Jean Burgess

Dr Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty (http://www.ci.qut.edu.au), Queensland University of Technology, and an Associate Researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (http://www.cci.edu.au). From 2010 Jean is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, 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, focusing particularly on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media such as digital storytelling. Her recent work has included a study of YouTube undertaken in collaboration with Joshua Green (Convergence Culture Consortium, MIT), culminating in the book YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, published by Polity Press in 2009, and subsequently translated into Portuguese (Editora Aleph) and Italian (Editore EGEA).

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.