Professor Daniel Angus
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Prof. Daniel Angus is Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication, and Director of QUT's Digital Media Research Centre.Daniel's research examines issues at the intersection of technology and society, with a focus on artificial intelligence, automation, misinformation, and new methods to study the digital society. Daniel has been involved in computer and social science research for 20 years and he contributes regularly to media and industry on the impact of technology on society.
Daniel received a BS/BE in research and development, and electronics and computer systems, and a PhD in computer science from Swinburne University of Technology, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Between 2008 and 2018 he worked in a number of roles at The University of Queensland, leading collaborative research at the intersection of computer science, design, communication, linguistics, and journalism. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society; the ARC Discovery Projects: Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation, and Using machine vision to explore Instagram’s everyday promotional cultures; and, the ARC Linkage Project: Young Australians and the Promotion of Alcohol on Social Media.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor in Digital Communication
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Visualisation, Communication, Social Media, Computational Methodology, Digital Humanities, Data Journalism, Natural Language Processing, Technology Ethics
Research field
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, Communication and Media Studies, Linguistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Swinburne Institute of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Experience
Daniel is a co-convenor of the Brisbane chapter of the worldwide Hacks/Hackers movement. Hacks/Hackers brings technologists and journalists together to explore opportunities and challenges at the boundary of these disciplines. Prior to, and over the course of his academic career Daniel has worked in a number of rewarding consultancy and full-time professional roles. Daniel has worked in:
- standards testing and Engineering (automotive / white goods / built environment);
- automated portfolio management in the finance sector;
- data analytics for the healthcare sector; and,
- communication analytics for the minerals and natural resource sector.
Publications
Research outputs by year
- Angus, D., Rintel, S. & Wiles, J. (2013). Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, 16(3), 261–267. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125098
- Angus, D. & Wiles, J. (2018). Social semantic networks: Measuring topic management in discourse using a pyramid of conceptual recurrence metrics. Chaos, 28(8), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125096
- Carah, N. & Angus, D. (2018). Algorithmic brand culture: participatory labour, machine learning and branding on social media. Media, Culture and Society, 40(2), 178–194. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125111
- Angus, D., Fitzgerald, R., Atay, C. & Wiles, J. (2016). Using visual text analytics to examine broadcast interviewing. Discourse, Context and Media, 11, 38–49. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125093
- Angus, D., Yu, Y., Vrbik, P., Back, A. & Wiles, J. (2018). PauseCode: Computational conversation timing analysis. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses Enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, 43–47. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125109
- Wiles, J., Angus, D. & Smith, A. (2012). Conceptual recurrence plots: Revealing patterns in human discourse. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(6), 988–997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125106
- Angus, D., Watson, B., Smith, A., Gallois, C. & Wiles, J. (2012). Visualising conversation structure across time: Insights into effective doctor-patient consultations. PLoS One, 7(6), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125115
- Byrne, L., Angus, D. & Wiles, J. (2019). Figurative frames: A critical vocabulary for images in information visualization. Information Visualization, 18(1), 45–67. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125114
- Angus, D., Smith, A. & Wiles, J. (2012). Human communication as coupled time series: Quantifying multi-participant recurrence. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20(6), 1795–1807. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125105
- Baker, R., Angus, D., Conway-Smith, E., Baker, K., Gallois, C., Smith, A., Wiles, J. & Chenery, H. (2015). Visualising conversations between care home staff and residents with dementia. Ageing and Society, 35(2), 270–297. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125095
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Daniel, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Using Machine Vision to Explore Instagram's Everyday Promotional Cultures
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200100519
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- Evaluating the Challenge of 'Fake News' and Other Malinformation
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200101317
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Computational approaches and tools for critical simulation of Convolutional Neural Networks in visual social media
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess - No tool is a box: Unpacking embedded knowledge to address tool/language barriers
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns - Imaginary Containers and Imaginary Coins: e-publishing using smart contracts
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Patrik Wikstrom - My Digital 'Friend': Design Considerations When Deploying Chatbots in Trusted Companionship Roles
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Renata Meuter - Decoding the Political Ideology of Dank Meme Subcultures Using Pragmasemiotic Methods
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez