). \nRecent advances in artificial intelligence have generated new interests\, methods\, problems\, and capabilities across an array of humanities and creative arts disciplines. These have complicated conventional narratives of technological transformation\, enabling a deeper understanding of the possibilities and hazards of automation\, and the complexities of human-machine relations. \nThe 54th Annual Academy Symposium will explore some of the most exciting work underway on these issues across the humanities with related institutions and industry fields\, in Australia and elsewhere. \nTopics will include: \n\nVirtual autopsies and automated morgues\,\nThe automation of cultural production and cultural taste\,\nHuman accountability for the actions of machines\,\nThe ‘explanatory imperative’\nQuestions of Indigenous data sovereignty\nDigital human rights\n\nThis event will be held in-person at RMIT University’s Kaleide Theatre in Melbourne. \nFor further updates\, please check the Australian Academy of the Humanities website.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”VIEW PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fhumanities.org.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F10%2F54th-Annual-Academy-Symposium-Program-updated.pdf”][vc_empty_space][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 RMIT University’s Kaleide Theatre in Melbourne.[/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=”CONVENERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This year’s symposium will be convened by ADM+S Centre Directors Prof Jean Burgess FAHA and Prof Julian Thomas FAHA.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”639″ 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 Jean Burgess FAHA\nJean is Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) where she is the co-leader of the Data program\, and convenor of the QUT node.[/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=”491″ 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 Julian Thomas FAHA\nJulian is Director of the ADM+S Centre and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.[/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=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]We’re delighted to announce the following speakers for our program. Further details on their sessions\, other speakers and the full program will be announced soon.[/vc_column_text][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 is an internationally recognised research pioneer with deep technical expertise in user experience\, sustainability\, silicon and platform architecture and workplace transformation.[/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=”14674″ 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]Malavika Jayaram\nMalavika is the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub\, an independent\, non-profit internet and society research think tank based out of Hong Kong with a regional focus.[/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=”18793″ 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 Erica Thompson\nErica is an Associate Professor of Modelling for Decision Making at the University College London’s Department of Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Public Policy.\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=”2023 HANCOCK LECTURE” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Thao Phan from Monash University is the featured 2023 Hancock Lecture speaker. Titled ‘Artificial figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture’\, Dr Phan will explore how\, in the making of AI systems and technologies\, gender too is being made.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”2719″ 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 Thao Phan\nThao’s lecture centres on questions of power\, politics\, and identity in today’s algorithmic culture. It asks: how are more-than-human systems reconfiguring the terms of all-too-human categories like gender\, race\, and class? How does gender influence how new technologies are made intelligible\, mediating the expectations of a user\, consumer\, or audience? And finally\, how might these encounters with AI reveal the artifice of gender as a system that is tied to the realm of the artificial as much as it is to nature and what we call ‘the natural’?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{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|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The 54th Annual Academy Symposium is presented by the Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ENQUIRIES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Please contact the Australian Academy of the Humanities if you have any questions about the Symposium: enquiries@humanities.org.au[/vc_column_text][/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/54th-annual-academy-symposium/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Annual Academy of the Humanities":MAILTO:enquiries@humanities.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230927T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230927T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230906T072820Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Digital Gap 2023 Outcomes Report Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and Telstra invite you to attend the online launch of the first Mapping the Digital Gap Outcomes Report.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_column_text]Improving digital inclusion outcomes and access to services in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is critically important for informed decision making and agency. Digital exclusion impacts on service delivery\, health outcomes\, access to news and information\, and participation in social and cultural activities. \nTarget 17 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap states that ‘By 2026\, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have equal levels of digital inclusion’. \nDrawing on data from the ADM+S Centre and Telstra ‘Mapping the Digital Gap’ project\, the 2023 Australian Digital Inclusion Index was able to provide a score for First Nations digital inclusion according to remoteness categories for the first time. It found a considerable digital gap – 7.5 points on a 100 point scale – between First Nations people and other Australians. This gap increases significantly with remoteness\, with an overall gap of 24.4 for remote First Nations communities and 25.4 for very remote communities when compared against national results. \nThe 2023 Mapping the Digital Gap Outcomes Report presents first year findings from ten diverse remote First Nations communities across Australia. It demonstrates significant barriers to communications infrastructure\, affordable devices and services\, and digital ability. It is the first in a series of annual reports providing timely data and community-led strategies to guide policy and program initiatives to help close the digital gap. \nJoin our online event for an overview of the data\, context\, and key findings from the report\, discussion of the state of service provision and news and media access across research sites\, case studies of on-the-ground experiences of residents and service providers\, and an interactive Q&A session with leading industry and academic experts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1693984120881{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1686029087819{margin-right: 30px !important;margin-left: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Schedule \n\n6:00pm\nPublic debate\n7:00pm\nLight refreshments\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538086520{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Partners” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”6058″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Telstra\ntelstra.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538086520{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”20073″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Dot West\nChair\nFirst Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”7712″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Lauren Ganley\nFirst Nations Strategy & Engagement\nMapping the Digital Gap Partner Investigator\nTelstra \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”491″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Julian Thomas\nCentre Director\nMapping the Digital Gap Co-Investigator\nRMIT University\, ADM+S \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”13270″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Daniel Featherstone\nSenior Research Fellow\nMapping the Digital Gap Lead Investigator\nRMIT University\, ADM+S \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”5535″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker\nResearch Fellow\nMapping the Digital Gap Co-Investigator\nRMIT University\, ADM+S \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/mtdg-2022-report-launch/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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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:20230817T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230817T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230606T035125Z
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SUMMARY:Generative AI Should Be Stopped! The Web Search Revolution Public Debate
