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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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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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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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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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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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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:20241201T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241201T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241108T005659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T010051Z
UID:26804-1733058000-1733070600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Unmaking AI - Engaging Critically and Creatively with GenAI
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”How can researchers engage with AI in creative and critical ways? Generative AI offers new approaches\, but also introduces significant social\, cultural\, political\, and even environmental impacts. Understanding these possibilities and problems is key!” 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 ‘Unmaking AI’ workshop at OzCHI 2024\, participants will be introduced to AI models\, will see how other researchers and practitioners use AI in real-world projects\, and will carry out hands-on ‘unmaking’ activities using a custom\, design card deck created for GenAI experimentation and reflection. The workshop is intentionally “no tech”\, requiring no devices\, formal training\, or prior knowledge of technical systems. The workshop is being co-facilitated by members and research partners of the ADM+S\, in collaboration with industry partners from Microsoft\, Google and Canva. \nTo find out more visit: https://www.lukemunn.com/workshop/ and https://www.ozchi.org/2024/ \n  \nLocation/Venue/Registration details: \nVenue: 36th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2024) at The University of Queensland\, Brisbane \nDate: Sunday\, December 1\, 2024 \nTime: 1 pm to 4:30 pm. \nConference Workshop Registration costs (via OzCHI 2024 website): $70 dollars for workshop \nSubmit your Workshop Expression of Interest Submission to be considered (via workshop website) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row title=”RESEARCH PROJECTS” style=”custom” gradient_color_1=”turquoise” gradient_color_2=”blue” gradient_custom_color_1=”#dd3333″ gradient_custom_color_2=”#eeee22″ gradient_text_color=”#ffffff” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” shape=”rounded” color=”grey” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”” add_icon=”” i_align=”left” i_type=”fontawesome” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-adjust” i_icon_openiconic=”vc-oi vc-oi-dial” i_icon_typicons=”typcn typcn-adjust-brightness” i_icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-note” i_icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-heart” i_icon_monosocial=”vc-mono vc-mono-fivehundredpx” i_icon_material=”vc-material vc-material-cake” i_icon_pixelicons=”vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert” custom_onclick=”” link=”url:%23research-filter|||” custom_onclick_code=””][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EXPRESSION OF INTEREST” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfHaPtWZxqMU2K_Lvuo1ovtz0cSkemqcyGHuWzCUjfmGOmsKA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsend_form”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/unmaking-ai/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom Webinar / In-person at The University of Queensland\, The Terrace Room (Level 6) - Sir Llew Edwards Building (14)\, The University of Queensland\, Campbell Road\, Saint Lucia\, QLD\, 4072
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/Brisbane:20241127T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241128T164500
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240801T014215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T031345Z
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SUMMARY:Artificial Visionaries: Exploring the intersections of machine vision\, computation\, and our aural and visual cultures
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Artificial Visionaries: exploring the intersections of machine vision\, computation\, and our aural and visual cultures\, is a two-day symposium with the goal of bringing together scholars who are exploring the intersections between computation and creativity across a broad range of aural and visual cultures.” 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\nAs artificial intelligence and generative technologies become entangled with our day-to-day creative practices and industrial forms of cultural production\, it prompts critical reflection on the affordances\, differences\, and points of connection between human perception and machine vision\, human labour and machine labour\, and human creativity and computational creativity. How are generative technologies being incorporated into our creative practices? How are data and algorithms influencing the way we make\, exhibit\, distribute\, perceive\, or consume art? \nChatGPT suggested we call this event “artificial visionaries” — so we did. But who are the visionaries? The hallucinations of the machines\, or the creative visions (and hallucinations) of the humans who use them? Whilst the phrase may bring to mind questions of authenticity\, authorship\, or aesthetic judgement for some cultural studies scholars\, we’re sure it will prompt very different ideas for a computational scientist. We feel that the polysemy of a machine-generated term such as this is also representative of the many different approaches scholars are taking toward digital cultural research.Travel awards (HDR Students) \nInterstate applicants: ADM+S research training has earmarked limited travel bursaries to enable our interstate ADM+S students and ECR members to travel to participate in person. These bursaries are to contribute to return economy airfares and accommodation. Please email m.thomas@uq.edu.au and sally.storey@rmit.edu.au if you would like to apply for a travel bursary to attend. \nThis event has been organised by Meg Herrmann with the support of The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies at the University of Queensland and The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. \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=”KEYNOTE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”13427″ 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 Joel Stern presents ‘Degenerative Music: Listening with and against algorithmic aberrations’ \nExplore acoustic chicago blues algorave. Make a song that feels how you feel. Write a songbook about automatic music generation. Prompt: choir\, replication\, disquiet\, clone\, drone\, decompose\, female vocalist\, rhythmic\, LLM poetry\, DIY\, heavy\, absurd. Enter custom mode. Perform live. \n“Suno is building a future where anyone can make great music. Whether you’re a shower singer or a charting artist\, we break barriers between you and the song you dream of making. No instrument needed\, just imagination. From your mind to music.” \n“Udio builds AI tools to enable the next generation of music creators. We believe AI has the potential to expand musical horizons and enable anyone to create extraordinary music. With Udio\, anyone with a tune\, some lyrics\, or a funny idea can now express themselves in music.” \nGenerative AI platforms like Suno and Udio promise a future where “anyone can make great music” regardless of skills\, experience or knowledge by simply using a prompt interface. While this notion radically redefines what it means to create music in a conventional sense\, it aligns\, weirdly\, and perhaps unintentionally\, with certain avant-garde and experimental music traditions\, which foreground de-skilling (no instrument needed…) and conceptual purity (…just imagination). \nFurther\, when we listen to AI-generated music in 2024\, despite promises to the contrary\, we don’t hear seamless genre replication or polished production. Instead\, what stands out are aberrations—glitches\, artifacts\, and strange affectations—what we might call sonic disaggregations or degenerations. These imperfections are not merely flaws; they are the defining features of AI music. \nRather than focusing on AI’s ability to faithfully replicate musical conventions\, this talk proposes that the medium specificity of AI music lies in its errors and mutations\, its absence of human intentionality\, and the ‘lack of shame’ that often accompanies creative choices. While these qualities preclude (at least for now) AI-generated music from being seen as “authentic” popular music\, they fulfil long-held avant-garde desires to replace aesthetic choices with automated processes\, structures\, mechanisations and prompts.[/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=”25959″ 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 Lisa Bode presents ‘Weird by Design: Generative AI and the aesthetics and visual culture of weirdness’ \nIn 2024\, new generative AI models for image and video are released every few weeks\, and each one seems to promise improved accuracy and unprecedented user control. Often though\, if we consider such AI generated videos as “Will Smith Eating Spaghetti” (2023) by Reddit user\, chaindrop\, using HuggingFace’s ModelScope text2video\, it is the inaccuracy and chaos of AI generated works that comprises their viral attraction. This is a rarely examined aesthetic quality we tend to call weird. \nIn one sense – but not all – AI generated weirdness is related to what Carolyn Kane has called “the aesthetics of failure” (2019): associated with technological artefacts that are part of development cycles\, but slowly disappearing with the training of each new model. It is possible that weirdness is merely a temporary characteristic of AI aesthetics – one that is leant into or emphasized in vernacular and artistic uses of these applications. But weirdness may also be a more persistent feature of generative AI. For\, as I argue here\, it operates alongside\, underneath\, and in relation to generative AI’s developmental trajectories\, and their corporate framing and branding. This talk is a brief exploration of the manifestation\, experience\, and functions of AI weirdness\, and how and why weirdness – at least for now – is a significant part of the shifting aesthetic and cultural frameworks through which we understand\, share\, categorize\, and experience emerging AI applications and the text\, images\, and video they produce.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1726715196344{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”VIEW FULL PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fartificial-visionaries-exploring-the-intersections-of-machine-vision-computation-and-our-aural-and-visual-cultures|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/artificial-visionaries-exploring-the-intersections-of-machine-vision-computation-and-our-aural-and-visual-cultures/
LOCATION:Room 511\, UQ Brisbane City\, 308 Queen St\, Brisbane\, QLD\, 4000\, 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:20241126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241126T174500
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241115T005043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T005130Z
UID:26923-1732640400-1732643100@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Official (Melbourne) Book Launch: Michael Richardson Nonhuman Witnessing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us to celebrate the launch of Associate Professor Michael Richardson’s new book Nonhuman Witnessing: War\, Data\, and Ecology after the End of the World with refreshments and words from Larissa Hjorth. Out now with Duke University Press\, the book calls for the radical transformation of how we understand witnessing in an age of crises.” 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  Nonhuman Witnessing  Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war\, ecological catastrophe\, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing\, Richardson shows how ecological\, machinic\, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity of nonhuman witnessing across an array of sites\, from nuclear testing on First Nations land and autonomous drone warfare to deepfakes\, artificial intelligence\, and algorithmic investigative tools. Throughout\, he illuminates the ethical and political implications of witnessing in an age of profound instability. By challenging readers to rethink their understanding of witnessing\, testimony\, and trauma in the context of interconnected crises\, Richardson reveals the complex entanglements between witnessing and violence and the human and the nonhuman. \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=”12186″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Michael Richardson is a writer\, researcher\, and teacher living and working on Gadigal and Bidjigal country. An Associate Professor in the School of the Arts & Media at UNSW Sydney and an Associate Investigator with ADM+S\, his research examines how technology\, power\, and culture shape knowledge in war\, security\, and surveillance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/official-melbourne-book-launch-michael-richardson-nonhuman-witnessing/
LOCATION:Melbourne Law School\, The Woodward Convention Centre\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3053
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Nonhuman-Witnessing.jpg
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:20241126T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241115T005601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T024632Z
UID:26931-1732629600-1732640400@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Ecology\, Technology and Law: Towards an Econormativity
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join panelists as they discuss ecology\, crisis\, and witnessing inspired by Prof. Michael Richardson’s new book\, Nonhuman Witnessing.” 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\nLegal and political institutions today are faced with new pressures\, from escalating ecological crises and the increasing use of algorithmic technologies\, to rapid political and organisational change. These pressures place a strain on institutions’ existing conceptual vocabularies\, processes\, and underlying paradigms of law. As the humanities and social sciences experience an ecological\, planetary\, and techno-social turn\, how can their insights combine with legal and political scholarship to cultivate a new kind of legal thinking? This event explores the notion of a general ‘econormativity’\, as a way to understand the interrelation of the biological\, environmental\, geological\, technological and the social – working towards a law that is intrinsically connected with basic principles of living and technical processes. Join us for an afternoon of panel discussions and an open exchange of ideas. \nIn the first panel\, ‘Towards Econormativity’\, Prof Margaret Davies will elaborate on the work undertaken in her recent book ‘Ecolaw: Legality\, Life and the Normativity of Nature’. Professor Davies is joined by Connal Parsley and Conor Heaney (Kent Law School) to explore promising connections with contemporary philosophies of evolving techno-social ecologies. \nThe second panel\, ‘Nonhuman Sensing’\, uses Prof Michael Richardson’s (UNSW Media & Comms) new book as a springboard for discussions about ecology\, crisis\, and witnessing. Panellists will discuss their shared interests in the relationship between nonhuman sensing and knowledge production\, ecological thinking\, and how law responds to nonhuman\, logistical\, and technological normativity. \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=”PARTICIPANTS” 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 offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text] \n\nMargaret Davies (Flinders Law School)\nJake Goldenfein (Melbourne Law School)\nConor Heaney (Kent Law School)\nCaitlin Murphy (Melbourne Law School)\nChristine Parker (Melbourne Law School)\nJames Parker (Melbourne Law School)\nConnal Parsley (Kent Law School)\nMichael Richardson (UNSW Media and Communications)\n\nFollowing the panel\, we will celebrate the Melbourne launch of Nonhuman Witnessing\, with words from Larissa Hjorth. Please register here for the launch.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/seminar-ecology-technology-and-law/
LOCATION:Melbourne Law School\, The Woodward Convention Centre\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3053
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Towards-an-Econormativity-1.jpg
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:20241124T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241124T002328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T022830Z
UID:27026-1732438800-1733763600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Ask Me Anything: Are Fair Elections Possible in the Digital Age?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”We’re excited to share that the latest Ask Me Anything (AMA) campaign hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) will feature Associate Professor Timothy Graham from QUT\, who will be answering questions on the topic “Are Fair Elections Possible in the Digital Age?”” 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\nFrom social media algorithms to targeted ads\, and from the spread of disinformation to the transformation of “neutral” platforms into propaganda tools\, these issues are more relevant than ever. With the recent US election and Australia’s upcoming federal election\, this AMA offers a timely opportunity to explore these crucial topics. \nShare your burning question by Monday 9 December via the Submit a Question button. Associate Professor Timothy Graham will be answering a selection of questions – these will be shared on the ADM+S YouTube account. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1651551961626{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”SUBMIT A QUESTION” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fadmscentre.org%2Fask-me-anything%20″][/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 OUR EXPERT” 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=”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 is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology. His research combines computational methods with social theory to examine online networks\, bots\, trolls\, disinformation\, and platform algorithms.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1722476003470{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”THE ADM+S ASK ME ANYTHING SERIES” 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\nView our previous Ask Me Anything sessions here: \n\nWhat is a deepfake and how do I spot one?\nADM+S Ask Me Anything Campaign Shorts\n\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=”SPREAD THE WORD” 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\nYou can support this ADM+S AMA Campaign by sharing the social links below: \n\nLinkedIn\nBlueSky\nFacebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/ask-me-anything-are-fair-elections-possilbe-in-the-digital-age/
LOCATION:Online
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;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241122T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241122T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241108T004731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T082207Z
UID:26798-1732276800-1732282200@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Killswitch Protocols: Eric Alston talk
