Tanja Dreher | Co-Director

Dr Tanja Dreher is a Scientia Associate Professor in Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Tanja’s research focuses on the politics of listening in the context of media and multiculturalism, Indigenous sovereignties, intersectional feminisms and anti-racism. Tanja works with community and activist media and has an emerging interest in data justice, with a focus on competing social imaginaries and on listening out for marginalised voices.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/tanja-dreher Web: tanjadreher.net Twitter: @TanjaDreher
Facebook: ListeningforMediaJustice

#listening #socialjustice #mediaactivism #datajustice #firstnationsmedia

Michael Richardson | Co-Director

Dr Michael Richardson is a Senior Research Fellow in Media at UNSW. Michael’s transdisciplinary research investigates the intersection of affect, power and violence in culture, technology and politics with an emphasis on witnessing and testimony. He is currently working on a major project funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019-2021) on drones and witnessing in war and culture. Alongside drones, Michael is interested in algorithmic and climate change imaginaries as future sites of political transformation.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/michael-richardson Academia.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/MichaelRichardson Twitter: @richardson_m_a

#drones #affect #violence #witnessing #algorithms

Edgar Gómez Cruz | Co-Director

Edgar Gómez Cruz is a Senior Lecturer in Media (Digital Cultures) at the UNSW in Sydney. He has published widely on a number of topics relating to digital culture, digital ethnography and digital photography. His research interests span from everyday uses of digital technologies using an ethnographic approach, methodological innovation and visual interventions.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/edgar-gomez-cruz Academia.edu:https://optusnet.academia.edu/EdgarG%C3%B3mezCruz Web: imagenaciones.com Twitter: @Imagenaciones

#visual #methods #innovation #everyday #photography #algorithms

Elaine Jing Zhao | CO-director

Dr. Elaine Jing Zhao is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Elaine researches cultural production, industry transformations and governance challenges in digital media economy. Her main interest is the social, cultural and economic implications of digital technologies and platforms in transitional China and beyond borders.   

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/elaine-jing-zhao  Twitter: @elainezj                       

#platformisation #governance #labour #informal #china

Andrew Brooks

Andrew Brooks is Lecturer in Digital Media Cultures in the School of Arts and Media, UNSW. His research proposes strategies for reading and listening to contemporary media events, systems, and infrastructures. His current research is organised around three main projects: the politics of noise and listening; infrastructural inequalities; and the politics of race and embodiment in media culture. He is a founding member of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network. Along with Astrid Lorange, he is one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate and is also a member of the publishing collective Rosa Press.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/andrew-brooks Web: snacksyndicate.net Twitter: @rat_steak

#race #listening #mediation #infrastructure #resistantmedia

Brigid M. Costello

Dr Brigid Costello is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Brigid's research focuses on playful interaction design, user experience, evaluation methods for interactive experience, and video games. Brigid also creates interactive artworks, games and designs. Her recent research explores rhythmic experience within digital environments and improvisational play within serious games.        

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/brigid-costello Academia.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/BrigidCostello
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brigid_Costello

#play #userexperience #rhythm #games #interactiondesign

Adam Fish

Dr. Adam Fish is a Scientia Associate Professor in Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He is a cultural anthropologist, and documentary video producer who works across social science, computer engineering, environmental science, and the visual arts. Adam employs ethnographic, participatory, and creative methods to examine digital industries and digital activists working networked technologies: television, video, the internet, and newer platforms such as drones and other remote sensors.        

