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SUMMARY:Pathways for Regeneration: Frontier Innovation meets Community Stewardship
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”As technology reshapes our world at unprecedented speed and scale\, how can communities harness these shifts to build resilient\, regenerative futures?” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDrawing from a decade building frontier tech ventures across emerging markets and supporting grassroots initiatives throughout Asia-Pacific and beyond\, Crystal Ma explores the transformative potential where cutting-edge innovation meets community and indigenous stewardship. Through real-world examples leveraging emerging technologies including AI and blockchain\, she reveals how we can seize this pivotal time to flip the script — contributing and seeding systems that empower the commons to contribute to an inclusive\, regenerative\, and thriving future for people and planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1755266039842{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”29993″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Crystal Ma\nCrystal Ma is a venture builder and digital innovation strategist at the intersection of inclusive finance\, frontier technology\, and impact. With over a decade launching and scaling ventures at the forefront of technology across frontier markets\, she has structured funds\, worked with pioneering startups\, and launched digital products to millions in emerging markets. Her work spans from leading strategic initiatives at fintech unicorns and Web3 protocols\, advising funders and founders\, to hands-on contributions to grassroots and community-led initiatives in rural villages across Asia-Pacific and beyond. \nCrystal now focuses on partnering with mission-aligned teams and organisations\, leveraging frontier technologies\, including AI\, blockchain\, and IoT\, to scale digital solutions and build market infrastructure for a low-carbon economy. Working across the globe\, she is committed to integrating social\, financial\, and technological innovation for inclusive impact and regeneration for people and the planet. \nCrystal holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics\, is a CFA Charterholder\, and holds certification in Climate Finance. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1755267942066{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER NOW” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fpathways-for-regeneration|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/pathways-for-regeneration/
LOCATION:Hybrid
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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SUMMARY:Briefing: Workforce Australia’s Targeted Compliance Framework
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join the ADM+S Regulatory Project for an online briefing and discussion with academics and advocates to understand the layers of technical\, legal and political problems underpinning Workforce Australia’s Targeted Compliance Framework.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo years after recommendations made by the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme\, tens of thousands of welfare recipients in Australia are again suffering at the hands of another government automated system. \nOver 2022 to 2024\, more than 900 people had their jobseeker payments cancelled by an automated system that underpins Workforce Australia’s Targeted Compliance Framework. There are also concerns as to whether the suspension of payments — which happens in tens of thousands every month — was legal. \nThe Commonwealth Ombudsman found the payments had been cancelled unlawfully\, warning that the issue could have catastrophic impact on vulnerable recipients\, invoking conclusions from the Robodebt Royal Commission. \nAttendees will hear from ADM+S scholars as well as the Antipoverty Centre and Economic Justice Australia about their advocacy work\, followed by questions and discussion of next steps. \nSpeakers \n\nProf. Kimberlee Weatherall (University of Sydney)\nProf. Terry Carney (University of Sydney)\nDr. Simone Casey (Economic Justice Australia)\nKristin O’Connell (Antipoverty Centre)\n\nEvent contacts\nSamantha Floreani (samantha.floreani@monash.edu)\nKimberlee Weatherall (kimberlee.weatherall@sydney.edu.au) \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1755233455988{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER HERE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fbriefing-workplace-australia-s-targeted-compliance-framework|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/briefing-workplace-australias-targeted-compliance-framework/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Invited Organisations
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SUMMARY:Financial Platforms: Infrastructures for Value Creation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for this discussion led by Professor Janet Roitman\, from RMIT University in Melbourne\, who will examine Financial Platforms: Infrastructures for Value Creation.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Financial platforms are generally seen as the basic infrastructure of platform capitalism. They are therefore taken to be the basis for the exercise of ‘infrastructural power.’ The latter transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However\, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms and infrastructures depending on geographical location. \nFor example\, financial platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization on a global scale and are generally seen as the basic infrastructure of platform capitalism. They are therefore taken to be the basis for exercise of ‘infrastructural power.’ The latter transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However\, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms and infrastructures depending on geographical location. For example\, while financial platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization on a global scale\, they are reduced to processes of financial inclusion when referencing the ‘Global South.’ Analyses of financialization as a one-way-vector – Global North to Global South – overlook the variability\, the limits\, and responses to financialization. In contrast\, a focus on market devices illustrates the specificities of value creation via digital platforms.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]RSVP via the ADM+S Calendar invite.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1750647521944{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]Janet Roitman is a Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia. She is the founderdirector of The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre\nof Excellence for Automated Decision-making and Society (ADM+S) at RMIT University. She serves on the Council of Advisors for the Platform Cooperativism Consortium. Her research focuses on financial practices\, digital technologies\, and emergent forms of value. She is the author of Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (Princeton University Press) and Anti-Crisis (Duke University Press). \nProfessor Roitman serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cultural Economy\, Cultural Anthropology\, Finance & Society\, and Platforms & Society. Her research has received funding support from the Ford Foundation\, the MacArthur Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the United States Social Science Research Council\, Agence française du développement\, The Institute for Public Knowledge\, and the United States National Science Foundation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/financial-platforms-infrastructures-for-value-creation/
LOCATION:QUT Kelvin Grove – Z9-607\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,ECR Students,HDR Students,Online
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SUMMARY:Efficiency is not the only goal: An examination of the role of public consultation in administrative law
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for this presentation by ADM+S Research Fellow Alexandra Sinclair\, who will examine the purposes and values of human consultation in administrative law and whether those values can be satisfied in a context of simulated participation and consultation.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]This presentation is situated within a context of increasing calls for Gen AI simulation of human  participation and consultation in legislative and democratic processes. The presentation examines  the  purposes and values of human consultation in administrative law. It analyses how consultation has both instrumentalists aims in improving the quality of law-making and decision-making and also recognises wider values pertaining to human dignity and democratic legitimacy.   The presentation questions whether those values can be satisfied in a context of simulated participation and consultation.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]RSVP via the ADM+S calendar invite which will include a Zoom link for online attendees.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1750647521944{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKER” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”28383″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Dr Alexandra Sinclair is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sydney Law School. She has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science examining the application of English judicial review doctrines to automated decision-making by the British state. Alexandra previously worked as a research fellow at the Public Law Project\, focusing on public law and technology. Her work with the Public Law Project on frontline automated decision-making in government was covered by the Guardian.  Alexandra has published in the Modern Law Review and Public Law. She is a frequent online contributor and has written for the UK Constitutional Law Association Blog\, the Digital Constitutionalist\, the Law Society Gazette and Prospect Magazine\, among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/efficiency-is-not-the-only-goal-an-examination-of-the-role-of-public-consultation-in-administrative-law/
LOCATION:QUT Kelvin Grove – Z9-607\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Online
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SUMMARY:Signals and Noises: AusSTS Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us as we tune in to the signals and noises that shape our understanding of science\, technology\, and the worlds around us.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]We are excited to announce a collaboration with the ‘Signal to Noise’ exhibition at the fantastic new National Communication Museum (NCM) in Hawthorn\, Naarm\, for day 1 of the conference. The day 1 activities will draw on the creative archives\, exhibitions and interactive spaces in the NCM and have been made possible thanks to generous support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). \nDay 1 will include a keynote panel on infrastructures of noise with Dang Nguyen\, (RMIT)\, Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh\, (University of Basel)\, Kate Mannell (Deakin) and Fabian Offert (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\, as well as a series of workshops and a public event in the evening with Eryk Salvaggio and further international and national artists (to be announced soon!). \nDay 2 and 3 will take place at Deakin Downtown in Docklands. We look forward to a keynote on technologies of reproduction by Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland)\, in discussion with Jaya Keaney(University of Melbourne)\, to kick off a day of presentations\, pre-submitted paper workshops\, and ‘Making and Doing’ sessions\, which will include posters and short\, timed tours where presenters will have a few minutes to introduce their installations. \nThe keynote for day 3 on noise within health includes Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney)\, Kari Lancaster (University of Bath)\, and Christopher O’Neill (Deakin).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Faussts.org%2Faussts-2025-cfp%2F|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/signals-and-noises-aussts-conference-2025/
LOCATION:National Communication Museum\, 375 Burwood Rd\, Hawthorn\, VIC\, 3122\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Public Event
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SUMMARY:Network anarchy and unstable diffusions
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Once imagined as a decentralised utopia of free knowledge\, DIY culture\, and radical sharing\, the internet has now evolved into a dystopia of crypto millionaires\, fascist bots\, doomscrolling\, and algorithmic control.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]What we imagined as an infrastructure for openness\, stability\, and resilience has left us instead feeling profoundly unstable\, polarised\, and trapped inside a chaotic walled garden of nothing but noise. To borrow a phrase from media theorist Wendy Chun\, our ground truths have all turned out to be deep fakes.  \nThis event\, spanning two days of workshops and talks at RMIT\, will explore how artists\, writers\, thinkers\, and other cultural workers can help us come to terms with the broken promises and chaotic realities of the 21st-century internet.  \nConvened by Joel Stern (RMIT)\, Thao Phan (ANU)\, and Christopher O’Neill (Deakin) \nSupported by ADM+S as part of the project ‘Evaluating Automated Cultural Curating and Ranking Systems with Synthetic Data’. Presented in association with the National Communication Museum\, School of Media and Communication RMIT\, and the AusSTS 2025 Conference ‘Signals and Noises’\, which runs from July 9-11. Details here.  \nADM+S students and ECRs are encouraged to sign up for the first day of AusSTS at the National Communication Museum at a reduced price – featuring performances\, workshops\, and keynotes from invited scholars and performers. Registrations are now open.  \nMonday 7 July\nNoisy Joints: Embodying the AI Glitch: Eryk Salvagio and Camila Galaz\n12pm-2pm \n\nArtists and researchers Eryk Salvaggio and Camila Galaz present a participatory workshop on interrupting and reframing the outputs of generative AI systems. Drawing from a critical AI puppetry workshop originally developed at the Mercury Store in Brooklyn\, New York\, Noisy Joints invites participants to think through the body—its categorisation\, misrecognition\, and noise—within AI image-generation systems. How do our physical movements interact with machine perception? How can choreographies of shadow\, gesture\, and failure unsettle the logic of automated categorisation? \nAcross the session\, participants will explore these questions through short talks\, collaborative video-making\, glitch-puppetry exercises\, and experimental use of tools like Runway’s GEN3 model. Using shadows\, projections\, and improvised movement\, the workshop will trace a playful and critical path through the interfaces and assumptions that shape AI perception. 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They were among the first artists to investigate and subvert the conventions of the Internet\, computer programs\, and video and computer games. Their work radically disrupts the very language of these systems\, including visual aesthetics\, interface elements\, commands\, errors\, and code. JODI stages extreme digital interventions that destabilise the relationship between computer technology and its users by subverting expectations about the functionalities and conventions of the systems we rely on every day. Their practice spans a variety of media and techniques\, including installations\, software\, websites\, performances\, and exhibitions. \nJODI’s work is featured in most art historical volumes on digital and media art. It has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Documenta X\, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)\, ZKM\, ICC\, CCA\, the Guggenheim\, IMAL\, Centre Pompidou\, Eyebeam\, FACT\, MoMI\, Harvard Art Museums\, Rhizome\, and MoMA\, among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fjodi-workshop%3Fc%3Dadms|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 css=””]Tuesday 8 July\nHow to Train Your (Mental) Model: Fabian Offert (UCSB) & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (University of Basel)\n2pm- 4pm \nThis workshop seeks to interrogate how one may know if/when AI is “bad\,” and who gets to make that determination. The objective of the workshop is not to interrogate how training of models happens in contemporary AI systems but to instead collectively come to terms with the methods of studying AI in contemporary STS (and adjacent) scholarship. We shall outline some common methodological trends and issues in the field of critical AI studies\, and collaboratively look at\, and think about\, the precise chains of arguments that undergird our understanding of AI models today. Turning the chain-of-thought process unto a critical register\, the participants will be invited to consider the methodological diversity\, veracity\, and validity of contemporary argumentation modes (across popular\, corporate\, and academic discourses) and the political emergence and implications of these argumentations. At the core of this exercise is a consideration of how we\, as thinkers and tinkerers\, may reassess our mental models of how AI models are trained and operationalized. In the face of these issues that we shall encounter\, the workshop will aim towards making some headway into a future set of methodologies that might take into account existing strengths in our humanistic and social scientific domains.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fhow-to-train-your-mental-model-workshop%3Fc%3Dadms|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/network-anarchy-and-unstable-diffusions/
LOCATION:RMIT Media Portal
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Melbourne
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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:20250704T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250704T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250521T050119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T053210Z
UID:29178-1751623200-1751641200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Re/Framing Field Lab
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Expressions of Interest Invited” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2024\, Re/Framing brought together industry\, academia and creative industries to map the landscape of creativity and AI. This landscape\, of course\, has since been terraformed multiple times over. \nFollowing this year’s ADM+S Symposium in Brisbane\, this satellite event invites scholars\, creatives\, and collaborators to join a focused co-lab on generative AI\, critical media practice\, and creative research.  \n\n\nThis time\, we zoom in — shifting from discussion to co-creation. Together\, we’ll explore themes like signal\, noise\, agency\, embodiment\, authenticity\, tools\, systems\, and workflows\, with a view to generating tangible outcomes: co-authored papers\, creative NTROs\, white papers\, infographics\, tech demos\, speculative systems\, special issues\, zines — or whatever else wants to emerge. \nThis is a space to find your plot on the landscape and plant some seeds – to pitch\, partner\, and prototype ideas. \nWe’re excited to bring together people across disciplines\, roles\, and modalities who want to experiment at the messy intersections of theory\, practice\, and speculative media/design. \nTo express interest\, please email Daniel Binns by Monday 2 June with a current CV and short precis of your motivation for attending. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/this-satellite-event-invites-scholars-creatives-and-collaborators-to-join-a-focused-co-lab-on-generative-ai-critical-media-practice-and-creative-research/
LOCATION:The University of Queensland\, Sir Fred Schonell Drive\, Saint Lucia\, Brisbane City\, 4067\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,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:20250701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250705
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250227T230037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T064931Z
UID:28286-1751328000-1751673599@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:2025 ADM+S Symposium - Automated Social Services: Building Inclusive Digital Futures
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This Symposium unites ADM+S researchers\, technologists\, social service professionals\, and policymakers to showcase innovative responses to the challenges of building inclusive\, ethical\, and responsible automated social services.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSocial services provide benefits to the whole community by improving outcomes for diverse and disadvantaged people through education\, health and housing. Often social services are targeted to respond to people experiencing poverty\, child neglect or harm\, domestic and family violence\, migration and settlement\, homelessness and disability\, the effects of disaster and many other situations. Social services are delivered by a range of actors in the community including governments\, the not-for-profit sector\, social enterprises and business and have sought to innovate through data-driven systems and increasingly automated technologies. As such social services mediate engagement with highly diverse people and populations\, often experiencing complex circumstances of disadvantage or discrimination\, and often digitally excluded. \n  \n\nAutomation in social services is highly diverse and at very different stages of development reflecting resourcing differences across government and the voluntary not-for-profit community sector. Despite the sensitivities of social services\, automation offers increased capacity and enhanced personalisation amidst growing demands within constrained resources. There is extensive interest in the potential of both predictive and generative AI. Observers have long pointed to the tensions between the objectives of improving efficiency and providing care and support to individuals\, families and communities. Increasing surveillance and reduction of human connections have too often led to growing inequalities. Even well intentioned systems have unintentionally caused harm. \n  \n\nIn the wake of nation-scale failures like Robodebt\, approaches to social service automation remain cautious. Social service providers want greater legal and regulatory clarity alongside professional upskilling to help them develop and deploy data- and AI-driven technologies ethically\, safely and responsibly. Calls for authentic co-design of algorithmic-enabled services with service users provides a further challenge to building cross-professional work. But the pace of change in the sector presents considerable difficulties for research\, governance and regulation. \n\n  \nThese are fundamental issues for Automated Decision Making and Society\, inviting collaboration across technical\, legal and social science disciplines with the government and not-for-profit sector and the community members most affected. \n  \n  \n\nSymposium Location and Program \nThe Symposium will be held at the University of Queensland | St Lucia campus\, in Brisbane. Many sessions will be offered in hybrid mode.  \n\nTuesday 1 July 2025\n10.00am-7.30pm\nSatellite events\, HDR workshops & Welcome reception\nWednesday 2 July 2025\n8.30am-6.30pm\nMain 2025 Symposium: Automated Social Services – Building Inclusive Digital Futures\nThursday 3 July 2025\n8.30am-4.30pm\nADM+S Centre Signature Projects Workshops. (Limited to ADM+S Signature Project teams (closed event)\n\nFriday 4 July\n8.30am-1.00pm\nADM+S Centre Signature Projects Workshops. (Limited to ADM+S Signature Project teams (closed event)\n\nPlease note: we will not be able to accommodate dietary needs on registrations received after COB 24 June 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1749786350150{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #DD9933 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ED612B” custom_text=”#FFFFFF” size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fadms-symposium.com%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1748820088813{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #DD9933 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTRATION NOW OPEN” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ED612B” custom_text=”#FFFFFF” size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fadms-2025-symposium|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1740695969092{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=”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]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/2025-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Queensland\, Brisbane\, Australia
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,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/Brisbane:20250528T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250515T015455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T051920Z
UID:29151-1748453400-1748458800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:What do News Audiences Want from AI?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”In this talk\, T.J. Thomson discusses news audiences’ experiences with AI-generated or -edited content in journalism\, identifying the social-ethical-legal issues that news audiences think exist in this area.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLast February\, Dr. T. J Thomson presented at Hacks/Hackers Brisbane on the perceptions\, challenges and opportunities for generative AI in newsrooms. \nNow\, as many newsrooms have started experimenting and are looking to solidify and mature their policies on AI\, T.J takes a timely look at what the audience is thinking. \nAI can be used for a number of purposes in journalism from brainstorming and enriching to optimising\, editing\, creating\, and presenting. Yet it also has serious potential ethical and legal implications\, including around bias\, inaccuracies\, copyright\, labour\, creativity\, and credibility. \nAcknowledging this tension\, this talk will explore news audiences’ experiences with AI-generated or -edited content in journalism and identify the social-ethical-legal issues that news audiences think exist in this area. \nSo what are the expectations news audiences have for how AI should be used in journalism and how comfortable they are with around two dozen specific use cases? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1747273915297{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=”19426″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]T.J Thomson \nDr TJ Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is a researcher on two ADM+S signature projects: Critical Capabilities for Inclusive AI and Generative Authenticity. TJ is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. \nTJ’s research is united by its focus on visual communication. A majority of his research centres on the visual aspects of news and journalism and on the concerns and processes relevant to those who make\, edit\, and present visual news. He has broader interests in digital media\, journalism studies\, and visual culture and often focuses on under-represented identities\, attributes\, and environments in his research. T.J. is committed to not only studying visual communication phenomena but also working to increase the visibility\, innovation\, and quality of how research findings are presented\, accessed\, and understood.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/what-do-news-audiences-want-from-ai/