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us on Thursday 17 August for a lively debate on the implications of Generative AI and its societal impact.” 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 width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been just over the horizon. But with the emergence of Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Midjourney\, suddenly it’s here and shockingly good. With the potential to reshape economies\, societies and our lives\, these remarkable technologies demand our attention and raise important questions about the role AI should have in society. \nFeaturing experts in the field\, this debate will shed light on the serious hazards and enormous potential of Generative AI. The affirmative side will argue that we must stop progress in this technology and focus on minimising its harms and render it safe. The negative will emphasise the importance of integrating this Promethean Gift into every corner of our lives. \nRegister now to secure your spot and engage in a thought-provoking debate on the future of Generative AI. \nThis is the evening component of The Web Search Revolution Symposium. See the full event here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1686029087819{margin-right: 30px !important;margin-left: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Schedule \n\n6:00pm\nPublic debate\n7:00pm\nLight refreshments\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538086520{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Moderator” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19713″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]A/Prof Chris Berg\nRMIT University \nChris is Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University. He is a political economist and economic historian best known for his unhinged speculations about the sinking of the Titanic in the Wall Street Journal. He used to appear a lot on public radio and television. He still does\, but he used to as well. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538086520{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19712″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] \nDr Rachel Bailes\nAustralian Information Industry Association\n \nRachel is head of policy for the Australian Information Industry Association. She is an experienced policy adviser\, solicitor\, and communications professional with 10 years’ experience in government\, member-based organisations and professional associations She is committed to supporting the role of technology as Australia’s backbone as well as emerging and critical technologies\, domestic capability\, and digital skills uplift.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19710″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] \nProf Sinclair Davidson\nRMIT University \nSinclair is an institutional economist with the Blockchain Innovation Hub. He is a regular contributor to public policy debates in Australia\, particularly on topics of economic freedom. His most recent work focuses on the limits of economic calculation.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19709″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] \nDr Aaron Lane\nLawyer\, Supreme Court of Victoria\nRMIT University \nAaron is a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Victoria and an economist. Aaron began his legal career in private practice acting and appearing for clients in administrative\, commercial and criminal matters. As a regulatory analyst\, he has worked with leading Australian think tanks on economic and financial regulation. He has appeared to give expert evidence before State and Federal parliamentary inquiries and has contributed to an Amicus Brief filed in the Supreme Court of the United States. More recently\, Aaron has advised Australian and foreign governments on the regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19298″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] \nProfessor Jason Potts\nADM+S\, RMIT University \nJason Potts is an evolutionary economist who studies open innovation and the dynamics of new technologies and the economic institutions that support them. He works across the Blockchain Innovation Hub and the ADMS. He is editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19711″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Jana Schmitz\n.au Domain \nJana is .au Domain’s Policy Advisor for domestic internet and technology policy. She monitors and responds to policy developments relevant for the Domain Name System (DNS) and the internet community more broadly. Before joining .au Domain\, Jana was CPA Australia’s Digital Economy Policy Lead\, covering technology policy matters affecting accounting and finance professionals.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”19278″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Prof Chirag Shah\nUniversity of Washington \nChirag is Professor in Information School (iSchool) at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is also Adjunct Professor with Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as well as Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). He works in the area of intelligent information access systems\, focusing on task-oriented search\, proactive recommendations\, and conversational systems. He is also engaged in work with generative AI\, specifically in information access and image classification problems. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/generative-ai-should-be-stopped/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ADMS_SearchEvent_2_evening@2x.png
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:20230817T093000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230817T163000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230606T035059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T010252Z
UID:18564-1692264600-1692289800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:The Web Search Revolution
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for a symposium in Melbourne and online on the past\, present and future of web search – Google\, ChatGPT\, Bing\, and beyond.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]The world of search has undergone a remarkable transformation\, from simple keyword queries to a complex\, all-pervasive automated decision-making system. \nWith this year marking two important anniversaries: 25 years since Google’s founding and 30 years since the release of the first web search engine\, JumpStation\, it’s a timely opportunity to reflect on the profound impact of search on society. The rise in prominence of ChatGPT and other generative AI systems also offers an opportunity to examine the future of information access. \nJoin us for the The Web Search Revolution: The Past\, Present\, and Future of Web Search – Google\, ChatGPT\, Bing\, and Beyond\, a one-day interdisciplinary event that will delve into the history\, evolution\, and future of search. Our speakers\, including distinguished researchers in the field of search engines and industry experts\, will explore the following questions: \n\nWhat has been the societal impact of this near-ubiquitous technology?\nWhat lessons can we learn from the success and pitfalls of introducing search to large-scale platforms?\nHow will generative AI shape the future of information access?\n\nThe event will culminate in a lively evening debate: Generative AI Should Be Stopped! (Register separately here). \nDon’t miss this unique opportunity to engage with leading thinkers and gain new insights into one of the defining technologies of our time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_btn title=”VIEW PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#23cdf1″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fweb-search-program%2F|title:Program%20%7C%20The%20Web%20Search%20Revolution”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] \nWatch recordings\nListen to podcasts \n[/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=”Keynote Speakers” 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 offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18570″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Susan Dumais\nTechnical Fellow & Managing Director\nMicrosoft Research New England \nSusan Dumais is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft\, directing Research Labs in Cambridge\, New York City\, and Montréal\, and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. Before\, she was at Bell Labs where she developed Latent Semantic Analysis\, an early word embedding technique for search.  Her current research focuses on large-scale language modeling\, behavioral log analysis\, personalization\, and email search. Susan has published widely in information retrieval (IR)\, human-computer interaction (HCI)\, and cognitive science. Susan contributed to search innovations across Microsoft Bing\, Windows\, SharePoint\, and Office. She is an ACM Fellow\, was elected to the CHI and SIGIR Academies\, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Her outstanding contributions in IR have been recognized with SIGIR Gerard Salton Award and Tony Kent Strix Award. Her pioneering work in computer science and HCI has awarded the ACM Athena Lecturer\, SIGCHI Lifetime Research Awards\, Lifetime Achievement Award from Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Science. \nRead more[/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 offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18571″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Prof Chirag Shah\nInformation and Computer Science\nUniversity of Washington \nChirag Shah is Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). He works in the area of intelligent information access systems\, focusing on task-oriented search\, proactive recommendations\, and conversational systems. He is also engaged in work with generative AI\, specifically in information access and image classification problems. In addition to creating AI-driven information access systems that provide more personalized reactive and proactive recommendations\, he is also focusing on making such systems transparent\, fair\, and free of biases. \nShah is a Distinguished Member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) as well as Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). He is the recipient of the 2019 Microsoft BCS/IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and authored seven books\, including text books on data science and machine learning. He also works closely with industrial research labs on cutting-edge problems\, typically as a visiting researcher. The most recent engagements included Spotify (2018)\, Amazon (2019)\, MSR AI (2020)\, Getty Images (2021)\, and Microsoft Research (2023). \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313231902{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313240056{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18739″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Peter Bailey\nML Engineering Lead\, Search & Recommendations\nCanva \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”4214″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Louisa Bartolo\nPhD Candidate\nADM+S\, QUT \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313240056{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18780″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Lisa Given\nDirector\, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform\nInformation Studies\, School of Global\, Urban and Social Studies