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/adam-fish Academia.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/AdamFish YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCokOGJT280mnHvREwCQyqhw

#hacking #drones #video #materiality #justice

Ramaswami Harindranath

Ramaswami Harindranath is Professor or Media at UNSW. Hari’s research interests include global media cultures and economies; race, class and marginalisation; digital technologies and socio-political change; postcoloniality and decoloniality; mobility, multiculturalism and citizenship; South Asian cultural politics; and transnational cultural formations. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Southern Discomfort that examines diverse aspects that constitute the Global South.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/ramaswami-harindranath ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramaswami-Harindranath                                   

#coloniality #raceandclass #globalsouth #digitaldocumentary #mobility

Emma A. Jane

Dr Emma A. Jane is a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW Sydney. She researches the social and ethical implications of emerging technologies using futures and transdisciplinary methods to propose interventions. Having previously led a major study on gendered cyberhate, her current projects include a study of radicalized misogyny and research into the future of sex and gender. Prior to her career in academia, Emma spent nearly 25 years working in the print, broadcast, and electronic media during which time she won multiple awards for her writing and investigative reporting.                  

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/emma-jane Web: emmajane.info     

#emergingtechnologies #futures #cyberhate #gender #sex

Tara McLennan

Dr Tara McLennan is a lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. She recently completed a PhD that explores how networked smartphone photography mediates personal memory and the experience of the present. Her research interests include new media studies, philosophies of photography, film studies and memory studies, which she pursues via creative research practices such as autoethnography, experimental histories and fictocriticism. 

UNSW: https://unsw.academia.edu/TaraMcLennan Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/tara-mclennan-101a503a

#photography #memory #affect #autoethnography #socialmedia

anna munster

Anna Munster is a Professor in Art and Design and Deputy Director of The National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. She is lead CI on an ARC Discovery Project that examines visual cultures and machine learning, and partners with media and science studies scholars on projects addressing the politics and aesthetics of machine learning, more-than-human perception, new pragmatist approaches to media and art, new media art environments and ecologies; and time, movement and sonicity. Anna is also a media artist who collaborates with Michele Barker developing multi-channel audiovisual environments exploring the relations between perception, movement and media.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/anna-munster Web: sensesofperception.info Instagram: sensesofperception

#statisticalvisuality, #visualculturesofmachinelearning, #embodiedperception, #immediation, #affect

Andrew Murphie

Andrew works across: media; technics (technologies, techniques, technical systems and modes of organisation); ecology, climate change and climate change communication; process philosophy, social theory, and affect; the politics of organisation. Specifically, “the world as medium” and/vs a "third media revolution" (AI and automation; VR, augmented and mixed reality; data and signaletics; genetics, drones and the internet of things, etc). This subsumes cultures of representation into the radical in-folding of world and media. Other projects: the wicked problem of “catastrophic multiplicities” at the intersection of radical media, environmental and social change; “against data”—questioning basic concepts of data/exploring alternative technics.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/andrew-murphie Academis.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/AndrewMurphie

#mediachange #artificialintelligence #climatechange #processphilosophy #deleuzeandguattari

POPPY DE SOUZA

Poppy’s research is concerned with the politics of voice and listening—broadly defined—in conditions of inequality and injustice across a range of contexts.  Her work is informed by critical theory and cultural studies, critical media studies, and by feminist, de/anti-colonial and intersectional approaches, and is firmly interdisciplinary.  Poppy’s research interests include critical theories of voice and voice poverty; political listening and media justice; sound, race and the cultural politics of listening; borders, boundaries, frontiers and thresholds; and sensory, sonic and slow methodologies.  She is currently Bridging Hope Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Big Anxiety Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, and an Adjunct with the Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University. 

Web: poppydesouza.com

#voice #listening #mediajustice #race

Mary Zournazi  

Mary Zournazi is an Australian author, philosopher and filmmaker. She is the director of the multi-award winning documentary Dogs of Democracy (2017) and the author of several books including Foreign Dialogues, Keywords to War, Hope - New philosophies for change and Inventing Peace with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders. She is the co-author of the play Solomon’s Dream with Christos Tsiolkas. Mary has worked extensively with writing and producing radio documentaries for ABC Radio National. She is Associate Professor and Chair of the sociology program at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Currently she is working on her new documentary film called MY Rembetika Blues.

She is interested in visual ethnography and the sociology of images.

UNSW: www.ada.unsw.edu.au/our-people/mary-zournazi Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dogsofdemocracy

#visualethnography #documentaryfilm #emotion #nonviolence #peace

KYLA ALLISON

Kyla Allison is a PhD Candidate at the University of New South Wales with interests in Media and Cultural Studies. Her current research focuses on affect, media, and sexual assault, while her past research areas include video games and gaming culture.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kyla-Allison

#affect #media #gender #violence

Jillian Gardner

Jillian Gardner is a PhD Candidate at the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney Australia. Jillian's research is focused on the role that image-making and memory plays in the construction of identities, such as Aboriginality and Whiteness, in a settler colonial society through the prism of intimacy. Other areas of interest include violence and representation and systems of categorisation in the media landscape. Jillian has an extensive professional background in news and current affairs as a video editor.                            

#image-making #memory #settlercolonialism #intimacy #violence

Kate Gwynne    

Kate Gwynne is a writer and creative practice PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Kate's research explores narrative discourse, embodiment and affect in the context of emerging immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies. She is developing a virtual reality script experiment - a conceptual and written blueprint for a VR narrative experience - which interrogates the interrelationship between the participant as a corporeal agent and how they respond to narrative dynamics, via the sensory dimensions of immersive technology systems.     

Twitter: @kategwynne              

#embodiment #narrative #affect #virtualreality #immersion 

Madison Hichens

Madison Hichens is a current PhD Candidate at the University of New South Wales in Communication and Media Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on anxiety as a sociocultural condition of “hyper-capitalism” (Rifkin 2001), in which contemporary subjects are configured under the tenets of ‘digital anxiety’ — a governing process that drives ubiquitous digital (and social) media use. Her work is also interested in tracing ‘digital anxiety’ as it has been exploited across different platforms, and the various typologies of digital anxiety as they pertain to questions of authenticity, realness, visibility, performativity, and transparency.

UNSW: www.arts.unsw.edu.au/our-people/madison-hichens Twitter: @madisonHichens

#anxiety #socialmedia #capitalism #authenticity #visibility #performativity #transparency

Danielle Hynes

Danielle Hynes is a UNSW Scientia PhD candidate working under the supervision of A/Prof Tanja Dreher and Prof Janet Chan. Danielle is exploring how data justice can function as a framework in the analysis of urban injustice.  She is particularly interested in how discourses surrounding new technology in cities are shaping urban imaginaries, and who is included and excluded within the idea/ideal of the smart city.      

Twitter: @dani_hynes               

#datajustice #socialhousing #smartcities #imaginaries

Nicola Joseph   

Nicola Joseph is a Phd candidate at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Nicola's research focuses on the ways in which media has shaped not only the way we see race and cultural difference but also the way we listen to Black, Blak, Brown, Indigenous and POC people. Nicola brings to her research over 40 years of experience in the Australian media including as a founder of Radio Skid Row-Radio Redfern in community radio, an executive producer at the ABC and as station manager at SBS radio in Sydney. She has taught media production to women in the media across Asia and the Pacific.

Facebook: www.facebook/nicola.joseph.395
Twitter: @fadwadaniens                      

#race #racism #listening #representation

Cecily Klim

Cecily Klim is an ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) funded PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW. Her research examines the digitisation and datafication of contraception; critically tracing the transformation of pregnancy prevention as it is uprooted from the medical/pharmaceutical sphere through the rise of ‘Femtech’ and ‘Sextech’. With an academic background traversing sustainable development, visual anthropology, and sociology, Cecily has a future-focused and interdisciplinary approach to her work. She is particularly interested in the techniques of representation in social research and, having worked through film, sound, storytelling, and arts workshops, she is dedicated to the use and development of creative methods.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CecKlim

ADM+S: https://www.admscentre.org.au/cecily-klim/

Diana Kreemers

Diana Kreemers is a UNSW Scientia PhD Candidate in the School of Arts and Media. Her research interests include representation, recognition, mediatisation and listening practices of professionals in democratic institutions. She has over eight years of experience working with policymakers, bureaucrats, journalists and media users. She worked on research projects on community media to develop new professional practices. More recently she investigated listening practices in political context in a two-year participatory research project at the Dutch government. Her current research analyses the politics of listening necessary to support the democratic potential of refugee media. 