LOCATION:ABC South Brisbane\, 114 Grey St\, Brisbane\, QLD\, 4101
CATEGORIES:ADM+S Members,Brisbane,Public Event
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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:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250513T044800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T002604Z
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SUMMARY:Inter-Asia Perspectives on Automated Decision-Making and Society
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This two-day event brings together leading scholars\, researchers\, and collaborators to examine how automated decision-making (ADM) systems are shaped by—and reshape—language\, culture\, and governance across different regions of Asia. Hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\, and held at the University of Tokyo\, the event includes a closed-door workshop (by invitation) followed by a public symposium.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop (26 May) focuses on comparative dialogue and collaboration between researchers engaged in the “Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM” project. Participants will share regional case studies and explore common threads\, differences\, and methodological approaches for future joint research initiatives across Asia. \nThe symposium (27 May) opens up the conversation to a wider public\, with keynote speakers\, panels\, and thematic sessions addressing cutting-edge topics including AI\, blockchain\, platform economies\, and social robotics—all viewed through the lens of East Asian cultural\, linguistic\, and technological contexts. \n\nThis event is hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\, in collaboration with with Beyond AI\, University of Tokyo and is linked to the Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM: Australia in the Asia Pacific project. \nFor more information: haiqing.yu@rmit.edu.au \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1740696460842{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Finter-asia-perspectives-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1740696460842{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER FOR PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Finter-asia-perspectives|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1740695969092{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=”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]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/inter-asia-perspectives/
LOCATION:University of Tokyo\, Japan
CATEGORIES: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:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250314T050341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T052111Z
UID:28538-1748304000-1748476799@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:inSTEM 2025
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”inSTEM is an annual conference for Centre of Excellence members\, dedicated to advancing equitable practices for marginalised and underrepresented people in STEM\, while also welcoming those committed to becoming better allies.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a two-day networking and career development conference aimed at marginalised and underrepresented groups in STEM\, along with their allies and leaders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ninSTEM provides a safe\, inclusive space to connect and share experiences\, and learn from experts on advancing careers in STEM while fostering inclusivity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn initiative of the ARC Centres of Excellence\, inSTEM offers career insights\, networking opportunities\, and discussions on driving meaningful change in STEM. Whether you’re a leader\, ally\, or from a marginalised group\, inSTEM provides valuable learning and networking opportunities. Attending inSTEM can help you: \n\nStrengthen your leadership and allyship by learning from experts and colleagues about how to create more inclusive teams.\nBuild lasting connections with a diverse group of individuals across STEM disciplines.\nGain new insights and strategies to support your career or the careers of those around you.\n\nInformation on how to register will be sent to members via email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1740696460842{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM INFORMATION” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instem.org.au%2F2025-program|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1740695969092{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=”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]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/instem2025/
LOCATION:Storey Hall\, RMIT University\, Building 16\, 336/348 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;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250519T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250519T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250430T002153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T005403Z
UID:28946-1747677600-1747677600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:No Harm Done #2: Risk\, Technology\, and Climate
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”No Harm Done continues its exploration of ethical\, sustainable pathways for technology with its second installment focusing on the critical intersection of risk\, technology\, and climate. This event brings together three leading voices who are reshaping how we understand and respond to technological systems and their impacts on our communities and environment.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As technological systems increasingly shape our response to climate challenges\, we face urgent questions about risk\, power\, and democratic control. Who benefits from these systems? Who bears the costs? And how might we build alternatives that truly serve the many\, not the few? \nNo Harm Done #2 brings together three pioneering thinkers who are not just critiquing extractive technological systems but actively building and supporting real-world alternatives. From platform cooperatives operating across 60+ countries to local government innovation labs and critical analyses of “smart” technologies\, this event cuts through techno-optimist narratives to explore how communities are taking back control of their digital futures. \nMore information on the No Harm Done event series.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fno-harm-done-2-risk-technology-and-climate|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729726283854{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”28929″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Trebor Schulz\nAn associate professor at The New School and Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center\, he coined the concept of “platform cooperativism” to describe worker-owned digital platforms that advance economic\, social\, and environmental justice. His work combines analysis\, organizing\, education\, and institution-building—and has improved the lives of over a million workers globally. \nScholz founded the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE)\, which support research and practice across more than 60 countries. From AI co-ops to community-run data centers and food delivery networks powered by worker-owners\, his focus is on functioning alternatives\, not solely theoretical analysis. A global keynote speaker and author of Own This! and Uberworked and Underpaid\, his contributions have shaped practice\, policy\, and scholarship. \n[/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=”28947″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Jathan Sadowski\nDr. Jathan Sadowski studies the political economy and social theory of information technology at Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab. His research focuses on the political economy of insurance technology and the socio-economic impacts of this “risky business” on our lives and future. Author of “Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data\, Controlling Our Lives\, and Taking Over the World” and “The Mechanic and the Luddite\,” Sadowski’s work demystifies the material relations underlying technological systems and advocates for democratically reclaiming power over technology—ensuring it works “for the many\, not the few.”[/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=”28948″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Bonnie Shaw\nBonnie Shaw leads MAVlab\, an innovative initiative by Victoria’s Municipal Association supporting local governments as they navigate complex social\, environmental\, and technological challenges. With experience as Practice Lead for Australia’s first award-winning smart cities team at the City of Melbourne and as co-founder of a successful data analytics startup\, Shaw brings a unique perspective to civic innovation. Her approach is “data informed\, wilfully optimistic and wildly collaborative\,” with a focus on achieving better outcomes for people\, places\, and the planet through local government innovation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/no-harm-done-2-risk-technology-and-climate/
LOCATION:Media Portal\, RMIT University\, 414-418 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Public Event
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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:20250516T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250516T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250417T050500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T000848Z
UID:28659-1747414800-1747423800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Trebor Scholz - From Vibe to Viability: A Methodology for Building Transformative Alternatives in the Digital Economy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A/Prof Trebor Scholz is a leading voice in the global movement for democratic digital infrastructure\, exploring how communities in over 60 countries are creating alternatives to extractive technologies through cooperative experiments.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery time you order a meal\, obtain directions\, query an AI chatbot\, or access your child’s virtual classroom\, you’re interacting with a multi-sided digital platform—and you trade in more than just time or money. You relinquish data. You perform unpaid labor. And in nearly every case\, that data\, along with the profits\, leaves your community and flows to distant companies with no stake in your local economy. But what if the digital economy worked differently—what if it respected privacy\, strengthened local economies\, and ensured communities benefited from the value they help create?