and the School of Computing Technologies\nRMIT University \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1023″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Assoc Prof Ramon Lobato\nAssociate Investigator\nADM+S\, RMIT \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313250860{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18378″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández\nAssociate Investigator\nADM+S\, QUT \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18781″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Dana McKay\nSenior Lecturer\, Innovative Interactive Technologies\nRMIT University \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313250860{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18740″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Alistair Moffat\nComputing and Information Systems\nUniversity of Melbourne \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”996″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Jason Potts\nChief Investigator\nADM+S\, RMIT University \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313259539{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1011″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Mark Sanderson\nChief Investigator\nADM+S\, RMIT University \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”491″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Julian Thomas\nCentre Director\nADM+S\, RMIT University \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313269370{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18741″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Johanne Trippas\nVice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow\nRMIT University \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”660″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Kimberlee Weatherall\nChief Investigator\nADM+S\, University of Sydney \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1687313277017{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18742″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Assoc Prof Guido Zuccon\nUniversity of Queensland \nRead more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/web-search-revolution/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,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:20230516T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230516T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230403T100059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T015206Z
UID:17886-1684252800-1684256400@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Queer social sorting: Control and resistance in China’s LGBTQ+ activism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for a public talk with Ausma Bernot on China’s queer social sorting methods that include both automated decision-making and the use of human labour in enforcing queer “othering”.” 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]Since 2013\, LGBTQ+ activism in China has been progressively hampered by sophisticated queer social sorting methods that include both automated decision-making and the use of human labour in enforcing queer “othering”. \nOn the surface\, China’s authorities maintain formal decorum and formulaic support for LGBTQ+ communities. Non-discrimination can be argued on the basis of formal UN announcements confirming China’s stance against LGBTQ+ discrimination as well as the gradual thawing of national laws that restrict LGBTQ+ communities\, such as the recent 2022 regulations lowering the minimum age requirements for gender affirming surgery from 20 to 18. Concurrently\, suppression of LGBTQ+ activism exists under the surface of international and national political decorum. \nThe state-sponsored control of queer activism is now increasingly linked to two elements: China’s call to return to traditional gender roles and social sorting of queer activism. \nQueer social sorting is achieved through an interconnected means of the legal and regulatory frames\, public and state security monitoring and harassment\, and digital surveillance. This talk will unpack the web of those practices with a particular focus on inclusion of automated decision-making and the power dynamics they entrench.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”About the speaker” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”17887″ 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]Ausma Bernot \nAusma Bernot is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Australian Graduate School of Policing & Security\, Charles Sturt University. She has six years of work experience with forensic science and research organisations across the globe\, in particular China\, where she had the chance to gain insights on how technologies are governed at provincial and national levels. \nHer current research focuses on the effects that the merging of infotech and biotech triggers in the fields of governance\, surveillance\, policing\, and public safety. Along with Prof Patrick F Walsh\, Ausma is working to advance the field of Health Security. \nAusma’s doctoral research explored the dynamic interaction between surveillance technologies and social context and questions totalisation of surveillance in China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{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_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]This is a hybrid event\, hosted in-person at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at RMIT University (RMIT Building 97\, 106-108 Victoria Street\, Carlton VIC 3053) and online via Zoom (Zoom link will be emailed to you upon registering). \nTickets are free\, however registration is essential.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7_ccP2sz4rA%26t%3D10s”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/queer-social-sorting-control-and-resistance-in-chinas-lgbtq-activism/
LOCATION:ADM+S Centre\, RMIT University\, 106-108 Victoria Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,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:20230508T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230508T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230421T043357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T015329Z
UID:18213-1683568800-1683574200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Seth Lazar: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Seth Lazar: Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618578153{background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1682053616965{padding-bottom: -35px !important;}”] \n\n“Algorithmic intermediaries exercise intermediary power over participants in the digital public sphere—they shape what is possible and impossible\, encouraged and frustrated; they shape power relations between us; and\, over time\, they are reshaping basic social structures\, like political communications and civic engagement.” – Seth Lazar \nIn this talk\, Prof Seth Lazar will discuss a recent paper which highlights the responsibility of algorithmic intermediaries in governing the public sphere through their architecture\, amplification algorithms\, and moderation practices. This event will investigate why such responsibilities must include more than just enumerating and responding to pathologies such as misinformation\, radicalisation\, and abuse\, and considers a new positive ideal to aim at. \nPolitical philosophy should offer such an ideal\, but it tells us only when not to interfere in free speech\, not how to shape public communication and distribute attention. During this event\, Prof Lazar will spotlight a new theory of communicative justice: an account of the communicative interests that those who govern the digital public sphere should promote\, and the democratic egalitarian norms by which their doing so should be constrained.  \nThis event will question how a new ideal might guide us in shaping public communication and distributing attention\, in balancing the governing responsibilities of private and public actors\, and in striving for procedural legitimacy in governance of the digital public sphere. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618526507{margin-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”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18214″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Seth Lazar \nSeth Lazar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University\, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow\, and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. He has worked on the ethics of war\, self-defence\, and risk\, and now leads the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab\, where he directs research projects on the moral and political philosophy of AI\, funded by the ARC\, the Templeton World Charity Foundation\, and Insurance Australia Group. He is a member of the executive committee for the ACM Fairness\, Accountability\, and Transparency conference\, and was General Chair in 2022\, and Program Co-Chair for the ACM/AAAI AI\, Ethics and Society conference in 2021\, and is one of the authors of a study by the US National Academies of Science\, Engineering and Medicine\, which reported to Congress on the ethics and governance of responsible computing research. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618578153{background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DffdFWk4SThM%26t%3D87s”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/seth-lazar-communicative-justice-and-the-distribution-of-attention/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230426T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230426T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230323T230417Z
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SUMMARY:Angieszka Leszczynski on “Urban platform materialities: aesthetics\, glitches\, amenities”
