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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.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 3d
We desperately need all kinds of smol useful tech, meantime

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
Oh dear, if this is true, a whole lot of things make a whole lot more sense (and I despair)
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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 · 3d
when you put something in the microwave for a minute and a half, do you punch in 1:30 or :90?

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 5d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
So good!!

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 8d
A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
www.upress.umn.edu

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 8d
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 9d
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.

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 9d
Where can I vote for you as Mayor of Airports because you have my vote

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 21d
Excellent news!!

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 22d
This seems to be hype marketing, I can't find anything to verify it.

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 27d
For anyone still wondering: THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE. Welcome to our family, and thank you for welcoming us to yours. #AoIR2025
Countries 239 scholars from Brazil, for 208 of whom this was their first AoIR 443 first timers in total

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Sep 2
Feedback and ideas very welcome!

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · Sep 1
Agreed!

Reposted by Timothy Graham

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

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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

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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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