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Human-engineered systems have long required a recursive override that prevents the unchecked execution of system procedures from resulting in undesirable outcomes. In the age of complex engineered systems whose failure can predictably harm or kill those using them\, this has led to the increasingly sophisticated design of killswitches\, failsafes\, and overrides.” 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\nIndeed\, the very timing of the emergence of these words to describe the increasingly explicit systemic function is a testament to its emergence as complexity and risk in our designed machines was increasing exponentially. But killswitches’ function is longer-standing\, and more central to human ordering than simply a button or trigger on a machine\, despite the close connection to short-circuiting otherwise automated processes. Killswitch governance can thus range from fully automated to highly distributed\, with a host of costs and benefits to each protocol specification. In a world whose organizational processes are increasingly automated and distributed\, this makes the presence of killswitch protocols within complex networked organizations more relevant\, although whether or not these protocols are appropriately designed and included is a separate but important question we hope to provoke with this analysis. Killswitches are increasingly central to protocol design due to their role in ensuring true distribution of governance authority\, yet this increased prevalence will carry with it a concomitant vulnerability to special interest capture and attack. \n  \nBio \nEric Alston is a Scholar in Residence in the Finance Division at University of Colorado Boulder. Eric’s research is grounded in the fields of institutional and organizational analysis & law and economics\, and explores constitutions\, economic rights on frontiers\, and digital governance specifically. Eric is also currently engaged in governance design for several distributed network projects. www.colorado.edu/business/leeds-directory/faculty/eric-c-alston \nFor any questions or access to the Zoom link\, please contact Ellie Rennie: ellie.rennie@rmit.edu.au \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/killswitch-protocols/
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/2024/11/Eric-Alston-1-1.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:20241121T123000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241108T052726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T052726Z
UID:26854-1732192200-1732195800@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Regulating disruptive technologies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”This presentation on disruptive technologies regulation\, including artificial intelligence\, will provide an overview of the various regulatory options available\, their pros and cons\, as well as possible outcomes in terms of technological advancement and social progress.” 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\nPart of the lecture will present the author’s own three-level categorization of AI interference in human decision-making\, a topic strongly related to some current projects on both UTS and The University of Sydney’s ADM+S Centre. \nThis could be an opportunity to find topics for future joint research. \nAbout the speaker \nProfessor Leonardo Parentoni is a Senior Lecturer and UFMG’s/Brazil’s leading expert on technology law\, with more than 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. His research interests include artificial intelligence\, big data\, data science\, personal data protection\, blockchain\, IoT\, ISP liability\, regulating disruptive technologies\, legal techs and the future of legal market\, human rights and telecom infrastructure. He has published his works in 5 languages and more than 8 countries. \nHis ResearchGate profile is the most visited of all professors at the UFMG Law School and one of the most popular in Brazil\, with over 65\,000 views. He also holds a permanent position at Brazil’s Attorney-General’s Office (AGU)\, serving as head of legal in a research facility focused on nuclear-based medicine and new materials\, such as graphene. \nThis is a hybrid event. Please register through the corresponding links below to indicate your attendance mode. If you are registering for online attendance\, a Zoom link will be provided through EventBrite. \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=”ONLINE REGISTRATION” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fregulating-disruptive-technologies-tickets-1050298339607%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715231990257{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”IN PERSON REGISTRATION” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fregulating-disruptive-technologies-tickets-1050278349817%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1721962705003{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/regulating-disruptive-technologies/
LOCATION:The University of Sydney Law School\, Camperdown\, NSW\, 2006\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Sydney
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Regulating-Disruptive-Technologies-1.png
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241111T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241111T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241031T025529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T025529Z
UID:26748-1731344400-1731351600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:When AI takes the stand: Safe and Responsible AI in Victoria’s Courts and Tribunals
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join experts as they explore the challenging questions arising from the VLRC’s inquiry into AI in Victoria’s Courts and Tribunals.” 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\nYou are invited to this public event at which a group of experts\, including the Hon. Jennifer Coate AO\, Prof Kimberlee Weatherall\, Prof Jeannie Paterson\, Professor Julian Webb\, Emma Poole (Vic Bar) and Claire Bennett (VCAT member) will consider the thorniest questions that arise from the Victorian Law Reform Commission’s (VLRC) inquiry into Artificial Intelligence in Victoria’s Courts and Tribunals.  \n  \nThis seminar is co-hosted by the ADM+S\, Melbourne Law School\, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) and the Victorian Law Reform Commission\, at the University of Melbourne. \nThe VLRC’s issues paper is available at https://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/VLRC_AI_Courts_CP_web.pdf \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=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fwhen-ai-takes-the-standsafe-and-responsible-ai-in-vic-courts-and-tribunals-tickets-1059161232759%3Faff%3Doddtdtcreator|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1721962705003{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/ai-takes-the-stand/
LOCATION:Melbourne Connect\, Manhari Room\, Level 7\, 700 Swanston St\, Carlton\, VIC\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Regulatory-Project_web.jpg
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:20241107T123000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241031T024652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T024652Z
UID:26743-1730982600-1731006000@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Replica School: Model Collapse
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us on November 7 for Model Collapse\, a slow drift through some sundry spaces of the University\, where performances\, lectures\, improvisations and interventions unfold over the course of the day in basements\, hallways\, libraries\, and lecture rooms. This is a school within a school\, a parasite within a parasite. You will not find classes managed by overwrought content management systems that drain the life force out of ideas.” 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\nFeaturing: Sophie Penkethman-Young\, Jenny Hickinbotham\, Ceri Hann\, Cheerleading is without spirit\, Marcus McKenzie\, Joel Sherwood Spring\, Roslyn Orlando\, James Rushford\, Catherine Ryan. You will probably find: \n🐾 An introduction to a video essay on humans\, dogs\, AI and the multitudes they contain\, by Sophie Penkethman-Young\n🖐️ A skilled hand\, a cultivated mind. Short songs about hands\, performed to a sculpture of a hand\, by Jenny Hickinbotham\n🕳️ Dada-mined\, hardcore prompt engineering with a drill\, in RMIT library by Ceri Hann. A hole-istic approach.\n🏎️ A possible score for university photocopiers and model ferrari by Marcus McKenzie.\n💳 A pitch deck presentation for mob.io\, Indigenous startup\, by artist entrepreneur CEO Joel Sherwood Spring\n⚖️ Roslyn Orlando’s polyvocal essay in the University’s Council Chambers\, tracing a speculative history of large language models.\n🎹 Composer James Rushford’s performance of Austrian genius Gerhard Rühm’s ‘time poems’ on the RMIT student lounge piano.\n➿ Catherine Ryan’s Two Body Problem\, a new experimental lecture-performance about multiplying selves.\n📒 Plus\, readings and writings of replicas by members of the group ‘Cheerleading is without spirit’ in the RMIT Urban Writers House. \n Replica School is part of This Hideous Replica\, at RMIT Gallery until the 16 November 2024. \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=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Freplica-school-model-collapse|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1721962705003{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/model-collapse/
LOCATION:RMIT Gallery\, 344 Swanston St\, Melbroune\, Victoria\, 3000\, 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:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241023T150000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20241022T001033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T001107Z
UID:26581-1729684800-1729695600@www.admscentre.org.au
SUMMARY:Eryk Salvaggio: Gaussian Pop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”An open-form seminar and workshop on the politics and aesthetics of AI-generated music led by media artist\, theorist and musician Eryk Salvaggio.” 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\nEryk will discuss his work and ideas on algorithmic culture\, departing from the recent text Gaussian Pop: 14 Theses in which he attempts to situate AI music as an emerging ‘genre\, or a movement of sorts\, that is distinct from the sounds made by people. \nSometime in 2025 you’ll be asked to describe what you want to listen to\, and an app will give you some suggestions\, but you’ll know them all\, have worn them all out. You’ll notice something new: the search bar will pop up and ask if you’d like a JAM that fit that description. Curious\, you’ll click yes\, the window will go away\, and new music will start to play. You’ll dig it. It’ll sound like exactly what you wanted. \n– Eryk Salvaggio\, Gaussian Pop: 14 Theses \n  \n\nEryk Salvaggio is a researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and the transformation of archives into datasets for AI training: a practice designed to expose ideologies of tech and to confront the gaps between datasets and the worlds they claim to represent. \nExplore his work at https://www.cyberneticforests.com/ \nThis event is part of This Hideous Replica\, at RMIT Gallery until the 16 November 2024. \nPresented in association with ADM+S\, Music Industry Research Collective\, Design and Sonic Practice. \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=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Feryk-salvaggio-gaussian-pop|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1721962705003{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/eryksalvaggio/
LOCATION:RMIT Gallery\, 344 Swanston St\, Melbroune\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.admscentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Eryk-Salvaggio-Gaussian-Pop.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:20241016T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241016T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240808T053310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T044537Z
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SUMMARY:Human Touch in a Digital World: A Film Exploration of Technology’s Impact for Society
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Join us for the screening of a series of short documentary films exploring how different members of society engage and interact with automation and digital technologies. This free\, public event will feature 4 short films\, each followed by Q&A with the creators.” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723172986108{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”7/12″][vc_column_text] \nSuperbots (8 min)\nThis upbeat and inspiring short film\, observes and engages with students from Brentwood Secondary College during their two-day interactive Industry Immersion program ‘Superbots’\, where girls ideate\, test and construct their own voicebot personality. \nThe program\, co-designed by Monash Tech School and Monash University’s Faculty of IT\, was inspired by Jenny Kennedy and Yolande Strengers research for their book\, #thesmartwife and delivered in collaboration with Women in Voice Australia & New Zealand (WiV ANZ). Students engage with questions of ethics and gender stereotypes as they develop and test their own inclusive voicebots and consider creative career pathways into information technology. \nFilm by ADM+S filmmaker Jeni Lee. This film is part of the ADM+S AI Rewired project\, shining a light on how communities use AI systems to support social justice. Emerging Technologies Research Lab\, Monash University[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”26149″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723172986108{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”7/12″][vc_column_text] \nEnd of the line\nPatchy and unreliable mobile and internet connectivity impacts the everyday lives of First Nations people living in remote Australia. On Erub\, on the eastern end of Zenadth Kes (the Torres Strait Islands)\, mobile access is critical for cultural and language revitalization and preservation\, general communication especially\, safety out on the sea. Follow National NAIDOC Award winner and Erub First language educator Lala Gutchen as she goes fishing on her home island\, engaging in a longstanding cultural practice irrevocably shaped by modern communications challenges. \nThis film was produced by the ADM+S / Telstra Mapping the Digital Gap research project in partnership with Torres Strait Islander Media Association (TSIMA). \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”26491″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723172986108{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”7/12″][vc_column_text] \nNon-Human Supports Used by Autistic People for Connection\, Health and Wellbeing (10 min)\nThis film is part of the ADM+S UNSW Node’s autistic-led project ‘Non-human supports used by autistic people for connection\, care and wellbeing’. It involves three autistic people talking about how they use digital and non-digital objects\, practices and creatures to help them meet their needs. From high-tech devices such robot dogs and game apps to warm-blooded felines and fun nail art\, Meg\, Yssy and Sophie reveal their favourite ways to find comfort\, care\, happiness\, creativity and connection to the world. \nThe project team is Megan Rose and Deborah Lupton\, working with Jotz film production. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”26151″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723172986108{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”7/12″][vc_column_text] \nI am not a number (20 min)\nWhat is it like for people interacting with digital government systems? The Australian Government aspires to lead the world in digital innovation. Initiatives in digital governance have seen the introduction of algorithms for NDIS support planning. \nWhile the government’s vision promises efficiency and modernisation\, the reality is far more complex. Meet Mark\, Marie\, Erin\, Paris\, Olisama\, Paul\, and Kaili—seven people whose lives have been profoundly affected by these technological changes. Through their poignant and personal stories\, discover how the inflexible nature of these algorithms has not only failed to meet their needs but has also caused significant harm to the very people it aimed to support. \nFilm by ADM+S filmmaker Jeni Lee in collaboration with Georgia van Toorn. Created in consultation with ROBONDIS activists. Research Consultants: Sarah Pink and Thao Phan. Consultant Producer: Anna Grieve \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”26154″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715231990257{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%2Fmobilities-film-screening|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1721962705003{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/automated-mobilities-film-screening-adms-2024-symposium-public-event/
LOCATION:Science Theatre (F13)\, UNSW\, University Mall\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2052\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Sydney
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20241015T103000
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SUMMARY:2024 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Mobilities