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Angieszka Leszczynski on “Urban platform materialities: aesthetics\, glitches\, amenities”” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618578153{background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1679628235712{padding-bottom: -35px !important;}”] \n\nThis talk attends to how urban platforms materially ‘show up’ in cities\, and where they materialize. Drawing on a range of empirical instances from North American cities\, the talk situates and traces urban platform materialities in three registers: aesthetics\, spatiality\, and amenitization. Docked bikesharing infrastructure in Vancouver comprises a serialized aesthetics increasingly co-implicated with what gentrification ‘looks like’ at the microgeographic\, or sub-neighbourhood\, spatialities of the city. An e-bike sited above a tent encampment in San Jose and the ‘emoji house’ in Manhattan Beach\, CA appear as aesthetic ‘glitches’ in our conditioned desires for orderly cityscapes and Instagrammable architectures. And finally\, informed by the results of a spatial analysis of the locations of platform-based presences in Canadian cities\, the talk position platforms as a novel urban amenity class\, establishing how and why this matters for our understandings of ‘splintering’ urban development. Read across these registers\, platform materialities emerge as vectors of significant urban transformations. \nPlease note: For reasons of privacy and security\, this event will be in-person only. We apologise for the inconvenience. \nIf you are attending this public lecture\, you may also be interested in the launch of Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI\, edited by Thao Phan\, Jake Goldenfein\, Monique Mann and Declan Kuch published open access by the Institute of Network Cultures in late 2022. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618526507{margin-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_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”17775″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Agnieszka Leszczynski \nAgnieszka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at Western University in Canada. She is an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography\, Environment and Planning F: Philosophy\, Theory\, Models\, Methods\, and Practice\, and a former editor of Big Data & Society. Her current work focuses on the intensifying integration of digitality and cities. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\nVisit website \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/angieszka-leszczynski-on-urban-platform-materialities-aesthetics-glitches-amenities/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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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:20230426T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230426T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
CREATED:20230417T031138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T025907Z
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SUMMARY:Economies of Virtue Book Launch Event and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us in celebrating the launch of Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI\, edited by Thao Phan\, Jake Goldenfein\, Monique Mann and Declan Kuch published open access by the Institute of Network Cultures in late 2022.” 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]This event includes a brief panel conversation hosted by the editors and contributing authors followed by drinks and snacks. Speakers include: Prof Sarah Pink\, Assoc Prof Michael Richardson\, Dr Laura Bedford\, Dr Jake Goldenfein\, and Dr Jathan Sadowski\, and chaired by Dr Thao Phan. \nThe book is freely available online. Physical copies of the book will be available for FREE\, in addition to other INC publications: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/economies-of-virtue-the-circulation-of-ethics-in-ai/[/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=”About the Book” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]AI ethics has never been far from the industries it sought to critique. While originally designed to bring values such as fairness\, accountability and transparency to Big Tech and its products\, the lines between Big Tech’s PR initiatives and AI ethics funding has never been clear. In practice\, AI ethics now operates as a means for the co-option of critics and to enable regulatory capture. It is used by corporations to create legitimacy and to further accumulate value. The result is that ‘ethics’ has now become a high-valued industrial commodity\, and AI ethics its foundry. \nThis anthology is a collective response to the reification of ethics into commodity forms. It explores how industry participation in ‘ethical AI’ research has created a new ‘economy of virtue’—a massive network of actors variously situated across industry\, civil society\, and universities\, producing and circulating ethics as a service and a product. The contributors present both critical perspectives and first-hand experiences of this economy. They address a wide range of topics including: the contradictions and personal dilemmas of working in industry-funded spaces; case studies of AI ethics in domains such as defence\, facial recognition\, and standards setting; critical assessments of techniques like green-washing and the manufacture of trust; and the risks and practicalities of direct action such as speaking up\, organizing against and dropping out. Together\, these contributions give voice to the intractable problems of co-option\, capture\, and complicity that plague AI ethics\, and give shape to the networks and circulations defining the field.[/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=”Authors” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Corinne Cath and Os Keyes; Sarah Pink; Rodrigo Ochigame; Sy Taffel\, Laura Bedford\, and Monique Mann; Angela Daly; Tsvetelina Hristova and Liam Magee; Michael Richardson; Jake Goldenfein\, Lilly Irani\, J. Khadijah Abdurahman\, and Alex Hanna; Jathan Sadowski\, Thao Phan\, and Meredith Whittaker.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/economies-of-virtue-book-launch-event-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Melbourne Law School\, The Woodward Convention Centre\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3053
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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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:20230216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230221
DTSTAMP:20260421T221941
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SUMMARY:Data Relations Summer School
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Taking the exhibition Data Relations as a point of departure\, Data Relations Summer School comprises a series of experimental workshops\, discussions\, performances and talks at ACCA and other venues\, with an emphasis on pedagogy and the sharing of ideas. Presenters and participants will come together to respond to critical and creative approaches to questions regarding data relations.[/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_column_text]Featuring the exhibiting artists\, alongside invited guest artists\, researchers\, and critical technologists. Speakers include: \n\nMark Andrejevic (Monash University & ADM+S\, Australia)\nZach Blas (exhibiting artist\, University of Toronto\, Canada)\nTega Brain (exhibiting artist\, New York University\, USA)\nSean Dockray (exhibiting artist\, Australian National University\, Australia)\nUzma Falak (Capture All artist\, University of Heidelberg\, Germany)\nShareeka Helaluddin (Capture All artist\, Australia)\nJenny Kennedy (RMIT University & ADM+S\, Australia)\nSam Lavigne (exhibiting artist\, University of Texas\, USA)\nLauren Lee McCarthy (exhibiting artist\, UCLA Design Media Arts\, USA)\nLaura McLean (Capture All curator\, Liquid Architecture\, Monash University & ADM+S\, Australia)\nChris O’Neill (Monash University & ADM+S\, Australia) / Automated Vision Reading Group\nMimi Ọnụọha (exhibiting artist\, USA)\nJames Parker (exhibiting artist\, Melbourne Law School\, Australia)\nMehak Sawhney (Capture All curator & artist\, Sarai & McGill University\, Canada)\nThao Phan (Monash University & ADM+S\, Australia)\nMichael Richardson (UNSW Sydney\, Australia)\nTom Smith (Capture All artist\, RMIT\, Australia)\nJoel Sherwood Spring (Capture All artist\, Wiradjuri)\nMatthew Spisbah (Independent Curator)\nJoel Stern (exhibiting artist\, RMIT & ADM+S\, Australia)\nWinnie Soon (exhibiting artist\, Aarhus University\, Denmark)\nSuvani Suri (Capture All curator & artist\, Sarai\, India)\nAasma Tulika (Capture All artist\, India)\n\n[/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=”WHO CAN ENROL?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]ACCA encourages artists\, researchers\, students\, writers\, critics and enthusiasts interested in data relations to apply for the Summer School. The program offers a platform for discussion\, collaboration\, knowledge sharing and exchange. EOIs are encouraged from both creative and/or technological perspectives. \nData Relations Summer School will have limited capacity and selection will consider the diversity of age\, gender\, ability\, cultural and disciplinary background to expand the ways art and data may intersect in the everyday. The selection process will prioritise access and inclusion\, and the program will cater to participants of all abilities.[/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=”REQUIRED COMMITMENT” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Data Relations Summer School runs from Thursday 16 – Monday 20 February (excluding Sunday 19 February). Each day comprises an afternoon session between 12– 4pm incorporating discussions\, workshops and talks\, complimented by optional evening events hosted at ACCA that will be open to the general public. \nParticipants will form a cohort and attend all sessions. The Summer School requires a significant time commitment and ongoing participation in discussions and workshops over the four days.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1675638570611{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Visit the Data Relations Summer School website to enrol online. Enrolments close Monday 30 January at 5pm (AEDT).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1674179045679{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”KEYNOTE 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=”642″ 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]Professor Mark Andrejevic\n@MarkAndrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Professor of Communications & Media Studies at Monash University and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre. His research interests encompass digital media\, surveillance and data mining in the digital era.[/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]Associate Professor 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=”14674″ 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]Malavika Jayaram\n@MalJayaram\nMalavika Jayaram is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub\, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her interests straddle law\, technology\, architecture\, design and dance\, and she is especially invested in the intersection of spatial\, bodily and intellectual privacy\, identity and autonomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{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|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Data Relations Summer School is curated by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in collaboration with ADM+S Associate Investigator Dr Joel Stern and presented with the support of The Ian Potter Foundation\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\, RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication\, University of Melbourne\, Australian Research Council (ARC)\, Capture All with Liquid Architecture x Sarai\, ACMI and UNSW Sydney.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ENQUIRIES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Please contact the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) on +61 3 9697 9999 if you have any questions about the Data Relations Summer School.[/vc_column_text][/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_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/data-relations-summer-school/
