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Kath Albury
@katha.bsky.social
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ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
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heathermccormack.bsky.social
Kath’s participants identified social media as a site of risk for workplace health and safety for people doing sexual health work in the digital space - this reflects my own experience but I feel it’s gotten so much worse in just the last few years #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social
Findings: Our orgs want cheap reach into our PLWHIV communities for our messages and community development BUT it isn't working anymore. Reach is limited. AND social media less safe. Workshop participant We've done quite a bit of thinking about how, as an organisation, we're going to manage those group conversations [on messaging apps] - given that there's a sort of 24/7 potential for people to be engaging and talking. And how we work around moderation, and our staff's right to switch off, and all of those kind of things. Manager
September 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Supporting digital capabilities in a way that also supports rights and autonomy means moving away from an understanding of the term that relies on individual knowledge. Individual knowledge is insufficient in situations of systems and governance failure #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025 @katha.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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heathermccormack.bsky.social
The amazing @katha.bsky.social presenting on building digital capabilities in hostile social media environments. The context stuff is fascinating - this has been a deeply weird but also vitally important four year period for Kath to have been leading this research #HIVAIDS2025 #ASRH2025
Why are digital capabilities important for the HIN sector? • Digital and data technologies are central to both health and social support systems and community experiences of connection, wellbeing & learning • 'Digital health' is not the same thing as 'digital public health' • Digital content moderation policies often flag HIV/SRH content as 'against community standards' • Targeted harassment and surveillance of marginalised communities is increasing - impacting health consumers and health organisations. Digital transformation policy environment National Strategies and Plans • The Digital Health Blueprint and Action Plan 2023 - 2033, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care • The Digital Health Action Plan, 2023 • National Digital Health Strategy 2023-2028, Australian Digital Health Agency • National Digital Health Strategy and Roadmap 2023 - 2028, ADHA • National Digital Health Capability Action Plan, 2023 • Australian Digital Health Capability Framework, ADHA/AIDH, 2024 Platform content moderation policies • Meta's 'community notes' fact-checking model 2025 • Meta's changes to hateful conduct policy to allow more 'free speech' 2025 International Guidance • Global Strategy on Digital health 2020-2025 - WHO, 2020 *recently extended until 2027. • Guidance on the rights-based ethical use of digital technologies in HIV and health programmes - UNDP, 2021 • UNICEF Safer Chatbots Implementation Guide - UNICEF, 2022 • The role of artificial intelligence in sexual and reproductive health and rights - WHO, 2024 • Digital transformation handbook for primary health care - WHO, 2024 e-Safety Office • Online Safety Act 2021 • Industry codes and standards (ratified 2025) • Phase 1: illegal content (eg. child exploitation material) • Phase 2: preventing young people from accessing “inappropriate' content
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Featuring @katha.bsky.social @floreani.bsky.social and guest presenters from across the sector, @muyiiyamu.bsky.social Melanie Bissessor, Caitlin Learmonth, Daniel Reeders, Amy Tong, and Jess Wilms.
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools...

Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social.

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The following text presented using bulleted banners: Suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools: 1. Involve end users early 2. Engage your target population, including ‘extreme users’ 3. Create opportunities for unexpected input 4. Involve users more than once 5. Close the feedback loop
July 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Congratulations Jathan!
July 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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socialmedialab.ca
Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...
2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab
Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...
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June 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
katha.bsky.social
Solidarity Shaun, to you and all our Macquarie colleagues
June 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM