Professor Daniel Angus
Professor Daniel Angus is Director of the Digital Media Research Centre. His research focuses on the development and application of visual computational analysis methods in communication and media studies, with a specific focus on conversation and social media data. He is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society, and a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Projects, Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation, and Using machine vision to explore Instagram’s everyday promotional cultures.
Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess
Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess is the Associate Director of the national ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, as well as Convenor of its QUT node. Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies, platforms, and cultures, as well as new and innovative digital methods for studying them. She is co-author or editor of more than 120 scholarly publications on these topics.
Professor Amanda Lotz
Professor Amanda D. Lotz leads the DMRC’s Transforming Media Industries program. She is the author, co-author, or editor of ten books that explore television and media industries. Her most recent book, Media Disrupted: Surviving Cannibals, Pirates and Streaming Wars (MIT Press, October 2021), tells the story of how the internet and digital technologies disrupted the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries.
Professor Axel Bruns
Professor Axel Bruns leads the DMRC’s Digital Publics program. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated-Decision Making and Society. His current work focuses on the study of user participation in social media spaces, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing 'big social data'.
Professor Michael Dezuanni
Michael Dezuanni is the Program Leader for Digital Inclusion and Participation. Michael investigates children and young people’s uses of the internet, and is he particularly interested in digital media literacies and learning, and the challenge of creating a more inclusive digital media environment.
Professor Anna Huggins
Professor Anna Huggins is a Professor in the School of Law, and joint Program Leader for Governing Digital Societies. Anna’s research examines the dynamics and legitimacy of digital regulation and compliance. She led a research project on the opportunities and challenges of digitising regulation with CSIRO's Data61 from 2020-2021.