Academia.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/DianaKreemers       
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diana_Kreemers2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diana.kreemersunsw      

#institutionallistening #socialjustice #refugeemedia #representation #recognition

Asal Mahmoodi

Asal Rashid Mahmoodi is a PhD Candidate at the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Their doctoral research focuses on scenes of queer everyday resistance in Iran, with an additional interest in affect theory.

charu mathani

Charu Maithani is a researcher who organises her inquiries in the form of writing and curated projects. Her research articulates conditions of mediality, aesthetic and political relations of/by media objects, material-discursive practices that persist racialized media operations by thinking and working across media studies, media ecologies, digital art and cinema. She is interested in exploring the perceptual and epistemological changes in contemporary media culture facilitated by AI and relationship between data practices and dominant ideological arrangement of vision.

Website: https://www.charumaithani.net

UNSW: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-charu-maithani

Bronwyn Miller

Bronwyn Miller is a UNSW PhD candidate in the School of Arts and Media, under the supervision of Assoc. Professors Tanja Dreher and Heather Ford. Her PhD research is intersectional and feminist, focusing on the ethics of Google’s AI-driven technologies, their discursive construction, and their uneven impact among users. Bronwyn’s previous research, on YouTube and on video games, has been presented at conferences across Europe. From 2016-2020 she was a Senior Research Analyst a software company in Berlin, Germany, leading a team in online consolidation and organization of market research and training a machine learning natural language processing system. 

Academia.edu: https://unsw.academia.edu/BMiller 

#ai #datajustice #lgbtqia+ #platformgovernance  #recommendationalgorithms

Mitchell Price

Mitchell Price is an Honours candidate at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. His research interests include cybernetics, surveillance, algorithmic cultures, and cinema. His current research focuses on emerging modalities of political resistance within networked societies and the political implications of automated production.

Shima Saniei     

Shima Saniei is a PhD candidate and casual academic at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Shima's research focuses on public relations practices of small activist groups. In her research, Shima examines how activist groups define themselves rhetorically to gain social capital to facilitate change in society.         

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shima_Saniei Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shima.saniei   Twitter: @Shima_Saniei
      

#activism #identification #zonesofmeaning #symbolicconvergencetheory #publicrelations

Nida Tahseen   

Nida Tahseen is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. She is a Chevening scholar and ICFJ fellow. Nida has nine years of journalism experience and also served as an assistant professor at Forman Christian College University, in Lahore, Pakistan. Nida's research focuses on the linguistic portrayal of women in Australian contemporary print and online media. She is using appraisal resources to gauge the evaluative language of opinion pieces published through a longitudinal study design.   

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nida-Tahseen Twitter: @nida_tahseen                          

#linguistics #appraisal #genderedlanguage #australianmedia

Simon Taylor    

Simon Michael Taylor is a PhD candidate supervised by Associate Professor Andrew Murphie and DECRA fellow Dr. Michael Richardson. His dissertation investigates case-studies that automate technologies of perception [i.e. operational imaging, sensor development, algorithmic quantification, pattern recognition]. As machines learn to autonomously interpret and misinterpret data across the ‘domains of life’ (Amoore, 2019) he explores reformations in human capacities and shifts in power relations from distributed intelligence, bio-technical capita + media infrastructure.

UNSW: www.allenshub.unsw.edu.au/index.php/researchers/simon-taylor

#hps #historyphilosophyofscience #patternrecognition #tacitknowledges #remotesensing #artificialintelligence

Kevin Witzenberger

Kevin Witzenberger is a Scientia PhD candidate in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on automation and artificial intelligence in education.     

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Witzenberger Twitter: @KevinWtz

#automation #ai #education #policy #governance