Daniel Angus
Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Cyclist, beer brewer, nerd, community advocate.
- Reposted by Daniel AngusRemember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
- Nothing says 'new world city' quite like encountering 5 separate footpath closures in one single walk home from the bus. I know the Brisbane LNP council hate active transport but this is next level even for them.
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- Reposted by Daniel AngusNew Australia Institute research shows Australian high schools are the most expensive in the OECD. "I can't see any policy case for taxpayers giving money to a school that can afford an air-conditioned equestrian arena." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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- Reposted by Daniel AngusICE's $100M ad campaign is using the same playbook as the Gestapo & Stasi. The goal? To make repression sound reasonable and patriotic.
- The proliferation of gigantic US "wankpanzer" trucks/utes onto Australian roads is an absolute menace, but it also reveals how transport ministers at state and federal levels are completely asleep at the wheel and blind to cart culture. This follows from the perverse tax incentives for giant utes.
- Back to work today 🫠
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- You've got to be joking. So these grifters are getting rich promoting misery and suffering, breaking up families through problematic gambling, and then have the gall to pretend they care about kids.
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- I’ve published a new piece in IPS Journal (in English and German) on Australia's social media age-ban, a policy that disconnects millions of young people from key online spaces while giving us no real way to measure what it achieves. www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
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- Reflections on the day 1 of the age ban: experts sidelined again, nuance ignored, and the debate drowned by low-effort vox pops. Policy built on vibes not evidence gets sold as "protecting kids" with all the spectacle of a state propaganda march, loud, choreographed, & divorced from substance.
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- Reposted by Daniel AngusWe have your morning commute listening for Wednesday lined up... 👂🔊 DMRC Director Daniel Angus (@antmandan.bsky.social) spoke with the Read Them Sideways podcast team about the social media ban, the implications, and what to expect in the future. open.spotify.com/episode/6IES...
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- I am still enthralled by the fact that mainstream radio stations are oblivious to the sneaky C-bomb in a popular and very funky tune by a well known mid-noughties dance-punk band.
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- From ABC: "Communications Minister Anika Wells has hinted she'll have more to say about TikTok-linked Lemon8 after the app shot up in the charts." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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- Reposted by Daniel AngusFabulous online seminar organized by @algosoc.org Algorithmic Effects on #Elections: Using Social Media Data Donations to Study Elections 🗓️ Fri 12 Dec, 14:00–15:30 CET @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @antmandan.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social Registration ⬇️ algosoc.org/events/algos...
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- Just love busting your arse to get to the airport in Australia only to have your flight delayed by over two hours. And given how much Labor and the Libs are in bed with the airlines and won’t budge on consumer compensation guarantees we aren’t even entitled to something as simple as a meal voucher.
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- "I want to see kids off their devices and onto the footy fields" says a Prime Minister who can't get his party off the fence. No homes to grow up in, no shade to play under, no planet left to plan for but sure, all these fade like dew on a Sherrin the real problem is screen time.
- And we all leave richer for the experience 🇧🇷❤️
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- Reposted by Daniel AngusOn last day of #aoir2025 @lionw.bsky.social presents our @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social work on TikTok data donation from the 2025 German Federal Election - only 5% of content was political and the Left party could capitalize most in reaching voters of other parties with their content on TT.
- My @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @snurb.info now up in our #aoir2025 elections panel, talking about our work studying the 2025 Australian Federal election. Key highlights of this work is the splintering of discourse across multiple platforms combined with challenges in observing those platforms.
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- We had a fabulous roundtable discussion with @anjabechmann.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social @tgrootkormelink.bsky.social @jiarut.bsky.social here at #aoir2025 that concluded with a thought exercise: "It's 2030 & data donation is the dominant data gathering paradigm, what must we get right today?"
- It's great to see attention here towards questions of ethics, sharing of methods, internationalisation and representation. These were also themes at the data donation symposium held at LMU Munich last week so to me it feels like the field is moving in a really productive direction. #aoir2025
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- Hey #aoir2025, kick start your conference with our @qutdmrc.bsky.social @internetobservatory.org.au experimental session on data donation where you can develop your own unique digital persona and learn about the creative potential of this emerging method. In room 10b @ 9-10:30am (Thursday).
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- For those at #aoir2025 the Museu do Amanhã (Museum of the future) is worth a visit. It beautifully blends science, art and culture. I found several of the exhibits deeply moving, and I think many of you will as well. Easy to walk to from the ferry, budget 1 - 1.5 hour inside the museum.
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- German supermarkets are elite. The freshest produce, incredible vegan selections, great prices, and the added thrill and adrenaline hit of watching your groceries get absolutely obliterated at the register by a cashier moving at Mach 3. #LidlLeague #ALDIAthletics #ReweRage
- I know the stories, and have had prior experiences, but my god @deutschebahn.com are truly hopeless. For the entire month I've not ridden a train that has gone on time, and multiple have just never shown up or just randomly cancelled stations mid-route. I love you Germany, please sort this out.
- The UCI’s decision to allow an Israeli team ride the Vuelta was beyond inconsistent. They’ve banned other teams and athletes over political issues before, but suddenly it was "sport is neutral"?! That’s not neutrality, that's hypocrisy. www.cyclingnews.com/news/i-dont-...
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- The ANU Bell affair shows how a “born-to-rule” mindset warps university governance. This ABC opinion piece asks the bigger questions we all should be asking inside and outside the sector. abc.net.au/religion/anu...
- I'm in Cologne for work. We had Warntag today, which is an annual test of the alert systems. For me, a non-German speaker who had no pre-warning of this, it was extremely normal to have my phone just start blaring an alert tone and show up an alert message while air raid sirens started going off.
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- I saw this great interview about Bluesky by my good colleague @dhutchman.bsky.social here on Bluesky, so I'm boosting it on Bluesky.
- Great to be here at @gesis.org at the same time as my wonderful Canadian colleagues @philipmai.com & @gruzd.ca. The @qutdmrc.bsky.social is the Australian partner of the polidashboard.org an initiative of their @socialmedialab.ca. A wonderful tool for enhancing transparency of political advertising.
- Reposted by Daniel AngusOur partner lead @antmandan.bsky.social is a currently in Germany as a visiting fellow at @gesis.org. His talk is on Sep 10 to the institute is on Tracking online ads through citizen-engaged, privacy-preserving methods. Check out more info here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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- Bob Katter may enjoy cult-like meme status as a quirky political oddity, but it's clear that beneath the cowboy hat is a mean bully whose behaviour should never be excused as harmless eccentricity. His violent outburst today was an utter disgrace and he should be censured for it in parliament.
- Reposted by Daniel AngusLook what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
- So @albomp.bsky.social reckons we can't "do policy on the run" when it comes to gambling ads, after years of reviews, inquiries, and expert consensus begging for action. But somehow it's fine to rush through contested laws that reshape the entire internet in under 6 months. The hypocrisy is wild.
