YouTube's News Conundrum - Where does the ABC feature among the platform's designation of 'authoritative voices'?

Where does the ABC feature among the platform’s designation of ‘authoritive voices’?

ADM+S PhD student, Arjun Srinivas has completed a 3-month internship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) investigating how a public service media organisation like ABC navigates the recommender systems of large commercial platforms like YouTube in order to distribute content and optimise audience engagement. 

In this talk, Arjun will discuss his PhD research on YouTube's curation of news based on the Australian Search Experience Project, as well as learnings from his internship with ABC's YouTube team. He will share insights from a host of ABC's YouTube internal analytics, as well as third party news databases.

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Arjun is a PhD Student at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at QUT. Arjun's research focuses on news consumption on YouTube from mainstream news outlets and journalists in Australia to understand how algorithms affect access to information. He works with crowd-sourced search and recommendation data from YouTube obtained through the Australian Search Experience project at the ADM+S.

Please note this event is in-person. ADM+S members can request a private Zoom link to the event. Please contact katherine.nickels@qut.edu.au for further information.