Prof. Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018), and the edited collections Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016), and Twitter and Society (2014). His current research focusses on the study of online public communication, with particular attention to the dynamics of polarisation, partisanship, and problematic information. He served as President of the Association of Internet Researchers in 2017–19.