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I am Ashwin Nagappa!
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I am a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the QUT node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). I am a recipient of the 2024 AXA Post-Doctoral Fellowship (for the theme ‘Navigating misinformation and trust erosion in the digital age’). My research centres on emerging decentralized social media platforms, analyzing how they mitigate online harm and address challenges such as misinformation, hate speech, and polarization. This study seeks to identify key qualities of polycentric governance—network size, moderation, harm responses, and community participation—and evaluate their scalability for reducing online harm. I am also involved in the Australian Search Experience 2.0 project, where I examine how search engines influence everyday data practices and knowledge sharing, particularly in relation to upholding public interest values like diversity and social cohesion.
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