2025 PhD Scholarship. Algorithms, Generative AI and Childhood

Category: Research grant / fellowship / scholarship
Keywords: AI, childhood, algorithms, datafication, Internet studies

Algorithmic systems and generative artificial intelligence (‘Generative AI’_) tools are an inescapable part of contemporary life. Algorithmic decision-making and datafication – the capturing, storing, analysis and commercialisation of personal data – increasingly are part of early childhood and infancy from the first ultrasound photo onward (Leaver, 2015). Now Generative AI tools are equally shaping the way parents and societies experience, manage and imagine childhoods. Yet while these tools are widespread and ubiquitous, researchers have only really begun to analyse how childhoods – including new opportunities and well as new risks – look in the face to Generative AI and algorithms tools. Questions of opportunity, (in)equity, bias, creativity, and authenticity are all provoked as these technological systems reframe and alter childhoods, parenting and early educational experiences.

Initiator(s):
Curtin University

Deadline: 18.08.2024

https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?id=7138

Post created by: Carmen Pereyra