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SUMMARY:International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The international conference on automated decision-making and Chinese societies (ADM & CS) will bring together global researchers and students doing cutting-edge research on digital China\, particularly in the field of automated decision-making and society in the Chinese contexts.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]China’s rise as a digital superpower has been part of the story about the country’s second coming as the “Central Kingdom” and of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream”. Beijing’s digital strategy is multi-dimensional. It is technological—automated decision-making (ADM) technologies and systems\, comprising an array of intelligent and emerging technologies from artificial intelligence\, machine learning\, to blockchain\, are used to innovate social governance\, service provision\, transport/mobility\, and knowledge production across many sectors. It is also beyond the technological to encompass a wide range of areas in social\, institutional\, cultural\, legal and ethical domains. The imperative for COVID-19 pandemic control provides the perfect pretext for the expansive use of ADM by the bio-surveillance Party-state. \nThe ramification of the digital revolution is not bound by any geographic boundaries\, even though it is constrained by the geopolitics of China’s rise as the new technological superpower. New forms of ADM systems are experimented in China—often pioneered by its tech giants like Huawei\, DJI\, Hikvision\, and BAT (Baidu\, Alibaba\, and Tencent) with the state’s support—such as the social credit system (and associated technological systems) in a gigantic social experiment with digital governance\, often in combination with and implemented through low-tech or non-tech means. A new global digital architecture and order is taking shape\, as exemplified by the many infrastructural projects through the digital silk road initiative\, from undersea cables and 5G equipment and networks to communications satellites (China’s version of SpaceX’s Starlink). China has seized the opportunity to leapfrog from being a follower to a competitor and leader in the design\, control\, and use of ADM technologies and systems. It is also competing with Western (American) powers to control huge amount of data internationally\, and by extension resources\, ideas\, intelligence\, and power. \nThe international conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM & CS) encourages people to look beyond “China” as a singular\, unified entity\, which can be “sliced” along human\, geographical\, political\, or economic variables. Similarly\, “Chinese” can mean different things to different Chinese diasporic communities around the world\, often defined and redefined along the routes (instead of roots) of Chinese migrants (of generations)\, visitors\, investors\, entrepreneurs\, engineers\, and workers. Hence\, the conference encourages an expansive interpretation of “Chinese societies” in their plural\, evolving\, and diverse forms\, who are sometimes centrifugal and other times centripetal in relation to the People’s Republic of China. \nThis event will be held in-person at RMIT University\, Melbourne and online. \n#ADMCS2023[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”VIEW PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”VIEW RECORDINGS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffffff” custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLE_y90GftjpburzhCPELZrPLmZ5PEHCq7″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”THEMES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference will address the following thematic questions: \n\nHow is ADMS understood in the Chinese context? And who are the key players/stakeholders?\nWhat are its key features and trajectories?\nWhat is China’s ambition in the area of ADM\, domestically and internationally?\nHow are ADM technologies and systems used in different settings and institutions in Chinese societies?\nHow are ADM systems governed? For example\, will China’s Personal Information Protection Law set a global standard in regulating Internet platforms conducting automated decision-making through algorithms?\nWhat’s China’s role in the current debates on frameworks in governing data security\, rights or ownership\, ethics\, and transactions?\nWhat are the new\, emerging or hidden dynamics and politics in Chinese communities around the world as they encounter or engage with ADM technologies and systems in their everyday life and businesses?\nHow do people—Chinese\, non-Chinese\, or foreign citizens of Chinese cultural heritage —view or interpret China’s roles in ADM? And why?\nWhat do Western anxieties about digital China and its ADM systems like the social credit system tell us about the new geopolitics between China and the West/US?\nWhat roles Chinese societies can play in ensuring fair\, inclusive\, responsible\, and ethical ADM systems that benefit the people rather than the few with power\, money and knowledge?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference includes a mix of keynote plenary sessions\, regular panels and workshops. The plenary sessions feature keynote speakers and discussants\, all distinguished scholars in their specific fields in and beyond digital China related research. The keynotes will provide framing\, provocations and questions from different disciplinary backgrounds to kick off the event\, while the plenary speakers and discussants will bring their deep expertise towards unpacking specific tracks and topics. \nView the conference program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadm-cs-program%2F|title:ADM%26CS%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”LOCATION” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This is a hybrid conference\, taking place in-person at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia and online via livestream.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”REGISTER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Registration for in-person tickets has now closed\, but you can still join us online. Register here to receive the online streaming link.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”IMPORTANT DATES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\n22 September 2022 – Registration opens\n15 October 2022 – Abstract submission deadline\nPlease submit an abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument\, method\, and contribution along with a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words) to Prof Haiqing Yu and Assoc Prof Jesper Willaing Zeuthen.\n28 October 2022 – Decision on Abstracts\n20 January 2023 – Last day to register for in-person attendance\n1- 3 February 2023 – International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”KEYNOTE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”642″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Mark Andrejevic\n@MarkAndrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Professor of Communications & Media Studies at Monash University and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre. His research interests encompass digital media\, surveillance and data mining in the digital era.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14673″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Xin Dai\nXin Dai is an Associate Professor at Peking University Law School. Xin’s research interests include legal theories\, law and society\, economic analysis of law\, information privacy and internet law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14674″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Malavika Jayaram\n@MalJayaram\nMalavika Jayaram is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub\, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her interests straddle law\, technology\, architecture\, design and dance\, and she is especially invested in the intersection of spatial\, bodily and intellectual privacy\, identity and autonomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PLENARY SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14675″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Assistant Professor Rogier Creemers\n@China_Digital\nRogier Creemers is an Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese Studies at Leiden University. His research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy\, as well as China’s growing importance in global digital affairs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14676″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu\n@jacklqiu\nJack Linchuan Qiu is Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology\, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information\, Nanyang Technological University. He has published extensively in English and Chinese exploring issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor\, class\, globalization\, and sustainability\, especially in the context of Asia and the Global South.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14677″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Min Jiang\n@mindyjiang\nMin Jiang is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Min has written on Chinese digital technologies (search engine\, social media\, big data)\, politics (digital activism\, online political satire\, diplomacy)\, business (Chinese Internet giants\, business ethics)\, policies (real name registration\, privacy\, security) and increasingly the impact of Chinese technologies and policies on the Global South and global communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14678″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Nicholas Loubere\n@NDLoubere\nNicholas Loubere is an Associate Professor at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University. Nicholas’ research sits at the nexus of interdisciplinary China Studies and Development Studies\, and draws inspiration from a wide range of fields across the humanities and social sciences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14682″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Rachel Douglas-Jones\n@kaisirlin\nRachel Douglas-Jones is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. She studies bureaucracy\, policy and ethics and is currently leading the Moving Data-Moving People project\, an ethnography of China’s emergent social credit system.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14679″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Jun Liu\n@JunLIU_UCPH\nJun Liu is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. Drawing upon theories from communication\, sociology\, and political science\, Jun’s research focuses on how digital technology interacts with socio-cultural forms and settings and generates new power dynamics in politics from a comparative perspective.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14680″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dr Florian Schneider\n@schneiderfa77\nFlorian Schneider is a Senior Lecturer of Modern China Studies at Leiden University. Florian’s research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong\, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment\, recent Chinese economic developments\, as well as Chinese foreign policy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14693″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Ane Bislev\nAne Bislev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. Her research interests include Chinese Internet Culture and Chinese tourism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14683″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Mr Dev Lewis\n@devlewis18\nDev Lewis is a Researcher at Digital Asia Hub and Yenching Scholar at Peking University. His research focuses on the intersection between technology\, politics\, and law in China and India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ORGANISERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) in collaboration with the CatCh Network.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ENQUIRIES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Please contact Haiqing Yu (haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen (zeuthen@dps.aau.dk) if you have any questions about the conference.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”16708″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Haiqing Yu\n@haiqing\nHaiqing Yu is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor of media and communication in the School of Media and Communication; a Chief Investigator at the ADMS Centre\, RMIT University. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise in digital China research. Her current research focuses on social implications of China’s ADM systems\, represented by the social credit system; and Chinese digital platforms and digital diaspora in Australia and the Asia Pacific.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14688″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Jesper Willaing Zeuthen\n@ZeuthenJesper\nJesper Willaing Zeuthen is an Associate Professor in Chinese Area Studies at Aalborg University. Jesper manages the CatCh Network (Ruling through Division: Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China)\, and the Moving Data Moving People project (investigating how social credit system reconfigures mobility in China). His work focuses on urban-rural inequality in China\, Chinese local governance\, and Chinese mining companies’ engagements in Greenland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We look forward to seeing you\, either in Melbourne or online\, and celebrate the 2023 Spring Festival together.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423152655{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423190791{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years\nParticipants who are with relevant skills\, expertise or experience such as fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\, including sociologists\, anthropologists\, political scientists\, and others working in the humanities and social sciences.\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions.Who are the organisers?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/adm-cs-2023/
LOCATION:Green Brain\, RMIT University\, Level 7\, Building 16\, 342 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Online
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SUMMARY:What’s Governing Web3?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Advancing research on blockchain-enabled Web3 governance.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Web3 has produced a wave of governance experimentation with consequences for how protocols evolve and whose interests they serve. \nIn this week of workshops and public events\, leading researchers will come together to advance knowledge on blockchain-enabled Web3 governance\, present field-defining findings arising from current work\, and provide policy-oriented insights and solutions. \nThroughout the week\, researchers will address the following questions: \n\nWhat and who governs Web3? How do we make sense of the interactions of smart contracts and human decision-makers?\nWhat have we learnt from Web3 governance experiments to date?\nWhat is the legal and regulatory status of Web3? How can international efforts in DAO regulation frameworks and NFT legal standards benefit Australia?\nWhat are the societal-level implications of institutional emergence in Web3?\nWhat methods are required for a comprehensive empirical analysis of governance in decentralised autonomous organisations? How can we best work across academic disciplines to answer these questions?\nWhat knowledge translation strategies can we use to help ensure that inclusive and ethical considerations are built into the automation of governance processes?\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Participate” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Registrations are now open for: \n\nFull day public conference on Day 3: Wednesday 14 December 2022 from 10am – Register to attend\nPublic Meetup on Day 4: Thursday 15 December 2022 from 5pm – Register to attend\n\nPlease note workshop participation on Day 1\, Day 2 and Day 4 have now reached full capacity. If you have any queries\, please contact wgw3conference@rmit.edu.au.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Schedule” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Work-in-progress papers workshops” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 1: INSTITUTIONAL CRYPTOECONOMICS\nMonday 12 December\, 9am- 1pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University\n \nThis half day session will present the research framework and analysis that has been developed by the economics group within RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub over the past five years\, as well as key related research from international researchers. Following a high-level overview of the theoretical approach and program\, speakers will present current research projects across a number of domains that relate to governance. The third part of the session will then discuss future challenges and opportunities\, including ideas for collaboration.    \nModule 1: Theoretical Overview  \nLecture format (Davidson/Potts)\, 30-40 mins with Q&A.  \n\nIntroduction to institutional economics and economics of governance (including information economics\, public choice\, constitutional economics\, evolutionary and complexity economics\, rational actor model\, game theory and mechanism design) (Hayek\, Coase\, Williamson\, Buchanan\, Hart\, Ostrom\, Schumpeter\, Schelling) \nIntroduction to institutional cryptoeconomics: industrialisation of trust\, cost of trust\, information and coordination problems\, etc \nThe web3 research program in economics: theory of a digital economy    \n \n\nModule 2: Models and applications   \nSeminar format (short presentations of some or all of the following): \n\n‘Corporate Governance in a crypto world‘ (Davidson and Potts) \n‘Web3 toolkits: A new theory of crypto dynamics‘ (Allen and Potts) \n‘The exchange theory of web3 governance‘ (Potts\, Allen\, Lane\, et al) \n‘An economic theory of blockchain foundations‘ (Allen et al) \n‘Stablecoins\, composability\, and financial regulation’ (Berg) \n‘Crypto crime and governance’ (Lane) \n‘Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders‘ (Alston) \nBlockchain constitutionalism (Mannan & De Filippi\nFractal governance and DAOs (Poblet)\nWork for the DAO: Issues in labour economics and human resource management in Web3 (Ilyushina)\n\nModule 3: Futures and Challenges  \n\ntoward a unified theory of decentralised cooperation in a digital economy \nwhat we currently do and don’t know (state of the science)\,  \nrole of experimental work (lab and natural) and innovation in governance\,  \nindexes\, measures and simulations\, engagement first research\,  \nfuture research directions and collaborative opportunities.  \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”50″ accent_color=”#ffd600″][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 2: DAOs AND THE LAW\nMonday 12 December\, 2pm- 5.30pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University \nA Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) is “a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain\, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e.\, independent from central control)” (Hassan and De Filippi 2020). DAOs are currently used in a range of contexts – from artist collectives to stewardship of decentralised applications. However\, legal uncertainty surrounding DAOs can expose participants to risks in areas such as personal liability\, dispute resolution and taxation.   \nIn 2021\, the Coalition of Automated Legal Applications released the DAO Model Law\, which strives to provide DAOs with legal personality in any state that adopts or transposes it. Rather than creating a specific corporate structure for DAOs (as per Wyoming USA)\, the Model Law is designed to achieve functional and regulatory equivalence in a domestic legal setting. Any DAO that meets the same policy goals as set out in corporations law would be deemed equivalent to an object “already within the realm of legal rule”\, just as some forms of electronic signature have functional equivalence of a handwritten signature. COALA has identified a set of provisions that align DAO business practices with corporate law statutes common to many jurisdictions\, as well as technical features that may need specific treatment.   \nThe DAO Model Law was cited in the Senate Select Committee final report on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre (2021) as an approach worthy of further investigation. In this workshop\, two of the authors of the COALA Model Law\, Primavera De Filippi and Morshed Mannan will present the key ideas of the DAO Model Law. Legal scholars and practitioners will then provide their views on how to resolve legal uncertainty for DAOs including the creation of a new corporate entity under the Corporations Act.   \nIn this half-day workshop\, we will address the following questions:   \n\nHow does COALA’s DAO Model Law assist DAOs at both the local and international level?  \nHow difficult would it be for Australia to adopt the DAO Model Law? \nWhat specific legal uncertainties and risks do DAO participants face in Australia?  \nWhat are the benefits and drawbacks of creating laws specific to DAOs under the Corporations Act?  \n\nSpeakers: Primavera De Filippi (Harvard/Paris CNRS)\, Morshed Mannan (EUI)  \nRespondents: Aaron Lane (RMIT)\, Alex Sims (Auckland)\, Michael Bacina & Steven Pettigrove (Piper Alderman)\, Joni Pirovich (BADASL/LawFi DAO)\, Jack Deeb (Mycelium)\, Marta Poblet (RMIT) \nReadings: COALA DAO Model Law[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Work-in-progress papers workshops” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 3: DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY FOR WEB3 GOVERNANCE\nTuesday 13 December\, 9am- 2pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University \nDigital ethnography is a research approach that involves observing and documenting events\, social patterns and perspectives that arise within digital or data rich contexts. It is useful for understanding aspects of social life that include online practices and communication\, including how people’s agency is enabled or constrained by non-human actors. There is growing demand for digital ethnography by practitioners and researchers attempting to understand the governance interactions that occur within blockchain communities\, including DAOs.  \nModule 1: What is digital ethnography and why do we need it?\nIn the first part of this session\, a panel of leading digital ethnographers involved in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society – including current and past directors of RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre – will provide insight into the practice of digital ethnography using examples from their own work. The panel will cover challenges such as how to define the field site\, generating and organising field notes\, moral and ethical dilemmas\, and approaches to writing ethnography.  \nSpeakers: Annette Markham (RMIT)\, Sarah Pink (Monash)\, Heather Horst (WSU)\, Janet Roitman (The New School) \n  \nModule 2: Digital ethnography in the web3 field\nThe second part of the session will feature ethnographers who are working on web3-related topics. This group will discuss the specific issues they are encountering\, including the questions that web3 communities are seeking answers to\, and the extent to which digital ethnography can be used as a tool for applied research (versus more general knowledge production).  \nSpeakers: Ellie Rennie (RMIT)\, Tara Merk (Paris CNRS)\, Kelsie Nabben (RMIT)\, Alexia Maddox (RMIT).)\, Theo Buetel (Gnosis safe)\, Anna Weichselbraun (Uni of Vienna) \n  \nModule 3: If I were a DAO…\nAnnette Markham and Ellie Rennie will guide session participants to produce a research plan that could be adopted by a DAO. What methods and tools could DAOs pick up that would assist them to better understand their own governance? How do we use these insights to inform our own practice as digital ethnographers?  \nReadings: \n\nRennie et al (2021)\, Toward a participatory ethnography of blockchain governance\nKelsie Nabben and Michael Zargham (2022)\, The Ethnography of a ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ (DAO): De-mystifying algorithmic systems\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”50″ accent_color=”#ffd600″][vc_column_text]WORKSHOP 4: DESIGNING WEB3 GOVERNANCE\nTuesday 13 December\, 3pm- 5.30pm (AEDT)\, Green Brain at RMIT University \nIn this session\, Joshua Tan and Michael Zargham will present research and describe research infrastructure projects being carried out within metagov and discuss how these may be used to better understand and improve blockchain governance.   \nThe session will also gather insights from the previous three workshops and assign people to develop and expand upon the existing ‘open problems in DAO science’ stream of work.   \nSpeakers: Joshua Tan (Stanford/Oxford)\, Michael Zargham (Blockscience)  [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Public conference” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text]‘WHAT’S GOVERNING WEB3?’ PUBLIC CONFERENCE\nWednesday 14 December\, 10am-6pm (AEDT)\, The Capitol at RMIT University\nFollowed by refreshments in The Capitol Salon from 6pm\nRegister to attend\n \nWeb3 is a ”decentralized online ecosystem based on blockchain” (Gavin Wood\, 2014).   \nA wave of governance experimentation is occurring within web3\, which will shape how protocols evolve and whose interests they serve. This full-day public conference will feature international and local speakers discussing field-defining research on the question of ‘what’s governing web3?’.  \nHighlights  \n\nKeynote speech by Primavera De Filippi (Harvard and Paris University): “Web3\, Metaverse and our digital future” \n\nPlus:  \n\nTwo live podcast recordings: a Disconnect episode on Indigenous governance and blockchain featuring Robert O’Brien\, Megan Kelleher and Rick Shaw (hosted by Tyson Yunkaporta and Ellie Rennie\, supported by Telstra); a Mint &Burn interview on the Validator Commons (hosted by Kelsie Nabben).  \nOpening talk by Jason Potts on “Field-building Web3” \nPanels on DAO governance and regulatory issues facing web3\n\nConfirmed guest speakers: Primavera De Filippi (Harvard/Paris Uni)\, Joshua Tan (Stanford/Oxford)\, Michael Zargham (BlockScience)\, Kaitlin Beegle (Filecoin)\, Tara Merk (Paris University)\, Morshed Mannan (EUI)\, Eric Alston (Colarado Uni)\, Alex Sims (Auckland Uni)\, Jamilya Kamalova (Paris Uni/Kleros)\, Dev Lewis (Digital Asia Hub)\, Theodor Buetel (SafeDAO)\, Robert O’Brien (yümi)\, Michael Bacina & Steven Pettigrove (Piper Alderman) and more.   \nTogether with speakers from RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (Jason Potts\, Ellie Rennie\, Kelsie Nabben\, Chris Berg and more).   \nKeynote by Primavera De Filippi: Everyone is talking about the metaverse as the new frontier of the digital age. But what exactly is the metaverse\, and how does it compare with the Internet? What are the new social\, economic and political opportunities it provides\, and how can we leverage them to promote progress and innovation? Can the metaverse help us escape from the limitations of the physical world? Can it help us build a more inclusive and abundant society? Or is it simply replicating – or even exacerbating – the current state of affairs?  Ultimately\, it all boils down to the question of ownership. If those who control the Internet control the present\, those who control the metaverse will control the future.  How can we ensure that the metaverse is not controlled by a few centralized operators\, but rather emerges as a global and interconnected network of interoperable universes? And how can we ensure that the virtual resources that circulate on the metaverse are actually owned by the people? This is where the blockchain comes to the rescue.  \nRegister to attend the public conference.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 4: Metagov workshop and public meetup” tab_id=”1660188139108-e96f160c-d578″][vc_column_text]METAGOV WORKSHOP ON ‘EXTITUTIONS’ (Closed session)\nThursday 15 December\, 3pm- 5pm (AEDT)\, ADM+S Centre Office – Building 97\, 106-108 Victoria St\, Carlton\nMetagov is exploring the formation of an “extitute” for web3 learning and certification. Note: This is a closed session for metagov participants to work on an ongoing project.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]MELBOURNE WEB3 MEETUP: GAME THEORY WORKSHOP AND DAOSTAR PANEL\nThursday 15 December\, 3pm- 8.30pm (AEDT)\, RMIT Activator –  Level 2\, 102 Victoria Street\, Carlton\nThis long-running community meet-up\, supported by RMIT since 2017\, will begin with a Game Theory workshop led by Clement Leseage\, founder of Kleros from 3pm- 5pm. It will be followed by a DAOstar panel discussion featuring Metagov researchers involved in the DAOStar standard from 5.30pm- 8.30pm. \nDAOstar panel discussion\nDAOstar defines a common interface for DAOs\, akin to tokenURI for NFTs\, so that DAOs of all shapes and sizes are easier to discover\, more legible to their members\, and more compatible with future tooling. Many DAOs already publish their data in various ways. DAOstar has standardised these existing best-practices\, making it easy for people to create and maintain new DAOs and DAO tooling. \nDAOstar is a collective initiative that was established by Metagov. A large number of major DAO initiatives are involved in ongoing roundtable discussions about the standard. A full list of participants can be found here. \nPanelists: Joshua Tan\, Michael Zargham\, Primavera De Filippi \n  \nRegister to attend the public 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title=”VIEW RECORDINGS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLE_y90GftjpbnIJUsLGLGYlAJvbczQTpD”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]View the full event program for details on all workshops\, public events\, speakers\, participants and locations.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”FULL EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fweb3-full-event-program%2F”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]View the public conference program for details on the public conference at The Capitol on Wednesday 14 December 2022.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”PUBLIC CONFERENCE PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fwhats-governing-web3-public-conference-program%2F|title:What%E2%80%99s%20Governing%20Web3%20%E2%80%93%20Public%20Conference%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Organisers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The event is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\, the Cooperation Through Code project— a Future Fellowship project funded by the Australian Research Council\, the BlockchainGov project of the European Research Council (ERC)\, Metagov\, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub and the Digital Asia Hub.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188305696{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Invited: Speakers\, Mentors and Judges” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188366523{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13888″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Kate Bower – Consumer Data Advocate\, CHOICE\nSpeaker and Judge \nKate Bower is a Consumer Data Advocate at CHOICE\, Australia’s largest consumer advocacy organisation. The Consumer Data team extends CHOICE’s fight for fair\, safe and just markets to data misuse\, such as price discrimination and algorithmic bias. Current priorities are automated decision-making in essential services\, data monetisation and personalised pricing. Previously at CHOICE\, Kate worked as a data analyst on the digital transformation of insurance and financial services comparisons. Before joining the consumer movement\, Kate was an academic for more than a decade working across a range of areas including qualitative health research\, higher education and gender studies. She has a PhD from the University of Technology\, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of New South Wales.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:AoIR Showcase
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A local showcase of some of papers that were presented at the 2022 AOIR conference in Dublin.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”REGISTER TO ATTEND” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Faoir-showcase-tickets-464763790007%3Faff%3Debdsoporgprofile|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13926″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]PhD Candidate Kiah Hawker (UQ) — Gender play and augmented reality beauty filter selfies on TikTok \nThe integration of Augmented Reality (AR) filters and lenses within social media platforms has shifted the way everyday users perform the ‘self’. AR produces 3D computer-generated simulations\, which overlay and enhance real-world environments. A filter or lens (used interchangeably) overlays digital animations and artifacts on an image\, typically a selfie of a user. The first filters were developed by the social media platform Snapchat in 2015 (Hawker and Carah 2019). Since their original development\, these filters have consistently aligned with and reinforced heteronormative western beauty standards. Beauty filters are now the most popular and common form of AR on social media. The functionality of these filters has continued to expand – from clearing a user’s skin and adding make-up\, to completely transforming the appearance of a user by shifting facial structuring and changing the look of core features like the nose\, eyes and lips. Elias and Gill (2018) describe the ways these filters and other beauty apps\, enforce a strong surveillant gaze upon the female body. This paper builds upon their argument\, along with scholarship on selfie-taking practices\, to examine how beauty filters reinforce gendered beauty standards\, for both feminine\, masculine and non-binary presenting users.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”11654″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]A/Prof Nicholas Carah and PhD Candidate Maria Gemma Brown (UQ) — #cottagecore\, #futurecore\, #sadcore: Using critical simulation to explore the interplay between machine vision and vernacular Instagram aesthetics \nThis paper uses a novel combination of computational and qualitative methods called ‘critical simulation’ to explore the interplay between everyday image-making practices and the algorithmic architecture of Instagram. The paper aims to understand the capacity of machine vision systems to recognise and reproduce the diverse vernacular aesthetics and affects associated with particular scenes on Instagram – in this case\, drawing on a case study of Instagram’s ‘-cores’ hashtags. We used our purpose-built machine vision system to undertake unsupervised clusterings of a sample of the 359\,150 images associated with a curated set of 60 ‘-cores’ hashtags\, which we collected following a period of immersive qualitative investigation of the -cores phenomenon on the platform itself during 2021. We assess the extent to which the system’s clusters align with the different -cores hashtags under which the images were originally posted\, and then undertake a close cultural analysis of the clusters\, reading them through the lens of our existing knowledge of the -core hashtags. This enables us to speculate on how the platforms’ machine vision logics might play a role in shaping Instagram’s platform aesthetics\, and on internet culture more broadly.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13738″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]PhD Candidate Dominique Carlon (QUT) — Dadbot and what he reveals about Reddit’s everyday platform culture \n_u/dadbot_3000_ is one of many from a collective of DadBots that claim to bring ‘dad jokes’ and bad puns to Reddit. In practice\, DadBots are better known for simply commenting ‘Hi\, I’m Dad’ and together they have fostered a well-known presence and identity on the Reddit platform. The presence of bots such as _u/dadbot_3000_ demonstrate how online communities engage with semi-autonomous entities in a creative\, ‘playful’ (Massanari\, 2016) and sometime humorous way. Bots are frequently examined as problematic on account of their potential to distort social interaction\, spread misinformation\, and disrupt political process (Dubois & McKelvey\, 2019; Albadi\, et al.\, 2019; Shao et al.\, 2018). However bots such as _u/dadbot_3000_ can also be entertaining\, engage in humour or contribute to the cultural landscape where they operate. This paper will present a cultural biography of _u/dadbot_3000_\, examining its interactions with other bots and human users. A time series of events will highlight patterns across the bot’s lifespan\, depicting controversies\, connections\, and how attitudes and interactions with the bot evolve over time. By tracing the life stories of _u/dadbot_3000_\, this research will add insight into how bots\, and people’s perception of them reflect\, and contribute to the culture and architecture of online platform environments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”2440″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]PhD Candidate Ashwin Nagappa (QUT) — Locating DTube in web history: narratives from emerging decentralized social media platform and communities of practice \nThis paper locates DTube\, a blockchain based social media (BSM) platform in a historical context and explores the significance of this minor platform (Nicoll\, 2019) in subverting a platformatized web. It presents partial findings from the platform biography (Burgess and Baym\, 2020) of DTube.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/aoir-showcase/
LOCATION:Michie Building (9) – The Writer’s Studio (612) Level 6\, UQ\, 9 Chancellors Place\, St Lucia\, QLD\, 4067\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221206T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221206T180000
DTSTAMP:20221204T234620Z
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SUMMARY:What can we do to improve green claims for consumers?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”With a growing market for environmental products\, consumers are surrounded by claims about green and sustainable features.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]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. \nConsumers are left hoping that businesses are following through on their sustainable promises. These claims may cause harm for sustainability efforts but also to consumers. So\, how can we make green claims work for consumers? \nJoin in the conversation as we discuss\, what can we do to improve green claims for consumers? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”REGISTER TO ATTEND” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcprc.org.au%2Fgreen-claims-webinar%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\nJoin us for this Spark Series webinar. \nThe expert panel will explore both local and international perspectives: \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Australian consumer experience: Kristal Burry will give an overview and share the findings of the latest consumer research on Australian consumers’ experience of green claims.\nA European perspective: Patrycja Gautier\, will offer insights into how Europe is tackling issues.\nHow consumer law can tackle greenwashing: Professor Christine Parker will\, provide insights from food labelling and the how the Australian consumer law can be used to tackle greenwashing.\n\n\n\n\n\nAs an interactive webinar\, the panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”852″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School\, The University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”16592″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Patrycja Gautier is the Team Leader and Senior Legal Officer at the European Consumer Organisation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”16591″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]CPRC’s Policy and Program Director\, Kristal Burry\,  has extensive experience in the energy and water sectors.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”FACILITATOR” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”16596″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Erin Turner (CEO) Erin leads CPRC\, and is a consumer advocate that has worked with a broad range of governments and regulators to make markets fairer for Australians.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ADM+S is working in collaboration with the CPRC using the Australian Ad Observatory tool to help identify greenwashing claims and advertising targeting. \nWant to find out what your advertising profile looks like? Join the Australian Ad Observatory to find out and to help further research.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/what-can-we-do-to-improve-green-claims-for-consumers/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221125T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221125T183000
