About
My name is Jean Burgess and I’m an academic, among other things.
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Dr Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI) at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. 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.