We warmly invite colleagues, students and everyone interested to a research talk by Dr Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia.
About the talk
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have become increasingly embedded in people's everyday personal, social and economic lives. While these technologies offer significant benefits, they also raise concerns about digital inclusion, exclusion and inequality.
In this talk, Dr Cabalquinto examines how AI systems, including recommender systems and conversational AI, make older migrants visible through data collection, tailoring and prediction while leaving them invisible or only partially visible in AI-mediated environments.
Drawing on research conducted between 2023 and 2025 with 96 older Filipino Australians in Victoria and their social networks in Australia and the Philippines, the presentation explores how sociotechnical imaginaries, digital access and structural inequalities shape older migrants' experiences of AI-mediated communication.
The talk considers the paradoxes of visibility and invisibility within systems shaped by data extraction, hypercapitalism and intersectional discrimination. It also examines how older migrants negotiate and challenge bias and exploitation in digital environments, questioning deficit-based understandings of ageing and technology.
About the speaker
Dr Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.
His research critically examines the impacts of digitalisation on migration, particularly the dynamics of digital inclusion and exclusion among migrants and their transnational networks.
He is the author of (Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media (Oxford University Press), co-author of Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube (Amsterdam University Press), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Filipino Diaspora (2026).
More information about his research and publications is available at https://www.ecabalquinto.com/.
The event is free and open to all. Colleagues, students and everyone interested in artificial intelligence, migration, digital societies, ageing and social inequalities are warmly welcome to attend.
Organiser
The event is organised by the Media Research Group, TARU Research Centre for Communication Sciences, Tampere University, with support from Project Pluriversal AI and the DigiSus research platform.
Further information
Soma Basu, media studies group, Taru Research Centre for Communication Sciences. Email: soma.basu@tuni.fi