Axel Bruns
@snurb
Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media. He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺 🕸️ snurb.info 🐘 @snurb@aoir.social ⛔ @snurb_dot_info
And continuing with another first-generation Krautrock band, though this new album came out only a few years ago. #Prog
Back to my nightly listening routine after all that travel, and starting with a deep dive into Embryo’s back catalogue – 1978’s _Apo-Calypso_. #Prog
Well look at what just arrived in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre office. What a nice start to the working week.
And I’ll just leave this here for your enjoyment. #SMSociety 🏴🏴🏴
Day One of @socialmediaandsociety.org in Glasgow has been a blast, even if I am slightly deaf from the evening’s very enthusiastic entertainment. #SMSociety
🆕 I'll be heading off to next week's Social Media & Society conference in Glasgow in a few days, but before I do so I've updated the blog with a bunch of new publications: snurb.info/node/3645. Chief amongst these is the new edition of the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics:
They, err, what, ABC News ? Didn’t need that image in my head during breakfast, thanks. 🧤💉🤯 #ENGDRC www.abc.net.au/news/...
German football news headline on the #COLPOR match: “Ronaldo disappoints again”. 🤣
That is hilarious on so many levels. Thanks LinkedIn – what would I do without you ? 🤣
“Wait, is that the German or the Belgian flag ? Eh, let’s just put up both to be on the safe side.” #ECUGER (Perhaps that’s why the Germans are playing like Belgium…)
Delighted to be able to launch M/C Journal issue 29.3: '#immortality', edited by Angelique Nairn and Deepti Bhargava. #mcjournal journal.media-cultur...
Slides for our @qutdmrc.bsky.social #ICA26 paper on AI chatbots’ responses to conspiracist questioning are already up on slideshare, of course, and you can read the full article in a special issue of Media and Communication: www.slideshare.net/s... www.cogitatiopress.c...
A last look at a summery Zürich before I head to #ICA26 in the Cape Town winter.
Lovely to catch up with my friends from the @ikmz.bsky.social in Zürich for their annual excursion – a hike and boat trip on the upper Rhine. So this is what summer in Switzerland looks like – when I was here as a guest professor in 2022, we were heading into the winter months…
Still stunned by the sheer enormity of the Andes addition to the Miniatur Wunderland that is currently being added. It’s getting to the point where you need multiple visits just to take it all in…
That’s the first time I’ve actually seen Tori Amos with band – the first couple of times were solo (including that time in the early 90s when she was opening for Marc Cohn)…
⭐ Hello, World. My university, QUT, is currently advertising for a new Head of School of our School of Communication, which has close relations with our fabulous @qutdmrc.bsky.social. ⭐ If that's you, perhaps you'd like to join us ? Details at the link below. qut.nga.net.au/cp/in...
Ok well that was a solid little 9km walk to the very edge of the State of Bremen and back. Taking advantage of the spring weather while it lasts, which it won’t.
Sweet Jeebus, thirty-plus years later and a random case of food poisoning notwithstanding, I’ve finally made it to another Fury in the Slaughterhouse concert. And all I had to do is go to … Aurich ?
It’s been a ‘two final PhD seminars, one public talk, one methods workshop, one article written, one journal issue published’ kind of week. Allowing myself a quiet celebration. 🍺
🆕 I am exceptionally pleased to announce the release of the 'twitter' issue of M/C Journal, which I co-edited with @hermida.bsky.social. This celebrates / commiserates / memorialises / laments the 20th anniversary of what used to be #Twitter. #mcjournal journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
Every time I walk to the office here in Bremen I pass this tree. I feel seen. 👁️
Amazing choreo for Hannover 96’s 130th birthday. Wouldn’t have minded a win though, but I’ll take the draw. #H96SCP 🖤🤍💚🎂