\nFor researchers who believe their work can contribute to positive social change\, this lecture offers a methodology grounded in lived examples—one that links critical analysis with practical pathways for reshaping the platform economy. \n\nThis talk analyzes real-world models of doing things differently—from a driver-owned ride-hailing platform in New York City\, to a community telecoms co-op in Mzamba\, South Africa\, a care worker co-op in Sydney\, an artist-owned stock photography platform based in Canada\, and a food delivery system shared by 80 cooperatives across Europe. These are practical alternatives that challenge business-as-usual approaches in mobility\, connectivity\, creative production\, care\, and food systems. They respond to widespread concerns—excessive workplace monitoring\, loss of individual privacy\, unaccountable algorithms\, and the growing instability of gig work—while also addressing deeper systemic issues like concentrated ownership\, weakened labor protections\, and the outsized political influence of tech oligarchs. \nBut this isn’t just another take on platform cooperatives. It doesn’t shy away from the hard questions: What happens when the energy fades? When scale becomes a trap? When democracy cuts into your evenings? One case explored in greater depth is Groupmuse\, a US-American platform co-op owned by its workers and musicians. It connects communities through intimate house concerts—over 10\,000 to date. With 3\,000 artists and 65\,000 audience members nationwide\, each performance guarantees musicians a minimum of $125\, plus direct audience contributions. \nIn this presentation\, Scholz outlines a methodology that defies the usual academic playbook—combining research\, organizing\, education\, and advocacy to shift conditions on the ground. He traces a lineage from 28 weavers in mid-19th century England—whose cooperative experiment inspired hard-won principles of mutual ownership and democratic governance—to today’s efforts to reclaim agency and worker power in over 60 countries. Platform co-ops. Data cooperatives. DAOs. Community-owned data centers. This approach\, alongside broader efforts by platform cooperatives and adjacent solidarity enterprises\, has contributed to improved conditions for over a million workers\, helped establish the emerging academic subfield of SolidarityTech\, and sparked conversations about cooperative alternatives in more than 60 countries—all without falling into the trap of solutionism that promises quick fixes to deeply structural problems. \nYet the path is fraught with barriers: platform worker cooperatives grapple with financial constraints\, legal exclusion\, and the gravitational pull of entrenched corporate norms. Ultimately\, Scholz argues that capital’s domination of the tech sector is not complete—leaving room for real utopias grounded in the solidarity economy\, built not to scale like empires\, but to last like communities. \nThis event is present in partnership with the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, and is supported by RMIT Culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:%20https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Ffrom-vibe-to-viability|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729726283854{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=”28661″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Trebor Scholz\nTrebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New School in New York City. His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity\, 2016) develops an analysis of the challenges posed by digital labor and introduces the concept of platform cooperativism as a way of joining the peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on communal ownership and democratic governance. His next book will focus on the prospects of the cooperative online economy.[/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=”18335″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Ellie Rennie\nFollowing his presentation\, Trebor will be joined for a fireside by Prof Ellie Rennie. Ellie is an Associate Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) and Principal Research Fellow in RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also a member of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/vibe-to-viability/
LOCATION:RMIT University\, Melbourne
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Online,Public Event
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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:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250517
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250314T061436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T013224Z
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SUMMARY:ADM+S Thesis Bootcamp
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Attention HDR students: Do you have heaps of writing to do that always seems to be put off until tomorrow? Need to break some perfectionist habits and get cracking on that thesis draft? Worried about slow progress and looming deadlines?” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistrations are open for the ADM+S Thesis Boot Camp. Designed for students in mid-to-late candidature with a significant amount of data collected\, the program aims to re-energise students’ writing progress and overcome hurdles slowing them down. This program will include focused discussion on approaches to writing\, thesis structure\, clarifying arguments\, and strategies for writing quickly and writing well. Thesis Boot Camp participants will work through common challenges faced at this point in the journey\, such as writer’s block and thesis fatigue\, to achieve significant progress on their manuscript. The bootcamp will be delivered by Dr Liam Connell. \n  \nThis intensive workshop will be held at The Oxford Scholar in Melbourne from 15-16 May 2025. Participants will need to be available across both days.\nCatering will be provided across the bootcamp dates including morning teas\, lunch and afternoon teas. \nInterstate students: ADM+S Student members selected to participate will be offered travel support up to a maximum of $1\,000 to cover return economy airfares\, accommodation and ground transportation. Per diems are not included in the bursary. \n  \nStudents who live in Regional Victoria: ADM+S Student members selected to participate will be offered travel support up to a maximum of $450 to cover accommodation and ground transportation. Per diems are not included in the bursary. \nAny questions can be directed to Manager\, Research Training and Development Sally Storey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”GET TICKETS” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fadm-s-thesis-bootcamp-8fmmjcjn|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/thesis-bootcamp/
LOCATION:The Oxford Scholar\, 427 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:HDR Students,Melbourne
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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:20250513T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250513T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250430T022932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T015352Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop - Reason-giving in the Automated State
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Bringing together leading scholars working at the intersection of artificial intelligence\, legal reasoning and administrative law.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Hosted by The University of Queensland ADM+S Node\, this day long workshop considers the duty to give reasons in the context of the growing reliance on automation in administrative and legal decision-making. It will bring together leading Australian scholars working at the intersection of artificial intelligence\, legal reasoning\, and administrative law. Questions addressed during the workshop will include: \n\nTo what extent can reason-giving act as a corrective to improper use of automation in the administrative state? Would more stringent enforcement of the duty to give reasons have helped to avoid scandals such as Robodebt?\nIs the use of various forms of generative AI in administrative and legal decision-making compatible with the common law duty to give reasons?\nIs reason-giving a form of explanation\, and does the common law duty to give reasons protect the “right to explanation”?\nThe extent to which different forms of automated systems are capable of giving effect to the duty to give reasons?\nInsights comparing the approaches of the Netherlands\, the UK and Australia to automated decision-making and their duty to give reasons.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fworkshop-reason-giving-in-the-automated-state-tickets-1312419314499%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/workshop-reason-giving-in-the-automated-state/
LOCATION:Sir Llew Edwards (Building 14)\, UQ St Lucia Campus\, Campbell Road\, Saint Lucia\, Brisbane\, 4067\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online,Public Event
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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:20250416T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250416T113000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250314T060224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T062630Z
UID:28554-1744797600-1744803000@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Birrarung Wilam (River Camp) Walk with Koorie Heritage Trust
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”We welcome people to take the Birrarung Wilam Walk\, which starts at Federation Square and leads to the Birrarung Wilam Aboriginal art installations. This walk is a chance to learn about the history of the Birrarung and the Aboriginal Peoples of the Kulin Nation\, and is open to ADM+S Members based in Naarm/Melbourne.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith one of our knowledgeable Cultural Experience Guides\, you’ll discover how Melbourne’s land has changed over time and the significance of the Birrarung Wilam to the local Kulin peoples. This experience will provide a deeper and more meaningful understanding of this important gathering place for the Kulin Nation\, which is now also one of Melbourne’s most popular meeting hubs in the heart of the city. \n  \nAny questions can be directed to Manager\, Research Training and Development Sally Storey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fbirrarung-wilam-walk-with-koorie-heritage-trust|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/birrarung-wilam-walk/
LOCATION:Koorie Heritage Trust\, Federation Square
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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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:20250412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250915
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250328T022853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250718T061010Z
UID:28683-1744416000-1757894399@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Signal to Noise
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Information Age is over. Signal to Noise explores how artists work with\, challenge\, or complicate the relationship between signals and noise—disruptions\, glitches or interference—in communication technologies and the messages they send. These technologies include the internet\, telephones\, radio and television\, artificial intelligence\, social media algorithms\, and even the sounds of the natural world.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Artists are the buzz in the radio\, the data that brings AI to a glitching halt. Instead of seeing noise as something to block out\, artists in the exhibition reframe noise as a signal in itself— an opportunity for creative engagement. \nThrough international artworks\, new commissions and technology collections\, the political\, social\, philosophical and aesthetic possibilities for noise are examined: revealing the limits of technology’s capacity to contain noise\, while embracing the inevitable and productive friction noise makes possible.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EXHIBITION” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fncm.org.au%2Fexhibitions%2Fsignal-to-noise|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729726283854{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”CO-CURATOR” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=””][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”28685″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Joel Stern\nDr Joel Stern is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. \nJoel Stern is a researcher\, curator\, and artist living in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia. Informed by a background in experimental music and sonic art\, Stern’s work focuses on how practices of sound and listening inform and shape our contemporary worlds.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/signal-to-noise/
LOCATION:National Communication Museum\, 375 Burwood Rd\, Hawthorn\, VIC\, 3122\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne,Public Event
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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:20250408T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250408T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250328T003131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T011158Z
UID:28678-1744124400-1744128000@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Autism Supports for Comfort\, Care and Connection
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Autistic people employ a range of non-human devices\, services and creatures to find comfort\, care\, social acceptance and intimacy. In this seminar\, Megan Catherine Rose and Deborah Lupton will launch their report detailing their research with autistic people about the supports they use in their daily lives.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdopting a more-than-digital theoretical approach and autistic-led methodology\, they present a series of case studies derived from interviews with autistic people\, accompanied by portraits by an autistic professional graphic artist. The report illustrates how digital and non-digital supports come together in dynamic and affectively charged ways to help autistic people open capacities for relational connections and kinship with other humans and with non-humans. By engaging with these practices and communities\, the participants were able to meet their sensory and affective needs and develop close (albeit physically distanced) social bonds\, thereby finding a sense of belonging\, shared understanding\, empathy and acceptance. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1740696427080{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fautism-supports-for-comfort-care-and-connection-tickets-1289112753949%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1743120950208{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=”9780″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Megan Rose\nMegan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UNSW Vitalities Lab and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. She is a cultural sociologist and artist interested in how creativity is used in new technologies and collective cultures for care\, safety and belonging. Her latest research explores the significance of self-determined cultures\, communities and supports for autistic adults\, as well as the cultural impact of care robot design.[/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=”6346″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ css=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text css=””]Deborah Lupton\nDeborah is SHARP Professor in the UNSW Faculty of Arts\, Design & Architecture. Her research is interdisciplinary\, spanning sociology\, media and cultural studies. She is located in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre\, leading both the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Professor Lupton is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia\, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of NSW and has been awarded two honorary doctorates. She is the author/co-author of 20 academic books and editor/co-editor of a further ten volumes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/autism-supports/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/website-sizing-8-1.png
