Dr Dana McKay

Senior Lecturer, Innovative Interactive Technologies, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT; Honorary, School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

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Tech farming

Sciences & Technology

On the Road to Gundag(AI): Ensuring rural communities benefit from the AI revolution

AI is already used throughout rural communities from precision agriculture to self-driving trucks. But we need to help regional small businesses benefit from AI while avoiding the harmful aspects

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Health & Medicine

How digital devices can become weapons in our relationships

Technology-facilitated abuse in relationships (TAR) weaponises our digital devices. To prevent it, we must engage with people who perpetrate it

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Sciences & Technology

The importance of teaching boys about brilliant women

By normalising brilliant women to our daughters and our sons, we make room for those women. If we don’t, it becomes a real problem for successful women when those boys become men

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Politics & Society

Australia vs Facebook: Regulating the market of attention

Facebook’s move to block Australian users and publishers from viewing or sharing news may look like it’s about content – but it all comes back to advertising revenue

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Sciences & Technology

The truth is out there (if only I could find it)

COVID-19 has generated an information – and misinformation – overload. But what people need are updates that are relevant, concise and don’t offer false hope

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