Daniel Angus

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.

Oh hi! Just me, my buddies, & our CIESJ Faculty awards for sustainability (digital climate communication & sustainability policy) with @carlylubicz.bsky.social & @riedlinm.bsky.social.

Cheers to the @qutdmrc.bsky.social team who worked on this report; particular thanks to @antmandan.bsky.social 🥹🙏

Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you - 360 From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account    Around the w...

Our new article shows how the trend of data dismantling and artificially creating data scarcity about key public issues is affecting scrutiny and journalism investigations. Great working with Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, @antmandan.bsky.social @tjthomson.bsky.social 360info.org/governments-...

"If we find that because they've been locked out of Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, what have you, they end up on Lemon8, then we will look at whether the harm has transferred there and whether we need to add them to the list," she said.

What does she mean 'the harm has transferred there"? What harm?

Live: Greens slam government's artificial intelligence plan as 'cooked' Greens senator David Shoebridge has criticised the government's artificial intelligence plan, saying it is long on rhetoric and short on protections. Follow live.

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."

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AANZCA 2025 | Snurblog — Axel Bruns Australia Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sunshine Coast, 26-28 Nov. 2025

Another panel on the 2025 #ausvotes federal election at #AANZCA25 – and a good one, featuring my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @vilkins.bsky.social and @antmandan.bsky.social.

Liveblog here:

A new article by me in @theconversation.com about forthcoming research with fab colleagues @snurb.info, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phzerosounds.bsky.social, @timothyjgraham.bsky.social, and @antmandan.bsky.social. Looking forward to presenting this at the #AANZCA2025 conference this week! 🎉

Australia is about to ban under-16s from social media. Here's what kids can do right now to prepare Daniel Angus, Queensland University of Technology and Tama Leaver, Curtin University

I'm very pleased this piece co-authored with @antmandan.bsky.social is out in the @aunz.theconversation.com this morning.

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Fabulous 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 ⬇️

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What would have been actually awesome would have been if a bunch of Queensland Year 12 students had spent a year learning about the Cohen Brothers film “Hail Caesar!”.

Fighting the Colonial Extractivism of Artificial Intelligence | Snurblog — Axel Bruns The second day at the

A very comprehensive critique of the AI moment by @couldrynick.bsky.social to start off Day Two of the #ZeMKI2025 20th anniversary conference.

Liveblog here:

And just to finish off this story the airline cancelled the flight in the end, didn't put on a replacement today, and as a result hundreds of passengers plans are in ruins. We miss a family wedding today as a result. Flights on alternative airlines were $1300+, they know how desperate people are 😡

Having spent the last 3 months in Europe it is an entirely different situation there. Yes delays and cancellations still happen, but I noticed how actively they work to avoid this as there are bigger financial penalties. In Australia airlines run terrible services because they can get away with it.

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.

ADM+S researchers awarded 2025 Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Grants - ADM+S Centre ADM+S researchers have been awarded more than $100,000 under the 2025 Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Program, supporting research in the use of AI in news personalisation and online search.

Congratulations to ADM+S researchers awarded grants under the 2025 Queensland–Bavaria Collaborative Research Program, supporting projects that advance research in the responsible use of AI in news personalisation and online search. Read more bit.ly/4ngSRcc

'Climate trigger' formally ruled out of environment laws A "climate trigger" that could be used to block coal and gas projects has been formally excluded from the government's overhaul of Australia's environment laws, minister Murray Watt confirms.

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Climate adaptation 'shortfall' exposes vulnerability to hotter temperatures Shaded and green spaces can be hard to find in northern towns and cities where summer temperatures regularly surpass 40 degrees Celsius.

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I'm certainly no poet, but thanks to @jocelynbrewer.bsky.social for the inspo.

"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.

Not a huge amount, very booze forward 😂

Tart, but tending sweet rather than dry.

And we all leave richer for the experience 🇧🇷❤️

It really was, my favourite of the lot

For all of you with #AoIR2025 FOMO, or who are missing the great company in Rio already: consider joining us in Brisbane for the 2026 @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School on 2-6 Feb. 2026 – registration is now open !

More details are here:

On 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.

Greenwashing in the Energy Transition: How LinkedIn Ads Distort the Climate Debate and Legitimize Unsustainable Practices The report "Greenwashing in the Energy Transition: How LinkedIn Ads Distort the Climate Debate and Legitimize Unsustainable Practices" is a groundbreaking study on the presence of socio-environmental misinformation in digital advertising campaigns on LinkedIn. The study analyzes 2,800 ads from 917 companies, published between 2023 and 2025, and shows how national and international corporations have been using sustainability rhetoric to reinforce a "green" image without providing real evidence of

This is really excellent work, just released by #AoIR2025 keynote speaker Marie Santini's Netlab Brazil, on #greenwashing in LinkedIn ads ahead of #COP30. Can't think of too many people who've even paid attention to advertising practices on LinkedIn !

(ping @ketanjoshi.co)

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

Auditing Chatbots’ Responses to Conspiracist Questions | Snurblog — Axel Bruns The final speaker in this session at the AoIR 2025 confe

And my colleague @antmandan.bsky.social did a great job presenting our @qutdmrc.bsky.social work on auditing what if any guardrails are in place to prevent chatbots from spouting conspiracist ideas (spoiler: not many). Summary and slides here. #AoIR2025

A group of postcards with reflections and provocations written on the back.

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?"