Program objectives
This program investigates how rapid advances in computation and human-machine communication are transforming society, through automation and AI, the Internet of Things, and disintermediating technologies such as blockchain. We draw on and extend computer science and critical humanities theory and methods (including agent-based modelling, machine vision, critical simulation, and information visualisation) to help explore and explain emergent phenomena in the digital media environment, including the fundamental transformation of communication itself.
Program Leader: Assoc Prof Daniel Angus
Chief Investigators Involved
- Prof Patrik Wikstrom Director
- Assoc Prof Daniel Angus Program Leader - Computational Communication & Culture
- Prof Axel Bruns Program Leader - Digital Publics
- Prof Jean Burgess Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
- Dr Timothy Graham Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
- Abdul Obeid Data Engineer, QUT Node of ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society
- Prof Nicolas Suzor Professor, Law Faculty
- Xue Ying (Jane) Tan Software Developer
Relevant projects
- Using machine vision to explore Instagram’s everyday promotional cultures
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
- Unbiased bots that build bridges (U3B): Social bots that support deliberation and diversity as a chance for political discourse
- Government Web portals as government actors
- Visual analysis of communication in health care: Extending Discursis software to Cantonese data sets