
PhD (Queensland University of Technology), M.Phil (University of Queensland), B. Arts (Hons) (University of Queensland), B. Mus (Hons) (University of Queensland)
Jean Burgess is Professor of Digital Media in the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and School of Communication. After serving as the DMRC’s founding Centre Director from 2015-2020, she became Associate Director of the national ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, as well as Convenor of its QUT node, in August 2020. Her research focuses on the social implications of digital media technologies, platforms, and cultures, as well as new and innovative digital methods for studying them. She is co-author or editor of more than 120 scholarly publications on these topics. Her latest book is Twitter – A Biography (with Nancy Baym, New York University Press, 2020). She is a current member of the ARC College of Experts, and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Additional information
Community and industry partnerships have included:
- Telstra
- Australia Post
- Open Data Institute Australian Network
- State Library of Queensland
- Cooperative Research Centres Association (CRCA)
- The Conversation
- True Relationships and Reproductive Health
- Queensland Department of Community Safety
- Eidos Institute
- The Australia Council for the Arts
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Goolarri Media Enterprises
- Briz 31
- Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
- Queensland Museum
- Queensland Association for Healthy Communities
- Surestart (UK)
- Gold Coast City Council
- St. Peter Claver College
- SeniorNet (Ipswich)
- Flying Arts
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2020
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- Member of the ARC College of Experts (2020-2023)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2018
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- Recipient of a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Burgess, J, A Marwick & T Poell (2017) The SAGE Handbook of Social Media. London: SAGE.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
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- Co-editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2018-
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2015
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- Invited keynote speaker, opening plenary, International Communication Association conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Hartley, John, Burgess, Jean, & Bruns, Axel (Eds.) (2013) A Companion to New Media Dynamics. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, United States of America & Oxford, United Kingdom. http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444332244.html
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research New England, February-June 2013
- Burgess J, Baym N, (2020) Twitter: A Biography
- Burgess J, Hurcombe E, (2019) Digital journalism as symptom, response, and agent of change in the platformed media environment, Digital Journalism p359-367
- Suzor N, Dragiewicz M, Harris B, Gillett R, Burgess J, Van Geelen T, (2019) Human rights by design: The responsibilities of social media platforms to address gender-based violence online, Policy and Internet p84-103
- Burgess J, Green J, (2018) YouTube: Online video and participatory culture (2nd Edition) (Digital Media and Society Series)
- Burgess J, Marwick A, Poell T, (2018) The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, SAGE Publications Ltd
- Light B, Burgess J, Duguay S, (2018) The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps, New Media and Society p881-900
- Burgess J, Mitchell P, Highfield T, (2018) Automating the digital everyday: an introduction, Media International Australia p6-10
- Albury K, Burgess J, Light B, Race K, Wilken R, (2017) Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research, Big Data and Society p1-11
- Dragiewicz M, Burgess J, (2016) Domestic violence on #qanda: The 'man' question in live Twitter discussion on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Q&A, Canadian journal of women and the law = Revue juridique La femme et le droit p211-229
- Burgess J, Matamoros Fernandez A, (2016) Mapping sociocultural controversies across digital media platforms: one week of #gamergate on Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr, Communication Research and Practice p79-96
- Title
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADMS)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- CE200100005
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- Using Machine Vision to Explore Instagram's Everyday Promotional Cultures
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200100519
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- VALiD: the Value of Augmented reality for improving medicine Literacy in Diabetes and hypertension
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 101415
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Augmented Reality;Community Pharmacist;Diabetes;Health Literacy;Smartphone
- Title
- Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions' Impact on Public Debate
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160100205
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Developing an innovative entertainment-evaluation model to evaluate the efficacy of digital comedy in engaging young men with sexual health knowledge
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP140100226
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- Media And Gender;Healthy Sexual Development;Digital Communication
- 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
- Queer Diaspora and Digital Intimacy: Chinese Queer Women's Practices for Using Rela and Her In Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy - Exploring the 'Brazilian-ness' of Brazilian YouTube
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Distinguished Emeritus Professor Stuart Cunningham - Becoming DTube: The biography of a decentralised video streaming platform
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Daniel Angus - Decoding the Political Ideology of Internet Meme Subcultures Using Pragmasemiotic Methods
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez, Associate Professor Daniel Angus - How Non-Binary People Experience Advertising on Instagram
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Elija Cassidy
- Digitally Mediated Martyrdom: The Visual Politics of Posthumous Images in the Popular Struggle for Social Justice (2020)
- The Logics of Social News: How BuzzFeed, Junkee and Pedestrian.tv are Making News More Engaging, Sociable and Personal (2019)
- Contesting Rumours on Social Media during Acute Events: the 2014 Sydney Siege and 2015 Tianjin Blasts (2018)
- Platformed Racism: The Adam Goodes War Dance and Booing Controversy on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook (2018)
- Broadcast, Promote, Respond, Engage: Competing Understandings Of The Purpose And Value Of Social Media In An Emergency Management Organisation (2017)
- Identity Modulation in Networked Publics: Queer Women's Participation and Representation on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine (2017)
- Football Supporter Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil: Hypercommodification, Networked Collectivisms and Digital Productivity (2015)
- Reconfiguring Guangzhou identity - a study of place and locality on Sina Weibo (2015)
- Storytelling and New Media Technologies: Investigating the Potential of the ABC's Heywire for Regional Youth (2015)