Fan Yang

Only a couple weeks to go until my mate @katemannell.bsky.social and I have a yarn with our fellow panelists about the infrastructures of noise @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference.

Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day:

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...

Great seminar from Andy! If you missed it, you can watch it here:

Argentine cooperatives launched AI4coops, showcasing the way they are engaging with AI in their projects. ai4coops.ar/en

How election misinformation spreads on Chinese social media Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia use these platforms.

"Our research reveals while Australian news media often focus on foreign interference, in this election cycle, disinformation is being driven by commercial and domestic political interests," write @fanyang.bsky.social, Luke Heemsbergen, and @coolrobbie.bsky.social.

Read more:

The mental tyranny of AI writing An arduously long blog post

I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.

meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

A deepfake Dutton speaks Mandarin on Chinese social media platform 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 ...

In this investigative report, ADM+S researchers Fan Yang, Robbie Fordyce, with Luke Heemsbergen worked with ABC, to uncover political disinformation on Chinese social media platform RedNote @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social sky.social bit.ly/41KYczP

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

Chinese social media new election battleground. Hear more from ADM+S researchers Fan Yang and Robbie Fordyce on ABC's The World Today @fanyang.bsky.social @coolrobbie.bsky.social #misinformation bit.ly/4iFwawv

News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement 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...

News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement
Victoria Fielding, Robert Boucaut, Catherine Son & Alexander H. Beare - [Open Access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Frontiers | Editorial: Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information In recent public discourse, particularly with elections in powerful countries, the term disinformation has entered our lexicon. Although the intentional spre...

Oh hey! The special issue that I co-edited is out now. "Sociology of emotion and affect in the age of mis-, dis-, and mal-information". A collection of three fascinating papers at the horizon of what we know about this topic.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

YouTube video by ADM+S Centre Platforms, misinformation, and migrant communities

Researcher Spotlight 💡

ADM+S Research Fellow Dr @fanyang.bsky.social (UoM) is interested in studying technologies, #digital labour, and information distribution among #migrant communities in Australia.

🔗 View GenAI Concepts: apo.org.au/node/327400
📍 Learn more: www.admscentre.org.au/fan-yang/

Cover of DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning by Anna Munster. The cover features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.

In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to artfully use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! #CriticalTheory
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AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris | TechPolicy.Press 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.

AI Countergovernance: Lessons Learned from Canada and Paris

"We learned three lessons from Canada’s failure to pass national AI legislation. These lessons can be applied to oppose unaccountable state-led AI governance around the world."

Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms - Xiaofang Yao, Anthony McCosker, Yong-Bin Kang, 2025 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...

One way to understand what is at stake in an AI-driven society is to look at the increasing Data Divide that is marginalising the voices of civil society, not-for-profits and all organisations and collectives working toward social innovation. New paper!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Particularly on the matters of human rights, equity, and environment, on the matters that they particularly care about.

Informal disinformation debunking is often voluntary and emotional taxing.

Often conducted by family members or community members with high levels of political, media and digital literacy.

However, such efforts are limited by their scale and gender, family, and generational dynamics.

Women and junior family members often take the responsibility of debunking disinfo…

Elections mean more misinformation. Here’s what we know about how it spreads in migrant communities Migrants, especially those who speak English as a second language, are disproportionately targeted by mis- and disinformation. Research shows what might help.

Disinformation among non-English speaking communities circulated within enclosed social media channels / platforms has long been an issue outside the purview of public agencies or US tech companies.

Our study found that combatting disinformation efforts are …

theconversation.com/elections-me...

YouTube video by ADM+S Centre We're #Hiring - ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

🔍 We’re #hiring.

Seeking a Research Communications Officer to contribute to a variety of projects that increase the Centre’s external presence across a range of audiences including schools, government, and the community.

📍 RMIT
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🗓 Apply by 18 Feb

YouTube video by ADM+S Centre We're #Hiring - ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

🔍 We’re #hiring.

Seeking a Research Fellow based at #SydneyUni to develop, conduct, and manage primary #ethnographic research in the Asia-Pacific to understand the everyday dimensions of ADM in specific local, national, or transnational settings.

🔗 usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Published this week: 'Addressing Challenges Faced by Chinese and South Asian-Origin Communities in Political Participation and Media Literacy'.

New report from ADM+S Research Fellow @fanyang.bsky.social, Sukhmani Khorana (UNSW) and Hao Zheng (Curtin University).

🔗 mediafutureshub.org/reports

EU AI Office presents proposal for general purpose model training data summary template. For scraped data, nothing more detailed than top 5-10% of domain names (not URLs). Given platforms (same domain) & tiny rights holders, not sure this helps. Slides via Contexte www.contexte.com/actualite/me...

& proposed recommendations in response to the challenges. The toolkit indicates the paths forward. #auspol

Between 2023 & 2024, we conducted surveys with 192 Chinese and South Asian migrants and 7 focus groups with 14 participants to understand their experiences of political participation & media consumption. We’ve identified the key challenges that migrants face
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RedNote / Xiaohongshu 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…

I have written a blog post on RedNote.
- What is the app?
- It's history
- Userbase?
- Interactions between Chinese and American users on the app
- It's algorithm
Check out the link below.
fanyangfan.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/r...

The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens 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...

“In times of climate emergency, this paper calls to reconsider algorithmic harms and resistance by investigating the entire capitalist production line of the AI industry.”

Source: “The supply chain capitalism of AI.”

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How is family life being ‘platformized’ and why does it matter?  - Digital Child 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.

Delighted to share that our new book ‘The platformization of the family: Towards a research agenda’ is out! Blog post here with more details and a link to the book (it’s open access): digitalchild.org.au/how-is-famil...

YouTube video by ADM+S Centre ADM+S Centre: 2024 in Review

2024 at the ADM+S Centre has been a significant year of growth, impact and achievement across our #research program.

🎥✨ Hear from our researchers and Centre staff as we recount some of the key moments and milestones celebrated this year, and what's to look forward to in 2025.
youtu.be/nl9HsxEV7Ok

Thanks for all your questions and sorry we couldn’t get to all of them! I’m pepped up on coffee in these videos and hope that they provide some useful insights.

Thanks again to Natalie for putting this together and doing an amazing editing job.

📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation.

We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).

So interesting! Would love to know more about it!!