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The 2024 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Mobilities will highlight the challenges and opportunities of AI and automated decision-making in mobilities. It will bring together researchers and stakeholders to share\, explore\, create and connect on related work across the Centre.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]This event is invite only for ADM+S members\, partner organisations and industry stakeholders.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Mobilities Focus Area investigates the uses and implications of automated decision-making in the fields of transport\, energy\, and migration. ADM has already begun to transform how we live and move\, and is likely to have greater impacts on the movement of humans\, animals and resources in the near future. \nThe Mobilities Focus Area brings together research from across ADM+S\, connecting personal\, shared\, commercial and public systems\, services\, and technologies for understanding\, modelling and enhancing mobility practices and behaviours. \nWe address sectors including public transport\, mobility and navigation services\, active transport\, retail and public spaces\, mobile media and applications\, migration services\, and energy systems. We identify the new risks and benefits that mobilities automation creates\, and the possibilities for ethical\, responsible and inclusive automation for mobility systems and their diverse users.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Symposium will include collaborative workshops\, interactive experiences\, film screenings\, tours and discussions. Participants will: \n\nShare new insights and knowledge from research connected to the Mobilities focus area conducted during the first phase of the Centre\,\nCreate and develop traditional and novel research outputs for publication (e.g publications for special issue journals or an edited book\, poster presentations)\, and\nProgress the Centre’s new signature projects via collaborative workshops.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Program \n\n    Tuesday 15 October Pre-symposium workshops (10:30am- 5pm)Symposium opening event with research posters (5pm- 8pm) Wednesday 16 October ADM+S Symposium: Automated Mobilities (9am- 5pm) Public film-screening event (6pm- 8pm) Thursday 17 October ADM+S signature project workshops (9am- 4pm) \n\n\nSubmission dates \n\n    20 May Workshops\, working papers\, and creative practice presentations due 3 June Satellite event submissions due 24 June Notification of main program submission outcomes 8 July Notification of satellite event submission outcomes 31 August 23 September Research poster submissions due HDR/ECR poster competition draft/mock ups due 7 October HDR/ECR student poster competition final posters due  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1718229784316{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Call for Workshops\, Working Papers\, Creative Practice Presentations and Posters[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1718229776660{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Workshops\, working papers and creative practice presentations \nWe invite ADM+S members to submit working papers for consideration in forming the main symposium program. We are seeking a mix of papers aimed at generating more traditional outputs as well as presentations of non-traditional outputs. Rather than pre-formed panels\, the symposium committee will assemble the program from paper and workshop submissions with the aim of generating productive cross-disciplinary\, cross-node\, and cross-program/focus area conversations\, leading to new research outputs for the centre.  \nSubmissions should take the form of abstracts/proposals of between 200-300 words (this can include images)\, for papers or creative practice submissions from individuals or research teams reporting on research. Submissions should be aimed at developing a working research output to be submitted for peer-review conferences or journals\, through the medium of workshop or interactive / hands-on sessions.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Submit abstracts/proposals for main symposium” style=”custom” custom_background=”#30afc5″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSdjzGTHBAw1NpNr9Vr5T6Y8nwsrKWASQaVUbPisvHszvc2PGA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1718230333250{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Research Posters \nADM+S CIs\, AIs\, PIs and Research Fellows are invited to submit poster abstracts  for completed projects or works related to the Mobilites focus area. Selected posters will be presented at the Symposium public evening event. Please read below HDR Student poster submissions. \nGuidelines for ADM+S Research Poster Submissions [/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Submit a research poster abstract” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSf9Mw_MDvIhZyykBuLSkqPQCsEOKBh3QVMTqBdXco2pIS0Uqg%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1709609203818{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]ADM+S HDR and ECR Poster Competition \nADM+S HDR students and early career researchers are invited to submit posters contributing insights into AI and automation resulting from current ADM+S research thesis. \nThrough their posters\, ADM+S students and early career researchers will have the opportunity to share their findings with other Centre members and representatives from our partner organisations (including industry organisations\, academic institutions\, not-for-profits and advocacy organisations). \nDuring a dedicated project exhibition session at the main symposium (16 October)\, selected posters will be briefly introduced (max. 3 minutes) by the entrants to the assembled symposium audience. In addition to the presentation and poster exhibition\, the selected thesis/project will also be featured on the ADM+S website and in the symposium report. \nA prize of $1\,500 in research allowance will be awarded for the best poster as judged by a panel of academic experts. And $500 in research allowance will be awarded for the audience choice award.  \n Guidelines for ADM+S HDR/ECR Competition Poster Submissions[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Submit a HDR/ECR research poster abstract” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSeHz3VzWRnyv2kgjCGmZnvMnKak43yKSIpUGAL_d1aijeSUoQ%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1718229760676{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]ADM+S Satellite Events \nThe satellite program is intended to take advantage of people’s presence at the symposium. We invite submissions for events\, workshops\, meeting etc. that relate to the Mobilities focus area. We encourage the submission of  interactive workshops based around research\, for example involving participants in activities\, presenting creative practice interventions or other non-traditional modes; and may include short talks\, designed to encourage audience interaction and generate discussion about a specific topic or question.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Submit an EOI to host a satellite event” style=”custom” custom_background=”#30afc5″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfsIldcrAqt_KoEI19I9Pp8WgIjEFoS1YLoJWExxb3p1cSvpw%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1709609203818{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Contact Information \nadmsevents@rmit.edu.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850522092{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”19631″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nDr T.J. Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. T.J.’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. \nHe 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. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850530206{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/2024-adms-symposium-automated-mobilities/
LOCATION:University of NSW\, Kensington campus
CATEGORIES:Sydney
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240831
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DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
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SUMMARY:Machine Listening performance at Soft Centre
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Machine Listening (Joel Stern\, Sean Dockray\, James Parker)\, will present a newly commissioned work as part of the Soft Centre program at Now or Never festival\, held at Trades Hall on August 31.\nThe work is titled Songbook (5-x).” 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\nA songbook is a media technology. It untethers lyrics from their expression and in doing so enables them to be shared\, canonised\, archived\, performed\, and appropriated in weird and surprising ways. The original songbook\, for instance\, was the hymnal. But the Great American Songbook and Left Songbook (1938) are two important examples from the early twentieth century. \nThe Machine Listening Songbook joins this tradition by using automatic transcription\, phonemic alignment\, voice cloning and music generation technologies to reconfigure the relationship between voices and texts\, music and lyrics\, production and reproduction. Like all songbooks\, this one is open-ended. Songbook (5-x) is the first Australian iteration of a project premiered at Unsound Krakow in 2023 with support from ADM+S. In the historic Trades Hall in Carlton\, Machine Listening presents a suite of new songs exploring techniques of automatic reading\, writing\, recitation\, composition\, and decomposition. \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=”FULL PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softcentre.com.au%2F|target:_blank”][/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_1721962705003{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/machine-listening-performance/
LOCATION:Trades Hall\, 54 Victoria Street\, Carlton\, 3053\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240829T163000
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DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
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SUMMARY:I am not a number - ADM+S Film Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I Am Not A Number is the latest film by ADM+S documentary filmmaker Jeni Lee\, produced in collaboration with ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Georgia van Toorn. \nWhat is it like for people interacting with digital government systems? \nThe Australian Government aspires to lead the world in digital innovation. Initiatives in digital governance have seen the introduction of algorithms for NDIS support planning. While the government’s vision promises efficiency and modernisation\, the reality is far more complex.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723172986108{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”7/12″][vc_column_text]Meet Mark\, Marie\, Erin\, Paris\, Olisama\, Paul\, and Kaili—seven people whose lives have been profoundly affected by these technological changes. Through their poignant and personal stories\, discover how the inflexible nature of these algorithms has not only failed to meet their needs but has also caused significant harm to the very people it aimed to support. \nCreated in consultation with ROBONDIS activists.\nResearch Consultants: Sarah Pink and Thao Phan.\nConsultant Producer: Anna Grieve[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”26079″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715231990257{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1723608953535{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]This film is part of the ADM+S AI ReWired project. \nHow can we create a future where algorithms and AI are not further marginalising people on the fringes or costing us the earth? The AI ReWired project uncovers stories of everyday people who resist\, celebrate or appropriate AI in their work and in their lives\, with the aim to create an ecologically wise and socially just world. \n  \nTime: 4.30pm – 5.30pm light refreshments and canapes\, 5.30pm – 6.30pm screening and panel discussion with some of the film’s participants and filmmakers.[/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=”REGISTER” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fi-am-not-a-number-film-launch|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723520920103{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=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”568″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]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/i-am-not-a-number-adms-film-launch/
LOCATION:Kaleide Theatre\, 360 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Melbourne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240823
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241117
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240726T031317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240806T014125Z
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SUMMARY:This Hideous Replica
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”‘This Hideous Replica’ exhibition and public program at RMIT Gallery\, First Site\, Capital Theatre and more\, curated by ADM+S investigator Joel Stern and collaborator Sean Dockray as part of Now or Never festival.” 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\nLifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’ haunts industrial Manchester\, this experimental project—an admixture of artworks\, performances\, screenings\, workshops\, a ‘replica school’ and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic\, condition\, and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture\, simultaneously alienating\, seductive and out-of-control. \nExhibition includes Debris Facility\, Heath Franco & Matthew Griffin\, Josh Citarella\, Liang Luscombe\, Mochu\, Diego Ramírez\, Masato Takasaka\, Anna Vasof\, Loren Adams\, Amy May Stuart and more. Performances and presentations by Jennifer Walshe\, McKenzie Wark\, Tomomi Adachi\, Joel Spring\, Chloe Sobek\, Catherine Ryan\, Sophie Penkethem Young\, dogmilk collective\, Omniversal Hum\, Ceri Hann\, and more. Curated by Joel Stern (RMIT) and Sean Dockray (Monash). \nThis Hideous Replica is produced by RMIT Culture and supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platforms. This project is a part of the City of Melbourne’s Now or Never festival. \nImage: Mochu\, GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE\, 2022\, digital video (still)\, Image courtesy of the artist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nRegistration for various exhibits in “This Hideous Replica” are now open: \n\nMochu: Great Chain of Stains or Incompatible Rationalities on the Web reading group\n1:00pm – 4:00pm\, 28 Aug 2024\, First Site Gallery\nAn unscripted conversation\, watching-and-reading group with artist and writer Mochu exploring the possibilities and impossibilities of experimental writing after the internet.\nJennifer Walshe: 13 Ways of Looking at AI\, Art and Music workshop\n11:00am – 1:00pm\, 4 Sep 2024\, First Site Gallery\n“AI is not a singular phenomenon. We talk about it as if it’s a monolithic identity\, but it’s many\, many different things – the fantasy partner chatbot whispering sweet virtual nothings in our ears\, the algorithm scanning our faces at passport control\, the playlists we’re served when we can’t be bothered to pick an album. The technology is similar in each case\, but the networks\, the datasets and the outcomes are all different.”\nA Hacker Manifesto at 20: A reading group with McKenzie Wark\n2:00pm – 4:00pm\, 4 Sep 2024\, First Site Gallery\nWriter\, theorist\, and raver McKenzie Wark leads a reading and discussion group on her influential text\, A Hacker Manifesto\, 20 years after its publication by Harvard University Press in 2004.\nThis Hideous Replica: McKenzie Wark and Jennifer Walshe at The Capitol\n6:00pm – 8:00pm\, 5 Sep 2024\, the Capitol\nMcKenzie Wark: From Automatic to Automated Writing\nA public lecture by writer and theorist McKenzie Wark rethinking historical avant-garde debates on the ‘conceit of the author’ through the prism of AI and generative text.\n\nThis Hideous Replica is produced by RMIT Culture with support from the ADM+S Centre\, RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platforms. \nThe Now or Never Festival celebrates creativity\, inquiring minds\, and exploration\, with a focus on art\, ideas\, sound and technology. \nThe theme for the 2024 event is Look through the Image’\, inviting audience members to interrogate what’s in front of them\, explore deeper meanings\, contemplate layers of symbolism and question reality from AI-generated narratives and visual distortion works to cinematic and augmented reality experiences. \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=”FULL PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Frmitgallery.com%2Fexhibitions%2Fthis-hideous-replica%2F|target:_blank”][/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_1721962705003{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/this-hideous-replica/
LOCATION:RMIT Gallery\, 344 Swanston St\, Melbroune\, Victoria\, 3000\, 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/Brisbane:20240808T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240808T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240719T010853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T011039Z
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SUMMARY:Rural Women Online Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Era
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Over the past decade\, digital has become a critical part of our day to day lives. What does this hyper-connectivity mean for those who find themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide?” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]To answer this question and more\, please join us for a keynote address from Prof Julian Thomas\, Director of the ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society\, RMIT. Prof Thomas will be speaking on the importance of digital inclusion as a human right in the information age; the myriad opportunities digital affords our society; and the risks posed by barriers to digital\, especially for women from regional and rural areas. \nLinda Nieuwenhuizen\, CEO\, Committee for Greater Shepparton\, will deliver the Vote of Thanks. \nThis keynote address is presented by Rural Women Online\, as part of the Greater Shepparton Digital Intensive (5-9 August) created by women\, for women.  \n\nLight refreshments to be provided\nNeed help making a booking? Call (03) 9642 0422\nVenue has disability access\n\nWhat is Rural Women Online?\nRural Women Online is a program for women in regional\, rural and remote Victoria to come together and learn digital skills. It is an initiative of the proudly independent feminist organisation\, the Victorian Women’s Trust. Learn more about the Trust at www.vwt.org.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/rural-women-online-keynote-challenges-and-opportunities-of-the-digital-era/
LOCATION:The McIntosh Centre\, Shepparton\, Victoria\, 3630\, 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:20240723T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240723T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240628T021132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240628T021257Z
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SUMMARY:Superbots: Film Advanced Screening
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Experience an exclusive advanced screening of the Superbots short film\, created during Brentwood Secondary College’s 2023 Superbots program\, before its official release later this year!” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nWatch the yet to be released Superbots short film by Jeni Lee at ADM+S. \nTour the Monash Tech School spaces used in the Superbots program. \nParticipate in a Q & A panel.\nFood and Drinks on arrival. \nFree parking will be available for the event. \n\nAbout Superbots: \n\nSuperbots is a two-day interactive Industry Immersion program for Years 7-9 girls that explores the history\, ethics and societal influences on Voicebots and voice-assisted software development. \nCo-designed with Monash University’s Faculty of IT and supported by industry mentors from Women in Voice\, the program allows students to ideate\, test and construct their own voicebot personality. \n\n\nThe short film was created by Jeni Lee as part of the AI ReWired project. The project uses the Superbots program as an example of how communities utilise AI systems to support social justice. \nThis is a free event\, with a limited number of tickets available. Please book fast![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850522092{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”19631″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nDr T.J. Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. T.J.’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. \nHe 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. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850530206{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/superbots-film-advanced-screening/
LOCATION:Monash Tech School\, Level 1/29 Ancora Imparo Way\, Clayton\, Victoria\, 3168\, 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/Brisbane:20240711T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240711T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240528T052927Z
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SUMMARY:Australian Ad Observatory: Key Insights and Future Plans
