DMRC’s Prof Nicolas Suzor has been awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2021 for his project Regulating and countering structural inequality on digital platforms.
This project aims to find legal, ethical, technical, and commercial opportunities to counter inequality online. It uses machine learning and custom data collection tools to create new knowledge about how digital platforms—including search engines, social media, peer economy, and news platforms—can help to tackle misogyny, racism, and other forms of structural discrimination. It uses this knowledge to investigate the extent to which private sector digital platforms can be expected to monitor and regulate the actions of their users, what responsibilities they have to avoid contributing to discrimination, hatred, intolerance and abuse, and how the law should develop to ensure that our digital environment is more equal and fair.
Congratulations Nic!
See the full list of ARC Future Fellowships here.