Jean Burgess

@jeanburgess.bsky.social

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

Communication & Media Studies 45%

Political science 15%

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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

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 23h

Absolute coincidence that I myself
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Nothing never mind

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3d

Carol from Pluribus seems quite likable to me, and I'm always surprised when other people think she's awful

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 23h

I haven't been away :)

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 1d

I caught wind of an anti-Carol Pluribus discourse and became concerned so I searched on here for "Pluribus" and boy am I on the right platform

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3d

Carol from Pluribus seems quite likable to me, and I'm always surprised when other people think she's awful

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

'reading avoidance is nothing new: “not reading,” writes Lisa Marie Rhody, “is the dirty open secret of all literary critics.”'

eve.gd/2025/12/22/o...

On citations, AI, and 'not reading'

There has been a major furore in recent days on social media about the rise in AI citations that have been hallucinated. These citations appear in manuscript...

eve.gd

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 6d

Turning, not turning into!

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 6d

Is Carol...turning one of them?

Carol and Zosia sharing some kitchen sink intimacies

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, I am about to have a few weeks off while also ruminating on the uncancellation of Laureates and pondering my life choices in general. I'm glad you'll be back!

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 7d

As we crawl to the end of another unhinged year in Australian research, on behalf of the nation I would just like to say to @arc-tracker.bsky.social

❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE❤️❤️❤️

Have a well-earned break, whoever and wherever you are.

But please don't leave

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 7d

Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

uni-freiburg.de

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 11d

She's done it again. It's illegal not to adore Bea Arthur so even if you don't like Christmas you'll love this
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 11d

christmas bea arthur: thread

Bea Arthur wearing a pastel colored robe on the Golden Girls.

A pastel decorated Christmas tree that matches her robe.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 11d

christmas bea arthur: thread

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 14d

I know, I had to verify my age to DM you

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 14d

Why not just answer the pretty direct question?

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 14d

Dang

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 15d

Suggestion for new Bluesky age verification method:

They just check how much you whinge on Bluesky about rejected ARC grants.

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 17d

KWS (Kids Web Services) is apparently owned by Epic Games. I can't think of a time before this when I have explicitly had to verify my age so they must have my info some other way via some ancillary activity.

Official bsky stuff here bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our Approach to Age Assurance - Bluesky

We’re committed to keeping our community informed as we navigate new regional regulations.

bsky.social

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 17d

I clicked through and was "age assured" instantly by KWS based on the history of my email address being used for other services they know about? I don't even know what KWS is? Which feels creepy AF

Screenshot of the age assurance screen with a link to KWS

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 17d

Et tu, bsky.app?

Screenshot from this very app showing the pop-up message "The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more."

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 21d

This is quite an investigation into ARC’s proposed restructure & job cuts by @jennaprice.bsky.social.

You know you’ve botched your “review” when several staff complain to a Senator!

ARC also ran a witch hunt to find people who might’ve “leaked”.

Ugly stuff.

Emails reveal planned job cuts at research funding body

Research council staff face jobs amid 'secret' restructure.

www.canberratimes.com.au

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 25d

The youth are out there proudly and on purpose just making the records their skinny-black-jeans-and-fat black eye-liner-wearing Gen X parents played and I'm very much here for it

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 25d

PS, you can be part of our project! Details here: www.foryouresearch.net/be-a-citizen...

Participate! | ForYouResearch

www.foryouresearch.net

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 26d

Ha!

Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 26d

Nice write-up of last week's AANZCA panel - the first set of presentations from our ARC Discovery Project Australian Experiences of Algorithmic Culture. It's all about TikTok so we call it The For You Project (get it? We're cute).
@pwik.bsky.social @dhutchman.bsky.social @jiarut.bsky.social et al.

Chris Hall @sydneydialect.bsky.social · 27d

Does Australia have it's own TikTok culture?

Here are some of my notes from a presentation by researchers investigating this question.

#AANZCA #AANZCA25 #TikTok @jeanburgess.bsky.social

www.christopher-james-hall.com/blog/tiktok-...