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Australian Ad Observatory has pioneered new ways to observe the targeting of social media advertising across populations of users. This webinar will highlight findings\, outline research methods and discuss next steps.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712019081104{padding-top: -35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Advertising is at the heart of automated media and culture. Online advertisers are at the forefront of experimenting with automated digital media across recommendation\, targeting\, synthetic and augmented content\, logistics and retail. These promotional practices profoundly shape our everyday lived culture and experience of the world\, but how does this media landscape actually work? How is our own data used within this promotional ecosystem? And what role do different stakeholders (influencers\, audiences\, platforms) play in developing these promotional practices? \nLaunched in 2021\, The Australian Ad Observatory project at the ADM+S has pioneered a way to observe the targeting of social media advertising across populations of users. The Ad Observatory has generated the largest known collection of targeted ads that people encounter on Facebook in Australia – 328\,107 unique ads from 1909 participants – and built world-first research infrastructure that involved citizens in doing so.  \nThe project led to significant findings and impact across advertising in harmful industries including gambling\, alcohol\, unhealthy foods and consumer finance and misleading advertising practices seen in scam ads\, political advertising and environmental claims. \nResponding to significant recent and ongoing developments in automated advertising (including Generative AI)\, Phase 2 of the Australian Ad Observatory will develop approaches for studying contemporary media and information environments\, where there are no longer either shared flows of content\, nor stable texts. In the second phase of the project we will focus on particular groups of Australians who we will work with to donate ads and participate in co-analysis of their experience of automated advertising. \nAs automated advertising evolves\, Phase 2 of the project will examine the integration of generative AI into ad creation and targeting. It will also explore new ways of approaching the study of automated advertising\, not only in terms of individually targeted\, discrete ads\, but as ongoing sequences of ads that are ‘tuned’ to work in tandem with people’s identities and daily rhythms.  \nIn this webinar\, researchers and partner organisations involved in the Australian Ad Observatory discuss findings from Phase 1 and introduce Phase 2 as the project expands on data collection to include the full range of platforms accessed by mobile devices. \nThis webinar will be hosted on Zoom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Faustralian-ad-observatory-webinar-program%2F”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Speakers” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”852″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nProf Christine Parker \nProf Christine Parker is a Chief Investigator at the University of Melbourne node of ADM+S. Professor Parker’s current research focuses on the politics\, ethics and regulation of food. Her recent research has critically examined whether ethical labelling can make food systems healthy\, sustainable and just with a particular focus on animal welfare labelling and superfood health claims.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”639″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nProf Jean Burgess \nJean Burgess is Associate Director of ADM+S. Jean’s  research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies\, platforms\, and cultures\, as well as new and innovative digital methods for studying them. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”974″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Prof Daniel Angus \nProf Daniel Angus is a Chief Investigator at the Queensland University of Technology node of ADM+S. Daniel’s 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][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”568″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nProf Mark Andrejevic \nProf Mark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of ADM+S. Mark’s research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and popular culture. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”11654″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nAssoc Prof Nicolas Carah \nAssoc Prof Nicholas Carah is an Associate Investigator at The University of Queensland node of the ADM+S. Nicholas’ research examines the algorithmic\, promotional and participatory cultures of digital media platforms. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1378″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dr Abdul Obeid \nDr Abdul Obeid is a Data Engineer at the Queensland University of Technology node of ADM+S. Abdul is well-versed in machine learning\, topic modelling\, sentiment analysis\, statistical analysis\, and the use of probabilistic programming languages among other topics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”17625″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dr César Albarrán-Torres  \nDr César Albarrán-Torres is an Affiliate of ADM+S from Swinburne University. César’s current research focuses on the intersections among digital media\, finance\, and gambling. He also researches issues of postcolonial identities and narratives in film and television\, as well as the negotiations between social media and politics in Mexico\, particularly concerning the drug cartels.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”13888″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dr Kate Bower\nConsumer Data Advocate\, CHOICE \nThe Consumer Data Team works towards Australians enjoying the same rights and safeties as they expect from traditional markets.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”25691″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Casey Briggs\nData journalist and presenter with ABC News[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”13611″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dr Aimee Brownbill\nAimee is an ARC Early Career Industry Fellow with the Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education. Aimee has a PhD in Medicine (Public Health) and has contributed to collaborative applied research informing public health policy for several years. A key focus of her work to-date has been on the commercial determinants of health\, particularly the influence of marketing practices on health and wellbeing. \n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”25645″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Chandni Gupta\nDeputy CEO and Digital Policy Director\, Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC) \nChandni leads CPRC’s research and policy program\, while also leading CPRC’s research stream on protecting consumers in a digital world. Her work to date includes exploring the consumer shift from the analogue towards the digital economy\, the impact of deceptive and manipulative online design on Australian consumers and the key gaps that currently exist in Australia’s consumer protections. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16119″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Lauren Hayden \nLauren’s (she/her) PhD considers how platform consumer cultures are structured by digital advertising\, through an examination of alcohol promotion and online expression of drinking culture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”7751″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dr Amanda Lawrence \nDr Amanda Lawrence an Affiliate of the ADM+S from RMIT University and is leading the development of the Australian Internet Observatory project (2024 to 2028). Amanda’s interests include library and information management\, open knowledge systems\, research communication and public policy\, Wikimedia\, and public interest research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”14557″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dr Kelly Lewis \nDr Kelly Lewis is a Research Fellow at the Monash University node of ADM+S. Kelly’s research builds on other ADM+S research programs that investigate common themes of data collection\, use\, storage\, and application of data with concern for achieving greater transparency\, accountability\, and fairness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1720058947348{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20693″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nTanita Northcott \nTanita Northcott is an Affiliate at the University of Melbourne node of ADM+S. Tanita is a PhD Candidate at Deakin University. Her PhD focuses on understanding how law and regulation can be conceptualised and used to respond to the rise and harms of ultra-processed foods in the context of complex food systems and socio-ecological challenges.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850530206{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/the-australian-ad-observatory-summative-webinar-event/
LOCATION:Online
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:20240702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240705
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
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SUMMARY:Re/Framing - creativity / culture / computation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Re/Framing is an academic/creative/industrial gathering that will explore the transformation of creativity and the creative fields by generative artificial intelligence tools; in particular\, this event will explore the opportunities and innovations enabled by the sustainable and ethical use of tools like ChatGPT\, Midjourney\, Leonardo.Ai\, and Suno\, in film\, TV\, music\, advertising\, audio production\, and other areas.” 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\nEschewing traditional presentations\, Re/Framing is structured around roundtables\, workshops\, and experimental modes of idea generation. These sessions will incubate ideas around AI’s capabilities to solve complex creative and cognitive challenges\, or integrate into creative workflows; other groups may devise methods for considering\, reading\, using\, and analysing AI-generated media. Participants will also engage in guided practical\, interactive workshops and hackathons\, using genAI tools to solve problems\, visualise stories\, and imagine new futures. Curated keynote presentations and panel discussions may also inspire (these will be recorded for remote participants). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1712628805826{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%2Fdigital-platform-economies-program%2F|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1701823210479{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%2Fwww.reframing-ai.net|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1712628836420{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 (ADM+S)\nMark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University and a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society (ADM+S). His research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and digital media. He is the author of four monographs\, including\, most recently Automated Media\, as well as more than 90 academic articles and book chapters.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1701315140964{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Learn more about the Electronics <> Ecologies Series” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Felectronics-ecologies%2F”][vc_empty_space][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][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/re-framing/
LOCATION:RMIT University\, Melbourne
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:20240626T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240626T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240530T033024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T015056Z
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SUMMARY:Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Situated within geopolitical and historical Afro-Sino engagements\, this talk focuses on the ways that the logics and discourses of Chinese technological production intersect with African techno-imaginaries.” 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\nSpecifically\, Professor Avle maps the socio-technical practices that link Africa and China via the design and uses of AI\, computing hardware\, and data flows\, primarily outside of state and state-sponsored projects. Through this\, she provides evidence for how particular techno-futures are made\, adapted\, and refused by entrepreneurs and citizens ‘on-the-ground’ amid changing geo- and techno- politics. \n\nA recording of this in-person only talk will be made available following the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1701823210479{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%2Ffuture-worlds|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1708565098092{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=”24519″ 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]Seyram Avle  (PERN)\nSeyram Avle is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Her research focuses on digital technology cultures and innovation across Africa\, China\, and the US. This work primarily takes a critical approach to how digital technologies are made and used and their implications for issues of labor\, identity\, and futures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/future-worlds/
LOCATION:The Oxford Scholar\, 427 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240619T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20240619T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240202T051435Z
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SUMMARY:wikihistories 2024: Wikipedia and/as Data
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”What is Wikipedia’s relationship to data? What should Wikipedia’s relationship to data be?” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1686532788622{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2024 wikihistories symposium is co-located with ICA Gold Coast and brought to you by the wikihistories project at the University of Technology Sydney in partnership with the Centre for Media Transition\, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)\nand Wikimedia Australia. \nCall for Papers due 15 February [/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”FIND OUT MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1EjCAX9RZnDWLAHVA-sUxTQdP3Jg8jDDekrAaftx91E8%2Fedit”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1686532788622{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Wikipedia has always been a critical source of data for computer science projects\, offering data scientists a massive store of open data. Researchers and developers use Wikipedia to work on natural language processing (NLP) tasks and applications\, model user interactions with content and other users\, deliver factual statements to users in automated question-answering tasks\, and find nearby features as represented by Wikipedia articles (Iliadis\, 2022; Iliadis & Ford\, 2023). \nThese practitioners use Wikipedia as a store of facts assuming that it expresses an established consensus as a result of its policies and processes. Yet\, Wikipedia’s natural language could contain meanings that resist translation into data and whose classifications might be open to interpretation and critique (Ford & Iliadis\, 2023). For example\, articles about complex topics such as Jerusalem do not easily align with standard ways of representing entities like cities. Jerusalem’s infobox reflects Wikipedia’s power to make important decisions about how we understand facts and the meanings that are associated with them (Ford & Graham\, 2016). This power is intensified when entire Wikipedia articles are translated into structured datafied knowledge bases of machine-readable statements – by the Wikidata project\, for example\, which started in 2012 as a project of the Wikimedia Foundation (Ford\, 2020). \nHow researchers measure Wikipedia’s sociocultural biases also depends on the datafication of Wikipedia’s content and how such processes may be questioned rather than taken for granted. Measuring the extent to which Wikipedia represents Australians\, for example\, could simply be achieved by counting articles that are categorised in the “Australians” data category\, and yet this category itself is not an objective representation of Australianness but rather the result of particular practices that resist stable referents (Falk et al.\, 2023). As Wikipedia’s content is increasingly used to power virtual assistants such as Amazon Alexa and more recently large language model applications like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard\, Wikipedia participates in the global information ecosystem in ways that go well beyond its role as a web-based encyclopaedia (McDowell & Vetter\, 2023). Thus\, it is important to understand Wikipedia’s relationship to data\, not as a given\, but as something to be critically investigated. \nThis symposium will gather together social scientists\, humanists\, critical technologists\, and others to investigate Wikipedia’s connection to data and the importance of this relationship for the global information ecosystem and the production of knowledge. The workshop will be organised as a day-long\, face-to-face event prior to the annual International Communication Association conference on the Gold Coast in Australia. \nParticipants will be invited to share short presentations and to participate in discussions focused on the questions “What is Wikipedia’s relationship to data?” and/or “What should Wikipedia’s relationship to data be?” Participants will also agree to read a few background papers prior to the gathering. The workshop will result in a collaborative document that maps out possible areas for researching these questions from a sociotechnical lens and the option to continue the collaboration post-symposium. \nTo participate\, please complete the following web form\, including a 250-300 word abstract outlining your contribution to the symposium themes. \nLead curator and contact: Heather Ford[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1709609203818{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ORGANISERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22951″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Centre for Media Transition[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22950″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22944″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850522092{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”19631″ style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nDr T.J. Thomson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from RMIT University. He is also a senior lecturer in visual communication and digital media at RMIT and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. T.J.’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. \nHe 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. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1706850530206{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”16208″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]A rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organisation with thousands of members across four continents. Their mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information. \nLearn more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1653971328879{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cover image: Invasion Day Melbourne 2021\, Matt Hrkac\, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/wikihistories-2024-wikipedia-and-as-data/
LOCATION:Queensland University of Technology – Kelvin Grove campus\, Kelvin Grove\, QLD\, 4059\, 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:20240617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240619
