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.
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?
View short video essays that explore the impact of automated decision-making on the everyday.
Join this Platform Economies Research Network event for a conversation with Alexander R. Galloway on computational perception through two different operations: surveillance and capture.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
This month Hacks/Hackers Brisbane is partnering with ADM+S to explore the legal and social challenges that have arisen in the wake of massive changes to film and television distribution in Australia.
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?
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.