LOCATION:Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)\, 111 Sturt Street\, Southbank\, VIC\, 3006
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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SUMMARY:International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The international conference on automated decision-making and Chinese societies (ADM & CS) will bring together global researchers and students doing cutting-edge research on digital China\, particularly in the field of automated decision-making and society in the Chinese contexts.” 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 width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]China’s rise as a digital superpower has been part of the story about the country’s second coming as the “Central Kingdom” and of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream”. Beijing’s digital strategy is multi-dimensional. It is technological—automated decision-making (ADM) technologies and systems\, comprising an array of intelligent and emerging technologies from artificial intelligence\, machine learning\, to blockchain\, are used to innovate social governance\, service provision\, transport/mobility\, and knowledge production across many sectors. It is also beyond the technological to encompass a wide range of areas in social\, institutional\, cultural\, legal and ethical domains. The imperative for COVID-19 pandemic control provides the perfect pretext for the expansive use of ADM by the bio-surveillance Party-state. \nThe ramification of the digital revolution is not bound by any geographic boundaries\, even though it is constrained by the geopolitics of China’s rise as the new technological superpower. New forms of ADM systems are experimented in China—often pioneered by its tech giants like Huawei\, DJI\, Hikvision\, and BAT (Baidu\, Alibaba\, and Tencent) with the state’s support—such as the social credit system (and associated technological systems) in a gigantic social experiment with digital governance\, often in combination with and implemented through low-tech or non-tech means. A new global digital architecture and order is taking shape\, as exemplified by the many infrastructural projects through the digital silk road initiative\, from undersea cables and 5G equipment and networks to communications satellites (China’s version of SpaceX’s Starlink). China has seized the opportunity to leapfrog from being a follower to a competitor and leader in the design\, control\, and use of ADM technologies and systems. It is also competing with Western (American) powers to control huge amount of data internationally\, and by extension resources\, ideas\, intelligence\, and power. \nThe international conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM & CS) encourages people to look beyond “China” as a singular\, unified entity\, which can be “sliced” along human\, geographical\, political\, or economic variables. Similarly\, “Chinese” can mean different things to different Chinese diasporic communities around the world\, often defined and redefined along the routes (instead of roots) of Chinese migrants (of generations)\, visitors\, investors\, entrepreneurs\, engineers\, and workers. Hence\, the conference encourages an expansive interpretation of “Chinese societies” in their plural\, evolving\, and diverse forms\, who are sometimes centrifugal and other times centripetal in relation to the People’s Republic of China. \nThis event will be held in-person at RMIT University\, Melbourne and online. \n#ADMCS2023[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”VIEW 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_btn title=”VIEW RECORDINGS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffffff” custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLE_y90GftjpburzhCPELZrPLmZ5PEHCq7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{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 css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{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 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 is a hybrid conference\, taking place in-person at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia and online via livestream.[/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=”REGISTER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Registration for in-person tickets has now closed\, but you can still join us online. Register here to receive the online streaming link.[/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=”IMPORTANT DATES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\n22 September 2022 – Registration opens\n15 October 2022 – Abstract submission deadline\nPlease submit an abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument\, method\, and contribution along with a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words) to Prof Haiqing Yu and Assoc Prof Jesper Willaing Zeuthen.\n28 October 2022 – Decision on Abstracts\n20 January 2023 – Last day to register for in-person attendance\n1- 3 February 2023 – International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies\n\n[/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=”KEYNOTE 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=”642″ 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]Professor Mark Andrejevic\n@MarkAndrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Professor of Communications & Media Studies at Monash University and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre. His research interests encompass digital media\, surveillance and data mining in the digital era.[/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]Associate Professor 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=”14674″ 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]Malavika Jayaram\n@MalJayaram\nMalavika Jayaram is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub\, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her interests straddle law\, technology\, architecture\, design and dance\, and she is especially invested in the intersection of spatial\, bodily and intellectual privacy\, identity and autonomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PLENARY SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS” 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=”14675″ 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]Assistant Professor Rogier Creemers\n@China_Digital\nRogier Creemers is an Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese Studies at Leiden University. His research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy\, as well as China’s growing importance in global digital affairs.[/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]Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu\n@jacklqiu\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\, especially in the context of Asia and the Global South.[/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=”14677″ 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]Professor Min Jiang\n@mindyjiang\nMin Jiang is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Min has written on Chinese digital technologies (search engine\, social media\, big data)\, politics (digital activism\, online political satire\, diplomacy)\, business (Chinese Internet giants\, business ethics)\, policies (real name registration\, privacy\, security) and increasingly the impact of Chinese technologies and policies on the Global South and global 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=”14678″ 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]Associate Professor Nicholas Loubere\n@NDLoubere\nNicholas Loubere is an Associate Professor at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University. Nicholas’ research sits at the nexus of interdisciplinary China Studies and Development Studies\, and draws inspiration from a wide range of fields across the humanities and social sciences.[/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=”14682″ 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]Associate Professor Rachel Douglas-Jones\n@kaisirlin\nRachel Douglas-Jones is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. She studies bureaucracy\, policy and ethics and is currently leading the Moving Data-Moving People project\, an ethnography of China’s emergent 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=”14679″ 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]Associate Professor Jun Liu\n@JunLIU_UCPH\nJun Liu is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. Drawing upon theories from communication\, sociology\, and political science\, Jun’s research focuses on how digital technology interacts with socio-cultural forms and settings and generates new power dynamics in politics from a comparative perspective.[/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=”14680″ 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 Florian Schneider\n@schneiderfa77\nFlorian Schneider is a Senior Lecturer of Modern China Studies at Leiden University. Florian’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.