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:20250404T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250314T055522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T055522Z
UID:28551-1743771600-1743786000@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:CS50x Puzzle Day
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Do you like solvable problems? Us too! Work together with friends and colleagues on a set of logic puzzles at our locally hosted CS50x Puzzle Day event and compete against other teams across the world! This event is open to all ADM+S members.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCS50x Puzzle Day is an event organised by Harvard University’s introduction to computer science course\, and features logical puzzles that do not require computer science knowledge. In 2024 more than 11\,000 people registered from 164 countries; you can get more of the stats here. \n\n  \nEvent duration \nStart time: 1.00pm \nFinish time: 5.00pm \n  \nEvent structure \n1pm: doors open; participants self-select into small teams \n1:15pm: run through the instructions for puzzle day \n1:30 – 3:30pm: solve puzzles\, eat snacks \n3:30-3:45pm: anyone looking to submit their team officially should do so now (if you want a certificate from CS50x) \n3:45pm – 5pm: puzzle-by-puzzle group discussion\, since we won’t have the answers yet! Official answers get released the following week. \nDetails to come \n  \nLight refreshments will be provided for those participating in-person. \nAny questions can be directed to Manager\, Research Training and Development\, Sally Storey. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fcs50x-puzzle-day|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/cs50x-puzzle-day/
LOCATION:ADM+S Centre\, RMIT University\, 106-108 Victoria Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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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:20250402T103000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250402T120000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250314T054508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T054537Z
UID:28545-1743589800-1743595200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Documentary filmmaking with mobile and AI tools workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”We invite all ADM+S members to a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to create impactful videos for your research using just your smartphone. In addition\, we’ll explore how AI tools can enhance your content by generating audio and video elements to augment your videos.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that Stephen prefers iOS\, but the principles will apply to both iOS and Android devices. \nWhat to Bring: \n\nYour smartphone\nAn eagerness to learn and experiment!\n\nWho Should Attend: \n\nAnyone interested in improving their research (or research translation) through video\nNo prior filmmaking or AI tool experience necessary—just bring yourself!\n\nFurther Information and resources: \nMaking movies with a mobile phone \nAI tools for filmmaking \n\nStephen Quinn \nStephen Quinn is a writer and filmmaker with a parallel career as a university academic who has lived in nine countries. He makes films and teaches people how to make movies and documentaries with a smartphone and a range of artificial intelligence tools. \nSince late 2023 he has run face-to-face workshops about AI tools for filmmaking in England\, the UAE and Australia\, and via Zoom in England\, India and Africa. You can read about his approach to making films with AI tools here. \n  \nAny questions can be directed to Manager\, Research Training and Development Sally Storey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fdocumentary-filmmaking-with-mobile-and-ai-tools-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/documentary-filmmaking-ai-tools/
LOCATION:ADM+S Centre\, RMIT University\, 106-108 Victoria Street\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/website-sizing-4.png
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/Sydney:20250325T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250325T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20250320T040138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250323T111326Z
UID:28617-1742904000-1742907600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Loyalties v. royalties: Copyright’s creative incentives and collaboration
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Friendship rewards us with a bond of loyalty and equality. The marketplace rewards us based on what we have to offer. When friends work together to create something\, and when the market judges their creation to have value\, this sets up a clash between realms. Should the pie of profits be sliced according to the values of friendship\, or the values of the marketplace?” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe answer matters for policymakers concerned with creative incentives because how satisfied people are with their monetary rewards can turn more on how much others are getting—their relative rewards—than on the absolute amount received. This talk will share empirical evidence from the music industry of a link between creators’ relative rewards and the quality of creative output\, providing support for the incentive theory of copyright\, and arguing that the joint authorship rule on license proceeds is an area of copyright law that gets creative incentives right. \n\nFurther reading: \n‘Loyalties v. Royalties‘ (2023) 74 UC Hastings Law Journal 765 \n‘Co-Creating Equally‘ (2023) 96(3) Southern California Law Review 607 \nAbout the speaker \nProfessor Sarah Polcz’s (Acting Professor\, UC Davis School of Law) research explores the intersection of law and psychological science. She is particularly interested in how basic cognitive processes relate to more complex social phenomena such as market culture and the moral intuitions underlying intellectual property law. \nTuesday 25 March\nTime: 12-1pm \nVenue: Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nThis event is proudly hosted by the University of Sydney Law School\, the Centre for AI\, Trust and Governance\, and the ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1740696460842{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER NOW” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Floyalties-v-royalties-copyrights-creative-incentives-and-collaboration-tickets-1290876619719%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1740695969092{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=”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]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/loyalties-v-royalties/
LOCATION:The University of Sydney Law School\, Camperdown\, NSW\, 2006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Sydney
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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:20250217T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20250217T120000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
CREATED:20241222T224904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T033936Z
UID:27600-1739790000-1739793600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Report Launch: Generative AI & Journalism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for the official launch of our comprehensive report Generative AI and Journalism: Content\, Journalistic Perceptions\, and Audience Experiences.” 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]Generative AI\, a technology that has captivated global attention in 2023\, is reshaping journalism. From AI-generated text and images to videos and audio\, this technology offers new ways to automate\, enhance\, and even disrupt traditional journalistic practices. While its potential is vast\, it also raises complex questions around ethics\, bias\, and the future of news production. \nThis new report brings together six discrete research and engagement activities which span multiple countries  over a three-year period (2022-24) and focuses on AI in journalism within three broad domains: AI-generated content in journalism\, journalists’ perceptions of and use of AI in journalism\, and news audiences’ perceptions of and reactions to this technology being used in journalism. \nAt this launch\, report authors will present key insights\, and feature a discussion on the implications of AI in journalism\, focusing on the practical applications\, challenges\, and ethical considerations that journalists and news organisations must navigate. Participants will have the opportunity to explore how AI is reshaping storytelling\, content creation\, and audience engagement\, as well as the emerging policies and best practices for its responsible use. \nWhether you’re a journalist\, media professional\, academic\, or simply interested in the intersection of AI and news\, this event will provide a comprehensive overview of how Generative AI is transforming journalism and what it means for the future of news production.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1734050874463{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM TBC” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1733808675799{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fai-policy-co-design-toolkit-development-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1734669181298{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE REPORT” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]This output joins other reports that focus on AI in journalism (including those produced by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism\, the BBC\, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism\, and the Centre for Media Transition at UTS) but largely adopts a distinct focus on multi-modal\, visual AI and offers a broader scope over multiple domains (production\, editing\, and audience reception and interpretation). It also complements with depth\, nuance\, and richness the breadth of other survey work focused on AI and journalism\, particularly in the domain of news audiences. \nThis report aims to familiarise the reader with a wide array of AI in journalism use cases\, provide grounding on the legal and ethical issues that journalists and audiences identify regarding this technology within journalism\, and reveal news audiences’ expectations regarding how this technology should or should not be used. The report ends with a series of questions for journalists and news organisations to consider as they work through their experimentation with and guidelines around AI use in journalism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1734669304950{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE AUTHORS” 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=”19426″ 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]T. J. Thomson\, RMIT University\nDr T. J. Thomson is a senior lecturer at RMIT University and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. As a former visual journalist and editor\, T. J. brings a depth of media industry experience and expertise from an international scholarship on visual media and visual communication. He co-leads The News\, Technology and Society Network at RMIT University and is an affiliated researcher of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. He is also the lead guest editor of a special issue in Digital Journalism on “Reimagining visual journalism theory and practice in the digital age” (co-edited with Ryan J. Thomas\, Iuliia Alieva\, and Shangyuan Wu) that is expected to be published in 2025.[/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=”27603″ 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]Ryan J. Thomas\, Washington State University\nDr. Ryan J. Thomas is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Production and Director of Graduate Studies in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. His teaching and research center on issues pertaining to journalism and democracy\, journalism ethics\, and the sociology of news production. He has won a variety of awards recognising his research\, teaching\, and academic service\, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award. He is the member of the editorial boards of four journals and\, from January 2025\, the editor of the Journal of Media Ethics.[/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=”17878″ 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]Michelle Riedlinger\, Queensland University of Technology\nMichelle Riedlinger is an associate professor in the School of Communication\, chief investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre and an affiliated researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her research focusses on emerging environmental\, agricultural and health research communication practices\, platformised fact checking\, and roles for “alternative” communicators of scientific research. She co-leads the Global Engagement Theme in the Global Journalism Innovation Lab and is the editor of the international Journal of Science 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=”26829″ 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]Phoebe Matich\, Australian Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at QUT\nPhoebe Matich is a post-doctoral research fellow at the QUT node of the ADM+S centre who is examining generative AI and authenticity in journalism and human rights media. Having completed her PhD studies at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre in 2024\, her research considers how journalists represent reality and social issues. Phoebe is particularly interested in how journalists strive to achieve normative goals like objectivity in practice amid conjunctures like misinformation\, radicalisation\, or generative AI. In these contexts\, she considers the nexus between journalism practice\, discourse\, politics\, and audience trust to examine best and worst news practices\, and opportunities for improvements.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/report-launch-generative-ai-journalism/
LOCATION:KG-Q430 Seminar Room\, Q Block\, QUT Kelvin Grove\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,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:20250210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250214
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SUMMARY:2025 ADM+S Summer School
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The 2025 ADM+S Summer School will encompass interactive workshops\, bootcamps\, mentoring and social activity across three days\, with our leading researchers and collaborators delivering a program encompassing methodological approaches\, technical play\, researcher and career development skills\, and community building amongst our ADM+S cohorts.” 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] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWelcome dinner: Monday 10 February 6.00pm – 8.00pm\nSummer school days: Tuesday 11 – Thursday 13 February (9.30am – 4.00pm) \nPlease register your interest in attending\, we would love to see you there. Program updates to be distributed soon. \nADM+S interstatte students and researchers\, and those living in regional hubs (Victoria) can be supported by their node to attend the Summer School in-person\, this can be by way of return economy airfares\, accommodation\, and ground transportation. Please contact your Node Leader if you wish to attend in person. \nAny questions can be directed to Manager\, Research Training and Development Sally Storey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1733808684894{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EVENT GUIDE AND PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fevent-guide-2025-adms-summer-school%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1733808675799{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fai-policy-co-design-toolkit-development-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/2025-adms-summer-school/
LOCATION:Melbourne Law School\, The Woodward Convention Centre\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3053
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:20241227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250102
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SUMMARY:Woodford Festival: Unveiling the Digital Self through Data Donation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Discover the Digital You at the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival. The data donation booth offers festival-goers a chance to explore their digital selves in a fun and informative way — by revealing the hidden world behind their data.” 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] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the data donation booth\, trained algorithm whisperers will bring your digital footprint to life to uncover the secrets of elusive algorithms. \nParticipate in a mystical exchange: offer data\, receive personalised readings\, and illuminate the shadowy pathways of digital fate. Your digital data will contribute to a collective public understanding of our shared online culture. Facebook ad preferences\, Spotify top artists\, TikTok follows\, will be used as data droplets\, growing into the Woodford tree of data. \nJoin researchers from ADM+S\, QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre and the Australian Internet Observatory at the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival for a deeper understanding of the intersection between digital media\, society\, and the pressing issues of our time. For more details on these sessions and timings\, visit the Woodford Folk Festival website. \nDiscover more events hosted by QUT DMRC at the Woodford Folk festival. \nThe Australian Internet Observatory is an initiative of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society in partnership with RMIT University\, Queensland University of Technology\, The University of Queensland\, The University of Melbourne\, Swinburne University of Technology and Deakin University. The AIO received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1734050874463{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM TBC” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1733808675799{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fai-policy-co-design-toolkit-development-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/woodford-festival-unveiling-the-digital-self-through-data-donation/
LOCATION:Woodford Folk Festival\, Woodrow Road 87\, Woodford\, QLD\, 4514\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Brisbane,Online
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
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SUMMARY:The Wicked Problem of AI Policy Design
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”How can we address the Wicked Problem of AI Policy Design? Interested in tackling one of the most complex challenges of our time? Join us for a dynamic\, hands-on workshop where we will explore how to collaboratively design better AI Policies that address pressing societal issues and emerging technology with creativity and impact!” 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] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho is this for? \nThis workshop is designed for change-makers\, AI enthusiasts\, technology researchers and practitioners — anyone who is eager to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and effective governance! \nWhen \nTuesday\, 10 December 2024\, 9am-4pm AEST. \nWhere \nForgan Smith Building\, The University of Queensland\, St Lucia\, Brisbane\, Australia. Room details to be shared via email post-registration. \nHow \nPlease register your interest by completing this form. Spaces are limited (wait-list is available). Confirmation of registration and workshop details will be shared via email. This is designed as an in-person workshop\, however if you are unable to join and would like to participate remotely\, please register and contact the facilitators to explore arrangements for remote participation. \nTogether we will \nUnpack the Wicked Problems of AI and Policy! Examine real-world AI policy challenges — from policy blind spots\, to equity concerns\, and enforcement gaps! \nReimagine AI Policy Co-Design. Understand what AI policy means across various domains and contexts\, and what considerations are important for democratising policy design for AI! \nBuild Policy Together Using an AI Policy Co-Design Toolkit! Brainstorm and generate a diverse set of —current and near-future — AI use cases through a thumbnailing exercise! And use an AI Policy framework to assess these use cases — collaboratively designing policy artefacts to address these new and emerging use cases! \nWalk away with ideas about how to tackle AI policy challenges\, a repository of AI use cases\, and a collaborative toolkit that you can use to craft better policies in your field! Whether you are an AI researcher\, a policy designer\, or simply curious about the intersection of technology and governance — this workshop offers an invaluable opportunity to collaborative\, innovate\, and together make an impact! \nThe world needs better tools\, minds\, and collaborative approaches to tame AI’s wicked problems! Join us to work towards better solutions! \nWorkshop Facilitators \nSaarim Saghir (Strategy Manager\, Google\, USA). \nDr Awais Hameed Khan (The University of Queensland & ADM+S\, Australia). \nProfessor Paul Henman (The University of Queensland & ADM+S\, Australia). \nThis workshop is being hosted at the University of Queensland node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) \nFor questions contact awaishameed.khan@uq.edu.au \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576058076{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM TBC” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fai-policy-co-design-toolkit-development-workshop|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/wicked-problem/
LOCATION:University of Queensland\, Brisbane\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241205T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Indie Porn by Zahra Stardust
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for the launch of ADM+S Research Fellow\, Dr. Zahra Stardust‘s new book\, Indie Porn: Revolution\, Regulation and Resistance. Zahra will be in conversation with Frankie Van Kan at the Victorian Pride Centre\, St. Kilda.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1722476003470{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE BOOK” 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][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Indie Porn\, Dr Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws\, risk-averse platforms\, discriminatory algorithms\, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant\, Stardust takes readers behind the scenes\, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament\, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations\, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography\, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy\, Stardust documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content\, revolutionize production\, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators\, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation. Inevitably\, as these paradigms collide\, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility\, from ethical certification to law reform\, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions\, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex\, work\, and capitalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1722476003470{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE AUTHOR” 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=”11425″ 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 Zahra Stardust is a Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Zahra is a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of sexuality\, technology\, law and social justice. Her doctoral research\, which won the Dean’s award for Best PhD Thesis\, examined the regulation of queer and feminist pornographies through criminal laws\, classification codes\, platform governance and the capitalist co-optation of sexual subcultures. \nOver the last 15 years Zahra has worked in policy\, advocacy\, legal and research capacities with community organisations\, NGOs and UN bodies on human rights in Australia and internationally. Zahra has taught in law\, criminology\, public policy\, social research\, gender studies and politics at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. \nRecently\, Zahra has worked on ARC funded projects exploring intoxication evidence in sexual assault trials\, the policing of public order offences and the criminalisation of homelessness. \nAs Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the QUT Node of ADM+S\, Zahra will be aligned to the Institutions research program and will undertake research to investigate how automated systems can be held accountable against public interest standards.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/book-launch-indie-porn-by-zahra-stardust/
LOCATION:Victorian Pride Centre\, Fitzroy Street 81\, St Kilda\, VIC\, 3182\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241204T163000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241204T183000
