This workshop invites us to investigate the ways that human and other animal relationships are forged through processes of digitisation and datafication. From the care of the companion animal in the smart home to ‘smart’ farming, the tracking and trapping of endangered and ‘pest’ wildlife, memes, GIFs and videos, zoomorphic care robots and the conflict between delivery drones and ravens for airspace, emerging technologies such as biodigital sensors, AI and automated decision-making are increasingly configuring the intertwined lives and bodies of humans and other animals.

Sextech - and sextech marketing - has a history. And it's complicated. In this webinar, Associate Professor Bo Ruberg discusses their book Sex Dolls At Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press 2022), in conversation with Professor Kath Albury.

This talk compares the RoboDebt case in Australia to current practice in the United States, drawing on collaborative work with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to shed light on the political implications of punitive debt production in six states.

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together researchers and stakeholders in automated mobilities to share, explore, create and connect.

Join us for an online Reading Group and the launch of Dan McQuillan’s book Resisting AI. In the book Dr Dan McQuillan calls for us to resist AI as we know it and restructure it by prioritising the common good over algorithmic optimisation.

Join Massimo Airoldi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan, in conversation about his new monograph Machine Habitus (2022, Polity) and short story ‘Stealth Love’ (2019, The Sociological Review) with ADM+S Research Fellow Ash Watson.

Hack/Hackers Brisbane will be hosting the winning team from the Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon to share their winning idea.

Products and services may make claims such as ‘sustainable’, ‘carbon neutral,’ etc, but the vague and broad nature of the claims means that consumers are not able to verify them. So, how can we make green claims work for consumers?

In November a number of ADM+S researchers presented papers at the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) conference in Dublin. At this event we will hear from five of those researchers from UQ and QUT, followed by an open discussion.