DTSTAMP:20221110T033401Z
CREATED:20221109T224951Z
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SUMMARY:Identifying Discriminatory Patterns in Online Advertising Data
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Hacks/Hackers Brisbane will be hosting the winning team from the Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon to share their idea.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Held in Melbourne in late September\, the hackathon brought together academics\, government and consumer rights organisations to examine issues and propose solutions relating to online advertising. This follows recent examples of price discrimination\, scam advertising and predatory targeting in online advertising spaces.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”REGISTER TO ATTEND” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meetup.com%2Fhacks-hackers-brisbane%2Fevents%2F289638571%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”TALK DETAILS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_column_text] \nTeam: Dr Kelly Lewis\, Grant Nicholas\, Ross Pearson\, Alec Sathiyamoorthy\, Vikram Sondergaard\, Mingqiu Wang\, and Guangnan (Rio) Zhu.\nMentors: Dr Abdul Obeid and Xue Ying (Jane) Tan \nThe winning team used data gathered from the ADM+S Australian Ad Observatory dataset (500\,000+ ads donated by 2000 Australian Facebook users) to examine WAIST (why am I seeing this?) data collected alongside statistical data associated with postcodes to identify discriminatory patterns such as proxy and price discrimination. \nThe team will discuss the tools they developed\, patterns already found\, and plans for future work and development of their idea. \nMore info: https://www.admscentre.org.au/darkads-hackathon/identifying-discriminatory-patterns-in-online-advertising-data/ \nThe talk will be moderated by co-lead of the ADM+S Dark Ads project and hackathon\, and fellow Hacks/Hackers member\, Prof Daniel Angus. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/identifying-discriminatory-patterns-in-online-advertising-data/
LOCATION:ABC South Brisbane\, 114 Grey St\, Brisbane\, QLD\, 4101
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221109T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221109T190000
DTSTAMP:20230117T023005Z
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SUMMARY:Artificial Artificial Intelligence: In conversation with Massimo Airoldi\, author of Machine Habitus (2022) and ‘Stealth Love’ (2019)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”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.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618578153{background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1666758227329{padding-bottom: -35px !important;}”] \n\nMachine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms examines the place of emerging technologies in the feedback loops of social life: how culture takes shape in code and code in turn shapes culture. The book deftly portraits machines as sociological objects and peels back machine learning processes to consider ‘culture as the warm human matter lying inside’. Doing this\, Airoldi explores algorithmic devices as social agents and gestures to the possibilities of artificial intelligence designed outside the strictures of profit and power.  \nAiroldi’s 2019 short story ‘Stealth Love’ takes flight from similar questions\, landing issues of data surveillance in the intimate lives of a small cast of characters in London\, 2028. It opens: \nAripiprazole: bingo! Side effects: orthostatic hypotension and cardiac arrhythmia. Precisely what I need to fool the health-tracking pillow kindly provided by our apprehensive HR colleagues\, and enjoy an unpredictable day trip on an otherwise hectic Monday morning.  \nThe crafted lyricism of the story inflates a near future from today’s techno-dystopic seeds\, and plays with scholarly concepts as literary metaphors – for example\, fashioning a reference to the ‘black box’ of obfuscated algorithmic processing to evoke the emotional depths we cannot plumb of those we love.  \nArtificial Artificial Intelligence is a new series of in-conversation talks about technology and fiction hosted by Dr Ash Watson of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Probing the porous boundaries between machine realities and imagination\, the series features leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences who are changing what – and how – we know about emerging technologies. \n \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618526507{margin-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”15602″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Assistant Professor Massimo Airoldi\nDepartment of Social and Political Sciences\, University of Milan. \n\n\n\nMassimo Airoldi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. Previously he worked as researcher and Assistant Professor at the Lifestyle Research Center of EM Lyon Business School. His research interests include critical algorithm studies\, computational methods\, consumption and cultural taste. He has recently coauthored with Joonas Rokka the article “Algorithmic consumer culture” (Consumption Markets & Culture\, 2022).  \n  \n\n\nVisit website \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2562″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Ash Watson\nResearch Fellow\, UNSW Sydney \n\n\nAsh Watson is sociologist of technology\, fiction and DIY community practices based at the UNSW Sydney node of ADM+S. A Postdoctoral Fellow aligned with the Health focus area and People program of the Centre\, she researches the social impacts of how automated decision-making and A.I. are imagined\, designed and implemented across contexts of health and wellbeing. She also researches the digital-material spectrum of zine cultures\, and queer digital archival practices. \n  \n\nVisit page \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row title=”RESEARCH PROJECTS” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:%23research-filter|||” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FbZOnVzb75n4|title:Watch%20Recording|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nView transcript \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/artificial-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221025T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221025T190000
DTSTAMP:20221017T061544Z
CREATED:20221017T061544Z
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UID:15644-1666720800-1666724400@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Resisting AI: A discussion with Dan McQuillan about his new book
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for an online Reading Group and the launch of Dan McQuillan’s book Resisting AI” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618578153{background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665987216916{padding-bottom: -35px !important;}”] \n\nIn Resisting AI\, Dr Dan McQuillan calls for us to resist AI as we know it and restructure it by prioritising the common good over algorithmic optimisation. He sets out an anti-fascist approach to AI that replaces exclusions with caring\, proposes people’s councils as a way to restructure AI through mutual aid and outlines new mechanisms that would adapt to changing times by supporting collective freedom. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1665618526507{margin-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”15645″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Dan McQuillan\nDepartment of Computing\, University of London. \n\n\n\nDan is Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics\, and prior to academia he worked as Amnesty International’s Director of E-communications. His research focuses on the resonances between forms of computational operation and their specific social consequences\, especially in relation to machine learning & AI. He is currently writing a book on ‘AI for the People’ for Bristol University Press. \n  \n\n\nVisit website \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/resisting-ai/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221024T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221024T141500
DTSTAMP:20221020T235736Z
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UID:14895-1666602000-1666620900@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Automation\, Wellbeing and Harms in a COVID Age
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”An interactive symposium with Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks\, author of prize-winning book Automating Inequality.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Digital technology is rapidly automating vast areas of everyday life\, from interacting with government and businesses\, undertaking learning and work\, entertaining ourselves and maintaining social relations. Such technologies offer great opportunities for enhancing wellbeing\, but can also produce harms\, that Australia’s Robodebt well illustrated. We have long known about a “digital divide” that loosely fractures along socio-economic ones\, and these social disparities have been overlaid with the inequitable experiences of COVID on people’s wellbeing. \nIn dialogue with Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks\, this interactive symposium between leading Australian researchers\, social service organisations\, and service user advocacy and representative groups will explore the challenges and opportunities of digital technology for vulnerable and marginalised peoples. \nThis event will be held in-person at RMIT University\, Melbourne and online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fawh-event-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n9am- 9.10am\nWelcome to Country\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9.10am- 10.30am\nKeynote address by Assoc Prof Virginia Eubanks (University at Albany)\n\n\n\nChair: Prof Paul Henman (UQ)\n\n\n\nDiscussants: Dr Daniel Featherstone (RMIT University) and Jay Coonan (Anti-Poverty Centre)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10.30am- 10.45am\nMorning tea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10.45am- 12pm\nThematic Roundtable 1: Challenges and opportunities of digital technology for marginalised people\n\n\n\nChair: Prof Jeannie Paterson (University of Melbourne)\n\n\n\nPanellists: Ivana Jurko (Humanitech at Australian Red Cross)\, Dr Simone Casey (ACOSS)\, Dr Aitor Jimenez (University of Melbourne)\, Dr Georgia van Toorn (UNSW) and Dr Elizabeth Deveny (CHF)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12pm- 1.15pm\nThematic Roundtable 2: Designing digital technology for and with marginalised people\n\n\n\nChair: Prof Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)\n\n\n\nPanellists: Dr Ruth De Souza (RMIT University)\, Ben Shaw (Infoxchange)\, Sean Fitzgerald (C3 Solutions) and Daniel Levy (AUWU)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1.15pm- 2.15pm\nLunch\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fawh-event-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”LOCATION” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This is a hybrid conference\, taking place in-person at the Green Brain\, RMIT University (Level 7\, Building 16\, 336/348 Swanston St\, Melbourne VIC 3000) and online via livestream.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”LIVESTREAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]If you have registered for this event\, you will receive an email with a link to the livestream prior to the event. If you haven’t received this\, please contact admsevents@rmit.edu.au.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662602341153{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”REGISTER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Registration has now closed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662599302810{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”IMPORTANT DATES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\n9 September 2022 – Registration opens\n15 October 2022 – Abstract submission deadline\nPlease submit an abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument\, method\, and contribution along with a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words) to Prof Haiqing Yu and Assoc Prof Jesper Willaing Zeuthen.\n28 October 2022 – Decision on Abstracts\n20 January 2023 – Last day to register for in-person attendance\n1- 3 February 2023 – International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662602252326{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”KEYNOTE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”642″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Mark Andrejevic\n@MarkAndrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Professor of Communications & Media Studies at Monash University and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre. His research interests encompass digital media\, surveillance and data mining in the digital era.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14673″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Xin Dai\nXin Dai is an Associate Professor at Peking University Law School. Xin’s research interests include legal theories\, law and society\, economic analysis of law\, information privacy and internet law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14674″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Malavika Jayaram\n@MalJayaram\nMalavika Jayaram is the inaugural Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub\, an independent research think-tank incubated by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her interests straddle law\, technology\, architecture\, design and dance\, and she is especially invested in the intersection of spatial\, bodily and intellectual privacy\, identity and autonomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662602265325{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PLENARY SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14675″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Assistant Professor Rogier Creemers\n@China_Digital\nRogier Creemers is an Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese Studies at Leiden University. His research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy\, as well as China’s growing importance in global digital affairs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14676″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Jack Linchuan Qiu\n@jacklqiu\nJack Linchuan Qiu is Professor and Research Director in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. He has published extensively in English and Chinese exploring issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor\, class\, globalization\, and sustainability\, especially in the contexts of Asia and the Global South.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14677″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Min Jiang\n@mindyjiang\nMin Jiang is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Min has written on Chinese digital technologies (search engine\, social media\, big data)\, politics (digital activism\, online political satire\, diplomacy)\, business (Chinese Internet giants\, business ethics)\, policies (real name registration\, privacy\, security) and increasingly the impact of Chinese technologies and policies on the Global South and global communication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14678″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Nicholas Loubere\n@NDLoubere\nNicholas Loubere is an Associate Professor at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University. Nicholas’ research sits at the nexus of interdisciplinary China Studies and Development Studies\, and draws inspiration from a wide range of fields across the humanities and social sciences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14682″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Rachel Douglas-Jones\n@kaisirlin\nRachel Douglas-Jones is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. She studies bureaucracy\, policy and ethics and is currently leading the Moving Data-Moving People project\, an ethnography of China’s emergent social credit system.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14679″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Jun Liu\n@JunLIU_UCPH\nJun Liu is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. Drawing upon theories from communication\, sociology\, and political science\, Jun’s research focuses on how digital technology interacts with socio-cultural forms and settings and generates new power dynamics in politics from a comparative perspective.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14680″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dr Florian Schneider\n@schneiderfa77\nFlorian Schneider is a Senior Lecturer of Modern China Studies at Leiden University. Florian’s research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong\, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment\, recent Chinese economic developments\, as well as Chinese foreign policy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14693″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Ane Bislev\nAne Bislev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. Her research interests include Chinese Internet Culture and Chinese tourism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14683″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Mr Dev Lewis\n@devlewis18\nDev Lewis is a Researcher at Digital Asia Hub and Yenching Scholar at Peking University. His research focuses on the intersection between technology\, politics\, and law in China and India.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662599506094{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ORGANISERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The International Conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) in collaboration with the CatCh Network.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1662599525849{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ENQUIRIES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Please contact Haiqing Yu (haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au) and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen (zeuthen@dps.aau.dk) if you have any questions about the conference.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14685″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Haiqing Yu\n@haiqing\nHaiqing Yu is an ARC Future Fellow and VC’s Principle Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise in digital China research. Her current research focuses on social implications of China’s ADM systems\, represented by the social credit system.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14688″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Jesper Willaing Zeuthen\n@ZeuthenJesper\nJesper Willaing Zeuthen is an Associate Professor in Chinese Area Studies at Aalborg University. Jesper manages the CatCh Network (Ruling through Division: Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China)\, and the Moving Data Moving People project (investigating how social credit system reconfigures mobility in China). His work focuses on urban-rural inequality in China\, Chinese local governance\, and Chinese mining companies’ engagements in Greenland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423152655{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423190791{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years\nParticipants who are with relevant skills\, expertise or experience such as fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\, including sociologists\, anthropologists\, political scientists\, and others working in the humanities and social sciences.\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions.Who are the organisers?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/automation-wellbeing-and-harms-in-a-covid-age/
