Upcoming events
HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School
The ARDC invites you to join us in person for the free 2025 HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (RDC) Summer School in Brisbane/Meanjin.
The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills, and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts.
DMRC Summer School
This is hosted by the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), showcasing both our Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campuses in Brisbane, Australia from Tuesday 4 February to Friday 7 February, 2025.
ADM+S Summer School
The 2025 ADM+S Summer School will encompass interactive workshops, bootcamps, mentoring and social activity across three days, with our leading researchers and collaborators delivering a program encompassing methodological approaches, technical play, researcher and career development skills, and community building amongst our ADM+S cohorts.
AIO researchers will be hosting the workshop for researchers interested in new tools and methods for studying digital platforms.
Data donation stall @ Woodford Folk Festival
The Australian Internet Observatory is excited to collaborate with QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival!
This year, we’re proud to support the Data Donation Stall, an interactive experience that invites festival-goers to explore their digital footprints. In collaboration with QUT’s researchers, we’re helping shine a light on how our personal data shapes the digital world we live in.
Are fair elections possible in the age of AI?
Are fair elections possible in the age of AI?
Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) 2024
Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS)
Day 1 Keynote by Jenny Fewster (Australian Research Data Commons, HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons) and Robert dhurwain McLellan (U Queensland, and Language Data Commons of Australia) on “CAREful FAIRness and principles for Indigenous Data Governance” at 10:00am – 11:00am
Day 1 Keynote by Amanda Lawrence (RMIT & Australian Internet Observatory), on “Citizen science, research infrastructure and Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs)” at 9:00am – 10:00am
📍 Flinders University, Adelaide
AIO @ AANZCA 2024
Discover the future of digital platform research with the Australian Internet Observatory in a 90–minute panel at the 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗭𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 2024 will showcase innovative tools and methodologies designed to enhance the observability of social media and digital platforms—critical work for advancing public good research and media scholarship.
📍 RMIT University, Green Brain 1
Research Infrastructure for ADM and Digital Platforms Workshop
Research Infrastructure for ADM and Digital Platforms Workshop
This workshop is designed to introduce and showcase a range of tools, infrastructure, data sources and methodologies for research on automated decision-making and digital platforms from across ADM+S projects. Participants will learn about and explore major new infrastructure such as the Australian Internet Observatory’s data donation tools, as well as Large Language Models (LLMs), national survey instruments and datasets, and various small scale open source software and research methodologies.