Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the market for artificial intelligence and its associated industries are over inflated. In 2025, just five hyperscalers—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—accounted for a capital...
Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea In August of 2024, which perhaps feels like more than a lifetime ago for observers of American politics, Judge Amit P. Mehta found Google to be in breach of U.S. antitrust law. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness...
Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea Photo by Cash Macanaya on Unsplash AI has been pitched as the great solution of the modern age – but the unfettered growth of this new technology could come at the expense of everything we hold dear. In recent years, Artificial...
Apr 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Samantha Floreani and Lizzie O’Shea Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock There are once again calls for the government to Do Something about misinformation online, following the recent stabbings at Bondi Junction and the immediate...
Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea ‘It’s moving to hear,’ writes Jennifer Mills recently for this publication regarding the new national cultural policy and the place of artists in it, ‘that we are essential workers… [that w]e want to know our work is meaningful, that...
Nov 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
BY Lizzie O’Shea Image: Denys Nevozhai When we talk about the influence of Silicon Valley, we often imagine how the design culture and business models influence our communities and identities in online spaces. In Paris Marx’s new book, Road to...
Nov 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Lilly Ryan Image: Esther Vargas At the risk of giving Elon Musk any more of what he wants—for people to talk about Elon Musk—his purchase of Twitter provides an opportunity to reflect upon the governance of online spaces. As yet another...
Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Samantha Floreani Image: Flickr When Labor announced a commitment to a ‘pen licence for the digital age’ for young people, it’s easy to see why it led to round mocking going on across social media. The idea sounded like it had been...
Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Reimagining Our Digital Future Nov 30, 2021 Peter Lewis, Jordan Guiao I wrote a chapter in this book about the Paris Commune and how we need to invest in human capacity as part of building an online public square. A new blueprint for a more democratic digital space...
Sep 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Mark Andrejevic It is now six months since Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code was passed into law, and it presents an opportunity to assess the impact of this controversial piece of legislation. The Code entrenches large tech companies...
Jul 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Lizzie O’Shea and Susie Allanson Twenty years ago this week, security guard Steve Rogers was shot and killed inside the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne. Abortion rights campaigner, Dr Bertram Wainer, had established the clinic in 1973 to provide...
Jul 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Lucie Krahulcova is an international digital rights activist and Executive Director of Digital Rights Watch. Lizzie O’Shea is a writer, lawyer and co-founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch. “It should worry us that we are losing rights as surveillance systems grow...
May 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Just over a year ago, international borders closed as part of the unprecedented emergency response to the pandemic. Governments began to experiment with technological solutions to managing the movement of people, specifically at borders, but also more broadly for the...
May 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of poet Lord Byron and collaborator with mechanical computer pioneer Charles Babbage, is credited with being the world’s first computer programmer. Lawyer and writer Lizzie O’Shea thinks Lovelace has lessons for us today about we deal with...
Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
If we are to think of alternatives to the heedless, vampire-like drive of technology capitalism, there are examples from history that are worthy of consideration. In looking back we should not dwell on the elites, who tend to dominate the social and cultural life of...
Mar 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in the Overland Sunday, 14 March, 2021. By Lizzie O’Shea, Rebecca Giblin, Kate Seear and Alexandra Dane. Promising Young Woman boldly examines male entitlement and female rage from a woman’s perspective. By which we mean: it’s not simply a story about...
Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Nikkei Asia on Sunday, March 13, 2021. In the #MeToo era, it is now clearer than ever that sexual assault is not some irregular occurrence, but is actually a function of the structural dominance of men over women. It is a consequence of a world in which...
Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
As published in The Saturday Paper March 11 2021 Public policy should not be left to the cult of personality, no matter how amicable the current eSafety Commissioner may be. The best protection against unintended consequences is for this legislation to be surgically...
Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Published in Baffler March 2021 In August 2019, Facebook settled an eight-year legal dispute with a French schoolteacher. The complaint, made by Frédéric Durand, accused the platform of deleting his account because he posted an image of Gustave Courbet’s iconic oil...