LOCATION:Green Brain\, RMIT University\, Level 7\, Building 16\, 342 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221022
DTSTAMP:20221020T003340Z
CREATED:20220818T070505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221020T003340Z
UID:14565-1666224000-1666396799@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Future Automated Mobilities: Towards hope\, justice\, and care
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This interdisciplinary symposium brings together researchers and stakeholders in automated mobilities to share\, explore\, create and connect.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Automated mobilities systems and technologies have been hyped as bringing us safer\, more environmentally sustainable\, cheaper\, more efficient\, more convenient and personalised modes of movement – of people\, things and other species. \nYet the hype invested in future automated mobilities consistently fails to deliver their ambitious promises: autonomous driving cars still remain pivoted to come onto our roads; Mobility-as-a-Service systems are still waiting to come about effectively; and people are unsure of whether they would trust an automated system to wirelessly charge their electric car. \nThis symposium asks three crucial questions: \n\nFirst\, why do we need to be careful? Where are the limitations\, flaws and inequities\, in dominant anticipatory visions and narratives? What could possibly go wrong if we place ADM at the centre of a predictive\, automated and data-driven mobilities future?\nSecond\, how might we anticipate care-full mobilities futures? And what could go right if we do? What might more realistic\, ethical and responsible automated mobilities futures might look like? What does safety actually entail when we explore it from the perspective of the diverse groups of people who might encounter ADM in transport mobilities?\nFinally\, how can attending to these questions help us move us forward into more hopeful mobility futures? What are the shared values that might make this possible? Where and with whom should we be imagining\, designing and testing our future automated mobilities? And what should be our first steps to achieve this collectively and collaboratively?\n\nThis interdisciplinary symposium brings together researchers and stakeholders in automated mobilities to share\, explore\, create and connect. Taking place at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia and online across two days\, the event will include panel discussions\, creative research workshops\, short film screenings\, and social events. \nThis event will be held in-person at RMIT University\, Melbourne and online. \n#FutureMobilities [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Ffam2022-program%2F|title:FAM%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Themes” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The themes of the symposium include designing mobilities of care; doing good with mobility data; disability and automated mobilities; and interdisciplinary\, interspecies\, and multi-stakeholder mobilities.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”14596″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”LOCATION” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This is a hybrid conference\, taking place in-person at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia and online via livestream. Please email admsevents@rmit.edu.au for the livestream link.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]View the event program for details on each session\, speakers and other helpful information. The program is available as an online PDF and screen-reader friendly version.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”VIEW EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Ffam2022-program%2F|title:FAM%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Participate” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Registration for this event has now closed. If you would like to access the livestream\, please email admsevents@rmit.edu.au.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”COVID Safe Information” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]RMIT University has a COVIDSafe Plan in place to safely support on-campus activities and prevent the spread of COVID-19. The latest information and guidance from RMIT University is available online. \nIf you are experiencing any cold or flu-like symptoms\, even if mild\, please refrain from attending this event in-person. The Future Automated Mobilities Symposium is a hybrid event with all attendees able to watch and participate in the proceedings online via live-stream.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Schedule” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Thursday 20 October” tab_id=”1660808111588-44fd5a6f-6158″][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n10:00\nRegistration open\, welcome tea and coffee\n\n\n10:30\nWelcome to Country \nSymposium welcome and overview (Sarah Pink)\n\n\n11:00\nSession 1: Designing Automated Mobilities of Care \nChair: Thao Phan (Monash) \n\nNoortje Marres (University of Warwick)\nKaspar Raats (Volvo + Halmstad)\nIvana Jurko (Humanitech)\nZoë Condliffe (She’s a Crowd)\n\n\n\n\n12:00 \nLunch\n\n\n13:00\nHighlight session: Doing good with mobility data \nChair: Flora Salim (UNSW) \n\nDaniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)\nGillian Miles\nSimon Young (CISCO)\n\n\n\n\n14:00\nBreak\n\n\n14:15\nHighlight session: Mobile Methods/ Methods for Future Automated Mobilities \nChair: TBC \n\nSarah Pink (Monash University)\nNoortje Marres (University of Warwick)\nFlora Salim (UNSW)\n\n\n\n\n15:45\nBreak\n\n\n16:00\nOutput showcase: \n\nScoping report\, Emma Quilty\nTransport & Mobilities Template\, Mark Andrejevic\, Chris O’Neill\, Jathan Sadowski\nCollective ADM+S book launch: Emerging Technologies: Life on the Edge of the Future; Design Ethnography\nAHA Catalogue\n\n\n\n\n17:00\nSymposium reception  \n\nDrinks and nibbles\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Work-in-progress papers workshops” tab_id=”1660808111641-1d367898-232d”][vc_column_text]Workshop 1: Systems design\nThe systems design workshop will include research from the ADM+S Machines Research Program\, together with Metagov research on contribution graphs and governance surface.\n \nWorkshop 2: Digital Ethnography \nThere is growing demand for digital ethnography training in blockchain research. Specifically\, researchers are looking for methods to adequately capture work with DAOs and other distributed projects. This workshop will involve leading digital ethnography experts from ADM+S.    [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Public talks” tab_id=”1660808111682-abada5d0-0de0″][vc_column_text]More details coming soon.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 4: Metagov workshop and public meetup” tab_id=”1660808111718-f1bc05bb-b69b”][vc_column_text]Metagov workshop on ‘Extitutions’\nThis workshop will be led by Primavera de Filippi and will focus specifically on extitutional theory and the evolution of Metagov as a decentralised research entity. \nPublic meetup\nWe will be hosting a panel discussion with researchers from Metagov at the Melbourne Web3 Meetup held at RMIT’s Activator. This is a long-running community meet-up that RMIT has been supporting since 2017.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188305696{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Invited: Speakers\, Mentors and Judges” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188366523{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13888″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Kate Bower – Consumer Data Advocate\, CHOICE\nSpeaker and Judge \nKate Bower is a Consumer Data Advocate at CHOICE\, Australia’s largest consumer advocacy organisation. The Consumer Data team extends CHOICE’s fight for fair\, safe and just markets to data misuse\, such as price discrimination and algorithmic bias. Current priorities are automated decision-making in essential services\, data monetisation and personalised pricing. Previously at CHOICE\, Kate worked as a data analyst on the digital transformation of insurance and financial services comparisons. Before joining the consumer movement\, Kate was an academic for more than a decade working across a range of areas including qualitative health research\, higher education and gender studies. She has a PhD from the University of Technology\, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of New South Wales.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/future-automated-mobilities-2022/
LOCATION:Storey Hall\, RMIT University\, Building 16\, 336/348 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20221019T180000
DTSTAMP:20230306T005353Z
CREATED:20220908T052836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230306T005353Z
UID:14907-1666195200-1666202400@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Policing Insecurity: Debt\, Fraud\, Data and the Automated Welfare State
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A public lecture by Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks as part of Anti-Poverty Week 2022″ font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many of the digital risk prediction systems integrated into Unemployment\, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)\, Supplemented Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)\, and other social insurance programs in the United States over the last two decades promised to reduce waste and abuse by stopping fraud before it starts. In reality\, these systems are increasingly used to tunnel through decades-old program data\, looking for alleged overpayments that are then converted into debt for collection by the federal Treasury Offset Program (TOP). \nThis 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. \nThe public lecture will be followed by light refreshments.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_btn title=”VIEW RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9a10ezyAo8o”][vc_column_text] \nEvent Transcript \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Organisers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This event is jointly hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and The University of Queensland Digital Cultures and Society (visit website).[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner gap=”30″][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1662614359331{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”14″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”4189″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1662609545478{padding-top: -40px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609600359{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”About the Speaker” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”14915″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Virginia Eubanks\nUniversity at Albany\, SUNY \n\n\nVirginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany\, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile\, Police\, and Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; and co-editor\, with Alethia Jones\, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her investigative reporting and personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Scientific American\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, and Wired. With Andrea Quijada\, she is gathering oral histories of the global automated welfare state for Voice of Witness. She is a 2022 scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). \n  \n\nVisit website \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_raw_html]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[/vc_raw_html][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_custom_heading text=”COVID-19 Safety Policy” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]If you become unwell or if you feel uncomfortable about attending in-person\, there is an online webinar option available for this event. Please select ‘online admission’ when you register. \nPlease contact us via uqadmsadmin@uq.edu.au if you wish to change your registration to online at any time leading up to the event. \nFor those attending the Public Lecture in person: \n\nMask wearing is strongly encouraged during the event.\nPlease ensure you social distance where possible.\n\nAttendees are reminded not to attend if: \n\nthey are feeling unwell and displaying COVID-19 symptoms (loss or change in sense of smell or taste\, fever\, chills or sweats\, cough\, sore throat\, shortness of breath and runny nose).\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/policing-insecurity/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom Webinar / In-person at The University of Queensland\, The Terrace Room (Level 6) - Sir Llew Edwards Building (14)\, The University of Queensland\, Campbell Road\, Saint Lucia\, QLD\, 4072
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221011T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221011T120000
DTSTAMP:20221013T005932Z
CREATED:20220930T060031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T005932Z
UID:15371-1665486000-1665489600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Digital and data literacies for sexual health: Exploring histories of sexual technologies with Dr. Bo Ruberg
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This event is part of the webinar series ‘Digital and data literacies for sexual health’ and is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship grant\, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society\, and the Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The global field of sextech is estimated to be worth up to $30 billion in the near future. From pitching competitions and hackathons to the tech press\, medtech founders\, marketers and journalists promise a future where technology will continuously enhance our pleasure\, sexual health and wellbeing. \nBut sextech – and sextech marketing – has a history\, too. And it’s complicated. \nIn 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. \nJoin us to discover what the origin story of the sex doll can teach us about contemporary sextech innovations – from condoms to sex robots.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.swinburne.edu.au%2Fitems%2Fc0ae2c47-b484-4b43-abf4-fc651a17966c%2F1%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609600359{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”15374″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Bo Ruberg\nFilm & Media Studies\, School of Humanities\, University of California\, Irvine. \n\n\nBo Ruberg\, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Film & Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Informatics at the University of California\, Irvine. They are the author of Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press\, 2022)\, The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (Duke University Press 2020)\, and Video Games Have Always Been Queer (New York University Press\, 2019). \n\nVisit website \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1662609614303{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1005″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Professor Kath Albury\nSwinburne University of Technology\n \n\n\nProfessor Kath Albury is an ARC Future Fellow\, leading the ‘Digital and data literacies for sexual health policy and practice’ reseach project (2022-2026). She is Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology\, where she co-leads the Digital Inclusion Program in Swinburne’s Social Innovation Research Institute (SIRI). \n\nVisit page \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660187553448{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1660188299390{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Hackathon participants will be provided access to existing ad accountability tools including a Facebook ad collector and a Twitter ad collector and the data collected by these tools. They will be asked to design approaches\, including tools to enhance or improve these tools and/or to help make sense of the data they have collected. The designs will address the following key challenges: \n\nDeveloping new forms of accountability for online ads\nDeveloping approaches for sorting and searching through large databases of ads\nDesigning tools and approaches for collecting\, archiving\, and sorting targeted ads online.\n\nWe expect concepts that consider ethics at every stage from design to governance. The ideas are encouraged to be evidence-based and created from community knowledge. Social tech needs to showcase collective benefits for society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/histories-of-sexual-technologies/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221005T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221005T160000
DTSTAMP:20221007T045005Z
CREATED:20220818T011012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T045005Z
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SUMMARY:Digitised and Datafied Animals: Emerging Technologies and Human-Animal Entanglements
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Convened by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society University of Melbourne and UNSW Nodes\, the Health Focus Area and the People and Institutions Programs together with the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics\, University of Melbourne and the Vitalities Lab\, UNSW Sydney.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”8px”][vc_column_text]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. \nPresentations at this workshop will engage theoretically and methodologically with human-animal entanglements in the digital world. How are human and animal health\, wellbeing\, privacy\, data\, and sense of belonging connected and disconnected? Can we talk about ‘more-than-human’ digital wellbeing or ‘digital planetary health’? How might we investigate the potentials and harms of digitised and datafied animals? And what are the implications for practice\, policies and ethics in these multispecies encounters? \nBrisbane participants should note that this event starts at 12:00pm AEST[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHRH4bA-9nXU|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”6346″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Milton L Mueller\nGeorgia Tech\, USA \nMilton Mueller is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. The author of seven books and scores of journal articles\, his work informs not only public policy but also science and technology studies\, law\, economics\, communications\, and international studies. His books Will the Internet Fragment? (Polity\, 2017)\, Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press\, 2010) and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press\, 2002) are acclaimed scholarly accounts of the global governance regime emerging around the Internet. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/digitised-animals-workshop/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220928T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220928T204500
