Here’s to the Hong Kong film industry, whose golden legacy first inspired this trip.

Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

Regulating disinformation merely as ‘content’ to be prevented or corrected is unproductive and limiting. The real task is to interrogate the system that feeds it.

Our report details recommendations provided to the Inquiry into the 2025 federal election for the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters.  The report is based on our res...

Outside China, WeChat is a conduit for translating and circulating English-language information among the Chinese diaspora. Australian domestic political campaigns exploit the gaps between platform go...

Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of prog...

Join AusSTS online for the first keynote of 'Signals and noises' with Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Kate Mannell.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia use these platforms.

An arduously long blog post

A series of attacks on Australian political parties on emerging Chinese social media platform RedNote raise concerns about misinformation, disinformation and the risk of foreign interference ahead of ...

Nearly 700,000 Australians use the Chinese platform Rednote, and it's become a new battleground for targeting Chinese-Australian voters.

News media notionally plays an important role in democracy by disseminating quality information which the public needs to make democratic decisions in their best interests. Yet, news media can also...

In recent public discourse, particularly with elections in powerful countries, the term disinformation has entered our lexicon. Although the intentional spre...

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The Paris AI Action Summit showed that “participatory AI” and “public interest AI” are often co-opted by government and industry to advance their agendas.

This paper investigates open public data and data sharing reforms in Australia (2018–2022) and their potential role in deepening the ‘data divide’. In the conte...

Migrants, especially those who speak English as a second language, are disproportionately targeted by mis- and disinformation. Research shows what might help.

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With the uncertainty involved in TikTok ban, US-based users are exploring a Chinese app RedNote as an alternative. What is the app and how does it work? This blog post will take you through my obse…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven into a supply chain of capital, commodities and human labour that has been neglected in critical debates. Given the current surge in generative AI – which is e...

Last year, a group of researchers across the UK, Europe, and Australia came together to set out a research agenda for studying the platformization of family life.

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I just installed the @AdmsCentre data donation browser plugin, to help Australian researchers investigate how online advertising targets Australian internet users #AdObservatory Join this citizen scie...