Read Them Sideways

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with William He, a machine learning engineer in the Generative AI Lab at the Digital Media Research Centre, along with Daniel Whelan-Shamy, a PhD candidate at the DMRC.

Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers and collaborators to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and more.

Some of the resources mentioned in this episode include:https://ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-generated-business#h-the-dream-of-agi-and-the-fully-automated-organizationhttps://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your co-hosts Kate FitzGerald and Klaus Gröbner discuss the conspiracy theories that have emerged from the left side of the political aisle between the United States election in November 2024 and inauguration day in January 2025.

Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Sam Vilkins, co-host of the podcast and postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Media Research Centre. We chat about TikTok temporarily going dark, what the future holds for the platform, and where to next for TikTok users.

Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers and collaborators to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

Read Them Sideways is back from our summer hiatus! In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Stephen Harrington speaks with Ned Watt and Michelle Riedlinger, PhD candidate and Associate Professor at the Digital Media Research Centre, respectively. They discuss Meta's decision to stop using fact-checking in the United States, and the political and economic reasons behind this decision. They also speak to what it means for the future of Meta's platforms.

Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communication, digital media, internet studies, and more.

You can read the article in The Conversation by Ned, Michelle, and DMRC alum Silvia Montaña-Niño here: https://theconversation.com/meta-is-abandoning-fact-checking-this-doesnt-bode-well-for-the-fight-against-misinformation-246878.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with Aljosha Karim Schapals, a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss the release of Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes, a significant work that Aljosha has recently co-edited. The book brings together accounts of media landscapes from 45 countries across the globe.

Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

If you or your institution are interested in purchasing Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes, you can do so at this link.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Daniel Whelan-Shamy, a PhD student in the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Dan's PhD project, which looks at machine learning and the theoretical concept of simulation. Dan walks us through the changing definition of simulation over the centuries, and how it now applies to modern generative AI. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Caroline Gardam, a PhD student in the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Caroline's PhD project, which looks at climate change scepticism and chemtrail conspiracy theories on the the platform Instagram. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald sat down with Stephen Harrington, an Associate Professor at the Digital Media Research Centre. They discussed Stephen's recent Discovery Research Project grant from the Australian Research Council, which works to define and investigate dark political communication. They also chatted about US politics generally, the upcoming US election, and elements of dark political communication that are imported to Australian politics.

Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with Frederik Grønbæk Aarup, a visiting PhD student at the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Frederik's PhD project, which considers conspiracy theories in Denmark on Twitter. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Tariq Choucair, a postdoctoral researcher at the the Digital Media Research Centre. This week is a double header, and Kate also had the opportunity to talk with Vinicius Ferraz, a visiting PhD candidate from Brazil. In this episode, we discussed the closure of X in Brazil, the context of this decision, and what this means for digital platforms and politics. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.