[/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=”14693″ 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]Associate Professor Ane Bislev\nAne Bislev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. Her research interests include Chinese Internet Culture and Chinese tourism.[/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=”14683″ 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]Mr Dev Lewis\n@devlewis18\nDev Lewis is a Researcher at Digital Asia Hub and Yenching Scholar at Peking University. His research focuses on the intersection between technology\, politics\, and law in China and India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{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|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) in collaboration with the CatCh Network.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ENQUIRIES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Please contact Haiqing Yu (haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen (zeuthen@dps.aau.dk) if you have any questions about the conference.[/vc_column_text][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]Professor Haiqing Yu\n@haiqing\nHaiqing Yu is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication; a Chief Investigator at the ADMS Centre\, RMIT University. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise in digital China research. Her current research focuses on social implications of China’s ADM systems\, represented by the social credit system; and Chinese digital platforms and digital diaspora in Australia and the Asia Pacific.[/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=”14688″ 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]Associate Professor Jesper Willaing Zeuthen\n@ZeuthenJesper\nJesper Willaing Zeuthen is an Associate Professor in Chinese Area Studies at Aalborg University. Jesper manages the CatCh Network (Ruling through Division: Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China)\, and the Moving Data Moving People project (investigating how social credit system reconfigures mobility in China). His work focuses on urban-rural inequality in China\, Chinese local governance\, and Chinese mining companies’ engagements in Greenland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We look forward to seeing you\, either in Melbourne or online\, and celebrate the 2023 Spring Festival together.[/vc_column_text][/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_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/adm-cs-2023/
LOCATION:Green Brain\, RMIT University\, Level 7\, Building 16\, 342 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Online
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SUMMARY:What’s Governing Web3?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Advancing research on blockchain-enabled Web3 governance.” 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]Web3 has produced a wave of governance experimentation with consequences for how protocols evolve and whose interests they serve. \nIn this week of workshops and public events\, leading researchers will come together to advance knowledge on blockchain-enabled Web3 governance\, present field-defining findings arising from current work\, and provide policy-oriented insights and solutions. \nThroughout the week\, researchers will address the following questions: \n\nWhat and who governs Web3? How do we make sense of the interactions of smart contracts and human decision-makers?\nWhat have we learnt from Web3 governance experiments to date?\nWhat is the legal and regulatory status of Web3? How can international efforts in DAO regulation frameworks and NFT legal standards benefit Australia?\nWhat are the societal-level implications of institutional emergence in Web3?\nWhat methods are required for a comprehensive empirical analysis of governance in decentralised autonomous organisations? How can we best work across academic disciplines to answer these questions?\nWhat knowledge translation strategies can we use to help ensure that inclusive and ethical considerations are built into the automation of governance processes?\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !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]Registrations are now open for: \n\nFull day public conference on Day 3: Wednesday 14 December 2022 from 10am – Register to attend\nPublic Meetup on Day 4: Thursday 15 December 2022 from 5pm – Register to attend\n\nPlease note workshop participation on Day 1\, Day 2 and Day 4 have now reached full capacity. If you have any queries\, please contact wgw3conference@rmit.edu.au.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Schedule” 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: Work-in-progress papers workshops” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 1: INSTITUTIONAL CRYPTOECONOMICS\nMonday 12 December\, 9am- 1pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University\n \nThis half day session will present the research framework and analysis that has been developed by the economics group within RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub over the past five years\, as well as key related research from international researchers. Following a high-level overview of the theoretical approach and program\, speakers will present current research projects across a number of domains that relate to governance. The third part of the session will then discuss future challenges and opportunities\, including ideas for collaboration.    \nModule 1: Theoretical Overview  \nLecture format (Davidson/Potts)\, 30-40 mins with Q&A.  \n\nIntroduction to institutional economics and economics of governance (including information economics\, public choice\, constitutional economics\, evolutionary and complexity economics\, rational actor model\, game theory and mechanism design) (Hayek\, Coase\, Williamson\, Buchanan\, Hart\, Ostrom\, Schumpeter\, Schelling) \nIntroduction to institutional cryptoeconomics: industrialisation of trust\, cost of trust\, information and coordination problems\, etc \nThe web3 research program in economics: theory of a digital economy    \n \n\nModule 2: Models and applications   \nSeminar format (short presentations of some or all of the following): \n\n‘Corporate Governance in a crypto world‘ (Davidson and Potts) \n‘Web3 toolkits: A new theory of crypto dynamics‘ (Allen and Potts) \n‘The exchange theory of web3 governance‘ (Potts\, Allen\, Lane\, et al) \n‘An economic theory of blockchain foundations‘ (Allen et al) \n‘Stablecoins\, composability\, and financial regulation’ (Berg) \n‘Crypto crime and governance’ (Lane) \n‘Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders‘ (Alston) \nBlockchain constitutionalism (Mannan & De Filippi\nFractal governance and DAOs (Poblet)\nWork for the DAO: Issues in labour economics and human resource management in Web3 (Ilyushina)\n\nModule 3: Futures and Challenges  \n\ntoward a unified theory of decentralised cooperation in a digital economy \nwhat we currently do and don’t know (state of the science)\,  \nrole of experimental work (lab and natural) and innovation in governance\,  \nindexes\, measures and simulations\, engagement first research\,  \nfuture research directions and collaborative opportunities.  \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”50″ accent_color=”#ffd600″][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 2: DAOs AND THE LAW\nMonday 12 December\, 2pm- 5.30pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University \nA Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) is “a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain\, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e.\, independent from central control)” (Hassan and De Filippi 2020). DAOs are currently used in a range of contexts – from artist collectives to stewardship of decentralised applications. However\, legal uncertainty surrounding DAOs can expose participants to risks in areas such as personal liability\, dispute resolution and taxation.   \nIn 2021\, the Coalition of Automated Legal Applications released the DAO Model Law\, which strives to provide DAOs with legal personality in any state that adopts or transposes it. Rather than creating a specific corporate structure for DAOs (as per Wyoming USA)\, the Model Law is designed to achieve functional and regulatory equivalence in a domestic legal setting. Any DAO that meets the same policy goals as set out in corporations law would be deemed equivalent to an object “already within the realm of legal rule”\, just as some forms of electronic signature have functional equivalence of a handwritten signature. COALA has identified a set of provisions that align DAO business practices with corporate law statutes common to many jurisdictions\, as well as technical features that may need specific treatment.   \nThe DAO Model Law was cited in the Senate Select Committee final report on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre (2021) as an approach worthy of further investigation. In this workshop\, two of the authors of the COALA Model Law\, Primavera De Filippi and Morshed Mannan will present the key ideas of the DAO Model Law. Legal scholars and practitioners will then provide their views on how to resolve legal uncertainty for DAOs including the creation of a new corporate entity under the Corporations Act.   \nIn this half-day workshop\, we will address the following questions:   \n\nHow does COALA’s DAO Model Law assist DAOs at both the local and international level?  \nHow difficult would it be for Australia to adopt the DAO Model Law? \nWhat specific legal uncertainties and risks do DAO participants face in Australia?  \nWhat are the benefits and drawbacks of creating laws specific to DAOs under the Corporations Act?  \n\nSpeakers: Primavera De Filippi (Harvard/Paris CNRS)\, Morshed Mannan (EUI)  \nRespondents: Aaron Lane (RMIT)\, Alex Sims (Auckland)\, Michael Bacina & Steven Pettigrove (Piper Alderman)\, Joni Pirovich (BADASL/LawFi DAO)\, Jack Deeb (Mycelium)\, Marta Poblet (RMIT) \nReadings: COALA DAO Model Law[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Work-in-progress papers workshops” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 3: DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY FOR WEB3 GOVERNANCE\nTuesday 13 December\, 9am- 2pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University \nDigital ethnography is a research approach that involves observing and documenting events\, social patterns and perspectives that arise within digital or data rich contexts. It is useful for understanding aspects of social life that include online practices and communication\, including how people’s agency is enabled or constrained by non-human actors. There is growing demand for digital ethnography by practitioners and researchers attempting to understand the governance interactions that occur within blockchain communities\, including DAOs.  \nModule 1: What is digital ethnography and why do we need it?\nIn the first part of this session\, a panel of leading digital ethnographers involved in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society – including current and past directors of RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre – will provide insight into the practice of digital ethnography using examples from their own work. The panel will cover challenges such as how to define the field site\, generating and organising field notes\, moral and ethical dilemmas\, and approaches to writing ethnography.  \nSpeakers: Annette Markham (RMIT)\, Sarah Pink (Monash)\, Heather Horst (WSU)\, Janet Roitman (The New School) \n  \nModule 2: Digital ethnography in the web3 field\nThe second part of the session will feature ethnographers who are working on web3-related topics. This group will discuss the specific issues they are encountering\, including the questions that web3 communities are seeking answers to\, and the extent to which digital ethnography can be used as a tool for applied research (versus more general knowledge production).  \nSpeakers: Ellie Rennie (RMIT)\, Tara Merk (Paris CNRS)\, Kelsie Nabben (RMIT)\, Alexia Maddox (RMIT).)\, Theo Buetel (Gnosis safe)\, Anna Weichselbraun (Uni of Vienna) \n  \nModule 3: If I were a DAO…\nAnnette Markham and Ellie Rennie will guide session participants to produce a research plan that could be adopted by a DAO. What methods and tools could DAOs pick up that would assist them to better understand their own governance? How do we use these insights to inform our own practice as digital ethnographers?  \nReadings: \n\nRennie et al (2021)\, Toward a participatory ethnography of blockchain governance\nKelsie Nabben and Michael Zargham (2022)\, The Ethnography of a ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ (DAO): De-mystifying algorithmic systems\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”50″ accent_color=”#ffd600″][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 4: DESIGNING WEB3 GOVERNANCE\nTuesday 13 December\, 3pm- 5.30pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University \nIn this session\, Joshua Tan and Michael Zargham will present research and describe research infrastructure projects being carried out within metagov and discuss how these may be used to better understand and improve blockchain governance.   \nThe session will also gather insights from the previous three workshops and assign people to develop and expand upon the existing ‘open problems in DAO science’ stream of work.   \nSpeakers: Joshua Tan (Stanford/Oxford)\, Michael Zargham (Blockscience)  [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Public conference” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text]‘WHAT’S GOVERNING WEB3?’ PUBLIC CONFERENCE\nWednesday 14 December\, 10am-6pm (AEDT)\, The Capitol at RMIT University\nFollowed by refreshments in The Capitol Salon from 6pm\nRegister to attend\n \nWeb3 is a ”decentralized online ecosystem based on blockchain” (Gavin Wood\, 2014).   \nA wave of governance experimentation is occurring within web3\, which will shape how protocols evolve and whose interests they serve. This full-day public conference will feature international and local speakers discussing field-defining research on the question of ‘what’s governing web3?’.  \nHighlights  \n\nKeynote speech by Primavera De Filippi (Harvard and Paris University): “Web3\, Metaverse and our digital future” \n\nPlus:  \n\nTwo live podcast recordings: a Disconnect episode on Indigenous governance and blockchain featuring Robert O’Brien\, Megan Kelleher and Rick Shaw (hosted by Tyson Yunkaporta and Ellie Rennie\, supported by Telstra); a Mint &Burn interview on the Validator Commons (hosted by Kelsie Nabben).  \nOpening talk by Jason Potts on “Field-building Web3” \nPanels on DAO governance and regulatory issues facing web3\n\nConfirmed guest speakers: Primavera De Filippi (Harvard/Paris Uni)\, Joshua Tan (Stanford/Oxford)\, Michael Zargham (BlockScience)\, Kaitlin Beegle (Filecoin)\, Tara Merk (Paris University)\, Morshed Mannan (EUI)\, Eric Alston (Colarado Uni)\, Alex Sims (Auckland Uni)\, Jamilya Kamalova (Paris Uni/Kleros)\, Dev Lewis (Digital Asia Hub)\, Theodor Buetel (SafeDAO)\, Robert O’Brien (yümi)\, Michael Bacina & Steven Pettigrove (Piper Alderman) and more.   \nTogether with speakers from RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (Jason Potts\, Ellie Rennie\, Kelsie Nabben\, Chris Berg and more).   \nKeynote by Primavera De Filippi: Everyone is talking about the metaverse as the new frontier of the digital age. But what exactly is the metaverse\, and how does it compare with the Internet? What are the new social\, economic and political opportunities it provides\, and how can we leverage them to promote progress and innovation? Can the metaverse help us escape from the limitations of the physical world? Can it help us build a more inclusive and abundant society? Or is it simply replicating – or even exacerbating – the current state of affairs?  Ultimately\, it all boils down to the question of ownership. If those who control the Internet control the present\, those who control the metaverse will control the future.  How can we ensure that the metaverse is not controlled by a few centralized operators\, but rather emerges as a global and interconnected network of interoperable universes? And how can we ensure that the virtual resources that circulate on the metaverse are actually owned by the people? This is where the blockchain comes to the rescue.  \nRegister to attend the public conference.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 4: Metagov workshop and public meetup” tab_id=”1660188139108-e96f160c-d578″][vc_column_text]METAGOV WORKSHOP ON ‘EXTITUTIONS’ (Closed session)\nThursday 15 December\, 3pm- 5pm (AEDT)\, ADM+S Centre Office – Building 97\, 106-108 Victoria St\, Carlton\nMetagov is exploring the formation of an “extitute” for web3 learning and certification. Note: This is a closed session for metagov participants to work on an ongoing project.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]MELBOURNE WEB3 MEETUP: GAME THEORY WORKSHOP AND DAOSTAR PANEL\nThursday 15 December\, 3pm- 8.30pm (AEDT)\, RMIT Activator –  Level 2\, 102 Victoria Street\, Carlton\nThis long-running community meet-up\, supported by RMIT since 2017\, will begin with a Game Theory workshop led by Clement Leseage\, founder of Kleros from 3pm- 5pm. It will be followed by a DAOstar panel discussion featuring Metagov researchers involved in the DAOStar standard from 5.30pm- 8.30pm. \nDAOstar panel discussion\nDAOstar defines a common interface for DAOs\, akin to tokenURI for NFTs\, so that DAOs of all shapes and sizes are easier to discover\, more legible to their members\, and more compatible with future tooling. Many DAOs already publish their data in various ways. DAOstar has standardised these existing best-practices\, making it easy for people to create and maintain new DAOs and DAO tooling. \nDAOstar is a collective initiative that was established by Metagov. A large number of major DAO initiatives are involved in ongoing roundtable discussions about the standard. A full list of participants can be found here. \nPanelists: Joshua Tan\, Michael Zargham\, Primavera De Filippi \n  \nRegister to attend the public 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2022.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”PUBLIC CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fwhats-governing-web3-public-conference-program%2F|title:What%E2%80%99s%20Governing%20Web3%20%E2%80%93%20Public%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{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|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The event is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\, the Cooperation Through Code project— a Future Fellowship project funded by the Australian Research Council\, the BlockchainGov project of the European Research Council (ERC)\, Metagov\, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub and the Digital Asia Hub.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188305696{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Invited: Speakers\, Mentors and Judges” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188366523{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13888″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Kate Bower – Consumer Data Advocate\, CHOICE\nSpeaker and Judge \nKate Bower is a Consumer Data Advocate at CHOICE\, Australia’s largest consumer advocacy organisation. The Consumer Data team extends CHOICE’s fight for fair\, safe and just markets to data misuse\, such as price discrimination and algorithmic bias. Current priorities are automated decision-making in essential services\, data monetisation and personalised pricing. Previously at CHOICE\, Kate worked as a data analyst on the digital transformation of insurance and financial services comparisons. Before joining the consumer movement\, Kate was an academic for more than a decade working across a range of areas including qualitative health research\, higher education and gender studies. She has a PhD from the University of Technology\, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of New South Wales.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Automation\, Wellbeing and Harms in a COVID Age
