Jean Burgess

Jean Burgess is a Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty and Director of the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. She was also the Deputy Director of the former ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at the Queensland University of Technology. From 2010-2013 Jean was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (APD), 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. Provided by Wikipedia