Jean Burgess is a Professor of Digital Media at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, (which she co-founded and directed between 2015–2020) and in the

QUT Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the Urban area, urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Poin ...

School of Communication. She is currently Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She was the Deputy Director of the former ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at the

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

. From 2010-2013 Jean was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (APD), working with Axel Bruns on the ARC Discovery Project 'New Media and Public Communication'. She researches and publishes on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, with a particular focus on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media including digital storytelling. She was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2021.

Education

A classically trained musician with an honours degree in flute performance, Burgess completed a Master of Philosophy at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

before undertaking a PhD at

. Her doctoral thesis, entitled ''Vernacular creativity and new media'', focused on the ways in which everyday practices of symbolic creativity (including storytelling and amateur photography) both pre-date digital technologies and are remediated by them.

Notable publications

In 2009, with Joshua Green, Burgess published the book ''YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture''. The book examines the ways in which

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is being used by the media industries, by audiences and amateur producers, and by particular communities of interest, and explains how these uses challenge existing ideas about cultural ‘production’ and ‘consumption’. It includes specially commissioned chapters by John Hartley and Henry Jenkins. The book was widely reviewed in academic journals including ''Media International Australia'', ''Popular Communication'' and the ''International Journal of Digital Television''. It has since been translated into Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Polish. With Andrew King, Burgess co-edited an edition of ''M/C Journal'' themed "Porn and the Mediasphere", and worked on the ARC-funded ''Understanding Pornography in Australia'' report.

Media appearances

On his blog, Professor Henry Jenkins interviewed Burgess in October 2007 about her doctoral research. Burgess was interviewed in January 2009 by ''The Enthusiast'' magazine about YouTube's difficulties balancing copyright issues with the creative activities of its users. In 2010, Burgess was interviewed about her YouTube research by prime-time Channel Seven current affairs TV program ''

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''. In February 2011, Burgess spoke to

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's Background Briefing on how natural disasters are handled and mishandled by both broadcast and participatory media.

References

External links

Faculty Listing for Jean Burgess at QUT
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