Jean Burgess

Jean Burgess

Dr Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty and Deputy Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (http://cci.edu.au). 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 Portuguese (Editora Aleph) and Italian (Editore EGEA). 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.

Website

http://creativitymachine.net

Publications

QUT ePrints Folio: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Burgess,_Jean.html

Awards

QUT Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award, 2009.

QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, 2007.

UQ Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis Award, 2004.

UQ University Medal, 2001.

Real World Engagements

Community and industry research partnerships have included: State Library of Queensland, Queensland Museum, QAHC, Surestart (UK), Gold Coast City Council, St. Peter Claver College, SeniorNet (Ipswich), Flying Arts.

Grants

Awarded 2009:

A.Prof A Bruns; Dr JE Burgess (APD); Mr T Nicolai; Mr L Kirchhoff: New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks. ARC Discovery Grant.

"Flood and Fire: Understanding Public Communication in Times of Crisis." Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) International Science Linkages (ISL) Program: funding for a collaboration involving researchers from NCCU (Taiwan), QUT, and UNSW.

Memberships

ARC Cultural Research Network

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

International Communication Association

Supervision

Pip Shea (PhD - Principal Supervisor): Community Cultural Development and Free Wireless Mesh Networks

Sonja Vivienne (PhD - Principal Supervisor): Digital Storytelling for Social Change

Elija Cassidy (PhD - Associate Supervisor): The role of Social Networking Sites in Brisbane's Gay Community

Henry Li (PhD - Associate Supervisor): Seriously playful: the Uses of Networked Video Spoofs in China

Burcu Simsek (PhD - Associate Supervisor): Using Digital Storyteling as a Change Agent for Women's Participation in the Turkish Public Sphere