DTSTAMP:20260428T044718
CREATED:20240409T022343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240704T061333Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Internet Research Conference: Politics and Geopolitics of Automated Decision-Making on the Global Chinese Internet
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society will be hosting the 21st Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC 2024) in Brisbane. The theme of the event is ‘Politics and Geopolitics of Automated Decision-Making on the Global Chinese Internet’ and will be held on 17-18 June.” 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\nThe Chinese Internet has a unique technological and politico-cultural ecosystem. It is characterized by the Great-Firewall censorship regime\, a vibrant platform-centered digital economy\, and highly connected and engaged consumers and users. These features are complemented with a fast-paced and dynamic experimentation with intelligent and disruptive technologies across an expanding array of areas\, platforms\, sectors\, and national boundaries. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI)\, machine learning\, and blockchain—technologies and digital tools that contribute to automated decision-making (ADM)—are used to innovate digital economy\, service provision\, transport and mobility\, media/propaganda\, labor relations\, and cross-border trade\, and so forth. They also shape societal processes\, contributing to new forms of social governance\, cultural production and social engagement\, resetting labor relations\, and transforming power dynamics across industries\, sectors\, and national boundaries. Chinese Internet and technology companies like Baidu\, Alibaba\, Tencent\, and Bytedance are the forerunners in the AI race and technological innovation. They are encouraged by the Chinese Party-state to develop research and innovation capacities in cutting-edge technologies\, while bearing the brunt of state regulations on content and data control on the one hand and of the high-tech fallout with the US on the other hand. \nCIRC 2024 will be organized and sponsored by ADM+S\, Australia’s cross-disciplinary\, national Centre of Excellence\, which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible\, ethical\, and inclusive automated decision-making. The conference will be held at the QUT node of ADM+S. It will not only be the first CIRC conference to be held physically in the Southern Hemisphere but also the first in the CIRC history to bring scholars outside the traditional fields and disciplines in China studies and Internet research to engage in meaningful dialogues on topics ranging from Chinese Internet to ADM politics and geopolitics. \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%2Fcirc-2024-program%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1701823210479{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”MAP” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcms.qut.edu.au%2F__data%2Fassets%2Fpdf_file%2F0006%2F84759%2FKG-campus-map.pdf|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1701823210479{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%2Fcirc2024|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_1715579493763{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=”24994″ 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]Ang Peng Hwa\nAng Peng Hwa is Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, where he had served as Dean and Chair. Currently\, he is editor of the Asian Journal of Communication. He was President of the International Communication Association in 2016/1017\, the first Asian to be so elected. His research interests lie in media law and policy and he has consulted on the subject for the governments of Singapore\, Thailand and Bhutan.[/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=”24519″ 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]Seyram Avle\nSeyram Avle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication\, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on digital technology cultures and innovation across parts of Africa\, China\, and the United States. This work primarily takes a critical approach towards understanding how digital technologies are made and used\, as well as their implications for issues of labor\, identity\, and futures.[/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=”2429″ 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]Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino\nJose-Miguel Bello y Villarino is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). José-Miguel (name) Bello y Villarino (surname\, altogether) (Lic. Law\, Lic. Pol.Sc. (Santiago de Compostela)\, LLM (CoE\, Brugge)\, LLM (NYU)\, M.A. Int’l Rel. (Diplom. Sch. Madrid) is a Researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society in the governance programme based at the University of Sydney Law School and a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave). His work in the ADM domain is particularly concerned with the policy implications of machine-assisted decision making and its implementation in regulatory terms. He has previously worked for the Commission and the Council of the EU.[/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=”24520″ 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]Marianne von Blomberg\nMarianne von Blomberg is a Research Associate at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture where she explores how the evolving Social Credit Systems strengthen\, transform\, and challenge the law. Her current research focuses on reputational sanctions in social credit systems and social credit’s genealogy.[/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=”24521″ 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]Vincent Brussee\nVincent Brussee is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University\, specializing in the application of data science and natural language processing for contemporary Chinese policy analysis. He is author of the recent book “Social Credit: The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire” (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). Before\, he was an Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin.[/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=”24522″ 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]Pengfan Chang\nPengfan Chang is a first-year graduate student in the School of Journalism and Communication\, at Shanghai University.[/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=”24523″ 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]Wenhong Chen\nWenhong Chen is a professor of media studies and sociology and a Distinguished Scholar in the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT Austin. Dr.Chen’s current project examines how U.S.and Chinese AI policies affect tech and media entrepreneurship.[/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=”24524″ 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]Yao Chen\nYao Chen is a PhD Candidate in Hebei University\, China.[/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=”24525″ 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]David Craig\nDavid Craig is a clinical professor at USC Annenberg\, a visiting scholar at Harvard University\, and a visiting professor at Shanghai JiaoTong University. As a pioneer in the emerging field of creator studies\, along with co-authors and co-editors\, Craig has published multiple texts about the transnational rise of creator culture and its Chinese counterpart\, wanghong culture.[/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=”24526″ 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]Stuart Cunningham\nStuart Cunningham AM is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications\, Digital Media Research Centre\, Creative Industries Faculty\, Queensland University of Technology. Previously Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation\, he is a leading researcher and advocate for the development of creative industries policies. He managed and oversaw the development of the Trident method of measuring the creative economy which has had international influence and has published key works in the field such as Hidden Innovation: Policy\, Industry and the Creative Sector. He played a critical advisory role in the development of A New Approach’s Insight Report 5: Australia’s cultural and creative economy: A 21st century guide.[/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=”24536″ 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]Fankai Dai\nFankai Dai is a graduate student in School of Journalism & Communication\, Tsinghua University\, China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14673″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Xin Dai\nXin Dai is an Associate Professor at Peking University Law School. Xin’s research interests include legal theories\, law and society\, economic analysis of law\, information privacy and internet law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24538″ 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]Zhang Ding\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=”24539″ 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]Pengfei Fu\nPengfei Fu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media & Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, China. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance\, digital labour\, and everyday media practices.[/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=”24655″ 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]Anthony Y. H. Fung\nAnthony Y. H. Fung is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[/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=”24657″ 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]Liang Ge\nLiang Ge is a PhD candidate at the Culture\, Media and Creative Industries Department\, King’s College London. Liang’s doctoral project explores the body\, desires and embodiment in Chinese boys’ love culture community.[/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=”15932″ 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]Jake Goldenfein\nJake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar at Melbourne Law School and an Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Prior to his appointment at MLS he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech\, Cornell University. Jake studies platform regulation\, data governance\, digital surveillance\, and the governance of automated decision-making. Jake’s first monograph ‘Monitoring Laws’ was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019\, and his current work explores the ways law constructs the data economy\, digital surveillance including facial recognition\, and tools for governing automated decision-making like a ‘human in the loop’ and AI explanations.[/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=”24659″ 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]Piotr Grzebyk\nPiotr Grzebyk is the vice dean for legal research and international collaboration and associate professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration\, University of Warsaw. He is the head of the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China and the director School of Law and Economy of China.[/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=”24661″ 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]Yicong Guan\nYicong Guan is a doctoral student at the School of Media and Communication ofShanghai Jiao Tong University.[/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=”24663″ 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]Zixin Guo[/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=”24664″ 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]Xiao Han\nXiao Han is a Research Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication\, Communication University of China. Her research focuses on the relationship between digital media and women’s empowerment in the Chinese context.[/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=”24666″ 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]Qing He\nQing He is Assistant Professor\, Law Faculty\, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications\, China. With a PhD in economic law\, teaching and research interests including data protection\, technology regulation\, economic analysis of law and comparative law\, Dr Qing He specializes in competition law and Internet law.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24667″ 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]Renyi He\nRenyi He is a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include nationalism\, identity\, and digital citizenship.[/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=”24669″ 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]Jiaxi Hou\nJiaxi Hou is a PhD candidate majoring in Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Her research concentrates on how various digital technologies intervene and reshape social inequalities and marginality in East Asia.[/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=”24670″ 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]Hu Ling\nHu Ling is an Associate Professor of Law in Peking University\, and has a Ph.D Degree from Hong Kong University. His major research area is cyberlaw and legal theory. He has published a number of books\, articles and review essays on Internet governance issues\, including two recent books: Digital Architecture and Law (2024) and Internet with Cooperation (coauthor\, 2024).[/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=”24672″ 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]Tingting Hu\nTingting Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication\, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. Her research interest lies in the articulation of film\, media and cultural studies with feminist theories\, transmedia studies in various social and cultural contexts.[/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=”24676″ 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]Jerry Jie Hua\n(Jerry) Jie Hua is an Associate Professor of Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property of Tongji University (Shanghai\, China). Jie is principal investigator of 2 National Social Science Fund of China projects and 3 provincial-level research projects hosted by organs such as P.R.C. Ministry of Justice and Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science.[/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=”24794″ 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]Bingxi Huang\nBingxi Huang is a final-year PhD student in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. Her research topic focuses on the self-representation and identity construction of Chinese rural women on short-video platforms Douyin and Kuaishou.[/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=”24680″ 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]Gejun Huang\nGejun Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Media andCommunication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research mainly toucheson the digital game industry\, media entrepreneurship\, digital inequalities\, and digitalprivacy.[/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=”24681″ 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]Yingjia Huang\nYingjia Huang is a master’s student in the School of New Media\, Peking University. She is interested in human-machine communication and digital society.[/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=”24683″ 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]Xiufeng Jia\nXiufeng Jia is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her work explores how digital technology\, especially AI and data-driven technologies\, are experienced in everyday life. She considers questions of privacy\, human and data agency\, and issues of data and discrimination. She also boasts expertise in Big Data analytics\, digital methods\, digital health\, and app studies.[/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=”24685″ 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]Qianhui Ju\nQianhui Ju is a Master’s student in the Television School at the Communication University of China\, with a research focus on Internet Cultures.[/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=”24686″ 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]Michael Keane\nMichael Keane is adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre. Prof Keane’s key research interests are digital transformation in China; East Asian cultural and media policy; television in China\, and creative industries and cultural export strategies in China and East Asia.[/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=”24687″ 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]Jianfeng Lan\nJianfeng Lan is a Ph.D. student in School of Media and Communication\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He’s interested in the socio-psychological effect of human-robot interaction.[/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=”2924″ 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]Wynston Lee\nWynston Lee is a PhD candidate at RMIT’s School of Media and Communications. His research intersects between studies of economy\, technology and society\, with a focus on Asian contexts. His doctorate thesis takes a comparative approach to examining China’s social credit systems.[/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=”24689″ 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]Jiayue Li\nJiayue Li is a doctoral student at the College of Journalism and Communications\,University of Florida\,U.S.A.She is interested in investigating human-robot and human-human interactions using a phenomenological approach.[/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=”24691″ 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]Yuzheng Li\nYuzheng Li is a Ph.D. candidate in marketing at RMIT University. Her current research focuses on the marketisation and consumption of the female gaze\, critically examining the gendered power dynamics between male beauty influencers and their female consumers within live-streaming e-commerce.[/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=”24692″ 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]Wenyu Liao\nWenyu Liao is a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Pennsylvania.[/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=”24693″ 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]Fen Lin\nFen Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include state-media dynamics\, media and social change\, information governance\, technology and innovation\, social movements\, and political 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=”24695″ 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]Jian Lin\nJian Lin is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches platform societies\, cultural industries\, creative labor\, and digital cultures in the global Chinese context.[/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=”24697″ 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]Zhi Lin\nZhi Lin a PhD student in the School of Journalism and Media\, The University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores global political communication\, media technology\, social media with a focus on the structure of communication and the construction of meaning using mixed-methods.[/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=”24699″ 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]Chuncheng Liu\nChuncheng Liu is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective and a forthcoming Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northeastern University. His research interests span science and technology studies (STS)\, political sociology\, critical data studies\, economic sociology\, medical sociology\, and mixed methods.