This session will highlight recent findings from the Australian Ad Observatory including case studies on gambling, greenwashing and alcohol advertising, and discuss the future of online advertising.

This session will provide an overview of findings from the first year of research conducted in remote communities on digital inequality and service delivery as part of the ADM+S Mapping the Digital Gap project. This project involves collaborations with up to 12 remote First Nations communities in NSW, Queensland, NT, SA and Western Australia, with three research visits to each site from 2022 to 2024.

This panel discusses the nuances and specificities of online misogyny and its derived harms within a context of emerging online safety regulation in many countries around the world. The participants will also address the practical opportunities and limitations of automation to identify and moderate harmful content without silencing women and counterspeech.

As an AI superpower, China has expanded the use of AI and AIGC (AI generated content) in media production, circulation, and consumption, in Chinese and beyond the Chinese-speaking world. This panel will discuss the role of AIGC in content creation/production, circulation, and governance/moderation in the Chinese context.

With the rapid emergence and take up of generative tools like Chat GPT, MusicLM, and Stable Diffusion or Midjourney come questions for the future of artistic and cultural production. Where is automation taking place in the arts, and what is it being used for? Where is it not taking place, and why? From claims that creativity is being democratised, to critical implications for authorship, intellectual property, and craft, and how the institutions of art are responding, this panel considers the dynamics currently underpinning automation in art. 

How is automated curation used in online video services? What public-interest issues are most relevant for different services and platforms? And what does ‘good’ curation look like? This panel, featuring speakers from ABC iView, RMIT and QUT, will delve into the politics and practicalities of interface design across streaming services, smart TVs, and public-service media.

This inter-disciplinary panel (incl. experts in communication, computer science, and fact checking) will discuss how AI-powered information access tools are increasingly assisting fact-checkers in Asia-Pacific and the Global South to pre- and debunk misinformation.

New technologies are transforming the way we see news events. So, what does it mean to be an eyewitness now? The conversations of this panel will explore new ways of seeing news events and what they mean for practitioners, researchers, and publics..

Our panel guests will show and talk about the opportunities and shortcomings of designing and interacting with voice news assistants and news chatbots, and the bright and dark sides of the news chatbot ecologies.

This session introduces the Australian Search Experience project, one of the News & Media Focus Area’s flagship research initiatives, and showcases new results.  Project team members will also discuss long-term implications for future research that have arisen as a result of the study

In this session, we will look at some of the recent state-of-the-art developments using Generative AI and LLMs, including scene generations, digital twin reconstruction, predictive analytics, disaster management + more. This diverse panel of AI researchers, ethicists, and industry leaders will discuss open problems and ethical dilemmas including responsible prompt engineering.

Bringing together experts on digital journalism with industry practitioners, this panel discusses the impact of these changes in news personalisation and considers whether Australians are ready for this shift.

What stories do we tell about automation? Whose voices and interests do they serve and whose are not? And what does it take to change the narrative? This panel brings together experts from across different industries — policy, journalism, and film-making — to share their experiences of communicating technological change, creating stories, and in other ways working to craft narratives about AI and automation that matter.

The panel will address rapid developments in internet infrastructures and AI technologies, and discuss questions around the dynamic possibilities and uncertain pathways these developments present for internet governance, social media platforms, media industries, and digital inclusion.