Introducing the Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy

While our digital media and technology infrastructures have enabled new voices, collective actions and economic models, they have also exposed structural challenges to democracy; online hate speech, political and medical mis/disinformation, election interference, and the polarization and commodification of what was once celebrated as an open and inclusive digital public sphere.
The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy produces critical research, policy activism, and inclusive events that inform public debates about the changing relationship between media and democracy, and that ground policy aimed at maximising the benefits and minimizing the systemic harms embedded in the design and use of emerging technologies.