DTSTAMP:20220912T235334Z
CREATED:20220708T004648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T235334Z
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SUMMARY:Dark Ads: Public Panel
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join an evening of discussion on the issues raised by the use of targeted advertising online.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_id=”Heading-white”]Advertising is becoming harder than ever before to hold accountable\, which raises important concerns about the legacy of abuses that have characterised the industry. Predatory advertising\, discrimination\, and the circulation of false and harmful messaging are harder to detect and regulate online because there is no public archive of online ads. The Australian Ad Observatory provides one model for enlisting citizens to help provide transparency for online advertising. \nJoin the Ad Observatory team and two panels of experts to learn about the issues raised by online advertising and how we might address them. The panels bring together consumer advocates\, researchers\, and government representatives to discuss online harms and the future of advertising accountability. Our panelists will discuss some of the issues raised by the promotion of harmful industries (such as gambling\, alcohol\, and ultra-processed foods)\, the circulation of mis- and disinformation\, and examples of discrimination and predatory advertising targeting disadvantaged groups. \nOur first panel includes representatives from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation\, the consumer advocacy group CHOICE\, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education\, and the Consumer Policy Research Centre. \nOur second panel will discuss research on dark ads and strategies for countering them. Featured panellists include representatives from the research team at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society\, the ABC and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. Each panel will conclude with a public discussion and Q&A session. \n*There will be a half-hour break between panels with catering provided[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”15247″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”974″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Professor Daniel Angus – Chief Investigator\, ADM+S at QUT \nDaniel is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Node and a Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication at QUT. His research focuses on the development of computational analysis methods for communication data\, with a specific focus on interaction data. His novel computational methods have improved our understanding of the nature of communication in medical consultations\, conversations in aged care settings\, television broadcast\, social media\, and newspaper reporting. Daniel presently leads the Computational Communication and Culture program within the QUT Digital Media Research Centre\, and contributes regularly to media and industry on the impact of technology on society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1656660325202{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13888″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Kate Bower – Consumer Data Advocate\, CHOICE \nKate Bower is a Consumer Data Advocate at CHOICE\, Australia’s largest consumer advocacy organisation. The Consumer Data team extends CHOICE’s fight for fair\, safe and just markets to data misuse\, such as price discrimination and algorithmic bias. Current priorities are automated decision-making in essential services\, data monetisation and personalised pricing. Previously at CHOICE\, Kate worked as a data analyst on the digital transformation of insurance and financial services comparisons. Before joining the consumer movement\, Kate was an academic for more than a decade working across a range of areas including qualitative health research\, higher education and gender studies. She has a PhD from the University of Technology\, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of New South Wales.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13611″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Aimee Brownbill – Senior Policy and Research Advisor\, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) \nAimee is Senior Policy and Research Advisor at the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)\, the leading not-for-profit organisation working towards an Australia free from alcohol harm. Aimee has a PhD in Public Health and has contributed to collaborative applied research informing public health policy for several years. In her role at FARE\, Aimee integrates her knowledge and experience in research\, policy and advocacy to achieve translational outcomes in public health policy and practice. She is currently leading a portfolio of work on digital marketing by harmful industries such as alcohol\, gambling and highly processed unhealthy foods\, exploring potential avenues for regulation in this space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13775″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Simon Elvery – Journalist and Developer at ABC News Story Lab\, ABC \nSimon is an award winning Brisbane based journalist and developer at ABC News Story Lab. He is currently Journalist Fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism\, University of Oxford where he is researching the use of technology by journalists in the reporting process. His work covers a wide range of topics including data visualisation\, climate change\, data security and privacy and algorithmic accountability.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2450″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Samuel Kininmonth – Policy Officer\, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN)\n \nSamuel is a communications researcher and consumer policy advocate. Sam is a policy officer at ACCAN\, Australia’s peak body that represents all consumers on communications issues including telecommunications\, broadband and emerging new services. Sam contributes to ACCAN’s efforts to provide a consumer voice on digital platforms and emerging services. \nSam’s doctoral thesis\, titled The Programmatic Promise\, focuses on automated media markets and communications infrastructures through a study of programmatic advertising and ad tech. Sam has published work in journals including Television & New Media and presented research in Australia and internationally.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”15245″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lizzie O’Shea – Chair\, Digital Rights Watch\n \nLizzie is a human rights lawyer specialising in public interest litigation. Lizzie has local and international experience in a wide array of court jurisdictions\, and is passionate about equality before the law and that the rule of law should be protected\, particularly given the incursions on civil liberties that have become a staple part of the war on terror. In 2019\, Lizzie received the Human Rights Hero Award for her work campaigning against Australia’s encryption laws.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”12912″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Verity Trott – Lecturer in Digital Media Research\, Monash University \nDr Verity Trott is Lecturer in Digital Media Research at Monash University. Her published research explores digital feminist activism\, popular (anti)feminism\, online communities and platform politics\, and digital masculinities. She is a member of the Automated Society Working Group at Monash University in which she investigates the impacts of digital technology and automation from feminist and intersectional standpoints.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”14003″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Xue Ying Tan (Jane) – Software Engineer in the Digital Media Research Centre at QUT \nJane obtained her Bachelor of Information Technology and Master of Computer Science degrees from the University of Queensland\, in 2018 and 2019\, respectively. In her studies\, she participated in High Performance Parallel Computing research\, building a compiler to translate from OpenACC to OpenMP; and completed an internship with the National University of Singapore\, Digital Media Research lab\, working on surface meshing algorithms with GPU using CUDA Thrust. In her role with DMRC\, she focuses on the utility of computational methods including techniques such as topic modelling\, machine learning\, and information visualization to explore everyday promotional cultures in visual social media platforms. Her interests include Machine Learning\, Full Stack Web Development and Data Analytics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13718″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Erin Turner – Chief Executive Officer\, Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC) \nErin Turner is a consumer advocate that has worked with a broad range of governments and regulators to make markets fairer for Australians. Erin was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Consumer Policy Research Centre in March 2022. Erin most recently led the advocacy and communications team at consumer group CHOICE. Erin has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Politics and Public Policy. She is a board member of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) and the Chair of the Financial Rights Legal Centre.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”14033″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lucy Westerman – Commercial Determinants of Health Lead\, VicHealth \nLucy works at the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation – VicHealth\, exploring the ways in which businesses’ products and practices influence health and how to mitigate their harms. She recently returned from living in the UK\, where she led global campaigns and the chronic disease prevention and health promotion policy and advocacy work at global NGO\, the NCD Alliance\, in pursuit of stronger and better policy and action for disease prevention. Through her career to date\, Lucy has sharpened her focus on alcohol\, gambling\, tobacco\, food\, and physical inactivity\, and looking ‘upstream’ at cross-cutting issues such as the influence of social\, political\, commercial\, and environmental determinants on health – and illness. Lucy holds a Master of Public Health\, and bachelor’s degrees in Health Promotion\, Sociology\, and Nutrition\, and is mother to two teenagers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/darkads-panel/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221001
DTSTAMP:20230418T022025Z
CREATED:20220407T042542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230418T022025Z
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SUMMARY:Tech for Good: ADM+S Dark Ads Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text=”The Dark Ads Hackathon will build capacity in the area of online advertising accountability by sharing tools and fostering a network of researchers working in this area.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Targeted ads are visible only to those to whom they are directed\, so how can we determine whether they are predatory\, discriminatory\, false or misleading? \n Join the Dark Ads Hackathon to help provide transparency in online advertising. We invite you to explore recently acquired sets of ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. Be part of developing innovative approaches and tools for holding social media advertisers accountable.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]EOIs for this event are now closed. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_column_text]Schedule \n\nWednesday 28 September\n3pm – 7pm\nThursday 29 September\n9am – 5:30pm\nFriday 30 September\n9am – 4pm\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Challenge” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657506960319{border-top-width: 20px !important;padding-top: -35px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]We are asking participants to come up with ideas and approaches for providing public accountability for targeted advertising online. The hackathon will provide participants access to existing tools and data sets as one possible starting point.  Any of the following approaches fall within the scope of the challenge: \n\nDesigning strategies and tools for making sense of the large volumes of data collected by automated ad collection. For example\, we have over 300\,000 ads collected by the Australian Ad Observatory\, complete with metadata about the ads and information about the demographics of people who received the ads. Such strategies might focus on any of the following:\n\nDetecting false\, misleading\, and harmful ads;\nDiscovering bias and discrimination in ad targeting;\nDetecting predatory advertising\n\n\nDesigning tools and approaches for capturing and archiving ads and sponsored content from social media platforms\, including TikTok\, to see how people are being targeted.\nImproving on existing tools provided at the Hackathon\, including tools that collect ads from Twitter\, Facebook\, and from Google searches.\nDeveloping future strategies for ad accountability.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_raw_html]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[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years with various levels of experience\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions\nParticipants who bring relevant skills from a range of disciplines\, including both humanities and the sciences\nParticipants willing to join inter-disciplinary teams that include fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists as well as legal scholars\, sociologists\, anthropologists\, and other humanities-oriented disciplines\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Hackathon Prize” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The team\, selected by our judging panel\, with the most innovative idea to advancing ad accountability approaches will be awarded with: \n\nReturn flights to Brisbane\nOne night accommodation in Southbank\, Brisbane\nMeet and greet with ABC’s Story Lab team – A collection of journalists\, developers\, designer\, social media and video specialist focused on data-driven\, visual storytelling for Australian audiences. View their work on ABC Story Lab\nPresent their winning idea at Hack/Hackers – A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”14119″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 7:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (9:00am – 5:30pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (9:00am – 4:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Invited: Speakers\, Mentors and Judges” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1656660325202{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13888″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Kate Bower – Consumer Data Advocate\, CHOICE\nSpeaker and Judge \nKate Bower is a Consumer Data Advocate at CHOICE\, Australia’s largest consumer advocacy organisation. The Consumer Data team extends CHOICE’s fight for fair\, safe and just markets to data misuse\, such as price discrimination and algorithmic bias. Current priorities are automated decision-making in essential services\, data monetisation and personalised pricing. Previously at CHOICE\, Kate worked as a data analyst on the digital transformation of insurance and financial services comparisons. Before joining the consumer movement\, Kate was an academic for more than a decade working across a range of areas including qualitative health research\, higher education and gender studies. She has a PhD from the University of Technology\, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of New South Wales.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13611″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Aimee Brownbill – Senior Policy and Research Advisor\, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)\nSpeaker and Judge \nAimee is Senior Policy and Research Advisor at the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)\, the leading not-for-profit organisation working towards an Australia free from alcohol harm. Aimee has a PhD in Public Health and has contributed to collaborative applied research informing public health policy for several years. In her role at FARE\, Aimee integrates her knowledge and experience in research\, policy and advocacy to achieve translational outcomes in public health policy and practice. She is currently leading a portfolio of work on digital marketing by harmful industries such as alcohol\, gambling and highly processed unhealthy foods\, exploring potential avenues for regulation in this space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1656660325202{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13930″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Laura Edelson – Postdoctoral Researcher\, New York University\nSpeaker \nLaura is a Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University with the Cybersecurity for Democracy project\, which she co-directs with Damon McCoy. There\, she leads the Ad Observatory and Ad Observer projects\, which aim to increase public transparency of digital advertising\, particularly during elections. Her research focuses on studying the spread of misinformation and other forms of harmful content in both paid and organic content on Facebook. Prior to her time in academia\, Laura worked as a software engineer for many years\, finishing her industry career with Palantir Technologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13775″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Simon Elvery – Journalist and Developer at ABC News Story Lab\, ABC\nSpeaker\, Judge and Mentor \nSimon is an award winning Brisbane based journalist and developer at ABC News Story Lab. He is currently Journalist Fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism\, University of Oxford where he is researching the use of technology by journalists in the reporting process. His work covers a wide range of topics including data visualisation\, climate change\, data security and privacy and algorithmic accountability.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2450″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Samuel Kininmonth – Policy Officer\, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN)\nSpeaker\, Judge and Mentor \nSamuel is a communications researcher and consumer policy advocate. Sam is a policy officer at ACCAN\, Australia’s peak body that represents all consumers on communications issues including telecommunications\, broadband and emerging new services. Sam contributes to ACCAN’s efforts to provide a consumer voice on digital platforms and emerging services. \nSam’s doctoral thesis\, titled The Programmatic Promise\, focuses on automated media markets and communications infrastructures through a study of programmatic advertising and ad tech. Sam has published work in journals including Television & New Media and presented research in Australia and internationally.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”14151″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Yuan-Fang Li – Associate Professor at Faculty of IT\, Monash University\nJudge  \nYuan-Fang is an Associate Professor at Faculty of IT\, Monash University. His research interest is artificial intelligence\, particularly the intersection between natural language processing and knowledge representation. His recent investigations include the following tasks: (1) neuro-symbolic approaches to complex question answering\, (2) knowledge graph construction from text/images\, and (3) graph representation learning. For these tasks\, he has developed novel techniques that are capable of learning from a few samples\, continually handling streams of incoming data\, adapting to new domains and unseen labels\, as well as handling (severely) imbalanced data.