Axel Bruns

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Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media. He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 đŸ–€đŸ€đŸ’š | 🇩đŸ‡șđŸ‡©đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș đŸ•žïž snurb.info 🐘 @snurb@aoir.social ⛔ @snurb_dot_info

Covers of _The Likes of Us_, by Big Big Train.
Cover of _Animalism_, by PLANK.
Cover of _Entire of Itself_, by Jacob Holm-Lupo.
Cover of _Nagoyqatsi_, by Philip Glass.
Cover of _Isle of Wisdom_, by HĂ€llas.
Cover of _Love in Constant Spectacle_, by Jane Weaver.
Cover of _Yay!_, by Motorpsycho.
Cover of _Momentum_, by Agitation Free.
Cover of _Apo-Calypso_, by Embryo.
Cover of the second edition of the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, edited by Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Jessica Yarin Robinson, Tanja Bosch, and Kateryna Kasianenko.
No Scotland No Party sign at a café.
Cover of the second edition of the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, edited by Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Jessica Yarin Robinson, Tanja Bosch, and Kateryna Kasianenko.
Screenshot of ABC News story containing the line: DR Congo ripped through the fragile four like a doctor tearing off a pair of disposable gloves having delivered an enema to a static and stodgy back line — a grim picture indeed 

Kicker app notification: Eilmeldung Ronaldo enttauscht wieder: Portugal nur Zweiter hinter Kolumbien
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Stadium decoration at the Ecuador-Germany match. The horizontal flags are German, the vertical ones Belgian.
M/C Journal 'immortality' cover image: The Datafication of the Soul. AI-generated digital illustration by Deepti Bhargava, generated with ChatGPT (OpenAI), 2026.
Cover slide for “ ComAI Technologies and Conspiratorial Thinking: An Audit of Chatbot Responses to Prompts Related to Well-Known and Emerging Conspiracy Theories”, by Michelle Riedlinger, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Axel Bruns, Stephen Harrington, Tim Graham, and Daniel Angus.
A view from ZĂŒrich’s old town towards the Rigi hill.
Views of Eglisau and surrounds from a boat on the Upper Rhine. It’s all looking very Swiss, and very swish.
Several views of the Andes section being installed across multiple floors at the Minatur Wunderland in Hamburg.
Views of the Außenalster and the Hamburg skyline.
Steve Hackett and band on stage at the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg.
The neo-baroque (?) interior of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
Wifi connection option for a network called “The LAN lies down on Broadway”.
Tori Amos and band on stage at the Metropol Theater Bremen.
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Impressions from a walk from the BĂŒrgerpark to the WĂŒmme north of Bremen.
A glass of beer on an outdoor table in the sunshine.
Fury in the Slaughterhouse on the stage (and in the crowd) in Aurich.
A glass of Weizen by the Weser.
M/C Journal 'twitter' issue cover image, created by Alfred Hermida using Google Nano-banana.
A birch tree with an eye shaped like a human eye, and a close-up of the eye.
Fan choreo ahead of the match.
Fan choreo ahead of the match.
Fan choreo ahead of the match.
A sold-out stadium wrapped all around in black, white, and green.
Front end of a Danish train. It’s all bumper.
2m ago 20.23 BST OrbĂĄn concedes election to Tisza’s Magyar That’s it. Viktor OrbĂĄn is now speaking at Fidesz’s election night and he says the election result is “clear” as he concedes defeat. He says he congratulated the winning party and admits the result is painful for Fidesz. 6m ago 15.19 EDT Tisza's Magyar says OrbĂĄn 'congratulated us on our victory' Oh. Tisza’s leader PĂ©ter Magyar has just said on Facebook that Viktor OrbĂĄn called him up to congratulate “on our victory.” Let’s wait for the official confirmation from the prime minister’s side.
The Moon eclipsing the Sun, with a coronal halo around the dark side of the Moon.
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View of Hannover’s New Town Hall.
The Moon reflected in the Weser on Bremen.
Am iPad showing the match, with the landscape passing by outside.
Cover slide for the keynote “Nearly a Decade after the APlcalypse: Where Are We Now on Social Media Data Access?”, by Axel Bruns.
M/C Journal 'multiverse' issue cover image: 'Orange spiral', by Angelique Nairn
In-flight map showing a plane route across Afghanistan and north of Iran.
A Prime promotional email suggesting I may like the Melania biopic.
Match events overview from the Cruzeiro vs. Atletico Mineiro match the other day, showing most but not all of the 23 red cards that were handed out in the final minutes.
A weather radar image with a cloud formation in the shape of a Chinese dragon.
The most common route for Australians flights is now via the Caucus, through Azerbaijani airspace.
Trump: Bombardierungen fortsetzen, bis Frieden herrscht
Black Country, New Road performing at the Tivoli, Brisbane.
A mystery chandelier.
Cover of _Azure d’Or_, by Renaissance.
Cover of _Butterfly Mind_, by Tim Bowness.
Cover of _Emerson, Lake & Palmer_.
Cover of _Moonmadness_, by Camel.
Yangliu Fan introduced by Tariq Choucair.