Jean Burgess

Who is Jean Burgess?

Jean Burgess is an Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty, and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology. From 2010-2013 Jean is an Australian Research Council 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, with a particular focus on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media including digital storytelling.