This session introduces one of the flagship research initiatives in the News & Media Focus Area: the Australian Search Experience project. The project builds on the work of ADM+S partner organisation AlgorithmWatch, whose Executive Director Matthias Spielkamp will review the outcomes of AlgorithmWatch’s 2017 data donation project in Germany. The session then outlines the aims of the Australian Search Experience project’s extension of this work, and presents early results from an analysis of its first data donations.