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13823″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lilly Ryan – Lead Security Specialist at Thoughtworks\nSpeaker \nLilly is a digital security consultant and public speaker at Thoughtworks. She also serves on the board of Digital Rights Watch. Lilly specialises in web application security\, privacy education\, and the history of technology-related issues. You can catch her talking security on the OWASP DevSlop Show or occasionally having opinions on 3RRR.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13718″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Erin Turner – Chief Executive Officer\, Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC)\nSpeaker \nErin Turner is a consumer advocate that has worked with a broad range of governments and regulators to make markets fairer for Australians. Erin was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Consumer Policy Research Centre in March 2022. Erin most recently led the advocacy and communications team at consumer group CHOICE. Erin has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Politics and Public Policy. She is a board member of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) and the Chair of the Financial Rights Legal Centre.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”14033″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lucy Westerman – Commercial Determinants of Health Lead\, VicHealth\nSpeaker and Judge \nLucy works at the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation – VicHealth\, exploring the ways in which businesses’ products and practices influence health and how to mitigate their harms. She recently returned from living in the UK\, where she led global campaigns and the chronic disease prevention and health promotion policy and advocacy work at global NGO\, the NCD Alliance\, in pursuit of stronger and better policy and action for disease prevention. Through her career to date\, Lucy has sharpened her focus on alcohol\, gambling\, tobacco\, food\, and physical inactivity\, and looking ‘upstream’ at cross-cutting issues such as the influence of social\, political\, commercial\, and environmental determinants on health – and illness. Lucy holds a Master of Public Health\, and bachelor’s degrees in Health Promotion\, Sociology\, and Nutrition\, and is mother to two teenagers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Project Researchers: Speakers\, Mentors and Judges” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”642″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Professor Mark Andrejevic – Chief Investigator\, ADM+S at RMIT\nMC and Mentor \nMark is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University (Monash) and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre’s Monash Node. His research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and popular culture. He is the author of four monographs\, including\, most recently Automated Media\, as well as more than 90 academic articles and book chapters. He is a member of the Council for Big Data\, Ethics\, and Society and heads up the Automated Society Working Group at Monash. Before coming to Monash he held positions at the University of Queensland and the University of Iowa. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”974″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Professor Daniel Angus – Associate Investigator\, ADM+S at QUT\nSpeaker and Mentor \nDaniel is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Node and a Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication at QUT. His research focuses on the development of computational analysis methods for communication data\, with a specific focus on interaction data. His novel computational methods have improved our understanding of the nature of communication in medical consultations\, conversations in aged care settings\, television broadcast\, social media\, and newspaper reporting. Daniel presently leads the Computational Communication and Culture program within the QUT Digital Media Research Centre\, and contributes regularly to media and industry on the impact of technology on society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657579810753{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”11654″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Assoc. Professor Nicholas Carah – Associate Investigator\, ADM+S at UQ\nSpeaker and Mentor \nNicholas is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society’s University of Queensland node and Director of the Digital Cultures and Societies Hub in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. \nNicholas’ research examines the algorithmic\, promotional and participatory cultures of digital media platforms. He is currently a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Using machine vision to explore Instagram’s everyday promotional cultures’\, Linkage Project ‘Young Australians and the promotion of alcohol and nightlife on social media\, and a Vichealth-funded project that tracks below-the-line marketing by harmful industries on social media. He is an investigator on a New Zealand Marsden Fund project examining young people\, digital media and limbic capitalism. Across these research activities Nicholas’ research has offered a sustained and unique account of the foundational role advertising plays in the development of digital and social media platforms and their cultures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657579810753{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13956″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Robbie Fordyce – Postdoctoral Fellow\, ADM+S at Monash University\nMentor \nRobbie completed his PhD\, Radical Platforms\, at the University of Melbourne\, graduating in 2019. His thesis engaged in a critique of autonomist Marxist theories of imperialism. This included a wide engagement with the work of post-fordist and autonomist scholars\, as well as platform studies\, theories of globalisation and imperialism\, and media theory. The thesis involved an investigation into activist and disruptive technologies; this included 3D-printing\, blockchain services\, wikileaks\, interactive entertainment\, social media\, and pirate networks. Robbie’s research continues and advances these interests\, expanding into research areas such as digital ethics\, smart cities\, infrastructure\, automation\, surveillance\, and fabrication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657506244651{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”2224″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Danula Hettiachchi – Research Fellow\, ADM+S at RMIT\nMentor \nDanula Hettiachchi is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, and RMIT School of Computing Technologies. Danula’s research interests are human-computer interaction\, crowd-sourcing\, and social computing. He will contribute to the ADM+S Centre’s Machines program with a specific focus on quantifying and measuring user bias and engagement with automated decision-making systems. Danula completed his doctoral research\, which investigates task assignment to improve data quality in crowd-sourcing at the School of Computing and Information Systems\, University of Melbourne.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1378″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Abdul Obeid- Data Engineer\, ADM+S at QUT\nSpeaker and Mentor \nDr Obeid is well-versed in machine learning\, topic modelling\, sentiment analysis\, statistical analysis\, and the use of probabilistic programming languages among other topics. He has applied these skills in industry and imparted them onto other analysts in Masters-level courses at QUT. Abdul has also taught in webdev\, specifically frontend and backend development and design. He has published many software applications and has worked directly with hardware engineers in IoT communication technologies\, building integrated cloud infrastructures for low-energy devices. In 2017\, he was awarded his honours at QUT\, for investigating influencer marketing techniques through rigorous psychometric analysis of social media. Since then\, he has conceived robust scraping and storage methods\, supplementing his advisory role at a Brisbane-based tech start-up. More recently\, Abdul has begun research in the field of quantum cognition\, a growing field that uses quantum probability calculus to understand cognitive processes. In his studies\, Abdul enjoys combinatorics\, graph theory\, matrix algebra\, and linear optimisation. He has published and co-authored many research articles\, two being accepted into top-ranking journals\, and is involved in ongoing collaborations with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657579824970{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”1011″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Professor Mark Sanderson – Chief Investigator\, ADM+S at RMIT\nMentor \nMark Sanderson is a Professor of Information Retrieval at RMIT University (RMIT)\, Director of the ISE Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT\, head of the RMIT Information Retrieval (IR) group\, and Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decsion-Making and Society. He has raised over $11 million dollars in grant income\, published over 150 papers\, and approximately 10\,000 citations to his work. His research is in the areas of search engines\, recommender systems\, user\, data\, and text analytics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1657506252743{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”12960″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Damiano Spina – DECRA Research Fellow\, ADM+S at RMIT\nMentor \nDamiano is a Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. His research areas are Information Retrieval and Text Analytics. In particular\, his research focuses on Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) (including user-system interactions in voice-enabled intelligent assistants) and evaluation of information access systems (including effectiveness measures of search engines and fairness-aware evaluation). Besides his academic life\, Damiano plays and teaches Capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian martial art) and plays Samba at the Melbourne-based band Wombatuque.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”14003″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Xue Ying Tan (Jane) – Software Engineer in the Digital Media Research Centre at QUT\nSpeaker and Mentor \nJane obtained her Bachelor of Information Technology and Master of Computer Science degrees from the University of Queensland\, in 2018 and 2019\, respectively. In her studies\, she participated in High Performance Parallel Computing research\, building a compiler to translate from OpenACC to OpenMP; and completed an internship with the National University of Singapore\, Digital Media Research lab\, working on surface meshing algorithms with GPU using CUDA Thrust. In her role with DMRC\, she focuses on the utility of computational methods including techniques such as topic modelling\, machine learning\, and information visualization to explore everyday promotional cultures in visual social media platforms. Her interests include Machine Learning\, Full Stack Web Development and Data Analytics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”12912″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr Verity Trott – Lecturer in Digital Media Research\, ADM+S at Monash University\nSpeaker and Mentor \nDr Verity Trott is Lecturer in Digital Media Research at Monash University. Her published research explores digital feminist activism\, popular (anti)feminism\, online communities and platform politics\, and digital masculinities. She is a member of the Automated Society Working Group at Monash University in which she investigates the impacts of digital technology and automation from feminist and intersectional standpoints.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”660″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Professor Kim Weatherall – DECRA Research Fellow\, ADM+S at RMIT\nJudge and Mentor \nKimberlee is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney\, specialising in the relationship between law and technology and intellectual property. Her current research focuses on the law relating to the collection\, ownership\, use and governance of data about and related to people\, including privacy law\, with the goal of ensuring that data collection\, use and linkage\, and data and predictive analytics are developed in a way that is fair\, transparent\, accountable\, and beneficial to people and society. To that end she works with researchers across disciplines in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, the Gradient Institute and the Humanising Machine Intelligence group at the Australian National University on questions relating to AI ethics and legality\, data and data governance. She also has strong expertise in all aspects of privacy law\, and conducted a Masterclass on Privacy as part of the leadup to the NSW Privacy Summit in 2020. She has an extensive background in intellectual property law and policy. She is currently a member of the Australian Computer Society’s Technical Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Fellow at the Gradient Institute. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDaniel Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Venue: The Oxford Scholar\, Melbourne” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13661″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Established in 1857\, during the heady days of the Victorian gold rush\, The Oxford Scholar Hotel has for more than 160 years served Melburnians at the northern-end of Swanston Street. In 2019 ‘The Scholar’ has been redeveloped\, refurbished and re-imagined as a sophisticated bar and eatery\, situated in the heart of the recently transformed RMIT City campus.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/dark-ads-hackathon/
LOCATION:The Oxford Scholar\, 427 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20220926T093000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20220926T170000
DTSTAMP:20220906T015327Z
CREATED:20220906T011734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220906T015327Z
UID:14804-1664184600-1664211600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Life in the Age of Automation: Cultural and Creative Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Automation is widely recognised as one of the most central and powerful organising systems of everyday life\, yet key questions about its historical\, cultural and epistemological specificity remain unanswered.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]Following the lead of Siegfried Giedion’s ground-breaking Mechanisation Takes Command (1948)\, this one-day event is designed to trace the impact of automation on the practices and technologies of everyday life. \nThe symposium brings together researchers and representatives from key centres and projects focused on the study of automation\, including: \n\nARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\nadmscentre.org.au\nDigital Cultures and Society Hub (UQ) \nDigital-Cultures-and-Societies\nARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA/UQ)\nautomationcultures.com\nARC DP “The Geopolitics of Automation” (WSU)\n the_geopolitics_of_automation\n\nThis symposium\, held in collaboration with the DCS Hub at UQ\, is organised as part of the ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour.” Where many studies of automation are focused on its technological aspects\, this project foregrounds the importance of cultural perspectives on and creative engagements with automation. It asks: how does automation look different when considered from these perspectives?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Confirmed Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nMark Andrejevic\nProfessor\, Communications and Media Studies; CI ADM+S Centre (Monash)\nJean Burgess\nAssociate Director\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) (QUT)\nNic Carah\nDirector\, DCS Hub (UQ); CI ADM+S Centre; CI ARC DP “Using Machine Vision to Explore Instagram’s Everyday Promotional Cultures”\nOron Catts\nDirector\, SymbioticA (Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts\, UWA); CI\, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA)\nSarah Collins\nLead CI\, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA)\nNed Rossiter\nProfessor of Communication\, lead CI\, ARC DP “The Geopolitics of Automation” (WSU)\nElizabeth Stephens\nAssociate Professor in Cultural Studies; CI\, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UQ)\nIonat Zurr\nHead of the Fine Arts School of Design\, and SymbioticA; CI\, ARC DP “The Cultural and Intellectual History of Automated Labour” (UWA)\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/life-in-the-age-of-automation-cultural-and-creative-perspectives/
LOCATION:ModWest Building\, (11A\, UQ)\, The University of Queensland\, St Lucia\, QLD\, 4074
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220915T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220916T013000
DTSTAMP:20220822T055449Z
CREATED:20220817T012631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T055449Z
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SUMMARY:International Conference on Facial Recognition in the Modern State
