Electronics < > Ecologies #5 — ENERGY Part 2

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Part two of our Electronics Ecologies discussion on ENERGY brings engineers' voices to the foreground, drawing on real examples of AI implementation and sustainability goal-setting in the context of Big Tech.


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Searching Large Collections of Paper – Research Seminar by Doug Oard

Kaleide Theatre 360 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC
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Information retrieval has for decades focused on finding digital documents, including documents that were born digital and those that have been digitised. But there are also enormous collections of physical documents, on paper or microfilm for example, that are not likely to be fully digitised in our lifetimes.


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2024 Summer School

Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove & Garden Point campuses QLD

Join us for a week of inspiring and thought-provoking training by DMRC and ADM+S world-leading researchers. The Summer School focuses on theories, approaches and methods, STEM, automated decision-making and digital research skills and will allow you to build career long connections with digital media researchers from around the world.


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Book Seminar: Algorithmic Institutionalism

Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove campus Kelvin Grove, QLD

Join us for an exclusive talk with Associate Professor Ricardo F. Mendonça co-author of Algorithmic Institutionalism. This book is the first to conceive algorithms as institutions in contemporary societies, focusing on different dimensions of how they structure decision-making and enact power relations.


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Generative visual AI in news organisations: perceptions, challenges, and opportunities

ABC South Brisbane 114 Grey St, Brisbane, QLD
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Join Hacks/Hackers Brisbane in-person at ABC South Bank with ADM+S researcher, Dr T.J Thomson who will share findings from interviews with leading news organisations across three continents, about the opportunities and challenges they see in using generative visual AI and the principles and policies that would inform their use.

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Research as intervention: navigating ethical inclusion, solidarity, and activism in data justice research

University of NSW, Kensington campus
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Join this public event to hear from Joanna Redden, Data Justice Lab/University of Western Ontario; Jackie Leach Scully, Disability Innovation Institute, ADM+S/ UNSW; Tamara Kneese, Data and Society; Zahra Stardust, ADM+S/Queensland University of Technology; Anjalee de Silva, ADM+S/University of Melbourne as they discuss Research as intervention: navigating ethical inclusion, solidarity, and activism in data justice research.

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Digital Platform Economies – Value from Data?

University Center, The New School 63 5th Ave, NYC

Studies have demonstrated 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. This 2-day conference consolidates and showcases programmatic research on processes of data valuation.


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Chinese Internet Research Conference: Politics and Geopolitics of Automated Decision-Making on the Global Chinese Internet

Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove campus Kelvin Grove, QLD

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.


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wikihistories 2024: Wikipedia and/as Data

Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove campus Kelvin Grove, QLD
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This 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.

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Future Worlds: Chinese Techno Power and African Imaginaries

The Oxford Scholar 427 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC

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.


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Re/Framing – creativity / culture / computation

RMIT University, Melbourne
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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.


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