Disconnect: Why We Get Pushed to Extremes Online and How to Stop It
Disconnect is a lively, topical look at the rise of internet extremism and what we can do about it
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The Public Square Project: Reimagining Our Digital Future
Western democracy has always been anchored by the idea of a public space where people gather to share ideas, mediate difference and make sense of the world. When Facebook blocked Australian users from viewing or sharing news in 2021, it sounded the alarm worldwide on our growing reliance on global tech companies to fulfil this critical role in a digital world. Facebook's hostile act, constituting a very real threat to participatory democracy, was a direct response to government attempts to regulate Big Tech's advertising monopoly and to mediate its impact on public interest journalism.
The conflict sparked a new sense of urgency around the growing movement to imagine alternative digital spaces that operate in the public interest rather than simply for a commercial bottom line. Can we create sustainable media models to help us tackle society's problems? Can we engender a civic platform built on facts and civility? Can we control the power of our data and use it to promote the common good?
The Public Square Project draws together leading tech scholars, industry experts, writers and activists to chart a path towards a public square worthy of the name.
Our Research
Please Check-In - A blueprint for a safe, fair and ethical vaccination 'passport'
Devil in the detail - Privacy and some popular digital platforms
Techxit - Can Australia survive without Google and Facebook?
Like a virus - The coordinated spread of coronavirus disinformation
Gambling on games - How video games expose children to gambling
Distorting the public square - political campaigning on social media requires greater regulation
Our Submissions
Inquiry into online gambling and its impacts on problem gambler: Submission
Tech reform and rebuild - Submission to the Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety
Blinding Big Brother - Submission to the Privacy Act Review
Protecting our privacy online - Submission to the Online Privacy Bill
False choice - Submission to the ACCC Digital Platform Services Inquiry third interim report
Our attention for sale - Response to the ACCC Digital Advertising Services Inquiry interim report
Stretching the spectrum of online safety - Submission to the new Online Safety Bill
Mandatory bargaining code legislation submission
Searching for a solution - Submission to the ACCC News media bargaining code