Samantha Floreani is a digital rights advocate and writer based in Naarm (Melbourne). Sam is undertaking a PhD at Monash University with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society on the impact of emerging technologies on housing injustice in Australia.

Thesis Title
The political economy of real estate technologies and housing injustice in Australia

Research Description
This research project will examine if and how emerging digital technologies in the Australian residential real estate industry are impacting housing injustice. In particular, it will explore the ways that surveillance is being performed and experienced in the Australian housing sector, and identify potential applications of technology that may serve to ameliorate housing injustice.

Supervisors
Mark Andrejevic
Jathan Sadowski