About Jean Burgess


My complete CV, which I update every now and then, is available as a PDF here and it’s embedded at the bottom of the page, too.

Here are some standard bios and photos for use in promoting upcoming talks etc. Click on the photos to view larger versions.

photograph of Jean Burgess giving a talkhead and shoulders portrait of jean burgess against a black background

Longish bio

Jean Burgess is a Professor of Digital Media in the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. After serving as the DMRC’s founding Centre Director from 2015-2020, she became Associate Director of the national Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), as well as Convenor of its QUT node, in August 2020. Her personal research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies, platforms, and cultures, as well as new and innovative digital methods for studying them. Her co-authored and edited books include YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Polity Press, 2009; second edition 2018), Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (Routledge, 2012), A Companion to New Media Dynamics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013),  Twitter and Society (Peter Lang, 2014), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media (2017), and Twitter – A Biography (with Nancy Baym, NYU Press 2020). Her latest book, co-authored with ADM+S colleagues Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken, is Everyday Data Cultures (Polity Press, 2022). She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the International Communication Association, and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. Burgess is a current member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts and a member of the College of Experts advising the UK ESRC Digital Good Network.

Short bio
Dr Jean Burgess is Professor of Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology and Associate Director of the national ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies, platforms, and cultures.

More info
You might want to look at my QUT Staff Profile, and you can find my publications at QUT’s eprints repository and my Google Scholar Profile. I’m on LinkedIn , and my Twitter account is @jeanburgess. The Wikipedia entry on me is very out of date and quite odd, but there it is anyway.

Jean Burgess CV