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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 @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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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Sep 2

Feedback and ideas very welcome!

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Sep 1

Agreed!

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Sep 1

We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au

It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done

Check it out at Australian Policy Online here:
apo.org.au/node/331920

apo.org.au

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is interesting - kind of a re-enchantment of earlier methods as "hand-crafted" despite all the machines involved. I think it's a general pattern maybe

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 29

Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders

Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · Aug 23

Angelfire homepage dedicated to the color purple (1997). Back when we all had personal homepages.

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 26

#notallcleons

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 26

I can't remember exactly but it's also clearly a midlife crisis as he's about to be the next Dusk

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's great that there's a new season of Foundation, the best space opera/sci fi epic ever, and I admit I'm inattentive* but why has the current Cleon (Day edition) turned into The Dude? Guy's wandering around in a bathrobe, taking spliffs off shrooms, and generally DGAF

*post-viral brainfogged

Cleon the whateverth in fluffy bedwear, about to do a shroom

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 25

Job for a professional HASS research infrastructure person! Program Manager, Australian Internet Observatory

rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...?

Program Manager, Australian Internet Observatory

Overview: Full-time, Fixed Term position until June 2028 Salary HEW 9 ($135,978 - $145,693) + 17% Superannuation and Flexible Working Arrangements Based at the Melbourne CBD campus, but may be require...

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Aug 22

I wish you joy at all times.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 22

I don't *care* if it's terrible it has Suranne Jones

Promo tile for the Netflix series Hostage which has been panned by reviewers but which, as previously mentioned, has Suranne Jones in it. As a Prime Minister!!

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Hilary Mason @hmason.bsky.social · Aug 17

It is really funny (sad, infuriating) to watch companies start to slowlyyyyy back away from the AGI.

www.wired.com/story/charac...

Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories

Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million users.

www.wired.com

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am getting 3 review requests a DAY. This whole academic publishing thing isn't going to end well.

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 14

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · Aug 14

Film critic David Stratton has died

David Stratton, the Australian film critic and long time host of At the Movies opposite Margaret Pomeranz has died at the age of 85, the ABC has reported.

RIP 5 Stars

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 13

It seems to me that a lot of the AI discourse glides right over the key word “model.” If we had better public literacy around what models are and do we might be in a better position. (Please don’t @ me with the Box quote.)

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good stuff! If what's important about the humanities is critical thinking, scholarship and all that stuff, let's use that to work out and through this moment. Can the cheap slogans

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 11

Finally, something true. Usefulness would be a better place to start!

CNBC @cnbc.com · Aug 11

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that artificial general intelligence is “not a super useful term.”

Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term’ — and he's not alone

Computer science experts say it's better to focus on the more specialized use cases of AI.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 4

Of course this exists

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Aug 4

I didn't know until this very moment how much I needed this

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Aug 4

This is Percy. He's experiencing his first rainfall. Wants to know if you're seeing what he's seeing. 12/10 (TT: percy.boy.jackson)

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Jul 30

Me, on the telly, restraining my intense feelings of irritation

ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jul 30

Prof @jeanburgess.bsky.social on ABC News Mornings (from 33:12) responding to the Govt’s proposed under-16 social media ban to include YouTube. The move raises questions on defining social media, media literacy & rights to media access. #MediaLiteracy #SocialMediaBan
iview.abc.net.au/video/NU2513...

ABC News Mornings: Wednesday 30/7/2025

Stay in the know with what's happening this morning. ABC News brings you up-to-the-minute news to fuel your daily conversations so you can stay connected and follow the discussion across the day. Pres...

iview.abc.net.au

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Jul 26

This whole day on the radio was so wholesome, and much needed given everything

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · Jul 26

First time, since Twitter went down the shitter, that I've felt a real "community/come together" on a socmed platform & it's been really lovely. Have thoroughly enjoyed spending most of my Saturday with you all listening to #Hottest100 #AusHottest100 and seeing it play out here. Well done us! 😍

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · Jan 5

London is full of gimmicks & porno films.

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