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Jean Burgess
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Prof at QUT School of Communication & Digital Media Research Centre; Assoc Director ADM+S Centre. Researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐶🌄🍽🎤

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Jean Burgess is a Distinguished Professor of Digital Media at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, and in the QUT School of Communication. She is currently Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She was the Deputy Director of the former ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at the Queensland University of Technology. From 2010-2013 Jean was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (APD), working with Axel Bruns on the ARC Discovery Project 'New Media and Public Communication'. She researches and publishes on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, with a particular focus on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media including digital storytelling. .. more

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Nov 15
I've started building an eclectic starter pack of accounts that make the internet a happy, fun, inspiring place - but I need your help!

Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy.

go.bsky.app/NkKNkeL

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 1d
NOT FEELING VERY APPRECIATED HERE
Screenshot of a text exchange between me and my partner Partner: Hmm I have to come up with possible names for a nonbinary banana character Me: Bananx Partner: Lol. No

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 2d
Brilliant news

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 2d
Talk about beating a red herring to death
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Jean Burgess, American Library Association , and 13 more

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Michael Zimmer

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
"Nothing is riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution, freedom of the press, and quite possibly, the future of the country." -- Ben Bradlee as portrayed by Jason Robards, "All the President's Men."

53 years later...

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 3d
well said

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Marcus Carter

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 3d
Huge congrats to all the very deserving early career academics who got DECRAs. And condolences to the much larger group of deserving people who didn't get DECRAs. Just remember that the vast majority of successful academics you know also didn't get DECRAs!

Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Jean Burgess, Philip N. Cohen , and 11 more

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 3d
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani​ announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 5d
It's the absolute best

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6d
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Reposted by Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 7d
We are very proud of the incredible people and culture that we have at the Digital Media Research Centre. We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year, including a podcast episode from some of the people that made it happen.

open.spotify.com/epi...

We hope you enjoy listening!
The DMRC, 10 Years On (Or: How to Build a Research Centre)
Read Them Sideways · Episode
open.spotify.com

Reposted by Anne Peters, Axel Bruns, Ingrid Piller , and 3 more

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 10d
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”

Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 12d
Dear colleagues, please join me in appreciating this, the most glorious visual pun in the history of the internet
riotgrlerin.bsky.social RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 13d
florence pew: thread
Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair. Pews of the same color.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 12d
Thread.
derfbackderf.bsky.social Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 12d
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jean Burgess, Cathy N. Davidson , and 1 more

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 12d
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Jacob T. Levy, Melanie O’Brien

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 13d
florence pew: thread
Florence Pugh wearing an olive green dress with brown hair. Pews of the same color.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 16d
We desperately need all kinds of smol useful tech, meantime

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 16d
In other news the govt is full-speed on AI-driven innovation and the opposition probs not that into net zero anymore

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 16d
Actually yesterday
Screenshot of financial review story from 11/11/2025 entitled "Data centre boom fuelling economic recovery"

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 16d
Today in the Fin Review I learned that data centres are propping up our economy* and if you thought a collapse in the AI economy won't affect us well

*allegedly

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Larry W. Hunter

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16d
crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."
Sign at the White House says "The Presidential Walk of Fame." The "T" and "h" in the first letter are slightly off in spacing when compared to the "h" and "e."

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 16d
Also, do people who "read" this way not hear what they're reading in their heads? It would make so much sense in terms of why people look blankly at me when I talk about the "rhythm" or "flow" of a sentence or paragraph

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 16d
Oh dear, if this is true, a whole lot of things make a whole lot more sense (and I despair)
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 16d
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 16d
when you put something in the microwave for a minute and a half, do you punch in 1:30 or :90?

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Jean Burgess, Rebecca Tushnet , and 2 more

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 16d
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 18d
I'm gonna read read the crap out of this, you should too (especially if you claim to study tech and/or the internet)

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 19d
PS sorry about the Xmas playlist friends, it's still on Spotify from last year though, and if I update it on Apple Music I'll share the link here

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 19d
1. Ported the playlist and all my other stuff into Apple music (I know; I buy music on CD and vinyl too I promise)

2. Spent 30 mins in Audacity layering brown and pink noise and some filters, carefully trimmed the ends to make a seamless loop, grabbed Loop Player, boom.

Bye bye Spotify
Screenshot from the Loop Player app showing my short Brown-Pink Noise loop set to play 1000 times

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 19d
It took me too long to dump Spotify. Two reasons, one reasonable, the other dumb AF

1. My annual Christmas playlist of deep cuts and strange juxtapositions, which is mildly popular (with my friends)

2. The 12 hours-long brown noise track I sleep to

I've recently found solutions to both...

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 19d
So good!!