[/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=”24700″ 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]Jindong Leo-Liu\nJindong Leo-Liu is a PhD candidate from the School of Journalism and Communication\, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Human–Machine communication\, VR/AR Metaverse\, popular culture\, critical analysis\, and new media.[/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=”24701″ 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]Jun Liu\nJun Liu is an award-winning author and Associate Professor in the Centre for Tracking and Society\, the University of Copenhagen. His research areas cover political communication\, political sociology\, ICTs\, comparative and computational social science. He is leading a four-year comparative study on political movements in China\, EU\, and the US.[/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=”24702″ 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]Shujun Liu\nShujun Liu is a Research Associate of School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University\, where she works as a part of ESRC project “Understanding [Online/Offline] Society: Linking Surveys with Twitter Data”. Her key research interests include digital media studies\, computational social science\, climate communication\, political 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=”24704″ 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]Tingting Liu\nTingting Liu is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in Guangzhou\, China. Dr. Liu’s academic pursuits delve deeply into media anthropology\, digital culture\, and popular entertainment\, with a keen regional focus on both China and Australia.[/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=”24706″ 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]Xiyao Liu\nXiyao Liu is a PhD candidate in the school of Media\, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her research examines the culture values (trust and credibility) embedded in the China’s Social Credit System.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”1023″ 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]Ramon Lobato\nRamon Lobato is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the RMIT School of Media and Communication. The analytical focus of his research is on digital distribution networks\, and how they structure audience access\, discovery\, and content diversity. Ramon has published widely within film and television studies\, digital media studies\, media industry studies\, and cultural policy studies.[/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=”24707″ 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]Jiajie Lu\nJiajie Lu is a lecturer at Dongguan University of Technology. He received his doctoral degree at Queensland University of Technology. Before teaching at university\, he had been working for AGB Nielsen Media Research and Shenzhen Media Group. His research interests including media use and identity of Chinese diaspora\, digital reading\, and video game.[/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=”24708″ 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]Yuguo Luo\nYuguo Luo\, a Master’s student in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)\, with a research focus on Intelligent Communication and Automated Decision Making.[/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=”24709″ 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]Yunjuan Luo\nYunjuan Luo is a professor in School of Journalism and Communications\, South China Univeristy of Technology. Her research interests include digital media use and effects\, international communication\, and public opinion research.[/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=”24710″ 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]Aifang Ma\nAifang Ma is a Boya Postdoctoral Scholar and a Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She is the author of China as a Double-Bind Regulatory State: How Regulators’ Predicament Produces Regulatees’ Autonomy (2024\, Palgrave MacMillan). Her research interests: internet regulation of China\, platform governance\, governance of artificial intelligence.[/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=”24711″ 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]Tianchan Mao\nTianchan Mao is an incoming Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Journalism\, Fudan University. She is a joint Ph.D of Fudan University and the National University of Singapore (2020-2023). Her research primarily focuses on platform studies and media industry studies.[/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=”24712″ 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]Jing Meng\nJing Meng is an assistant professor in media studies with Peking University HSBC Business School. Her research interests reside in digital journalism and digital technologies.[/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=”24714″ 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]Ziying Meng\nZiying Meng is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her thesis explores video creators’ cross-platform practices on Chinese and US-based social media services. Her research interests include digital platforms\, influencer and creator cultures\, Chinese social media\, digital ethnography and smart technologies.[/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=”24724″ 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]Yi Mou\nYi Mou\,Ph.D.\,is Professor at the School of Media and Communication of ShanghaiJiao Tong University.Her research interest is centered on Human-MachineCommunication\,particularly psychological effect and social impacts of artificialintelligence.[/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=”24725″ 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]Elisa Oreglia\nElisa Oreglia is a Reader in Global Digital Cultures\, King’s College London. She studies the circulation\, adoption\, and use of digital technologies in Asia\, with a specific focus on China and the Global South in general. She is interested in the localized socio-technical practices that emerge from technology users who are far from urban centres and advanced economies\, as well as the political economy that surrounds technology development and circulation.[/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=”24726″ 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]Biying Wu Ouyang\nBiying Wu Ouyang is a PhD candidate in communication from Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include affective\, news and political mechanism and consequences of emerging media including algorithm\, social media\, mobile media\, HCI.[/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=”24727″ 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]Yulu Ouyang[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”14676″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Jack Linchuan Qiu\nJack Linchuan Qiu is Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology\, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information\, Nanyang Technological University. He has published extensively in English and Chinese exploring issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor\, class\, globalization\, and sustainability.[/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=”24733″ 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]Yuanbo Qiu\nYuanbo Qiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in School of Journalism and Communications\, South China University of Technology. His research investigates the political and social implications of digital media\, particularly when they relate to intersections between participation and datafication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”5155″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ned Rossiter\nNed Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and Society and Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts\, Western Sydney University. He is noted for his research on network cultures\, the politics of cultural labour\, logistical media\, and data politics. His major publications include Organized Networks: Media Theory\, Creative Labour\, New Institutions (2006)\, Software\, Infrastructure\, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016)\, and (with Geert Lovink) Organization after Social Media (2018).[/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=”24734″ 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]Sofiya Sayankina\nSofiya Sayankina is a researcher at the Center for International Cooperation and Strategy\, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\, in Seoul\, Republic of Korea. Her research focuses on cybersecurity and emerging technology 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=”24736″ 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]Florian Schneider\nFlorian Schneider’s research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong\, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment\, recent Chinese economic developments\, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He is also managing editor of the academic journal ‘Asiascape: Digital Asia’.[/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=”24737″ 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]Chunmeizi Su\nChunmeizi Su is a Lecturer of Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on algorithms\, and digital entertainment industry\, including but not limited to platform studies\, Chinese tech industry studies\, screen industry studies\, and cultural soft power.[/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=”24738″ 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]Yinuo Sun\nYinuo Sun is a doctorate student of literature\, Journalism and Communication at Nanjing Normal University. Her research interests include internet governance\, cross-cultural communication and new media studies.[/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=”24739″ 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]Yu Sun\nYu Sun is the Lecturer in Media and Sociology at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests involve online deliberation\, the public sphere\, feminist media studies\, data in social movements and activism\, mediated publics\, internet and digital infrastructure\, algorithms and social governance\, Global and Chinese media\, etc.[/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=”24740″ 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]Igor Szpotakowsk\nIgor Szpotakowski is a PhD Candidate at Newcastle University and a Deputy Convenor of the Law and Futures Research Group within the Newcastle Law School. His research explores the development of and intersection between private law and emerging technology\, specifically focusing on the further regulation of generative AI services.[/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=”24741″ 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]Na Ta\nNa Ta is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication\, Renmin University of China. Her research interests include online socialnetworks\, platformization and new media\, computational communication\, andintelligent 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=”24742″ 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]Zixue Tai\nZixue Tai is the head of the Media Arts and Studies program in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky. His research interests pertain to a multitude of issues in the new media landscape of China. He is the author of The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society (Routledge\, 2006).[/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=”24743″ 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]Jingxin Tan\nJingxin Tan is a Master’s candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in Guangzhou\, China. Ms Tan received the Bachelor degree from South China University of Technology\, Guangzhou\, China. Her research interest focuses on digital labour and gender.[/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=”24744″ 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]Wenjia Tang\nWenjia Tang is a PhD candidate at Discipline of Media and Communications\, University of Sydney. Her research is now on the platform industry and digital glocalisation\, with a particular interest in entertainment media\, platform policies & regulation\, metaverse and web3\, and global culture consumption.[/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=”24746″ 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]Leiyuan Tian\nLeiyuan Tian (B.A. Media and Arts/Art History\, Duke Kunshan University) is a graduate student currently pursuing her MSc in Media and Communications (Research) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on digital media cultures and the impacts of new technology on political participation and civic engagement.[/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=”24747″ 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]Paulina Uznańska\nPaulina Uznańska is a PhD candidate in law at the Doctoral School for Social Sciences\, the University of Warsaw. Paulina serves as the Deputy Head of the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China.[/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=”24748″ 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]Gabriel Wagner\nGabriel Wagner is an MPhil candidate at the Division of Public Policy at the Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology where he focuses on AI governance. His broaderresearch interest concerns science\, technology\, and innovation policy in contemporary China. He is an affiliate with Concordia AI\, a Beijing-based social enterprise focused on AI safety and governance.[/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=”24749″ 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]Haiyan Wang\nHaiyan Wang is an associate professor for the Department of Communication at the University of Macau. Her academic and research interests include the impact of digital media on journalism and political communication. She is the author of The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China: From Journalists to Activists (2016\, Lexington Books).[/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=”24750″ 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]Weijia Wang\nWeijia Wang is a graduate student in College of Media and International Culture\, Zhejiang University\, China.[/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=”24751″ 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]Wilfred Yang Wang\nWilfred Yang Wang is a lecturer in Media and Communications Studies at the University of Melbourne\, Australia. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance\, the biopolitics of ageing\, diasporic media\, digital geography and China. He is the author of the book\, Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou (Rowman & Littlefield International\, 2019).[/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=”24752″ 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]Yingwei Wang\nYingwei Wang is a graduate student in School ofJournalism and Communication\,Shanghai University.His research interests aremedia effects and new media users.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”24753″ 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]Zhiwei Wang\nZhiwei Wang is a fourth-year PhD student in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include national identity; digital and social media; cyberpunk culture; biopower; digital health; social capital; Marxism; neoliberalism; digital labour; agency and structure; surveillance; deviance; and East Asia. The topic of his PhD research is discursive (re)production of Internet-mediated Chinese national identity.[/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=”24754″ 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 Whelan-Shamy\nDaniel Whelan-Shamy is a New Zealand-born PhD student at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research areas of interest include digital ethics\, computational propaganda\, misinformation/disinformation and changing perceptions of how we view and interact with automated and highly automated actors online.[/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=”24756″ 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]Yang Wu\nYang Wu is an PhD student in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. His research examines media convergence and diffusion of digital human technologies.[/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=”24795″ 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]Hao Xu\nDr. Hao Xu is a Lecturer in Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His research spans multiple areas in corporate communications\, including corporate social responsibility communication and corporate activism. Dr. Xu’s most recent projects focus on corporate digital responsibility\, discussing the societal impacts of artificial intelligence governance for businesses. His research also involves the application of computational methods in communication research.[/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=”24796″ 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]Jian Xu\nJian Xu is Senior Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University. He researches Chinese digital media culture and celebrity studies. He is co-convenor of the Asian Media\, Culture and Society Research Group at Deakin University and is series editor of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies with Bloomsbury.[/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=”24759″ 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]Kun Xu\nKun Xu is an Assistant Professor ofEmerging Media at the College of Journalism and Communications\, University ofFlorida\,U.S.A. His research centers on the mutual shaping of humans and technologies in the contexts of human-robot interaction\, human-computer interaction\, and computer-mediated 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=”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\nFan Yang studies the effects of large-scale international digital technologies with their cross-jurisdictional tensions and expectations\, and their cross-boarder effects on political activity and identity. Her research interest intersects Chinese technologies and governance\, migration studies\, innovative digital research methods\, and postcolonial technoscience.[/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=”24760″ 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]Guobin Yang\nGuobin Yang is Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches social movements\, digital culture\, global communication\, and contemporary China. Guobin Yang is also Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society\, Interim Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication\, and Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China.[/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=”24761″ 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]Yi Yang\nYi Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in platform studies\, digital labor studies\, and digital memory studies.[/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=”24762″ 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]Yufan Yang\nYufan Yang\, a Master’s student in the Television School at the Communication University of China\, with a research focus on Digital Inequality and Digital Inclusion.[/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=”24764″ 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]Xiaoyu Ye\nXiaoyu Ye is a MA student at the School of Media and Communication of ShanghaiJiao Tong University.