Rate My Professor Jessica Bushey

Dr. Jessica Bushey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at San José State University, having joined the faculty in 2022. She earned her Ph.D. in Library, Archival and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2016, with a dissertation entitled 'The Archival Trustworthiness of Digital Photographs in Social Media Platforms.' Prior to her appointment at SJSU, Bushey served as Archivist at MONOVA: Museum and Archives of North Vancouver from 2018 to 2022. She also held adjunct faculty positions at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. Her professional experience bridges archival practice, education, and research, with a focus on digital records management and information services.

Bushey's academic interests include archival collections, collections development, information and society/culture, preservation of collections, reference and information services, storytelling, usability, UX, web design, and visual arts. She currently chairs the Working Group on Reference and Access for the InterPARES Trust Research Group on Artificial Intelligence and Archives, a role she has held since 2021 through 2026. Key publications demonstrate her contributions to the field: 'Envisioning Archival Images with Artificial Intelligence' (2024), 'AI-Generated Images as an Emergent Record Format' (2023), 'A Participatory Archives Approach to Fostering Connectivity, Increasing Empathy, and Building Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2023), 'Cloud Service Contracts: An Issue of Trust' co-authored in Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (2015), 'Convergence, Connectivity, Ephemeral and the Performed: New Characteristics of Digital Photographs' in Archives & Manuscripts (2014), and the book chapter 'Social Media Platforms as Default Archives: Unintended Consequences' in Order & Collapse (2016). Additional works address trustworthy citizen-generated images on social media, computational archival science for fake video detection, and new photographic practices in the digital age, such as 'He Shoots, He Stores: New Photographic Practice in the Digital Age' in Archivaria (2008). Bushey has delivered conference presentations at IEEE BigData, Helsinki Photomedia, HICSS, and Association of Canadian Archivists, along with invited talks on digital photography in social media and cultural heritage at venues like Landskrona Foto Festival (2017) and Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik (2015). Her scholarship impacts archival theory, AI applications in records management, and participatory archiving strategies.