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SUMMARY:What is a Public Service Media Algorithm\, and Why Might We Need One?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This is the opening panel for the ADM+S annual Hackathon: Recommender Systems for Public Service Media.” 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] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for a panel discussion of how automated recommendation systems might support the mission of public service media in Australia. Providing an alternative to commercial forms of content curation is one of the challenges faced by public service media in the digital era. The panel discussion will explore the role of automation in crafting a vision for the future of public service media. \nLight refreshments will be made available in advance of the panel discussion from 4.30pm – 5.30pm\, with the panel commencing at 5.30pm. \nPanel members \nAngela Ross\, Research Lead\, ABC News Strategy and Innovation \nJames Meese\, Associate Professor\, School of Media and Communication\, RMIT University \nLaura Gartry\, Innovation Lead\, ABC Digital and National News \nStuart Watt\, Head of News Strategy and Innovation\, ABC \nModerator \nProf Mark Andrejevic\, Chief Investigator\, Monash University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576058076{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM TBC” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fwhat-is-a-public-service-media-algorithm-and-why-might-we-need-one%3F|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1732576258341{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKSHOP FACILITATORS” 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=”27057″ 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]Saarim Saghir\nSaarim is a Strategy Manager with Google\, USA.  \n Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/public-service-media-algorithm/
LOCATION:Woodward Conference Centre\, Pelham Street 185\, Carlton\, Melbourne City\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241205
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SUMMARY:Are Fair Elections Possible In The Age Of AI?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”From cyber attacks to co-ordinated disinformation and AI-generated deep fakes\, fair elections in Australia and around the world are facing unprecedented and complex threats.” 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] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do we need to know to understand these challenges and address them effectively? What should citizens\, journalists\, policy-makers\, researchers and politicians be doing to protect fair elections? \nThis one day workshop\, held in the historic Council Chamber of the Francis Ormond Building at RMIT\, brings together experts from Australia and the United States to report and compare recent experiences in both countries. It will examine the capabilities of current AI systems\, the dynamics of digital media platforms\, and the institutional\, technical and regulatory strategies that can protect elections now and in the future. \nThe workshop is a collaboration of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and the University of Southern California’s Election Cybersecurity Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715231990257{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fai-elections-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729732550382{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Felection-ai|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1715132217654{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”STUDENT PAPER CONTEST” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Since 2005\, the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) has featured a graduate student paper contest. This important tradition highlights the best work(s) by members of the new generation of CIRC scholars. \nTo participate in this contest\, the papers need to be authored / co-authored by students only. They cannot be co-authored by any faculty member or postdoc. The papers should be written in full\, in a similar format as journal articles (8\,000 words)\, but not published or accepted for publication in an academic journal\, book\, or any other formal outlet or platform. They should include authors’ names and affiliations. \nWinners—1st price and runner(s) up—will be chosen by the CIRC Steering Committee (in collaboration with the conference organising committee). The result will be announced on the last day of CIRC 2024 on 18 June 2024. \nIf you wish to participate in the student paper contest\, please send your full paper to the following email\, with the subject “Student paper contest”\, by 30 May 2024: circ2024.au@gmail.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1729726283854{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=”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]Mark Andrejevic\nMark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University. 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.[/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=”974″ 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]Daniel Angus\nProf Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Daniel is 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.[/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=”26910″ 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]Michelle Blom\nDr Michelle Blom is a Senior Research Fellow in the AI and Autonomy group of the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. Dr Blom has diverse research interests that include election integrity (with a focus on post-election audits)\, combinatorial optimisation (with a focus on algorithms for solving large problems through decomposition\, local search\, and the use of mathematical programming)\, applications of reinforcement learning\, and Explainable AI.[/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=”26893″ 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]Ariel Bogle\nAriel is an investigations reporter at Guardian Australia with a focus on technology\, extremism\, and online culture. Previously\, she was a technology reporter at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation\, where she contributed to programs across the network. She also served as technology editor at The Conversation and as associate editor with Future Tense—a partnership of Slate\, New America\, and Arizona State University that explores how emerging technologies will change the way we live. Her reporting has been published in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, Australian Financial Review\, Slate\, and other outlets.[/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=”26602″ 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]Casey Briggs\nCasey Briggs is a journalist with ABC News\, covering far north Queensland for television\, radio and online. He was an editor of the University of Adelaide’s student paper On Dit and the training coordinator at community station Radio Adelaide. He has a Master degree in mathematics that he doesn’t use nearly enough\, and a Twitter account he uses probably too much.[/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=”26600″ 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]Jeffrey Cole\nJeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology issues both in the United States and internationally for the past three decades. An expert in the field of technology and emerging media\, Cole serves as an adviser to governments and leading companies around the world as they craft digital strategies.\nCole founded and directs the World Internet Project\, a long-term longitudinal look at the effects of computer and Internet technology\, which is conducted in over 35 countries. At the announcement of the project in June 1999\, Vice President Al Gore praised Cole as a “true visionary providing the public with information on how to understand the impact of media.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”1067″ 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]Sarah Erfani\nDr Sarah Erfani is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS) at The University of Melbourne. Her work on scalable methods for unsupervised learning has made important theoretical and practical contributions that are used by practitioners in various domains such as telecommunication network management. She has been awarded competitive grants to fund her research in the fields of deep learning and cybersecurity. Her research interests include machine learning\, large-scale data mining\, cyber security\, data privacy\, and IoT.[/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=”26596″ 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]Timothy Graham\nTimothy Graham is Associate Professor in Digital Media at QUT. His research combines computational methods with social theory to study online networks and platforms\, with a particular interest in online bots and trolls\, disinformation\, and online ratings and rankings devices.\nHe develops open source software tools for big data analysis\, and has published in journals such as Information\, Communication & Society\, Information Polity\, Big Data & Society\, and Critical Social 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=”26598″ 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]Jung-hwa (Judy) Kang\nJung-hwa “Judy” Kang is a Special Project Manager at the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy\, where she oversees program development\, research\, and event management for initiatives based at USC’s Washington\, D.C. campus. Her work includes the USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative\, which has held workshops worldwide and in all 50 U.S. states\, as well as the Africa-U.S. Initiative\, the Democratic Resilience series\, and high-level discussions with officials from the Department of Defense and prominent journalists. Kang also leads public diplomacy forums in partnership with Public Diplomacy of America\, where she serves on the Board.[/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=”1090″ 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]Christopher Leckie\nProf Chris Leckie is a Chief Investigator at the University of Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).\nChris is a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. Prof Leckie has a strong interest in developing AI techniques for a variety of applications in telecommunications\, such as cyber security\, network management\, fault diagnosis and the Internet-of-Things.\nHe also has an interest in robust and scalable machine learning algorithms for problems such as clustering and anomaly detection\, with a focus on adversarial machine learning.[/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=”26955″ 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]Devi Mallal\nDevi Mallal is a founding member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s new Verification team\, ABC NEWS Verify. Previously\, she was the Media and Research Lead of RMIT ABC Fact Check\, where she focused on introducing automated fact-checking technologies into the editorial team’s workflow for election monitoring sprints and facilitating the ADM+S affiliated Fact Check Research.\nIn the lead up to the 2022 Federal Election\, Devi co-designed and directed the Mosaic Project\, a misinformation detection and debunking sprint\, in partnership with the Judith Neilson Institute for Ideas and global leaders in misinformation detection\, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.\nIn preparation for the Voice to Parliament referendum\, Devi worked closely with the UK’s Full Fact to tailor their automated claim detection software Full Fact AI for the Australian context\, in what was the software’s first Asia-Pacific trial.\nShe is currently designing an innovative misinformation monitoring project which ABC NEWS Verify hopes to deploy during the 2025 election campaign.[/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=”26089″ 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]Dang Nguyen\nDang Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society\, located in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Dang holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Science in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford\, where she was a Chevening Scholar. She has been a Fox Fellow at Yale University and a Majority World Scholar at Yale Law School. Dang serves as a media and technology expert on the International Panel for the Information Environment (IPIE). Dang’s books include ‘Digital research methods and the diaspora’ (Routledge\, 2023) and ‘Internet cures’ (Bristol University Press\, 2024).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”26599″ 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]C. L. Max Nikias\nDr. C. L. Max Nikias served as the 11th President of the University of Southern California (USC)\, a position he held from August 3\, 2010\, to August 7\, 2018. He is currently a tenured professor of electrical engineering with a secondary appointment in classics\, the holder of the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology and the Humanities\, and is the President Emeritus and Life Trustee of the university.Dr. Nikias writes and speaks frequently about a range of internationally significant topics\, including the geopolitical storms surrounding semiconductor chips and their supply chain\, the importance of cyber-securing democratic elections\, the promises of economic growth and ethical dilemmas of artificial intelligence (AI)\, and the art and adventure of leadership through the classics.