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She’s Not Alone

Is ridesharing safe? Trustworthy? This short film is an invitation to do better.

In this innovative and collaborative project, anthropologist Emma Quilty and documentary film-maker Jeni Lee teamed with She’s a Crowd to explore trust and safety - fundamental concepts for rideshare technologies to be considered successful.

“How can we best use automated decision-making (ADM) in the rideshare sector to deliver a safe and trusted service? Imagine a future where safety involves a combination of tech and human connections/community support.”

Dr. Emma Quilty, Jeni Lee, Dr Thao Phan & Prof Sarah Pink, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University

She’s Not Alone is a short film about ridesharing, gender-based violence and the outsourcing of trust and safety to automated systems. It invites us to sit with real stories of gender-based violence as more than just data but as lived worlds. In a world where automated systems, technology and digital data are increasingly present we want to prompt governments, tech designers and industry to ask: What kinds of safeguards do we want in a world of automated technologies? How should we manage and control them?

We need to imagine a future where safety involves a combination of technology and human connections/community support.

This film was funded through the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), a cross-disciplinary, national research centre, which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making.

This film is part of a series using documentary practice to explore how diverse groups currently experience transport mobilities and how automated technologies might be part of our future lives.

Investigators

Monash University: Emma Quilty, Jeni Lee, Thao Phan, Sarah Pink

Contact: Emma Quilty and Jeni Lee