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This virtual conference will hold 24 international speakers from various regions around the world\, including six panels and three acclaimed keynote speakers. The webinar will provide a platform for socio-legal academic discussion around government use of FRT in Europe\, US\, Asia-Pacific\, Latin America and Africa.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”8px”][vc_column_text]From border control to policing and welfare\, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes\, prevent crime\, police cities\, and control immigration. However\, many questions remain unanswered. Is FRT a legitimate tool to ensure public safety and security? Or is it a surveillance infrastructure\, undermining fundamental rights and the rule of law? The conference and (later) Cambridge Handbook\, written by the speakers of the conference\, will explore whether and how the answers to these questions differ among liberal democracies\, and how democracies compare to authoritarian regimes on six different continents. Building on cultural and legal differences and common trends\, the presenters will discuss possible future directions in regulating governments’ use of FRT at national\, regional\, and international levels. \nConference takes place from 9:00am – 5:30pm UTC+2 /CEST[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”VIEW PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffacial-recognition-in-the-modern-state-tickets-382802481527|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Keynote Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14481″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Orla Lynskey\nLondon School of Economics\, UK \nOrla Lynskey is an Associate Professor\, having joined the LSE Law School in 2012 and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of data protection\, technology regulation\, digital rights and EU law. She holds an LLB (Law and French) from Trinity College Dublin\, an LLM in EU Law from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14482″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Milton L Mueller\nGeorgia Tech\, USA \nMilton Mueller is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. The author of seven books and scores of journal articles\, his work informs not only public policy but also science and technology studies\, law\, economics\, communications\, and international studies. His books Will the Internet Fragment? (Polity\, 2017)\, Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press\, 2010) and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press\, 2002) are acclaimed scholarly accounts of the global governance regime emerging around the Internet. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”568″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Mark Andrejevic\nMonash University\, Australia \nMark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University (Monash) and Chief Investigator at the ADM+S Centre’s Monash Node. His research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and popular culture. \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Conference Hosts” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1660691437317{background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″ css=”.vc_custom_1660691843265{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-top-color: #ffd600 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #ffd600 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699480243{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14508″ img_size=”120×150″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660692052695{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences\, Lithuania (main host) \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699463949{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”3702″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660692211571{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Allens Hub for Technology\, Law and Innovation\, UNSW Sydney\, Australia \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1660691437317{background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″ css=”.vc_custom_1660691843265{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-top-color: #ffd600 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #ffd600 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699490035{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”343″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660693268506{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699519166{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”3663″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660692425825{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Centre for Law in the Digital Transformation at the University of Hamburg\, Germany \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1660691437317{background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″ css=”.vc_custom_1660691843265{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-top-color: #ffd600 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #ffd600 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699536755{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14522″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660693100594{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Georgia Tech\, USA \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699546761{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14521″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660693150178{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]London School of Economics\, UK \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1660691437317{background-color: #151617 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0″ css=”.vc_custom_1660691843265{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-top-color: #ffd600 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #ffd600 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1660699555002{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14523″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1660693125506{padding-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Macquarie University\, Australia \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/facial-recognition-conference/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220726T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220726T163000
DTSTAMP:20220822T055258Z
CREATED:20220715T054252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T055258Z
UID:14064-1658844000-1658853000@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Placing Labour\, Locating Contemporary Capitalisms Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Automated Worlds Research Program\, Institute for Culture and Society\, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”8px”][vc_column_text]In this workshop we build on insights about the labour displacing effects of technologies of automation to ask about the new places in which labour emerges as we increasingly work in\, with\, and on automated assemblages. What analytical and political insights do we gain when we foreground the places of labour in contemporary capitalism? We draw attention to the workplaces – data centres\, warehouses\, office buildings\, and command centres – which shape such labour. But we also attend to the roles of labour in the larger economies they generate by situating it within its material contexts as well as its position in social processes of value accumulation. This dual emphasis on placing labour allows us to provide nuanced accounts of the ways that automation\, artificial intelligence\, and data analytics are redrawing capitalist landscapes of inequality in new ways. \nPlease contact Yasmin Tambiah at y.tambiah@westernsydney.edu.au to RSVP to this workshop.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Chairs” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”514″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Heather Horst\nWestern Sydney University \nHeather A. Horst is Professor and Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. A sociocultural anthropologist by training\, she researches material culture and the mediation of social relations through digital media and technology. \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”3482″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dr Adam Sargent\nWestern Sydney University \nTrained as a cultural anthropologist\, Dr Adam Sargent’s research focuses on capitalist development\, labor\, infrastructure\, and social inequality. He has explored these issues through research projects on construction work in India and engineering work in the United States. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Western Sydney University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. Adam will contribute to the People Program\, where his research will explore the uneven implementations of ADM technologies across the Global South. \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14066″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Adam Fish\nSchool of Arts and the Media\, University of New South Wales \nAdam Fish is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, School of Arts and the Media\, at the University of New South Wales. He is a cultural anthropologist\, documentary video producer\, and interdisciplinary scholar who works across social science\, computer engineering\, environmental science\, and the visual arts. Dr. Fish employs ethnographic\, participatory\, and creative methods to examine the social\, political\, and ecological impacts of new technologies. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14069″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Heather Ford\nSchool of Communications\, University of Technology \nHeather has a background working for global technology corporations and non-profits in the US\, UK\, South Africa and Kenya. A former Google Policy Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, former Executive Director of iCommons and co-founder of Creative Commons South Africa\, her research focuses on the social implications of media technologies and the ways in which they might be better designed to prevent misinformation\, social exclusion\, and algorithmic bias. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”12186″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Associate Professor Michael Richardson\nSchool of Arts and the Media\, University of New South Wales \nMichael Richardson is an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\, where he co-leads a project on the automation of public and shared space\, and an Associate Professor in Media at UNSW. \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”5155″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Ned Rossiter\nInstitute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University \nNed Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and Society and Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts\, Western Sydney University. He is a media theorist noted for his research on network cultures\, the politics of cultural labour\, logistical media and data politics. \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14067″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Professor Cheryll Soriano\nDepartment of Communication\, De La Salle University \nCheyrll is currently Professor of Communication in De La Salle University (DLSU) in the Philippines. She is Principal Investigator of Fairwork Philippines\, a part of the global Fairwork network which seeks to advance fair labor conditions in the gig economy across the world. She is interested in the social and political implications of communication technologies. In particular\, her research explores the intersections of digital cultures and marginality– understanding the way users from political\, economic\, or cultural margins use new media\, and how such digital media engagements facilitate social transformations and create new modes of understanding culture/politics. \nVisit website[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/placing-labour-workshop/
LOCATION:Western Sydney University\, Parramatta\, Victoria Rd\, Rydalmere\, NSW\, 2116\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220725T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220725T190000
DTSTAMP:20230719T070149Z
CREATED:20220706T020700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230719T070149Z
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SUMMARY:How AI is changing medical practice
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”We are delighted to welcome back Professor Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School)\, a leading author and academic on the law of artificial intelligence (AI)\, algorithms\, and machine learning\, along with local experts to unpack the challenges and advantages of AI and how it is changing medical practice.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The potential for AI and its ability to improve how healthcare is delivered is well documented. From supporting the patient experience and how they access healthcare services\, to assisting practitioners in avoiding errors\, AI can enable healthcare systems to offer better care to more people. However\, we’ll only take full advantage of what AI has to offer\, with wise policy choices. \nHow can governmental and other authorities better support the development of quality AI for diagnosis and clinical decision making? Do we have the systems in place to make the meaningful changes needed for doctors and hospital administrators to take genuine advantage of the potential of AI? What are the challenges they face? \nHear from Frank Pasquale\, author of New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press\, 2020) followed by a panel discussion with Associate Professor and Paediatric Anaesthetist\, Justin Skowno; Professor of law and a specialist at the intersection of law and technology\, Kimberlee Weatherall (moderator); with more speakers to be announced.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”986″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Prof Frank Pasquale\, Cornell Tech\nFrank Pasquale is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence (AI)\, algorithms\, and machine learning. He has recently been appointed to the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC)\, which advises the President and the National AI Initiative Office at the Department of Commerce. Pasquale’s latest book\, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press\, 2020) analyzes the law and policy influencing the adoption of AI in varied professional fields.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13943″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Assoc Prof Justin Skowno\, Westmead Children’s Hospital\nJustin Skowno is an Associate Professor at Sydney\, director of research in paediatric anaesthesia at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead\, and project lead for Big Data for Small People at CHW\, a collaborative critical care informatics programme. He has extensive experience in medical monitoring\, physiology and data analysis\, and is keenly interested in the question of how information technology and data science can transform the ways in which we care for the sickest patients.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”660″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Prof Kimberlee Weatherall\, Sydney Law School\nKimberlee is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney focusing on the regulation of technology and intellectual property law\, and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She is a Fellow at the Gradient Institute\, a research institute developing ethical AI\, a research affiliate of the Humanising Machine Intelligence group at the Australian National University\, a co-chair of the Australian Computer Society’s Advisory Committee on AI Ethics\, and was part of the organising committee for FAccT2022 in Seoul\, Korea.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/how-ai-is-changing-medical-practice/
LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Camperdown Campus\, The University of Sydney\, Camperdown\, NSW\, 2006\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220722T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220722T103000
DTSTAMP:20220715T014919Z
CREATED:20220611T002010Z
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SUMMARY:Re-imagining Automated Care through Arts-based Methods Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This workshop is a parallel and complementary event to the 2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Care and Automation’ panel. It involves inviting participants to engage with hands-on arts-based methods to think through\, problematise and contest imaginaries and practices of automated care as well as developing future-oriented ideas about possibilities for better automated care. In doing so\, they will be learning about these methods through participating\, with the potential to apply them in their own work (whether this is academic\, community sector or industry based). \nFacilitators:\nDeborah Lupton (UNSW)\nAsh Watson (UNSW)\nVaughan Wozniak-O’Connor (UNSW)\nCecily Klim (UNSW)\nMegan Rose (UNSW)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/reimagining-automated-care/
LOCATION:Green Brain\, RMIT University\, Level 7\, Building 16\, 342 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220721T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220721T210000
DTSTAMP:20230117T033405Z
CREATED:20220611T001153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T033405Z
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SUMMARY:Automated Societies Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for a cocktail function followed by a panel discussion featuring internationally recognised experts and industry participants.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_column_text]Artificial intelligence (AI) has probably already made decisions about your life. Platforms use AI and other forms of automation to recommend music for you to listen to on Spotify\, to personalise your news feed\, and recommend things to buy on Facebook. AI and automated decision-making are also being used across society to solve problems as diverse as improving social services\, creating more efficient transport\, and providing greater access to healthcare. AI and automation are changing the way we live\, and if AI hasn’t already made a decision that affects you\, it almost certainly will\, whether that be shaping what you see on social media\, providing better disease diagnosis\, or detecting if you are driving safely. \nThis panel will bring together internationally recognised experts and industry participants to discuss the opportunities of Automated Societies and explore the question: what do we need to know? \nHost:\nJenny Kennedy (RMIT) \nPanellists:\nKate Bower (CHOICE)\nMelissa Gregg (Intel)\nPenny Harrison (Australian Red Cross)\nMalavika Jayaram (Digital Asia Hub)\nAnthony McCosker (Swinburne University of Technology)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row title=”RESEARCH PROJECTS” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:%23research-filter|||” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][vc_btn title=”WATCH RECORDING” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FPfxeuoiI6IQ|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nView transcript \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/automated-societies-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The Capitol\, 113 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220720T200000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220721T000000
DTSTAMP:20220627T081758Z
CREATED:20220627T081758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220627T081758Z
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SUMMARY:Logical Conclusions/ Automation Effects
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Curated by Mark Andrejevic\, Laura McLean\, and Joel Stern\, this free experimental program at Miscellania club features artists\, musicians\, writers and researchers thinking with and against the logic of digital automation\, algorithmic culture\, and AI in order to trouble and subvert systems that extract\, aggregate\, model\, and predict. \nWith performances and presentations by Monica Lim\, Sean Dockray\, Mara MacDonald\, Vaughan Wozniek O’Connor\, Roslyn Orlando\, Emile Zile\, Zacharius Szumer\, Jathan Sadowski\, Tom Smith\, Sahej Rahal\, Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/logical-conclusions-automation-effects/
LOCATION:Miscellania\, 2/401 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220720T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220720T193000
DTSTAMP:20220627T224401Z
CREATED:20220627T224023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220627T224401Z
UID:13855-1658336400-1658345400@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Future Automated Mobilities: Film Screening & Report Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text=”Sit back and relax as we premiere a series of short films and officially launch our Transport & Mobility Scoping Study Report.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text el_id=”Heading-white”]Join us for the documentary screening of ‘Flightpaths\, Freeways and Railroads’ – a series of 4 short documentary films exploring how blind\, deaf and neuro-diverse participants currently experience transport mobilities and how automated technologies might be part of their future lives. \nFollowing the screening\, Prof Sarah Pink will be hosting a panel discussion with the film participants: Darren Moyle\, Brenton Lillecrapp\, Orhan Karagoz\, Micaela Schmidt\, Emma Quilty\, Jeni Lee\, and Jackie Leach Scully. \nAt this event we will also be launching our report titled: Automated Decision-Making in Transport Mobilities: Review of Industry Trends and Visions for the Future. The report reveals where ADM is present across transport mobilities in Australia\, how industry\, government and other stakeholders envision it will be part of our futures and insights on the limitations of these future visions.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/future-automated-mobilities-film-screening-report-launch/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220720
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220723
DTSTAMP:20220819T031302Z
CREATED:20220513T063437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220819T031302Z
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SUMMARY:2022 ADM+S Symposium 'Automated Societies: What do we need to know?'
