Projects

Methods Masterclass Series

Methods Masterclass Series 2023 offers advanced training in creative practice, digital ethnographic, and social science tools. Co sponsored by the Enabling Impact Platforms at RMIT.

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Museum Digital Social Futures: Audience Living Lab as incubator for socially-engaged and situated media innovation

This project takes a future orientation to examine the role of digital media in the engagement, experience, literacy and inclusion of museum audiences.

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The Mourning After: Grief rituals, affective witnessing and mobile media 

this ARC Future Fellowship aims to shed light on the process of giving grief visibility through mourning rituals, highlighting how this can help honour the loss, develop resilience, and enhance...

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Exploring and bolstering the quality of local visual news

This project explores how local visual news in regional and rural parts of Australia is made and sourced, identifies community members’ expectations of local visual news, and brings together journalists...

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CafeLab

Building an inclusive, low carbon and equitable hospitality sector   An Australia-first initiative, CaféLab brings researchers across RMIT, from STEM and HASS, together with industry and policy actors, with the shared...

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Understanding algorithmic distribution in the Australian media industry

This project examines how the use of algorithms to distribute content on social media platforms is affecting the Australian news media sector. It will investigate how media professionals work with...

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Talking Country

Talking Country' is a 4-year project that includes partnerships with Aboriginal communities in Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Using a range of digital innovations such as geo-located audiovisual media,...

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Interfaith Childhoods

The Interfaith Childhoods project works with schools, communities and religious organizations to collect and share stories of everyday life told by both secular people and those of faith in Australia...

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Cooperation through Code: The social outcomes of distributed ledger technologies

The research aims to provide empirical evidence of the outcomes of governance administered through decentralised platforms.

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Australian Television in the Smart TV Ecosystem

This project (running until 2025) investigates the cultural impacts of smart TVs in Australia. A majority of Australian adults now use an internet-connected (smart) TV set or streaming device, fundamentally...

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