ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they introduce the three core components of surrogate explainers: data sampling, interpretable representation and explanation generation in view of text, image and tabular data.
Join us online as the Hon. Anika Wells MP, Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport, launches our report and interactive dashboard showcasing the first in-depth national comparative figures on First Nations digital inclusion.
Join us for a conversation with Liliana Doganova on her recent book Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Presented by A/Prof Joanna Strycharz, this interactive workshop explores how scholars can study digital vulnerabilities in the context of advertising and branded communication.
ADM+S Members Only, ECR Students, HDR Students, Melbourne, Online
Presented by A/Prof Joanna Strycharz, this talk addresses the evolving relationship between consumer empowerment and regulatory governance in the context of data-driven advertising.
Join us online for the launch of the Mapping the Digital Gap 2025 Outcomes Report, showcasing the final figures from three years of research in partnership with remote First Nations communities
ADM+S Members are invited to join a 1.5-hour Q&A session with colleagues from the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO), exploring the Observatory’s latest developments and research capabilities.
A free Australian Internet Observatory Webinar exploring how methods such as data donation, interviews, surveys and other approaches may be combined for digital platform research.
Kelsie Nabben is an ethnographic researcher specialising in the social impacts of emerging technologies, notably decentralised digital infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence. This seminar will discuss critical insights from her forthcoming book "Blockchain Security: Code, Crisis, Community".
Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. His latest book, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI (Polity, 2025) examines the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence. Dr. Srnicek’s prior book, Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) was translated into 15 languages. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is on the Board of Advisors for the Autonomy Institute, served as an editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and on the editorial advisory board for the SAGE Handbook on Digital Labour.
In this one hour online panel discussion, Deborah Lupton is joined by Jed Brown, Dagmar Monett and Zachary Kaiser to discuss why it is important to resist generative AI technologies and how to do it. There will be time set aside for Q and A. All are welcome to participate.
Join us for a conversation with Mona Sloane on how AI Is restructuring social life.
Mona Sloane is Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her latest book, Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life (University of California Press, 2026) is a pragmatic approach to the predictive logic of AI, which is analyzed as a social arrangement. Mona is Faculty Co-Lead of the Digital Technology and Democracy Lab at the Karsh Institute of Democracy. She also runs Sloane Lab at UVA, which conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life.
The PERN Salon will be livestreamed to the public via Zoom.