\n[/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=”26593″ 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]Adam Clayton Powell III\nAdam Clayton Powell III is executive director of the USC initiative on election cybersecurity\, which includes USC’s schools of business\, engineering\, law and public policy. With support from Google\, this bipartisan initiative provides in-state training in all 50 U.S. states and at conferences in Africa\, Asia and Europe\, to reinforce election integrity and help build defence against digital attacks. Powell also directs Washington programs for the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and hosts a weekly program on US public television. Previously\, Powell was Manager of Political Coverage for CBS News\, Vice President of news at National Public Radio\, Director of a US National Science Foundation research center\, and executive producer at Quincy Jones Entertainment.[/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=”1011″ 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]Mark Sanderson\nProf Mark Sanderson is a Chief Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark is a Professor of Information Retrieval at RMIT University (RMIT)\, Director of the ISE Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT and head of the RMIT Information Retrieval (IR) group.\nHe 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_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”12960″ 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]Damiano Spina\nDr Damiano Spina is an Associate Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Damiano is a Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University.\nHis 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).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”26588″ 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]Vanessa Teague\nVanessa Teague is Associate Professor (Adj.)\, College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University.\nShe is a cryptographer with an interested in cryptographic protocols that support a free and democratic society. She works on openly-available research and open source software for supporting democratic decision making and empowering ordinary people to make choices about their own data.\nShe is also the CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity Pty. Ltd. and the chairperson of Democracy Developers Ltd.[/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=”491″ 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]Julian Thomas\nJulian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S Centre).\nJulian is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.\nPrior to the commencement of the ADM+S Centre\, he was Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research (2005-2016)\, and then Director of RMIT’s Social Change research platform. He also leads the team producing the Australian Digital Inclusion Index since 2015. His work ranges across the contemporary histories of new communications technologies\, digital inequality and inclusion\, and the internet and communication policy.\nJulian was elected to the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2017\, is a Board member of the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN)\, and an Advisory Board member of Humanitech\, an initiative of the Australian Red Cross.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”26631″ 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]Matthew Warren\nMatthew Warren is the Director of the RMIT University Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation and a Professor of Cyber Security at RMIT University. He has held roles such as Deputy Director of University Research Centre\, Head of School\, Deputy Head of School\, Program Leader for several programs during his tenure at Deakin University.\nMatthew is a researcher in the areas of Cyber Security and Computer Ethics. He has received numerous grants and awards from national and international funding bodies\, such as: Australian Research Council (ARC); Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the United Kingdom; National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa.[/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=”19505″ 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]Fan Yang\nDr Yang is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne node of ADM+S. Her work focuses on technologies and governance\, digital ethics\, innovative research methods\, migration politics\, and postcolonial technoscience. Her doctoral thesis\, entitled ‘News Manufactories on WeChat’\, provided one of the first insights into the internal operation of WeChat in Australia as a content production platform. She co-leads a project that maintains one of the biggest datasets from WeChat.\nShe has worked with international NGOs and think tanks as an external analyst. Her work has been translated into multiple languages including Chinese\, Japanese\, Spanish\, and French. Her research has been covered by Australian national and international media outlets.[/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=”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]Haiqing Yu\nHaiqing is a Professor of Media and Communication and ARC Future Fellow (2021-2025) at RMIT University.\nShe is a critical media studies scholar with expertise on Chinese digital media\, communication and culture and their sociopolitical and cultural impact in China\, Australia and the Asia Pacific.\nShe is currently working on projects on China’s digital expansion and influence in Australasia\, Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia\, the social implications of China’s social credit system\, and social studies of digital technologies in the Chinese context.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915639246{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]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/elections-ai/
LOCATION:RMIT University\, Melbourne
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Indie Porn by Zahra Stardust
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for the Book Launch and In Conversation for Indie Porn: Revolution\, Regulation and Resistance (Duke University Press) by Dr Zahra Stardust. ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1722476003470{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE BOOK” 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][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Indie Porn\, Dr Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws\, risk-averse platforms\, discriminatory algorithms\, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant\, Stardust takes readers behind the scenes\, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament\, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations\, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography\, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy\, Stardust documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content\, revolutionize production\, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators\, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation. Inevitably\, as these paradigms collide\, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility\, from ethical certification to law reform\, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions\, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex\, work\, and capitalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1722476003470{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ABOUT THE AUTHOR” 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=”11425″ 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 Zahra Stardust is a Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). \nZahra is a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of sexuality\, technology\, law and social justice. Her doctoral research\, which won the Dean’s award for Best PhD Thesis\, examined the regulation of queer and feminist pornographies through criminal laws\, classification codes\, platform governance and the capitalist co-optation of sexual subcultures. \nOver the last 15 years Zahra has worked in policy\, advocacy\, legal and research capacities with community organisations\, NGOs and UN bodies on human rights in Australia and internationally. Zahra has taught in law\, criminology\, public policy\, social research\, gender studies and politics at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. \nRecently\, Zahra has worked on ARC funded projects exploring intoxication evidence in sexual assault trials\, the policing of public order offences and the criminalisation of homelessness. \nAs Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the QUT Node of ADM+S\, Zahra will be aligned to the Institutions research program and will undertake research to investigate how automated systems can be held accountable against public interest standards. \nRead Dr Stardust’s recent papers on financial discrimination against sex workers\, police surveillance on dating apps\, sex tech entrepreneurs\, sex positive social media\, automated whorephobia\, sex work regulation\, post-work politics\, platform community standards and authenticity in a gig economy. \nWatch Dr Stardust’s recent panels for the World Association for Sexual Health\, on sexual and reproductive health and rights at the UN University and decoding stigma at the Berkman Klien Centre at Harvard Law School.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/book-launch-indie-porn-by-zahra-stardust-2/
LOCATION:Rabble Books & Games\, 2/46 Eighth Ave\, Mayalnds\, Western Australia\, 6051\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241203T110000
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DTSTAMP:20260428T014514
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SUMMARY:Three years on: How the digital gap is changing in remote First Nations communities
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and Telstra invite you to attend the online launch of the first Mapping the Digital Gap Outcomes Report.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Join our online event for an overview of the data\, context\, and key findings from the report\, discussion of the evolving state of communications infrastructure across research sites\, case studies of on-the-ground experiences of residents and service providers\, and an interactive Q&A session with leading industry and academic experts. \nThe evolving digital divide\nAfter three years of research in partnership with 12 remote First Nations communities across Australia\, Mapping the Digital Gap data now tracks the evolution of digital inclusion outcomes against Closing the Gap target 17. The target states that ‘By 2026\, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have equal levels of digital inclusion. \nWhile the digital gap shows signs of narrowing\, many striking inequalities remain. Over two-thirds of survey respondents in remote communities now struggle to afford basic internet services. \nImproving digital inclusion outcomes and access to services in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is critically important for informed decision making and agency. Digital exclusion impacts on access to critical services\, health outcomes\, access to news and information\, and participation in social and cultural activities. \nAbout the report\nThe 2024 Mapping the Digital Gap Outcomes Report presents the most significant changes in digital inequity found between 2022-2024. It investigates areas of improvement and concern across the dimensions of Access\, Affordability\, Digital Ability\, and Media and Information. The report also outlines community-specific results\, highlighting variations due to communications infrastructure and social\, cultural\, and geographic context. \nThese findings provide important insights into what can drive improvements in digital inclusion in remote First Nations communities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1693984120881{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1686029087819{margin-right: 30px !important;margin-left: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Schedule \n\n6:00pm\nPublic debate\n7:00pm\nLight refreshments\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538086520{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Partners” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”6058″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Telstra\ntelstra.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538086520{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”20073″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Dr Dot West\nChair\nFirst Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”7712″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Lauren Ganley\nFirst Nations Strategy & Engagement\nMapping the Digital Gap Partner Investigator\nTelstra \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”491″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Prof Julian Thomas\nCentre Director\nMapping the Digital Gap Co-Investigator\nRMIT University\, ADM+S \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”13270″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Assoc Prof Daniel Featherstone\nSenior Research Fellow\nMapping the Digital Gap Lead Investigator\nRMIT University\, ADM+S \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1691538093222{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner gap=”20″][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”5535″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Assoc Prof Lyndon Ormond-Parker\nResearch Fellow\nMapping the Digital Gap Co-Investigator\nRMIT University\, ADM+S \nVisit page[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/mtdg-2024-outcomes-report-launch/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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