Location:
R.D. Watt Building
Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia
Dates and time:
2-4 October, 2024
8:30am – 5:30pm
The Policy & Internet conference will bring together a range of international voices to demonstrate how varying approaches towards internet policy are established, embodied and engaged with by a variety of stakeholders. Together, scholars and policymakers will discuss current practices, alternative designs and the ‘unknowns’ that are required for inclusive internet governance.
Conference Organizers
Dr Jonathon Hutchinson
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Joanne Gray
Commissioning Editor
Milica Stilinovic
Managing Editor
Nadia Tjahja
HDR Representative Editor
Day One: 2 October 2024
Keynote Speaker
Associate Professor Julia Powles
Director of the UWA Tech & Policy Lab
Julia Powles is the Director of the UWA Tech & Policy Lab and Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Western Australia. She is an international research leader in privacy, intellectual property, internet governance, and the law and politics of data, automation, and artificial intelligence. Her current research interests include Big Tech culpability, tech crimes, and data governance in health and performance contexts. Julia serves on Australian federal and state committees on generative AI in education, AI and copyright, privacy and responsible information sharing, responsible AI, and robotics. Prior to joining UWA, she worked at Cornell Tech, NYU, Cambridge, The Guardian, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Julia studied genetics, biophysics, and law at ANU and UWA, and received her master’s from Oxford and PhD from Cambridge.
Doctoral Paper Presentations
Will Mu
University of Sydney
Ryan Stanton
University of Sydney
Jiahui Xing
University of Sydney
Chen Bingyu
Nanyang Technological University
Zhang Yaotian
Nanjing University
Angela Palmer
University of Sydney
Imad Payande
Data4Governance Lab
Michelle Venetucci
Yale University
Day Two: 3 October 2024
Paper presentations
Dr. Heather Ford
University of Technology Sydney
Dr. Michael Davis
University of Technology Sydney
Prof. Terry Flew
University of Sydney
Thomas Barrett
University of Sydney
Tania Chatterjee
University of Queensland
Dr. Ryan Payne
University of Canberra
Dr. Timothy Koskie
University of Sydney
Yang Huang
Beijing Language and Culture University
Rongxin He
King’s College London
Dr. Blake Hallinan
Hebrew University
Prof. Georgios Terzis
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dr. Carolina Aguerre
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Matias Dodel
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Adrián Rosso Risso
University of Belgrano
Everyday Internet & Policy
Dr Catherine Jeffery
University of Sydney
Dr Mark Johnson
University of SydneyDr Jonathon Hutchinson
Editor-in-Chief
Prof Marcus Carter
University of Sydney
Dr Agata Stepnik
University of Sydney
Charles Perkins Centre Truth Decay Node Presents
The psychology of online arguments and narratives
Dr Micah Goldwater
University of Sydney
Dr Tom van Laer
University of Sydney
Dr Marco Castelli
University of Milan
Dr Paulina Kowalicka
University of Milan
Conference Conclusion
Chair: Dr Jonathon Hutchinson
Chair of Discipline of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney
He is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council LIEF project ‘The International Digital Policy Observatory,’ and is also a Chief Investigator on the eSafety Commission Research project ‘Emerging online safety issues: co-creating social media education with young people.’
For 2023 and 2024, he holds the prestigious position of President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and is the current Editor in Chief of the Policy & Internet Journal. His most recent book, Digital Intermediation: Unseen infrastructure for cultural production, is available through Routledge.
