Ashwin Nagappa

ADM+S researchers awarded 2025 Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Grants - ADM+S Centre ADM+S researchers have been awarded more than $100,000 under the 2025 Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Program, supporting research in the use of AI in news personalisation and online search.

Congratulations to ADM+S researchers awarded grants under the 2025 Queensland–Bavaria Collaborative Research Program, supporting projects that advance research in the responsible use of AI in news personalisation and online search. Read more bit.ly/4ngSRcc

Check previous posts from the Search Experience blog series

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We discuss the foundations of information, the role of information producers, the evolution of SEO, and how all of these are being reconfigured in the age of AI.

Watch out for more work from @admscentre.org.au , Australian Search Experience 2.0 project in the following months.

As AI transforms how we discover and create information, privately controlled gateways—such as search engines, social media, and AI platforms—gain significant power over what content is visible and what fades into obscurity.

The road is a metaphor for a network. The town represents the digital information you, I, and others produce and share on the internet. Search engines and digital media platforms are private entities that govern traffic, flow, and information.

What happens when the only road to your town is privately owned—and they change the rules overnight?

In this concluding post of our Search Experience blog series, we (@kkasianenko.bsky.social, @olegzendel.bsky.social and I) explore the impact of AI on the information ecosystem.

“My first thought was Africa”: Gates as a floating signifier in global COVID-19 philanthropy discussions on X Philanthropists play an important role in tackling global crises. As observed in scholarly studies and acknowledged by philanthropists themselves, the…

@guangnanrio.bsky.social, Uttama Barua, George Gyamfi, Shima Saniei and I have published an article piloted at SICSS-Sydney (organised by @olgarithmic.bsky.social @sssharc.bsky.social). In it, we show the breakdown of trust in global philanthropy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2026 DMRC Summer School – QUT Digital Media Research Centre 2026 DMRC Summer School | 2 - 6 February 2026The DMRC 2026 Summer School is back again for another year, featuring interactive sessions showcasing digital...

Delegate registration will open the week of the 13th October 2026, so please keep an eye out on our socials and webpage for the release. To sign up to our Summer School mailing list and for further information, visit our website:

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The DMRC 2026 Summer School is back again on our Kelvin Grove Campus in Brisbane, Australia from 2 February to 6 February 2026, featuring interactive sessions showcasing digital humanities and social science research across key programs and projects within the DMRC.

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news. "For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

"The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information." @felixsimon.bsky.social has written about our recent report, including rapid growth in how many (and how) people use generative AI to get information www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

The telegraph was hailed for its revolutionary ability to span distance. Now AI is hailed as a great leap forward. Both came with environmental costs.

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Has the internet ruined Broadcast Television? - Amanda Lotz Has the internet ruined Broadcast Television? By replacing linear, scheduled programming with huge libraries of on-demand content, have the business models and powe…

Enjoyed talking with Gareth King for his podcast series digging into the internet's role in how we live now. Love the podcast form for being able to talk through things that don't have easy answers. Has the internet ruined Broadcast Television? www.ruinedbytheinternet.com/has-the-inte...

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From ‘Doctor Google’ to Data-Driven Care: The Future of Digital Health Literacy - ADM+S Centre A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals and communities navigate the overwhelming and often unreliable online information about...

A new research-backed digital platform, led by Prof Kath Albury, has been developed to help health professionals & communities navigate the overwhelming & often unreliable online information about sexual & reproductive health by building digital & data capabilities @katha.bsky.social
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Join us online Thurs 11 Sept for the launch of the Digital Capabilities for Sexual & Reproductive Health Final Report & Website. Featuring leading voices across sexual health, policy, advocacy & community.
👉 admscentre.org/DDCSRH-Launch
#DigitalHealth #SexualHealth

Cover image of the 'fan' issue of M/C Journal.

🆕 Very excited to announce the launch of M/C Journal issue 28.3: '#fan', edited by @svegaard.bsky.social and @vilkins.bsky.social. #mcjournal

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Darkness to hyper-visibility: exploring promotional and creator cultures of social media This one-day symposium explores the visibility games at the heart of social media’s promotional and creator cultures. From influencers and everyday users to advertisers and automated algorithms, every...

From Darkness to Hypervisibility! A one day symposium on the promotional and creator cultures of social media at UQ in November. CFP and details here: hass.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... @bradyjay.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social

Loved the short and sharp talk, @drnomyn.bsky.social

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

📣 Call for contributions! @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and I are editing a collaborative glossary on internet imaginaries.
We’re looking for short entries (500–1000 words) that unpack research concepts used to study how the internet has been imagined over time.
matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp

New release from one of the Chief Investigators at the DMRC, Dr Ehsan Dehghan! A highly relevant piece of work that offers a critical framework for understanding the entangled relationships between discourse, digital media, and the hidden dynamics behind antagonism and polarisation. 🎉

Media 2025 Explainer Announcing Media 2025 – an experiment in digital-era publishing that is a cross-between a limited newsletter and a short book. It's 11 posts (10 paywalled – nearly 20,000 words) that provide state-of-...

The 1st section of Media 2025 highlights 4 developments that most adjusted media’s cultural role and industrial operation. They introduced exceptionally more choice and control that eradicated SCARCITY - the unacknowledged foundation of predigital media strategy. www.amandalotz.com/media-2025-2/

Conspiracy Nation: Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson deep dive into the strange beliefs and hidden worlds of their new book Conspiracy Nation

TOMORROW! Come join us at UNSW for a conversation with @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social about their new book, Conspiracy Nation. It's free, it'll be fun, and you might accidentally learn something!

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I am grateful for all the support from @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

QUT research project to combat online harms A QUT researcher awarded funding to help make the internet a safer space says digital communication, once seen as a path to a more democratic and open society, has evolved with mixed results over the ...

Very excited to start my research on prosocial alternatives to dominant social media platforms through the AXA Research Fund Post Doctoral Fellowship. I will be sharing findings in the near future as the project develops.

Read more about the project www.qut.edu.au/news?id=201140

I also discuss my upcoming research on Fediverse platforms, supported by the AXA Research Fund.

In the episode, I use the milk analogy to unpack the complexities of the platform ecosystem.
Both involve conscious choices shaped by a range of factors—social, political, and, in the case of milk, even biological.

Is there a parallel between alternative milk and alternative social media? Sort of...
I recently had the opportunity to share my thoughts on alternative social media platforms on the Read Them Sideways podcast
Have a listen—and feel free to share within your networks
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Would your 4 to 8 year old child like to share what they think about learning with technologies?

Join us on July 7 or July 11 at QUT Kelvin Grove for opportunity to play with lots of fun things (i.e., iPads, robots, fun creating apps, blocks, making) and create an eBook.