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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 the author or editor of more than 120 scholarly publications on these topics. Her latest book is Everyday Data Cultures (Polity Press, 2022), co-authored with ADM+S colleagues Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken. She is a current member of the ARC College of Experts, and a Fellow of the International Communication Association, the Australian Academy of Humanities, and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Additional information
In addition to the full list of partners associated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (see https://admscentre.org.au ), my community, government and industry partnerships have included:
- National Film and Sound Archive
- 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
- Gold Coast City Council
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- Fellowship of a Learned Academy or Membership of AIATSIS
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- 2021
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- Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
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- 2020
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- Member of the ARC College of Experts (2020-2023)
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- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
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- 2018
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- Recipient of a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence
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- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
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- 2018
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- Co-editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2018-
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- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
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- 2015
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- Invited keynote speaker, opening plenary, International Communication Association conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
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- 2013
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- Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research New England, February-June 2013
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- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
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- 2010
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- DP1094281, APD, 2010-2012"New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks"
- Burgess, J. & Baym, N. (2020). Twitter: A Biography. NYU Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201368
- Burgess, J. & Hurcombe, E. (2019). Digital journalism as symptom, response, and agent of change in the platformed media environment. Digital Journalism, 7(3), 359–367. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129043
- 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 & Internet, 11(1), 84–103. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121223
- Burgess, J. & Green, J. (2018). YouTube: Online video and participatory culture (2nd Edition) (Digital Media and Society Series). Polity Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/215498
- Burgess, J., Marwick, A. & Poell, T. (2018). The SAGE Handbook of Social Media. SAGE Publications Ltd. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/215426
- Light, B., Burgess, J. & Duguay, S. (2018). The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps. New Media and Society, 20(3), 881–900. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/222987
- Burgess, J., Mitchell, P. & Highfield, T. (2018). Automating the digital everyday: an introduction. Media International Australia, 166(1), 6–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223206
- 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, 4(2), 1–11. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/109579
- 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, 28(1), 211–229. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95237
- 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, 2(1), 79–96. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95337
- The life stories of bots in Reddit's platform culture
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nicolas Suzor - Computational approaches and tools for critical simulation of Convolutional Neural Networks in visual social media
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Daniel Angus - YouTube’s News Conundrum: An Examination of ‘authoritative sources‘ in YouTube’s Recommendations
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Timothy Graham, Professor Axel Bruns - Decoding the Political Ideology of Dank Meme Subcultures Using Pragmasemiotic Methods
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez, Professor Daniel Angus
- 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)