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.
The ARC Centres of Excellence Creative Communication Competition brings together researchers and staff from nine ARC Centres of Excellence to translate research into accessible, engaging and visually compelling ways, while showcasing the extraordinary breadth of work across the Centres.
We are inviting school students, as well as teachers, to submit burning questions about AI. Whether you're curious about how AI works, how it affects our lives, or what the future might look like, we want to hear from you.
The International Workshop on Vulnerabilities in Generative Systems for Information Retrieval (VulGen'26) will be held as a full-day workshop at the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'26) in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on 24 July 2026.
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.
The International Workshop on Vulnerabilities in Generative Systems for Information Retrieval (VulGen'26) will be held as a full-day workshop at the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'26) in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on 24 July 2026.
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.
Based on the national scams awareness week theme of "No One's Just a Number" this discussion will emphasise the human experience behind scam victimisation and the importance of keeping people at the centre of prevention, policy and support initiatives.