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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. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸΆπŸŒ„πŸ½πŸŽ€

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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 Β· 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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Axel Bruns @snurb.info Β· 3d
Really delighted to see my university make this move. There could be no more appropriate place for the journal. πŸ“”
β€˜A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland
The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Β· 3d
The liberal arts have a bright future, if by that we mean a willingness to pose fundamental questions and range widely across different fields of knowledge.

But I wouldn't assume that is something we're already doing about as well as we could conceivably do it.
Screenshot of two stacked Bluesky posts on a dark interface. Top post is by Hank Green (profile photo at left, verified checkmark). Text reads: β€œI’ve been hearing people who are witnessing the impacts of AI on coding saying, β€˜Aside from physical labor, the thing people should be focusing on is… mmm… I don’t know what to call it…’ …and then they haltingly describe a liberal arts education.” Timestamp shows 12:56 PM Β· Feb 10, 2026. Below it is a reply-style post by Ted Underwood (profile photo at left). Text reads: β€œThe easy path here is to say β€˜we’ve always taught critical thinking & ethical judgment, so we’ll be fine.’ I have low confidence in that! Not v clear we taught those things successfully. Also, do we have the needed expertise to teach, specifically, how to leverage and evaluate this new technology?” Timestamp shows 10:26 AM Β· Feb 3, 2026.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 4d
That's only emoji soap, should be fine

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 4d
As it turns out, sometimes the truth sounds like conspiracy theory because there is a conspiracy. I wish I could wash the taste of those emails (even the few I've seen) out of my mouth. Willing to use soap if that's what it takes.

Also, when women say a man seems like a creep, listen to the women.

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social Β· 4d
"The NSW government isn’t merely prosecuting protesters, it is inflicting 'social cohesion' through brute force and violence against people engaged in free speech."

When @keanebernard.bsky.social goes after "social cohesion":
a group of cartoon characters with the words stop it 's already dead written below them
ALT: a group of cartoon characters with the words stop it 's already dead written below them
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social Β· 4d
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social Β· 4d
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social Β· 4d
I'm getting yelled at by the British on this website and I'd like to apologize. In the words of Lord Vernon Maxwell, if I knew you guys had internet over there I would've never made those tweets.

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Lisa Diedrich , and 3 more

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Β· 4d
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.

But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said β€œGod bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social Β· 5d
Me, a person with only surface level knowledge about Puerto Rico: Look at all that sugar cane they are hacking down.

The NYT, the paper of record: Sure is some tall, lovely green grass they got there. Find out how you can make it work in your backyard.

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Β· 5d
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell MelΓ©ndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album β€œDeBÍ TiRAR MΓ‘S FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 6d
Eye for detail πŸ™Œ

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 6d
Good for her

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 6d
People are mocking this but my first thought was about the amount of care people used to put into even mundane purchases, especially with more choices becoming available to the masses. I can describe every pair of shoes I bought in my teens & 20s. Every record & cassette. Every bit of furniture.
pastpostcard.bsky.social Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Β· 6d
I've been looking at the hair brushes in Boots. What kind do you want? There's a pure bristle one at Β£4.50 with white tufts or Β£3.60 with black. Or cushioned type at Β£3.25. "Mixture filled" at Β£1.19. Then nylon bristle at Β£1.35. Hard ones, soft ones, some with bristles all round.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Β· 6d
I've been looking at the hair brushes in Boots. What kind do you want? There's a pure bristle one at Β£4.50 with white tufts or Β£3.60 with black. Or cushioned type at Β£3.25. "Mixture filled" at Β£1.19. Then nylon bristle at Β£1.35. Hard ones, soft ones, some with bristles all round.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social Β· 6d
We should stop saying β€œAI,” at least without a qualifier like β€œcommercial” or β€œgenerative.”

Precisely naming the tools that work & the ones that don’t & their use cases & their social & environmental consequences would go a long way towards improving our communal understanding.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 7d
I hear that!

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 7d
Worth noting that it's considered useful to hang onto your Twitter handle to prevent (often malicious) squatting/spoofing

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 7d
You could set up an org/"business" account I reckon. Not that I am a LI pusher by any means

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 8d
Oops missed the alt text: an animated gif of a black cat attempting to purge its stomach contents by vomiting. If only certain institutions had the same impulse

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Β· 9d
Headlines and images matter

This is πŸ”₯

(On a very important and long overdue movement towards autonomy)

apnews.com/article/euro...
France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.
apnews.com

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 9d
I do this with email too.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Β· 9d
Yes! Thank you!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Β· 9d
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Β· 9d
Excellent research out of Monash, led by @markandrejevic.bsky.social.

79% of adults (n=1,598) surveyed support the government’s under-16 social media ban

www.monash.edu/news/article...
4 in 5 Australian adults support social media ban for kids
A new survey shows almost four out of five Australian adults support the Australian government’s social media ban for children under 16.
www.monash.edu

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social Β· 9d
Slopologia?
Why Slop Matters | ACM AI Letters
AI-generated β€œslop” is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop which deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social funct...
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