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Mapping the Digital Gap 2023 Outcomes Report Launch

Online

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 Annual Outcomes Report. Hear from leading industry and academic experts on the first year findings from ten diverse remote First Nations communities across Australia.


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‘Fact-checking used to be easy’

ABC Southbank 114 Grey St, Brisbane, QLD

This month Hacks/Hackers Brisbane is partnering with ADM+S to explore the future of fact-checking in the AI age. What does it mean to have social media fact-checking embedded with powerful platform companies, and what skills and professional capabilities are needed to equip this ‘peripheral profession’ over the coming decades?

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Electronics < > Ecologies #2 — WASTE

University of Technology Sydney

The second event in the ELECTRONICS ECOLOGIES series for ADM+S, WASTE will explore the material discards that attend each step of the supply chain for computational devices.


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International approaches to the legal, governance and ethical challenges of social media and digital behavioural data for researchers and research infrastructures – Australia

Online

The Royal Statistical Society Data Governance and Ethics Section is hosting a series of panel discussions on ‘International approaches to the legal, governance and ethical challenges of social media and digital behavioural data for researchers and research infrastructures’.


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Do Labs Have Politics?

Deakin Downtown Melbourne, VIC

Join Maxigas in discussing the role of academic labs in bringing about desired futures. The “science shop” movement pioneered in the Netherlands directly linked academic institutions with social movements to counterbalance techniques of management tied to capital.


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Friction and Promise in Data Labor

TBC

For the past years, we have faced a repeated experience when presenting our work on prisoners training AI. Scholars in the fields of critical data and algorithm studies start nodding, as if they already knew what we were going to say. What else is prison data labor than an effort to harness the prison-industrial complex in the service of the global data extraction machinery?


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Electronics < > Ecologies #4 — MANUFACTURING

Nanyang Technological University

The final instalment in our Electronics Ecologies series, MANUFACTURING brings together scholars in geography, media and labour studies to discuss the growth in electronics and chip manufacturing in East and South East Asia.


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