[/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=”24765″ 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]TianjieYi[/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 Yu is Professor of Media and Communication and ARC Future Fellow at RMIT University. She is also a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her current projects examine the social implications of China’s social credit system\, technological innovation and digital transformation; China’s digital presence in Australasia; and Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia.[/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=”24766″ 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]Kaiyi Yu\nKaiyi Yu is a master student in Hubbard school\, university of Minnesota.[/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=”24767″ 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]Peter Yu\nPeter Yu is Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He has held a number of visiting professorshi p at international universities. Peter is the founder of Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University.[/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=”24768″ 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]Xue Yu\nXue Yu\, hold mater degree in Media and Communication Studies\, currently working as a media researcher from China Media Group CCTV Pioneer Media Research Center.[/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=”24769″ 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]Yuehong Yu\nYuehong Yu is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication\, Renmin University of China.[/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=”24770″ 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]Zizheng Yu\nDr. Zizheng Yu is a lecturer in promotional media at the Department of Communications\, Drama and Film\, at the University of Exeter. Zizheng’s recent work is concerned with consumer activism/nationalism\, AI/algorithmic resistance\, advertising/promotional media\, social media platforms (e.g.\, TikTok/Douyin)\, media activism\, and digital media practices.[/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=”24772″ 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]Jing Zeng\nJing Zeng is an assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies atUtrecht University.Her research concerns the sociocultural implications of digitaltechnologies\,with a particular focus on developing innovative computational methodsfor empirical research.[/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=”24773″ 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]Haoyang Zhai\nHaoyang Zhai is a PhD candidate at the School of Culture and Communication\, University of Melbourne. Her doctoral project explores the intersection of spirituality and digital media\, specifically focusing on Chinese social media platforms. She is also interested in investigating the impact of platform governance and Internet censorship on digital culture.[/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=”24774″ 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]Dino Ge Zhang\nDino Ge Zhang is a media anthropologist teaching at the School of Creative Media\, City University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on socio-technics\, aesthetics\, and affective ecologies of contemporary (live)streaming media/platforms in the Sinophone world. For more info\, please visit anthropos.live.[/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=”13315″ 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]Han Zhang\nHan Zhang is an associate professor at Shenzhen University. She received her doctoral degree at Wuhan University. Her research interests focus on digital publishing\, digital reading\, and digital journalism.[/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=”24775″ 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]Xue Zhang\nDr. Xue Zhang is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS)\, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)\, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)\, Singapore. Her research interests include information\, media and health literacy\, information management\, and counter-misinformation/disinformation measures.[/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=”24777″ 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]Yiyan Zhang\nYiyan Zhang (Ph.D.\, Boston University) is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on digital media effects\, international communication\, and computational 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=”24778″ 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]Xinyang Zhao\nXinyang Zhao earned his PhD in media\, culture and creative arts from Curtin University. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities\, Tongji University in Shanghai. His research focuses on the cultural and social implications of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI)\, with a particular emphasis on their manifestations in China. [/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=”24779″ 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]Pei Zhi\nPei Zhi is a PhD student interested in political communication\, especially the election campaign in Hong Kong Legislative Council election. His dissertation topic is about the nexus of political logic and media logic in the political elite-making process in Hong Kong.[/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=”24780″ 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]Haoming Zhou\nHaoming Zhou is a current PhD student in the Department of Communicaion and Media at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research interests mainly include digital technologies\, marginalized populaions\, and criical cultural studies.[/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=”24781″ 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]Ruiming Zhou\nRuiming Zhou is a “Hundred Talent Program” research fellow in College of Media and International Culture\, Zhejiang University\, China[/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=”24782″ 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]Shouhui Zhou\nShouhui Zhou is a Master’s student in Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen\, with a minor in Finance and Accounting from Copenhagen Business School. Besides\, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics\, majoring in Finance and Artificial Intelligence. My research interests are Data Science and Computational Social Science\, including machine learning\, natural language processing\, political communication\, social media\, fintech\, etc. He has participated in research on China’s health insurance policy as a research assistant at Tsinghua University. And I am a research group member in the Center for AI and Digital 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=”24783″ 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]Guangnan Zhu\nGuangnan (Rio) Zhu is a PhD candidate in School of Communication\, Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the development and application of computational methods and machine learning techniques in communication and digital media\, especially in detecting and analysing online disinformation and misinformation. His PhD project focuses on the detection of coordinated inauthentic behaviour using multimodal data.[/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=”24784″ 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]Jiawen Zhu[/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=”24785″ 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]Ju Zou\nJu Zou is deputy dean of School of Journalism and Communication\, Nanjing Normal University. He is a correspondent reviewer for the National Social Science Foundation of China\, the secretary-general and the executive council member of the Media Regulations and Ethics Committee of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication\, and the executive director of Jiangsu Media Arts Research Committee. He researches media regulations and ethics and cyberspace governance.[/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=”24786″ 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]Zhengyu Zuo\nZhengyu Zuo is a PhD student at School of Economics\, Renmin University of China. Her research interest includes corporate finance and Chinese economy. Her research has been published in journals such as China Economic Review and Systems Engineering-Theory and Practice. Her works are presented at the ABFER\, CFRC\, and China Finance Annual Conference\, etc.[/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]
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LOCATION:Queensland University of Technology – Kelvin Grove campus\, Kelvin Grove\, QLD\, 4059\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Digital Platform Economies - Value from Data?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”A host of studies demonstrate the perils of digital platforms and automated systems: algorithmic bias\, algorithmic harm\, data privacy\, and deep fakes. What is less clear are the myriad ways that digital platforms structure economic/financial relations and transactions in the first place. Understanding processes of data valuation is a crucial aspect of broader inquiries into the promises and perils of digital platforms.” 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\nThis 2-day conference showcases programmatic research on data valuation. Each session considers the question: How do platforms produce value and monetize those value forms? The sessions are designed to stimulate discussion about value forms and valuation processes through particular lenses: digital assets\, Web3 tokenization\, digital twins\, automated optimization\, and generative AI. The discussions will consider the extent to which standard concepts (rent\, commodity\, property\, accumulation) are relevant to these cases and examine continuities and discontinuities across different modes of digital value production. \nThe event opens with a keynote conversation on Generative AI featuring Julian Thomas (ADM+S) and Jean Burgess (ADM+S)\, moderated by Paul Dourish (PERN). \nThis conference inaugurates collaboration between the Platform Economies Research Network and The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1708563631395{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%2Fdigital-platform-economies-program%2F|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1701823210479{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%2Fdigital-platform-economies|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1698280222650{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”CALL FOR PAPERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Researchers interested in being considered for a select number of presentation slots are invited to submit a 2-page position paper by 21 September 2023. Learn more.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1708565098092{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=”23850″ 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]Seyram Avle  (PERN)\nSeyram Avle is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Her research focuses on digital technology cultures and innovation across Africa\, China\, and the US. This work primarily takes a critical approach to how digital technologies are made and used and their implications for issues of labor\, identity\, and futures.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”568″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Mark Andrejevic (ADM+S)\nMark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media\, Film\, and Journalism at Monash University and a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society (ADM+S). His research covers the social\, political\, and cultural impact of digital media\, with a focus on surveillance and digital media. He is the author of four monographs\, including\, most recently Automated Media\, as well as more than 90 academic articles and book chapters.[/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=”21593″ 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]Kean Birch (PERN)\nKean Birch is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University. He is interested in technoscientific capitalism and draws on a range of perspectives from science & technology studies\, economic geography\, and economic sociology to study it. More specifically\, his research focuses on how different things (e.g.\, knowledge\, personal data) are turned into assets and how economic rents are then captured from those assets – or processes of assetization and rentiership. He is the co-editor (with Fabian Muniesa) of Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism\, MIT Press\, 2020. His book\, Data Enclaves\, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.[/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=”639″ 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]Jean Burgess (ADM+S)\nJean Burgess is Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).\nJean is the co-leader of the Data program\, and convenor of the QUT node. She is a Professor of Digital Media in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and School of Communication\, and a current member of the ARC College of Experts.\nMost recently\, she led the establishment and was founding Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre from 2015-2020. She was previously Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (2011-2014)\, and Director of Research Training for the QUT Creative Industries Faculty.[/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=”21669″ 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]Koray Çalışkan (PERN)\nKoray Çalışkan is an Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons and Associate Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy. His book Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity (2010) from Princeton University Press focused on global commodity markets and relations of economization. His last research project on cryptocurrencies and their communities was published as Data Money: Cryptocurrencies and their Communities\, Blockchains and Markets (2023) by Columbia University Press. He is currently carrying out research with Donald MacKenzie on digital advertisements.[/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=”22807″ 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]Franziska Cooiman (PERN)\nFranziska is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. She is interested in understanding financialized capitalism. Her work draws on political economy\, social studies of finance\, financial economics\, and economic sociology. In her dissertation\, she dissected venture capital\, the backend of the platform economy\, tracing the investment chains that enable big and not-yet-big tech companies and points to the structural power that investors hold. Franziska was a visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research in 2022.[/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=”21600″ 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]Paul Dourish (PERN)\nPaul Dourish is Chancellor’s Professor and the Steckler Endowed Chair in Information and Computer Science at the University of California\, Irvine\, where he serves as director of the Steckler Center for Responsible\, Ethical\, and Accessible Technology. He has appointments in Informatics and Anthropology\, and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses primarily on understanding information technology as a site of social and cultural production and combines topics in human-computer interaction\, social informatics\, and science and technology studies. He is the author of several books\, including The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information (MIT Press\, 2017).[/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=”21667″ 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]Na Fu (PERN)\nNa Fu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the China Initiative and the Watson Institute at Brown University. She completed her Ph.D. in Politics at the New School for Social Research. Her book project “Networked Hands: Rethinking Flexible Production\, Digital Capitalism\, and the State in China’s Shoe Industry\,” examines the political economy of networked production\, from mass production to mass customization\, in the Pearl River Delta Region of China. She follows the shoe production network to address both how scales of production are transforming through platform economies and their role in generating new forms of state-market relations\, labor practices\, and spatial applications.[/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=”15932″ 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]Jake Goldenfein (ADM+S/PERN)\nJake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar at Melbourne Law School and an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Prior to his appointment at MLS he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Life initiative at Cornell Tech\, Cornell University. Jake studies platform regulation\, data governance\, digital surveillance\, and the governance of automated decision-making. Jake’s first monograph Monitoring Laws was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019\, and his current work explores the ways law constructs the data economy\, facial recognition\, the political economy of the “AI Ethics” discipline\, and tools for governing automated decision-making like a ‘human-in-the-loop’ and AI explanations.[/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=”15836″ 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]Zoe Horn (ADM+S)\nZoe Horn is a Canadian-born\, Sydney-based writer\, researcher and teacher. Her current research focuses on the construction and maintenance of territory\, logistical space and AI-driven technology. She is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University\, where she is pursuing a research project on “The Geopolitics of Automation.” She is also a member of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society {ADM+S). Her past published work addresses architecture\, urban informality\, and inclusive planning.[/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=”23852″ 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]Linda Huber (PERN)\nLinda Huber (PERN) Linda Huber is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research is focused on the digitization of the U.S. healthcare industry\, drawing on ethnographic research methods and STS lenses to critically examine the uptake of platform business models and practices of datafication within healthcare. Her current research examines federal health data regulations\, situating emerging policies of data standardization and data sharing as part of a larger project of managing care through managing markets.[/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=”21594″ 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]Silvia Lindtner (PERN)\nSilvia Lindtner is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC). Her research interests include cultures and politics of technology innovation and entrepreneurship\, with a particular focus on the gendered and racialized forms of labor necessary to incubate entrepreneurial life and sustain technological promise. She undertakes multi-sited ethnographic research with a particular focus on China’s shifting position in the global political economy of technology production\, economic development\, and science and technology policy. She is the author of Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation\, Princeton University Press\, 2020.\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=”17911″ 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]Fabio Mattioli (ADM+S/PERN)\nDr Fabio Mattioli is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from the University of Melbourne.