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The 2022 ADM+S Symposium will connect our work on responsible\, ethical and inclusive automated services with national and international research\, policy and practice agendas\, and showcase outcomes and works in progress across the Centre.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]The 2022 ADM+S Symposium ‘Automated Societies: What do we need to know?’ showcases the Centre’s distinctive cross- and multi-disciplinary approach to automated systems and explores a range of critical current and emerging problems\, challenges\, and conceptual questions. \nThe event will speak to the current contexts of our work\, including the consequences and implications of the pandemic for digital services; the current phase of regulatory and policy agendas in Australia and other jurisdictions; and the rapidly developing state of key technologies\, systems\, and infrastructures. \nYou will hear from ADM+S researchers\, partners and collaborators through a diverse mix of keynote presentations\, panel discussions\, interactive workshops\, film screenings\, book launches\, and other exciting satellite events. \nWe have a terrific program lined up and are looking forward to welcoming you to our 2022 Symposium! \n#ADMS2022[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1651627344946{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}” el_class=”yellowBox”][vc_btn title=”SESSION RECORDINGS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLE_y90GftjpaZ1sO0iJjcxwfk32qI4UEH|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAM” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]View the event program for details on each session\, speakers and locations.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”REGISTRATION” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Online registrations have now closed. Please contact admsevents@rmit.edu.au if you would like to attend. \n\nIn-person attendees – $350 (AUD)\nIn-person concession rate – $150 (AUD)\nOnline attendees – Free\nADM+S members in-person and online – Free\n\nThe Centre is offering a limited number of free tickets for people affected by financial hardship. Please contact the event organisers for more information. \nRegistrations for our satellite workshops and evening events are ticketed separately. Please visit our events page for more information on these events.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”IMPORTANT DATES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nEarly June 2022 – Registration opens\n14 June 2022 – Submission deadline for abstracts for Digital Inequality Workshop\n20 June 2022 – Submission deadline for draft Posters\n27 June 2022 – Submission deadline for final Posters\n6 July 2022 – Last day to register for in-person attendance at all events\n18- 19 July 2022 – Satellite workshops\n20- 22 July 2022 – ADM+S Symposium 2022\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”POSTER COMPETITION” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_id=”Heading-white”]Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 ADM+S Poster Competition Assoc Prof Jeffrey Chan\, Dr Danula Hettiachchi\, Hiruni Kegalle\, Prof Flora Salim\, and Prof Mark Sanderson for their poster  ‘Quantifying impacts of shared e-scooters’. \nHonourable Mentions were also awarded to ‘AI Opacity and Explainability in Tort Litigation’ by Dr Henry Fraser\, Rhyle Simcock\, and Dr Aaron Snoswell and ‘ACTUATE Project: Fair Data-Driven Resource Allocation Under Time Constraints’ by Dr Jeffery Chan\, Dr Sarah M. Erfani\, Dr Yousef Kowsar\, Prof Christopher Leckie\, Prof Flora Salim.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”WATCH SESSION RECORDINGS ON YOUTUBE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLE_y90GftjpaZ1sO0iJjcxwfk32qI4UEH|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423152655{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423190791{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years\nParticipants who are with relevant skills\, expertise or experience such as fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\, including sociologists\, anthropologists\, political scientists\, and others working in the humanities and social sciences.\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions.Who are the organisers?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”642″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Prof Mark Andrejevic \nMark Andrejevic contributes expertise in the social and cultural implications of data mining\, and online monitoring. He writes about monitoring and data mining from a socio-cultural perspective\, and is the author of three monographs and more than 60 academic articles and book chapters. He was the Chief Investigator for an ARC QEII Fellowship investigating public attitudes toward the collection of personal information online ($390\,000; 2010-2014). \nAndrejevic has experience conducting both quantitative and qualitative research and is experienced in the focus group and interview methodologies. His work on the personal information project\, for example\, generated a book\, 11 articles and book chapters\, and a report on Australian attitudes toward online privacy that was launched by the Federal Privacy Commissioner.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/symposium2022/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220719T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220719T190000
DTSTAMP:20220718T063931Z
CREATED:20220706T014522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T063931Z
UID:13935-1658251800-1658257200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:New Rights to Know: Data Access in the Context of Automated Decision-Making
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If a company gathers data about someone\, should that person be entitled to inspect the information\, and correct errors? If an algorithmic lender decides to raise a borrower’s interest rate based on a constant stream of data gathered from their cell phone\, should the borrower be able to review the data\, and demand some accounting for why they need to pay more? And if an automated check-out kiosk categorizes a customer as a “potential threat\,” and calls security\, should the customer be able to learn why they were classified in this way—or at least what data was used to make the determination? \nAnswers to questions like these will help determine the fairness and intelligibility of commercial life for years to come. Expansive deployments of “big data” and AI to judge consumers and workers have highlighted potential uses of a venerable\, but newly controversial\, aspect of fair information practices: a data subject’s right to access information collected about them\, including how the data was used in profiling and decision-making. This talk will explore the virtues and limits of such rights\, focusing on a case study proposing four levels of access and explanation. Rights to access are only likely to make a significant difference when robust civil society institutions help individuals understand and act on their rights to data. \nPresenters:\nProf Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School)\nSusie Sheldrick (University of Melbourne) \n  \n*Please note this event will now be held online*[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/new-rights-to-know-data-access-in-the-context-of-automated-decision-making/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220719T153000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220719T173000
DTSTAMP:20220611T000414Z
CREATED:20220611T000414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220611T000414Z
UID:13667-1658244600-1658251800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Dialogues: Discovering Keywords & Building New Socio-Technical Literacies for ADM Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This two-hour workshop aims to explore the tensions\, ambiguities and ambivalences surrounding the language of automation and AI. The language surrounding new technologies matters. Artificial intelligence (AI)\, algorithm\, big data and automated decision making (ADM) are buzzwords that carry substantial weight public and policy conversation. However\, they are also unfixed\, intermingled and unclear and even contested among different research communities. The picture becomes even messier and potentially more exclusionary when we add value laden concepts like bias\, fairness\, harms\, justice\, trust and trustworthiness\, transparency\, engagement\, responsible\, learning\, expertise\, inclusion\, vision\, work\, learning\, care (etc) in relation to the things that data\, algorithms\, AI and ADM systems do in the world – and how they do it. \nIn the tradition of Raymond Williams’ Keywords project this workshop aims to explore the tensions\, ambiguities and ambivalences surrounding the language of automation and AI. This will involve parking our disciplinary lenses and thinking about the way these new technologies reverberate. The goal is to take this into new modes of public engagement\, translation and outreach\, and to inform our research design.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/dialogues-adm-workshop/
LOCATION:The Oxford Scholar\, 427 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220628T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220628T140000
DTSTAMP:20220623T092613Z
CREATED:20220606T075045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T092613Z
UID:13561-1656421200-1656424800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Emerging Health Technologies in Australia: Developments in automation\, AI and more
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Emerging technologies such as automated decision-making (ADM) and artificial intelligence (AI) are being increasingly applied within healthcare contexts. However\, media coverage tends to focus on overseas examples. What is happening here in Australia? What technologies actually exist\, and what does AI look like in practice? What are the opportunities and impacts for health consumers? In this webinar\, researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, Dr Ash Watson and Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor\, will answer these questions and share findings from their research. They will be joined by discussant Steve Woodyatt\, CEO at Datarwe\, who will respond and share their own experiences in this developing space. \nThis event is presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society in partnership with Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) and Datarwe.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h6|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”2562″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dr Ash Watson – Research Fellow\, ADM+S\nAsh is a sociologist who researches the current and anticipated impacts of emerging technologies in contexts of health and wellbeing. Her current projects focus on developments in healthtech startups and how health consumers make sense of health information about themselves\, their communities and their environments. Her other recent work has examined people’s experiences during COVID-19\, including a co-authored book The Face Mask in COVID Times (2021).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”4314″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor – Research Fellow\, ADM+S\nVaughan is a media artist and emerging technology researcher. His research explores arts-based and creative applications of emerging technologies. He has undertaken creative projects both internationally and nationally\, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)\, Plimsoll Gallery (Tasmania)\, The Condensory (Queensland)\, Museu de Aveiro (Portugal) and Holocenter (NYC).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13796″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Dr Stephanie Chaousis – Partnerships Manager\, Datarwe\nDr Stephanie Chaousis\, uses her research expertise to lead partnerships and research governance at clinical data company\, Datarwe. She is passionate about the translation of big data and AI-enabled research into real-word solutions that will help Australia maintain and enhance its world-class healthcare system. At Datarwe\, she is working to develop the world’s most comprehensive acute care real world data platform\, enabling researchers and product developers to create next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) clinical diagnostic tools and technologies. She also heads up the federally funded national AI for healthcare training program delivered by not-for-profit company IntelliHQ.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13730″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Roma Cecere – Consumer Advocate and Traveller\nRoma works with consumers and local council organisations to share her knowledge about navigating the healthcare system\, medicines and new technologies as an everyday enabler. For 35 years she has worked across the pharmaceutical (medicines and devices) and medicine information\, pharmacy patient health services software and pathology (private and hospital) industries.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/emerging-health-technologies-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220627T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220627T193000
DTSTAMP:20220627T061214Z
CREATED:20220615T222235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220627T061214Z
UID:13697-1656352800-1656358200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Public Forum: How Should Australia Regulate Facial Recognition Technology?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Would you support the introduction of cameras that can recognise your face in the street?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text el_id=”Heading-white”]Recent controversy over new CCTV cameras in Adelaide has highlighted the issue of facial recognition technologies and the potential for their misuse in the absence of strong legal controls. \nThe City Council asked police not to use facial recognition technology\, ‘unless and until the parliament in South Australia adopts legislation consistent with biometric surveillance\, facial and privacy recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Law Council.’ \nHowever\, South Australian police have already been using facial recognition on other systems\, according to news reports\, including technology provided by one of the industry leaders\, NEC. \nThe police have described facial recognition as a useful investigative tool\, but the Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a temporary ban on its use until there is legislation\, especially around their use in law enforcement\, to protect civil rights and liberties. \nHear about the risks of the technology and the regulations we require when former Human Rights Commissioner Ed Santow\, Law Society President Justin Stewart-Rattray\, Greens MLC Tammy Franks and UTS expert Lauren Perry provide their thoughts and answer questions you might have at a public forum moderated by Adelaide City Council Member Phil Martin. \nThis will be an important public meeting for South Australians as we discuss the key issues face recognition raises for our democracy.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In the interest of public health and safety\, if you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19\, please stay home.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Supported by the ARC-funded Facial Recognition Project at Monash University\, the ARC Centre for Automated Decision Making and Society\, and ANU.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”13728″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Featured Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13700″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Tammy Franks – Greens Member\, SA Parliament \nTammy Franks MLC is the Co-Leader of the Greens in the South Australian Parliament and has been a member of the South Australian Legislative Council since her election in 2010. Her portfolio responsibilities include Consumer and Business Affairs\, Trade and Investment\, and Mental Health (among others). \nTammy has worked as an advisor to the former Senator Natasha Stott Despoja as well as for Amnesty International and the YWCA. Directly before her election\, she was the policy officer for the Mental Health Coalition of South Australia. \nTammy has previously introduced legislation that would require that\, where facial recognition technology is used in gambling venues\, it is used solely for the purpose of harm reduction. She continues to be an advocate against the use of facial recognition technology for grooming gamblers\, and wants to see better regulation of the use of facial recognition technology.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13701″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Edward Santow – Industry Professor\, Responsible Technology \nEdward Santow is the newly appointed Industry Professor – Responsible Technology at UTS. He will lead a major UTS initiative to build Australia’s strategic capability in artificial intelligence and new technology. This initiative will support Australian business and government to be leaders in responsible innovation—by developing and using AI that is powerful\, effective and fair. \nEd was previously Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner (2016-2021)\, and led the most influential project worldwide on the human rights and social implications of AI. Before that he was chief executive of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre\, a leading non-profit organisation that promotes human rights through strategic litigation\, policy development and education. He was also previously a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School\, a research director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a solicitor in private practice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13702″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Justin Stewart-Rattray – 2022 President of the Law Society \nJustin Stewart-Rattray is the Principal of Stewart-Rattray Lawyers. He was admitted to practice in 1993 and has over 28 years of experience\, of which approximately 20 years has been as a practitioner either alone or in small practice. Justin has established a solid practice in all aspects of business law\, specialising in debt collection and litigation; both commercial and in insolvency. He has worked for a broad range of businesses across a range of industries both State and national\, big and small. \nJustin has been a Member of the Society’s Council since January 2019.  Justin’s motivation to seek election and ultimately act as President in 2022 was to give something back and help the Society ensure the wellbeing of the profession in South Australia. He is keen to maintain the viability of the South Australian profession\, especially in the current uncertain times from the perspective of sole practitioners and smaller firms.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”13703″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lauren Perry – Projects Manager – Responsible Technology \nLauren Perry is the Projects Manager – Responsible Technology\, based at UTS’s Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion. With Professor Edward Santow\, Lauren leads the centre’s work on responsible technology. \nLauren manages a number of major projects including the Facial Recognition Technology Model Law Project and UTS’s AI Strategic Training Initiative. Her areas of expertise include the social implications of new technologies\, human rights\, and public policymaking. \nLauren previously worked at the Australian Human Rights Commission in research\, project and policy roles. Lauren undertook research and coordinated national consultations and public engagements for the Human Rights and Technology Project. \nSince 2019\, Lauren has been a founding member of the UTS Young Alumni Committee\, dedicated to creating opportunities for UTS graduates to connect\, collaborate\, and make a difference in the wider community.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/public-forum-how-should-australia-regulate-facial-recognition-technology/
LOCATION:Adelaide Town Hall (Banqueting Room)\, 128 King William Street\, Adelaide\, SA\, 5000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220608T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220608T170000
DTSTAMP:20220531T223044Z
CREATED:20220531T222416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220531T223044Z
UID:13498-1654704000-1654707600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Duped by Design
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text=”Duped by Design” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]CPRC provides an insight into the types of online dark patterns that exist for consumers and the harms these deceptive designs can cause.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]About this event \nWhat are dark patterns and how do they harm consumers?\nConsumers are being manipulated by how information and choices are displayed on websites and apps to deliberately influence their behaviour. These designs are dark patterns. They are used to steer choices in ways that benefit businesses but can leave consumers worse off.\nThis CPRC webinar provides an insight into the types of dark patterns being used in Australia and the harms these deceptive designs can cause. \nCPRC will share its latest consumer research on the prevalence and impact of dark patterns on Australian consumers and what businesses and governments can do to create a fair\, safe and inclusive experience for Australian consumers in the digital economy. \nFinn Myrstad\, Head of Digital Services Section at the Norwegian Consumer Council and world-leading expert in dark patterns\, will join CPRC in a conversation to share how dark patterns are being addressed internationally. Finn was instrumental in bringing this concept to light in the European Union and will highlight what Australia can learn from international action and response . \nPanel: Erin Turner – CEO\, Consumer Policy Research Centre\, Chandni Gupta – Policy and Program Director (Consumers in a Digital World)\, Consumer Policy Research Centre and Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad – Director\, Digital Policy at the Norwegian Consumer Council[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/duped-by-design/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220510T153000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220510T163000
DTSTAMP:20220428T000043Z
CREATED:20220427T234852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T000043Z
UID:12789-1652196600-1652200200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Melbourne's Future as a Digital City — Melbourne Knowledge Week
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A panel of academics and industry experts discuss how new digital technologies and trends might shape our future city.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]How will new digital technologies\, like IoT\, cloud\, AI/ML and blockchain\, reshape our city in the future? This thought-provoking discussion will examine how current technology trends — such as working from home — are increasingly moving our economic and social activity online. You will hear from RMIT academics and learn insights from several areas of research from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). \nThis event is part of the RMIT Culture Talks: a four-part series designed to translate knowledge and examine issues affecting the community in an accessible and engaging way. Each session will include RMIT academics as speakers alongside collaborators\, industry representatives and community members\, showcasing creative\, innovative ideas and research.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/melbournes-future-as-a-digital-city/
LOCATION:The Capitol\, 113 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="Melbourne Knowledge Week":MAILTO:knowledge@melbourne.vic.gov.au
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220507T143000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220507T153000
DTSTAMP:20220427T235812Z
CREATED:20220426T052136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T235812Z
UID:12763-1651933800-1651937400@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Conflict In My Outlook: Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading text=”Conflict In My Outlook: Book Launch” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us to launch the anthology Conflict in My Outlook\, bringing together contemporary artworks and new texts shedding light on human experience in an era where data is the new oil. From digital intimacies to clickwork\, this panel envisions a better future amid algorithmic racism\, machine learning and the new colonial frontiers of surveillance capitalism. \nPanel: Thao Phan\, Jathan Sadowski\nHosts: Anna Briers\, Dr Nicholas Carah[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/conflict-in-my-outlook-book-launch/
LOCATION:Queensland Art Gallery Theatre\, Stanley Place\, Cultural Precinct\, South Bank\, QLD\, 4101\, Australia
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