People

Program Leader

• Prof Daniel Angus
  

  Centre Director and Program Leader - Computational Communication & Culture

  daniel.​angus

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Chief Investigators

• Prof Patrik Wikstrom
  

  Professor, School of Communication

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• Prof Jean Burgess
  

  Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

  jean.​burgess

• Dr Katharina Esau
  

  Lecturer, School of Communication

  katharina.​esau

• Assoc Prof Timothy Graham
  

  Associate Professor, School of Communication

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• Mr Danny Hui
  

  Associate Lecturer/Lecturer

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• Prof Nicolas Suzor
  

  Professor, Law Faculty

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Affiliate Investigators

• Dr Michael Chataway
  

  Lecturer, Faculty of Law

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• Dr Bernadette Hyland-Wood
  

  Lecturer - Master of Digital Communication, School of Communication

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• Prof Marek Kowalkiewicz
  

  Founding Director

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• Assoc Prof Richi Nayak
  

  Associate Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty

• Dr Marissa Takahashi
  

  Manager, Digital Observatory

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Research Fellows

• Dr Abdul Obeid
  

  Data Engineer, QUT Node of ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society

• Xue Ying (Jane) Tan
  

  Software Engineer

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HDR students

• Daniel Whelan-Shamy
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis: The Automated Rewriting of Reality? Conceptualising Authorship in the Age of Large Language Models

  daniel.​whelanshamy

• Jiaru Tang
  

  PhD candidate | Thesis Title: VTubers and cultural production in the age of VR: platformization, precarity and contingency

  jiaru.​tang

• Dominique Carlon
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - The life stories of bots in Reddit’s platform culture

  dominique.​carlon

• Kunal Chand
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Unveiling the Artificial Intelligence “Black Box”: A study into how artificial intelligence systems profile users based on their data and how these systems work.

  kunal.​chand

• Sean Di Lizio
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Imaginary containers and imaginary coins: e-publishing using smart contracts

• Caroline Gardam
  

  PhD Student | Thesis: Climate change "hoax" hashtags on Instagram: multimodal discursive practices in social media mis/disinformation posts

  c.​gardam

• Carly Lubicz-Zaorski
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Mapping the dynamics of Australian climate change partisanship and polarisation within online news-sharing spaces

  carly.​lubicz

• Ashwin Nagappa
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - Becoming DTube: The biography of a decentralised video streaming platform

  ashwin.​nagappa

• Shaneen Page
  

  MPhil Student | Thesis - Digital Natives go Analogue: How is Gen Z using Tiktok to discover craft and build a fashion commons?

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• Dr Tariq Segal
  

  PhD Candidate | Thesis - My digital ‘friend’: Design considerations when deploying chatbots in trusted companionship roles

• Guangnan (Rio) Zhu
  

  PhD Candidate l Thesis - A Multimodal Computational Framework for Detection and Analysis of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Twitter

  guangnan.​zhu

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