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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. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐶🌄🍽🎤

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

Communication & Media Studies 45%
Political science 15%
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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

I'm gonna read read the crap out of this, you should too (especially if you claim to study tech and/or the internet)

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

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

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...

So good!!
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Thank you for your honesty - it can't have been easy to come out with this. I hope you have a good day today, and a lot more very excellent birthdays in the future.

Where can I vote for you as Mayor of Airports because you have my vote

Excellent news!!

This seems to be hype marketing, I can't find anything to verify it.
For anyone still wondering: THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE. Welcome to our family, and thank you for welcoming us to yours. #AoIR2025

Feedback and ideas very welcome!

Agreed!

Reposted by Timothy Graham

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

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

Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders
Angelfire homepage dedicated to the color purple (1997). Back when we all had personal homepages.

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

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

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

Reposted by Jean Burgess

I wish you joy at all times.

I don't *care* if it's terrible it has Suranne Jones
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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I am getting 3 review requests a DAY. This whole academic publishing thing isn't going to end well.

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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

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