Personal
- Name
- Associate Professor Jean Burgess
- Position(s)
- Deputy Director, CCI
Creative Industries Faculty,
CIF Academic Programs,
Higher Degree Research - Associate Professor - Digital Media Studies
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Media, Entertainment, Creative Arts,
Media and Communication - Discipline *
- Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Film, Television and Digital Media
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 8253
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 3723
- je.burgess@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (Queensland University of Technology), M.Phil (University of Queensland), B. Arts (Hons) (University of Queensland), B. Mus (Hons) (University of Queensland)
- Professional memberships
and associations ARC Cultural Research Network
Association of Internet Researchers
- Keywords
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Co-Creative Media, Cultural Studies, Digital Culture, Digital Storytelling, Internet Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Youtube
Biography
Associate Professor Jean Burgess is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI). She holds an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship for the ARC Discovery Project ‘New Media and Public Communication‘ (2010-2013) and is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Project ‘Digital Storytelling and Co-Creative Media’ (2011-2014).
Her current research focuses on methodological innovation in the context of the changing media ecology, and in particular on the development of computational methods for media and communication studies. She has published widely on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, focusing particularly on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media such as digital storytelling.
She is the co-author of the first research monograph on YouTube – YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Polity Press, 2009), which has subsequently been translated into Polish, Portuguese and Italian. Burgess has developed several applied research partnerships with cultural institutions and community-based organizations, focusing on the uses of co-creative media such as digital storytelling for cultural participation, advocacy and engagement. She has a background in music performance, cultural studies and Internet studies.
Experience
Community and industry partnerships have included:
- The Australia Council for the Arts
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Goolarri Media Enterprises
- Briz 31
- Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
- State Library of Queensland
- Queensland Museum
- Queensland Association for Healthy Communities
- Surestart (UK)
- Gold Coast City Council
- St. Peter Claver College
- SeniorNet (Ipswich)
- Flying Arts
Publications
- Burgess JE, Bruns A, (2012) (Not) the Twitter election: The dynamics of the #ausvotes conversation in relation to the Australian media ecology, Journalism Practice p384-402
- Burgess JE, (2013) YouTube and the formalisation of amateur media, Amateur media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives p53-58
- Hjorth L, Burgess JE, Richardson I, (2012) Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone, Routledge
- Burgess JE, (2011) User-created content and everyday cultural practice: Lessons from YouTube, Television as Digital Media p311-331
- Burgess JE, Banks JA, (2010) User-created content and online social networks, The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed p295-306
- Burgess JE, Klaebe HG, McWilliam K, (2010) Mediatisation and institutions of public memory: Digital storytelling and the apology, Australian Historical Studies p149-165
- Burgess JE, Green JB, (2009) YouTube: Online video and participatory culture p1-140
- Hartley J, McWilliam K, Burgess JE, Banks JA, (2008) The uses of multimedia: Three digital literacy case studies, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources p59-72
- Burgess JE, (2008) 'All your chocolate rain are belong to us'?: Viral video, YouTube and the dynamics of participatory culture, Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube p101-109
- Burgess JE, (2006) Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies p201-214
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- DP1094281, APD, 2010-2012 "New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks"
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Social media in times of crisis: learning from recent natural disasters to improve future strategies
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP120100627
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Natural Disasters, Social Media, Communication, Media, Internet
- Title
- Digital Storytelling and Co-Creative Media: The Role of Community Arts and Media in Propagating and Coordinating Population-wide Creative Practice
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP110100127
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Co-Creative Media, Community Cultural Development, Digital Storytelling, Digital Media, Community Arts, Community Broadcasting
- Title
- New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP1094281
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- User Created Content, New Media, Public Communication, Internet Studies, Social Networks, Web 2
- Title
- ARC Centre of Excellence - Australian Creative Innovation System
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR0590002
- Start year
- 2005
- Keywords
- Creative Industries, Digital Content, Creative Workforce, Intellectual Property, Innovation, International Creative Markerts.
