Updates
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PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia”
I have a scholarship for a PhD student to work on my Future Fellowship project. Below is the description that will soon appear on UTS’s website. Feel free to ping me if you’re interested.…
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Data Ethics: Implications for Traditional Media, Social Media and the Communication Industry
This Thursday (3 March, 2022) 2pm – 3.15pm (AEDT) will be a panel to launch the new Technology, Media and Strategy (TMS) Research Group at the School of Communications, UTS. I’ll be talking about…
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Calling for EOIs from research assistants interested in two new projects to study the ethics of knowledge graphs
I’ve just received some funding from UTS for two pilot studies relating to the ethics of knowledge graphs. I’m looking for a research assistant (or two) to work on the two projects below. More…
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How to do qualitative analysis: In theory and practice
These are the slides from a two-hour workshop I ran with researchers and Honours students in the School of Communication. They aren’t very pretty and don’t picture my own work that I showed as…
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What’s Wikipedia’s role in deciding who gets honoured?
by Heather Ford, Tamson Pietsch & Kelly Tall On 26th of January the 2021 Australian Honours were announced. They are intended to recognise the outstanding service and contributions of Australians from all walks of…
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Towards a “knowledge gap index” for Wikipedia
In January 2019, prompted by the Wikimedia Movement’s 2030 strategic direction, the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation identified the need to develop a knowledge gaps index—a composite index to support the decision makers…
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How can content moderation systems be improved?
I was invited to provide a submission to the UK’s House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee who are running an inquiry into freedom of expression online. In the submission below, I answer the…
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Australian Media Literacy Research Symposium
Last week, the Australian Media Literacy Research Symposium was held simultaneously in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. Organised by Tanya Notley, Michael Dezuanni and Sora Park, the symposium brought together representatives from civil society, government,…
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The Intimate Encyclopedia
The Intimate Encyclopedia is an experiment that makes explicit the subjectivities of encyclopedic knowledge. Using Wikipedia as inspiration, it offers three core principles guiding the writing of articles. It asks authors to present the…
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