marc cheong

Welcome to my academic portfolio, at-a-glance...

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The University of Melbourne

& The Burnet Institute.

Hi there 👋

I am currently a Senior Lecturer - Information Systems specializing in Digital Ethics,
Associate Director at the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics,
and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School,
all at The University of Melbourne.

I am also an Honorary Burnet Institute Senior Fellow at The Burnet Institute.

My research interest is in social network analysis and interdisciplinary applications of both continental and analytic philosophy + data science empirical methods + information systems methodologies.

With over ~15 years of academic experience, I am committed to facilitating quality interdisciplinary research and education: with a strong background in data science, social media analysis, and philosophical rigour.

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skillset at a glance

A big-picture overview of my skillset follows
 for more detail on projects and collaborations, please refer to [projects] above


  • 🔍 Information Systems’ Impact on Society and the Philosophy of IS
  • đŸ‘„ Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • đŸ‘šâ€đŸ« Digital Humanities, Philosophy, and Computational Social Science
  • đŸ€– AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing
  • 📊 Data Analysis and Visualisation

selected publications

  1. Ethical considerations toward protestware
    Marc Cheong, Raula Gaikovina Kula, and Christoph Treude
    2024
  2. Investigating gender and racial biases in DALL-E Mini Images
    Marc Cheong, Ehsan Abedin, Marinus Ferreira, Ritsaart Willem Reimann, Shalom Chalson, Pamela Robinson, Joanne Byrne, Leah Ruppanner, Mark Alfano, and Colin Klein
    2024
  3. Approaches and Models for Teaching Digital Ethics in Information Systems Courses – A Review of the Literature
    Minna Paltiel, Marc Cheong, Simon Coghlan, and Reeva Lederman
    2023
  4. To chat or bot to chat: Ethical issues with using chatbots in mental health
    Simon Coghlan, Kobi Leins, Susie Sheldrick, Marc Cheong, Piers Gooding, and Simon D’Alfonso
    2023
  5. Existentialism on social media
    Marc Cheong
    2023
  6. COVID Down Under: where did Australia’s pandemic apps go wrong?
    Shaanan Cohney, and Marc Cheong
    In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), 2023
  7. "Tell us what’s going on": Exploring the information needs of pregnant and post-partum women in Australia during the pandemic with ’Tweets’, ’Threads’, and women’s views
    Cassandra Caddy, Marc Cheong, Megan S C Lim, Robert Power, Joshua P Vogel, Zoe Bradfield, Benjamin Coghlan, Caroline S E Homer, and Alyce N Wilson
    2023
  8. The wisdom_of_crowds: An Efficient, Philosophically-Validated, Social Epistemological Network Profiling Toolkit
    Colin Klein, Marc Cheong, Marinus Ferreira, Emily Sullivan, and Mark Alfano
    In Complex Networks and Their Applications XI, 2023
  9. Exploring intellectual humility through the lens of artificial intelligence: Top terms, features and a predictive model
    Ehsan Abedin, Marinus Ferreira, Ritsaart Reimann, Marc Cheong, Igor Grossmann, and Mark Alfano
    2023
  10. 2023 State of the future of work
    Leah Ruppanner, Brendan Churchill, David Bissell, Peter Ghin, Camilla Hydelund, Susan Ainsworth, Alysia Blackham, Jeff Borland, Marc Cheong, Michelle Evans, Lea Frermann, Tania King, and Frank Vetere
    2023
  11. Polarization and trust in the evolution of vaccine discourse on Twitter during COVID-19
    Ignacio Ojea Quintana, Ritsaart Reimann, Marc Cheong, Mark Alfano, and Colin Klein
    2022
  12. Ethical Dilemmas for @Celebrities: Promoting #Intimacy, Facing #Inauthenticity, and Defusing #Invectiveness
    Marc Cheong
    2022
  13. Who Oversees the Government’s Automated Decision-Making? Modernising Regulation and Review of Australian Automated Administrative Decision-Making
    Marc Cheong, and Kobi Leins
    2021
  14. Ethical Implications of AI Bias as a Result of Workforce Gender Imbalance
    Marc Cheong, Reeva Lederman, Aidan McLoughney, Sheilla Njoto, Leah Ruppanner, and Anthony Wirth
    2020
  15. Tracking, tracing, trust: contemplating mitigating the impact of COVID-19 through technological interventions
    Simon Coghlan, Marc Cheong, and Benjamin Coghlan
    2020
  16. Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalization
    Mark Alfano, J Adam Carter, and Marc Cheong
    2018
  17. “Power to the People!”: Social Media Discourse on Regional Energy Issues in Australia
    Kerri Morgan, Marc Cheong, and Susan Bedingfield
    2018
  18. Inferring Social Behavior and Interaction on Twitter by Combining Metadata about Users & Messages
    Marc Cheong
    2013