Robbie Fordyce

Lecturer, Media and Communications Studies, Faculty of Arts robbie.fordyce@monash.edu

Core expertise

Activist and disruptive technologies
Digital ethics
Smart cities
Automation
Surveillance

Biography

Robbie's thesis focused on activist and disruptive technologies, and his research continues and advances these interests, expanding into areas such as digital ethics, smart cities, infrastructure, automation, surveillance, and fabrication.

articles

A city at night underneath a digital net

What is the ‘splinternet’? Here’s why the internet is less whole than you might think

There’s really no such thing as one global internet – it all depends on your perspective. But the internet is poised to fracture even more.

Politics and society

A yellow cutout human figure standing on a target, surrounded by white cutouts of people

Going dark: Holding the platforms to account over targeted ads

We need to find ways to hold platforms responsible for the potential and actual abuses that take place in the online advertising world.

Politics and society

Facial recognition survey reveals concerns about privacy and bias

A recent survey of Australians’ attitudes towards the use of facial recognition technology revealed significant concerns about privacy, security, and bias.

Politics and society