\nFabio is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. He has written extensively on the politics of financial expansion and innovative technologies in Macedonia and Australia. His book\, Dark Finance (Stanford UP\, 2020)\, won the Ed A Hewett Book Prize for outstanding monograph on the political economy of Eastern Europe and the Honorable mention for the William Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology.\nCurrently\, Fabio is leading a study on the political economy of Artificial Intelligence in aviation which looks at the social complexities of introducing digital flight assistants. His other lines of research involve ethnographic approaches to “fake news\,” startups\, co-design\, and AI in winemaking.[/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=”1527″ 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]James Meese (ADM+S/PERN)\nAssoc Prof James Meese is an Associate Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). He is co-leading a project that will explore how advances in telecommunications infrastructure will inform the future development of automated decision-making systems. He is also contributing to projects across the News and Media focus area.\nJames holds an early career research fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study the algorithmic distribution of news.\nJames has also received research funding from the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.\nHis two books are Authors\, Users\, Pirates: Subjectivity and Copyright Law (MIT Press) and Death and Digital Media (Routledge\, co-authored).\n[/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=”21668″ 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]Andrew Moon (PERN)\nAndrew Moon is completing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at The New School. His dissertation examines the role of earth and actuarial science in different stages of environmental observation and reinsurance technology design. The writing draws on ethnographic research in Singapore and Indonesia with private and public science agencies\, affiliated laboratories\, and analytics and services firms. It contributes to conversations in the anthropology of value\, social studies of science\, and environmental humanities. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council\, The Wenner-Gren Foundation\, Sciences Po’s AxPo Observatory\, and The New School’s GIDEST and Heilbroner Fellowships.\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=”2444″ 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]Kelsie Nabben (ADM+S)\nKelsie Nabben is a qualitative researcher in decentralised technology communities. She is particularly interested in resilience and the human outcomes of digital infrastructure.\nKelsie is a recipient of a PhD scholarship at the RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society\, and a researcher in the Blockchain Innovation Hub and Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She has advised federal and multilateral government agencies on cybersecurity and “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations”\, works with complex system R&D firm BlockScience\, and actively contributes to open-source research network Metagov and DAO Research Collective.\nRecent publications include commentary on how to reach better digital solutions in crisis\, available on The Conversation.\nKelsie is the host of the Blockchain Innovation Hub’s Mint & Burn podcast.[/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=”9337″ 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]Jeannie Paterson (ADM+S)\nProf Jeannie Patterson is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from the University of Melbourne.\nProfessor Jeannie Marie Paterson teaches and researches in the fields of consumer protection law\, consumer credit and banking law\, and AI and the law. She is the co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne \nJeannie is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She is an editor for consumer protection in the Australian Business Law Review\, and the Journal for Law\, Technology and Humans.[/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=”23856″ 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]Emma Park (PERN)\nEmma Park is Assistant Professor of History at The New School. Her current research explores how a perpetual shortfall in state financing has critically shaped the construction\, maintenance\, and use of large-scale infrastructures in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. Her second research project explores the cultural and material politics of mobile-money giant\, Safaricom. Her book\, Infrastructural Attachments Austerity\, Sovereignty\, and Expertise in Kenya\, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.[/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=”2719″ 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]Thao Phan (ADM+S)\nThao Phan is a feminist science and technology studies (STS) researcher specialising in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is a Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. She has published on the aesthetics of digital voice assistants\, big-data-driven techniques of racial classification\, and the commercial capture of AI ethics research. She is co-editor of An Anthropogenic Table of Elements (University of Toronto Press) and Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI (Institute of Network Cultures).[/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″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Ellie Rennie (ADM+S)\nProf Ellie Rennie is an Associate Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).\nProfessor Ellie Rennie is Principal Research Fellow in RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre.\nShe is also a member of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.\nEllie’s current research is focused on social and policy questions arising from automation technologies\, including blockchain. She has also worked extensively on the topic of digital inclusion\, particularly in relation to remote Australia and Indigenous communities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”12186″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_column_text]Michael Richardson (ADM+S)\nMichael Richardson is a writer\, researcher\, and teacher living and working on Gadigal and Bidjigal country. He is an Associate Professor in Media and Culture at the University of New South Wales\, Sydney\, where he co-directs the Media Futures Hub. He is an Associate Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making + Society. His research examines technology\, power\, witnessing\, trauma\, and affect in contexts of war\, security\, and surveillance. His forthcoming book is Nonhuman Witnessing: War\, Climate\, and Data After the End of the World (Duke\, 2024).[/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=”15852″ 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]Janet Roitman (ADM+S/PERN)\nJanet Roitman is Director and co-Founder of the Platform Economies Research Network\, Associate Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) in Melbourne\, Australia\, and co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Center at RMIT University. She is also a member of the Council of Advisors for the Platform Cooperativism Consortium\, New York. Her research focuses on the anthropology of value and emergent forms of the political. Her current research inquires into digital financial technology payments platforms as potential sources of standardized actionable data and new asset classes\, which give insight into the future class and political contours of “high finance” in the Global South.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″ offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_single_image image=”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 (ADM+S)\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.[/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=”21598″ 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]Angela Xiao Wu (PERN)\nAngela Xiao Wu is an Associate Professor in Media\, Culture\, and Communication at NYU. She works at the intersection of media/communication and science and technology studies. Interested in the dynamic interactions of politics and the infrastructures of knowledge production\, her research intervenes in fields such as critical data studies\, platform studies\, audience analytics\, the political economy of media\, and post-socialism studies. She is currently working on a book that charts the first original history of “systems thinking” in Chinese media governance and how it shapes public culture.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1701315140964{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Learn more about the Electronics <> Ecologies Series” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Felectronics-ecologies%2F”][vc_empty_space][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][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423152655{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915647056{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”THEMES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference will address the following thematic questions: \n\nHow is ADMS understood in the Chinese context? And who are the key players/stakeholders?\nWhat are its key features and trajectories?\nWhat is China’s ambition in the area of ADM\, domestically and internationally?\nHow are ADM technologies and systems used in different settings and institutions in Chinese societies?\nHow are ADM systems governed? For example\, will China’s Personal Information Protection Law set a global standard in regulating Internet platforms conducting automated decision-making through algorithms?\nWhat’s China’s role in the current debates on frameworks in governing data security\, rights or ownership\, ethics\, and transactions?\nWhat are the new\, emerging or hidden dynamics and politics in Chinese communities around the world as they encounter or engage with ADM technologies and systems in their everyday life and businesses?\nHow do people—Chinese\, non-Chinese\, or foreign citizens of Chinese cultural heritage —view or interpret China’s roles in ADM? And why?\nWhat do Western anxieties about digital China and its ADM systems like the social credit system tell us about the new geopolitics between China and the West/US?\nWhat roles Chinese societies can play in ensuring fair\, inclusive\, responsible\, and ethical ADM systems that benefit the people rather than the few with power\, money and knowledge?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423190791{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years\nParticipants who are with relevant skills\, expertise or experience such as fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\, including sociologists\, anthropologists\, political scientists\, and others working in the humanities and social sciences.\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions.Who are the organisers?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/digital-platform-economies-value-from-data/
LOCATION:University Center\, The New School\, 63 5th Ave\, NYC\, United States
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SUMMARY:Life of An SEO - Riding the Waves of Google's Many Algorithmic Updates
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Dawn Anderson is the founder of Bertey\, a digital marketing agency focusing specifically on SEO based in Manchester\, UK. Dawn has been an SEO professional since 2007 and in addition to SEO consulting via her agency\, Dawn periodically delivers training\, and lectures in digital marketing and SEO.” 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\nHere we look at the typical strategy and tactics of an SEO and explore some of the many algorithmic updates Google and other search engines introduce in order to improve the search experience. We look at the ways in which SEOs interpret and adapt to these search engine updates as part of their day-to-day challenges. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1708574491693{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%2Fwww.meetup.com%2Fmelbourne-search%2Fevents%2F299224603%2F|target:_blank”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1698280222650{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”CALL FOR PAPERS” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Researchers interested in being considered for a select number of presentation slots are invited to submit a 2-page position paper by 21 September 2023. Learn more.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1701315140964{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Learn more about the Electronics <> Ecologies Series” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Felectronics-ecologies%2F”][vc_empty_space][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][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423152655{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”EVENT PROGRAM” style=”custom” custom_background=”#ffd600″ custom_text=”#000000″ size=”lg” align=”left” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.admscentre.org.au%2Fadms-symposium-2022-event-program%2F|title:ADM%2BS%20Symposium%202022%20%E2%80%93%20Event%20Program|target:_blank”][vc_custom_heading text=”Why Dark Ads?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Targeted ads fuel the online economy and they represent a dramatic shift from mass media advertising which was publicly visible\, allowing for inspection by journalists\, activists\, regulators\, and the general public. By contrast\, online ads are visible only to those to whom they are targeted\, and they are not recorded in any publicly available archive. The lack of accountability makes it hard to defend against discriminatory and predatory advertising – which have a long and unfortunate history in the industry. \nOne way to provide transparency is to use automated tools to track and record automated advertising. We are seeking to develop innovative approaches and tools for holding ad targeting accountable. We want to explore recently acquired sets of targeted ads to reveal how they are targeted to particular demographic categories. \nWhat types of ads are targeted to women and to men? How are people of different ages targeted? What about people with different ethnic backgrounds? How are populations that have been subjected to predatory advertising in the past\, including Indigenous Australians\, being targeted online?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1687915647056{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”THEMES” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The ADM & CS conference will address the following thematic questions: \n\nHow is ADMS understood in the Chinese context? And who are the key players/stakeholders?\nWhat are its key features and trajectories?\nWhat is China’s ambition in the area of ADM\, domestically and internationally?\nHow are ADM technologies and systems used in different settings and institutions in Chinese societies?\nHow are ADM systems governed? For example\, will China’s Personal Information Protection Law set a global standard in regulating Internet platforms conducting automated decision-making through algorithms?\nWhat’s China’s role in the current debates on frameworks in governing data security\, rights or ownership\, ethics\, and transactions?\nWhat are the new\, emerging or hidden dynamics and politics in Chinese communities around the world as they encounter or engage with ADM technologies and systems in their everyday life and businesses?\nHow do people—Chinese\, non-Chinese\, or foreign citizens of Chinese cultural heritage —view or interpret China’s roles in ADM? And why?\nWhat do Western anxieties about digital China and its ADM systems like the social credit system tell us about the new geopolitics between China and the West/US?\nWhat roles Chinese societies can play in ensuring fair\, inclusive\, responsible\, and ethical ADM systems that benefit the people rather than the few with power\, money and knowledge?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423190791{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are You?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n\nParticipants over 18 years\nParticipants who are with relevant skills\, expertise or experience such as fabricators\, developers\, software engineers\, designers and technologists\nParticipants who are interested in the social\, cultural\, and political role of advertising\, including sociologists\, anthropologists\, political scientists\, and others working in the humanities and social sciences.\nParticipants who are interested in ethics by design\, privacy\, and public accountability for commercial institutions.Who are the organisers?\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1652423160969{padding-top: -35px !important;background-color: #ffd600 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Who Are The Organisers?” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Dark Ads hackathon is a project of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers working across realms ranging from computer engineering and law to media studies\, history\, and sociology. Participants in the hackathon will benefit from the expertise of Centre participants\, including internationally recognised scholars across the disciplines\, and from invited guests.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dark Ads Team \nDan Angus\, Jean Burgess\, Mark Andrejevic\, Robbie Fordyce\, Nina Li\, Verity Trott\, Bronwyn Carlson\, Kim Weatherall\, Nic Carah\, Megan Richardson\, Chris O’Neill\, Axel Bruns\, Nic Suzor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Program” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:23px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_tta_accordion title_tag=”h1″ section_title_tag=”h1″ style=”flat” color=”black” active_section=”” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Day 1: Evening Session (3:00pm – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470473-2d895773-15b5″][vc_column_text] \n\nWelcome and information session for participants and media\nIntroduction of the hackathon structure\, challenges\, judges and mentors\nPanel session with invited speakers on sharing recent research and industry developments\nParticipant team discussion for next two days\nSocial networking opportunity to mingle with all stakeholders and dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 2: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 6:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470485-4e690ffd-f75c”][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast session with technical mentors on the ads data tools and design\nParticipants brainstorm and ideate an approach to the issues discussed in day one panel\nLunch session with access to roaming mentors and invited speakers\nContinued teamwork on designing public interest ad research concepts\nEvening tea and day two brief on the progress and plan with all teams\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Day 3: Full Day Schedule (8:00am – 8:00pm)” tab_id=”1649378470502-835fc2ea-2498″][vc_column_text] \n\nBreakfast with all teams and technical mentors\, focus on idea pitching discussion\nPitching idea to judges by each team\nLunch session with social activities\nAll teams participate in focus group discussion to share relections about their process\, designs and conceptualisation\nAnnouncement of winners and prizes\, followed by dinner\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.admscentre.org.au/event/life-of-an-seo/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)":MAILTO:admsevents@rmit.edu.au
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