By Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication, La Trobe University
Diana Bossio, Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
The government’s latest attempt to make big companies pay for the journalism that bolsters their profits has benefits, but also risks.
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By Sara Kells, Director of Program Management at IE Digital Learning and Adjunct Professor of Humanities, IE University
In a typical conversation today, it is not difficult to sense when someone has stopped listening. Their attention shifts, their response arrives too quickly, or their eyes drift toward a screen waiting nearby. The exchange continues, but something essential has already been lost. We speak more than ever across platforms, devices, and digital spaces. But are we actually listening to one another?
Public debate today tends to focus on speech. Questions of who can speak, what should be regulated, and whether free expression is under threat dominate discussions about digital life. These…
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By Mandar Oak, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Adelaide University
Peter Mayer, Associate Professor, School of History and Politics, Adelaide University
It was a rare defeat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which signals an opposition not afraid to stand up to him, even on politically delicate issues.
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By Daniel Baldino, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
Earlier this month, multibillion-dollar US tech company Palantir posted on X a summary of its chief executive Alex Karp’s recent book, the portentously titled The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.
The book and the post offer a kind of manifesto, making sweeping claims about a hierarchy of civilisations, the rejection of pluralism, Silicon Valley’s moral obligation to US military power, the necessity…
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By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
The case crystallises a wider public anxiety: an incredibly powerful technology is being built and controlled by a tiny number of feuding tech bros.
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By Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
While the US president has been at odds with the UK prime minister over Iran, the royals were able to bring the charm to Washington.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International today unveils the findings of two years of research on housing conditions in Indigenous communities. The report, entitled Housing crisis in Indigenous communities in Canada: inequality and discrimination. The case of Manawan, documents an alarming housing crisis that requires an immediate response. According to the findings of this research, Amnesty International considers that the […] The post Amnesty International presents alarming report on housing conditions in Indigenous communities and calls on Ottawa to assume its responsibilities appeared first on Amnesty International.…
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By Abraham Nunbogu, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University
Kaveh Madani, Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University; Yale University
The rapid expansion of critical mineral extraction is trading away human and ecological well-being for technological breakthroughs. There are ways to fix this.
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By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
The Reserve Bank will make the call next Tuesday. It’s expected to raise rates to crack down on inflation, before it becomes entrenched.
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By Guest Contributor
Overall, while the surveillance, abuses and huge concentrations and imbalances of power that AI and other new technologies enable are very worrying, we found a good deal of encouragement in these case studies.
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