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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.