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• Breaking the Social Media Prism: A Talk by Professor Chris Bail, Duke University

  29 September, 2021.In this hour-long talk, Professor Bail discussed his latest book, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Polarizing. Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less.

• Digital Face-off: The future of news on global technology platforms

  26 May 2021. This panel discussion looked at the implications of the recent mandatory News Media Bargaining Code.

• Digital Research in Action: Introduction to the Australian Data Archive

  23 April 2021. In this workshop, Dr Steve McEachern offers an “Introduction to the Australian Data Archive”.

• What is a HASS Data Commons?

  22 April 2021. In this seminar, visiting fellow Dr Steve McEachern presents an overview of two new Australian Research Data Commons projects.

• “Zooming” In and Out to Examine the “Virus”

  6 Nov 2020. Professor Jodie McVernon and Professor Sean Cubitt

• “Sharing” and “Gaming” in the Post-pandemic World

  23 October 2020. Dr Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri

• “Geeking” and “Prototyping” in the New Normal

  9 Oct 2020. Associate Professor Christina Dunbar-Hester and Professor Fred Turner

• “Events” in the Post-“Information” Age

  25 September 2020. Associate Professor Julia Sonnevend and Dr Bernard Geoghegan

• “Internet” and “Hackers”: New Threats and Opportunities

  11 Sept 2020.Professor Gabriella Coleman and Professor Thomas Streeter

• The Death of the “Analogue” and Re-birth of the “Surrogate”

  28 August 2020. Associate Professor Jeffrey Drouin and Professor Jonathan Sterne

• Does the Future have a Past? New-Old and Old-New Virtual Realities

  11 March 2020. In this seminar, Professor Peter Otto focuses on three immersive / interactive environments.

• The weaponisation of fake news in Australia in the digital age

  Wednesday 9 October 2019Associate Professor Andrea Carson, La Trobe University

• Data and Democracies: Developing Data Capacity in the Victorian Government

  Wednesday 25 September 2019Brad Petry, Head of Data Analytics, Victorian Centre for Data Insights

• Vote Compass: an exercise in public engagement

  Wednesday 18 September 2019Aaron Martin, Co-director of The Policy Lab

• The Possibility of Citizen Intelligence

  Wednesday 4 September 2019 Richard de Rozario, The SWARM Project, University of Melbourne

• Digital technology and organisational fluidity in British politics

  Wednesday 21 August 2019 Dr Anthony Ridge-Newman, Liverpool Hope University

• The Indigenous Data Network: Restoring Community Control over an Intangible Asset

  Wednesday 29 May 2019Dr James Rose, University of Melbourne

• IndigenousX as a Form of Digital Disruption

  Wednesday 1 May 2019Luke Pearson, Founder and CEO of IndigenousX

• Digital Environments: Communication in Immersive Media

  Wednesday 18 April 2019 Pauric Freeman Maynooth University, Ireland

• Immersive Culture: Sharing Traditional Knowledge with ‘Torres Strait Virtual Reality’

  Wednesday 3 April 2019Rhett Loban, Macquarie University

• Digital Studio Seminar: Recoding relationality

  Wednesday 5 December 2018 David Gaertner

• Digital Heritage Workshop

  Wednesday 17 October 2018 Panel discussions asking: what is required for a career in digital heritage now and into the future?

• Digital environments of Indigenous song

  Wednesday 3 October 2018 Dr Sally Treloyn Faculty of Fine Arts and Music

• Re-photography as a tool for citizen heritage

  Wednesday 19 September 2018 Professor Hannah Lewi Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

• Creating a short film digital archive

  Wednesday 5 September 2018 Donna Hensler Victorian College of the Arts

• Digital Studio Seminar: Artificial arts

  Wednesday 3 September 2018 Chris Rodley

• Small Data is Beautiful: Analytics, Art and Narrative

  18-19 February 2022. Taking inspiration from the ‘small is beautiful’ mantra of the 1970s which provoked counter-cultural economic and scientific expertise in the name of planetary survival, this symposium invites scholars working on computational methods in the arts, humanities and social sciences to discuss their research with ‘small data’.