Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

RMIT University, Melbourne
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Journalist and critic Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has invigorated both academic and journalistic critique of Spotify, while arming musicians with a powerful set of arguments for imagining alternative platforms and economic models for music.


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How Can Democracy Survive AI?

The Atrium, P Block Level 6, QUT Gardens Point Gardens Point Road 60A, Brisbane City, QLD
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Over the past decade, Asia has emerged as a pivotal hub in the global landscape of digital platform development and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. This conference positions Asia not simply as a regional context for empirical inquiry, but as a generative vantage point for theorising the interwoven dynamics of platforms, AI, and socio-political transformations.


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She Shapes History: Badass Women of Melbourne

RMIT University, Melbourne
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Journalist and critic Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has invigorated both academic and journalistic critique of Spotify, while arming musicians with a powerful set of arguments for imagining alternative platforms and economic models for music.


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Decentralised Technologies and Global Chinese Communities

University of Hong Kong
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Decentralised technologies—including blockchain, distributed ledgers, and the Web3 ecosystem (such as decentralised finance , decentralised autonomous organisations , and cryptocurrencies)—are transforming global economic, social, cultural, and communicative structures. Promising greater autonomy, transparency, and inclusivity, these technologies challenge established institutional power structures and enable new forms of organisation, interaction, and transaction.


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Beyond XAI: Explainable Data-driven Modelling for Human Reasoning and Decision Support

ADM+S Centre, RMIT University 106-108 Victoria Street, Carlton, VIC
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Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they explore how we can reimagine XAI by drawing upon a broad range of relevant interdisciplinary findings.


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Practical Machine Learning Explainability: Surrogate Explainers and Fairwashing

ADM+S Centre, RMIT University 106-108 Victoria Street, Carlton, VIC
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Join this session delivered by ADM+S Affiliate Kacper Sokol and Associate Investigator Danula Hetticachchi as they introduce the three core components of surrogate explainers: data sampling, interpretable representation and explanation generation in view of text, image and tabular data.


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