News & Events
What political ads are Australians seeing online?
A new mobile advertising observation toolkit is now being utilised as a key platform to research on “What political ads are Australians seeing online?” by the Australian Ad Observatory project. This interesting piece of researcher insights informs you that why tools like ADMS Centre and AIO’s mobile advertising observation toolkit build digital trust, and contribute to a more transparent internet ecosystem.
What is your ‘TikTok personality’? A new Citizen Science project can tell you
Our QUT partners, along with USyd, have launched the ARC Discovery Project on using data donation for studying TikTok experiences of Australian users.
2025 Federal Election: Insights from Australian Reddit users
As Australia prepares to vote in the upcoming Federal Election 2025, we at AIO are working with our partners to present public attitudes and sentiments from Reddit users.
‘Dark ads’ challenge truth and our democracy
Political inaction and big tech’s reluctance to protect users leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the election write Dan Angus and Mark Andrejevic in 360info.
Wrapping Up 2024: AIO’s Year in Review and Exciting Plans for 2025
Wrapping Up 2024: AIO’s Year in Review and Exciting Plans for 2025
QUT Digital Media Research Centre @ the 2024 Woodford Folk Festival
QUT Digital Media Research Centre an interactive stall focusing on “Data Donation”.
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.
Algorithms dictate everything we see. Time to crack them
PODCAST
The algorithms that decide what we experience on social media, and on the internet in general, have a profound impact on the way we see the world.
Daniel Angus joins Bension Siebert on this episode of The Briefing podcast to unpack how they're beginning to crack the social media code.
Social media algorithms are shrouded in secrecy. We’re trying to change that
To understand the impact social media platforms are having on society they must provide access to crucial data writes Prof Dan Angus in The Conversation.
The Australian Ad Observatory summative webinar event
Australian Ad Observatory team present the findings from their first phase of work.
11 am -1pm Thursday 11 July 2024
Online
AIO Presentation at ARDC Symposium 2024
Watch a recording of the presentation by Dr Damiano Spina (RMIT) and Prof Patrik Wikstrom (QUT) introducing the Australian Internet Observatory at the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Symposium, Melbourne, June 2024
New research facility to uncover how internet algorithms and AIs shape our world
Announced today, the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) is a major new research infrastructure initiative that will open up the ‘black box’ of digital platforms and their algorithms.