Over the past decade, Asia has emerged as a pivotal hub in the global landscape of digital platform development and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. This conference positions Asia not simply as a regional context for empirical inquiry, but as a generative vantage point for theorising the interwoven dynamics of platforms, AI, and socio-political transformations.
Decentralised technologies—including blockchain, distributed ledgers, and the Web3 ecosystem (such as decentralised finance , decentralised autonomous organisations , and cryptocurrencies)—are transforming global economic, social, cultural, and communicative structures. Promising greater autonomy, transparency, and inclusivity, these technologies challenge established institutional power structures and enable new forms of organisation, interaction, and transaction.
Telstra, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology are proud to launch the 2025 Australian Digital Inclusion Index Report.
ADM+S Members, Melbourne, Public Event
Three leading experts – spanning conflict reporting, environmental disasters and politics – dissect the evolving challenges of trust, credibility and media integrity in perilous times.
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.
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
Public service media across the world are currently facing a series of challenges. Funding is under threat, trust in institutions is declining, and organisations have to compete in a media ecosystem dominated by platforms. In parallel, research and development of future technologies demands strong streams of innovation focused on the public good. How can public service media meet these challenges? What does this mean for democracy?
We encourage ADM+S members and our wider community to participate in NAIDOC Week public events held across our node institutions during NAIDOC week, learn about the significance of this occasion, and engage in meaningful conversations that celebrate and respect the world's oldest living cultures. Find out about events happening near you.
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.
Copyright is having its data privacy moment. The growing AI infrastructure requires access to millions of copyrighted works, mining creative works not for their expressive purpose but for their data value. This lecture explores how privacy law has addressed the datafication of user information and considers the lessons this may hold for copyright law, which has struggled to grapple with the datafication of creativity.
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.