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”An interactive symposium with Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks\, author of prize-winning book Automating Inequality.” 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 width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Digital technology is rapidly automating vast areas of everyday life\, from interacting with government and businesses\, undertaking learning and work\, entertaining ourselves and maintaining social relations. Such technologies offer great opportunities for enhancing wellbeing\, but can also produce harms\, that Australia’s Robodebt well illustrated. We have long known about a “digital divide” that loosely fractures along socio-economic ones\, and these social disparities have been overlaid with the inequitable experiences of COVID on people’s wellbeing. \nIn dialogue with Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks\, this interactive symposium between leading Australian researchers\, social service organisations\, and service user advocacy and representative groups will explore the challenges and opportunities of digital technology for vulnerable and marginalised peoples. \nThis event will be held in-person at RMIT University\, Melbourne and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fawh-event-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{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] \n\n\n\n9am- 9.10am\nWelcome to Country\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9.10am- 10.30am\nKeynote address by Assoc Prof Virginia Eubanks (University at Albany)\n\n\n\nChair: Prof Paul Henman (UQ)\n\n\n\nDiscussants: Dr Daniel Featherstone (RMIT University) and Jay Coonan (Anti-Poverty Centre)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10.30am- 10.45am\nMorning tea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10.45am- 12pm\nThematic Roundtable 1: Challenges and opportunities of digital technology for marginalised people\n\n\n\nChair: Prof Jeannie Paterson (University of Melbourne)\n\n\n\nPanellists: Ivana Jurko (Humanitech at Australian Red Cross)\, Dr Simone Casey (ACOSS)\, Dr Aitor Jimenez (University of Melbourne)\, Dr Georgia van Toorn (UNSW) and Dr Elizabeth Deveny (CHF)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12pm- 1.15pm\nThematic Roundtable 2: Designing digital technology for and with marginalised people\n\n\n\nChair: Prof Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)\n\n\n\nPanellists: Dr Ruth De Souza (RMIT University)\, Ben Shaw (Infoxchange)\, Sean Fitzgerald (C3 Solutions) and Daniel Levy (AUWU)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1.15pm- 2.15pm\nLunch\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fawh-event-program%2F|target:_blank”][/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 is a hybrid conference\, taking place in-person at the Green Brain\, RMIT University (Level 7\, Building 16\, 336/348 Swanston St\, Melbourne VIC 3000) and online via livestream.[/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=”LIVESTREAM” 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 registered for this event\, you will receive an email with a link to the livestream prior to the event. If you haven’t received this\, please contact admsevents@rmit.edu.au.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662602341153{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”REGISTER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Registration has now closed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662599302810{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”IMPORTANT DATES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\n9 September 2022 – Registration opens\n15 October 2022 – Abstract submission deadline\nPlease submit an abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument\, method\, and contribution along with a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words) to Prof Haiqing Yu and Assoc Prof Jesper Willaing Zeuthen.\n28 October 2022 – Decision on Abstracts\n20 January 2023 – Last day to register for in-person attendance\n1- 3 February 2023 – International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662602252326{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”KEYNOTE 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=”642″ 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]Professor Mark Andrejevic\n@MarkAndrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Professor of Communications & Media Studies at Monash University and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre. His research interests encompass digital media\, surveillance and data mining in the digital era.[/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]Associate Professor 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=”14674″ 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]Malavika Jayaram\n@MalJayaram\nMalavika Jayaram is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub\, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her interests straddle law\, technology\, architecture\, design and dance\, and she is especially invested in the intersection of spatial\, bodily and intellectual privacy\, identity and autonomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662602265325{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PLENARY SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS” 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=”14675″ 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]Assistant Professor Rogier Creemers\n@China_Digital\nRogier Creemers is an Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese Studies at Leiden University. His research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy\, as well as China’s growing importance in global digital affairs.[/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]Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu\n@jacklqiu\nJack Linchuan Qiu is Professor and Research Director in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. He has published extensively in English and Chinese exploring issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor\, class\, globalization\, and sustainability\, especially in the contexts of Asia and the Global South.[/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=”14677″ 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]Professor Min Jiang\n@mindyjiang\nMin Jiang is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Min has written on Chinese digital technologies (search engine\, social media\, big data)\, politics (digital activism\, online political satire\, diplomacy)\, business (Chinese Internet giants\, business ethics)\, policies (real name registration\, privacy\, security) and increasingly the impact of Chinese technologies and policies on the Global South and global 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=”14678″ 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]Associate Professor Nicholas Loubere\n@NDLoubere\nNicholas Loubere is an Associate Professor at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University. Nicholas’ research sits at the nexus of interdisciplinary China Studies and Development Studies\, and draws inspiration from a wide range of fields across the humanities and social sciences.[/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=”14682″ 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]Associate Professor Rachel Douglas-Jones\n@kaisirlin\nRachel Douglas-Jones is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. She studies bureaucracy\, policy and ethics and is currently leading the Moving Data-Moving People project\, an ethnography of China’s emergent 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=”14679″ 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]Associate Professor Jun Liu\n@JunLIU_UCPH\nJun Liu is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. Drawing upon theories from communication\, sociology\, and political science\, Jun’s research focuses on how digital technology interacts with socio-cultural forms and settings and generates new power dynamics in politics from a comparative perspective.[/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=”14680″ 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 Florian Schneider\n@schneiderfa77\nFlorian Schneider is a Senior Lecturer of Modern China Studies at Leiden University. Florian’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.[/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=”14693″ 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]Associate Professor Ane Bislev\nAne Bislev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. Her research interests include Chinese Internet Culture and Chinese tourism.[/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=”14683″ 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]Mr Dev Lewis\n@devlewis18\nDev Lewis is a Researcher at Digital Asia Hub and Yenching Scholar at Peking University. His research focuses on the intersection between technology\, politics\, and law in China and India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662599506094{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|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) in collaboration with the CatCh Network.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662599525849{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ENQUIRIES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Please contact Haiqing Yu (haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen (zeuthen@dps.aau.dk) if you have any questions about the conference.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14685″ 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]Professor Haiqing Yu\n@haiqing\nHaiqing Yu is an ARC Future Fellow and VC’s Principle Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise in digital China research. Her current research focuses on social implications of China’s ADM systems\, represented by the 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=”14688″ 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]Associate Professor Jesper Willaing Zeuthen\n@ZeuthenJesper\nJesper Willaing Zeuthen is an Associate Professor in Chinese Area Studies at Aalborg University. Jesper manages the CatCh Network (Ruling through Division: Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China)\, and the Moving Data Moving People project (investigating how social credit system reconfigures mobility in China). His work focuses on urban-rural inequality in China\, Chinese local governance\, and Chinese mining companies’ engagements in Greenland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/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_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/automation-wellbeing-and-harms-in-a-covid-age/
LOCATION:Green Brain\, RMIT University\, Level 7\, Building 16\, 342 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,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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