Hi everyone,

I¹m a PhD student and sessional lecturer/tutor in the creative industries
research and applications centre (CIRAC) at Queensland University of
Technology, Australia. My thesis is  called Œvernacular creativity and new
media¹. Through my research I investigate the potential of the new relations
between everyday life and new media for cultural participation: that is,
that creative production (weblogs, online journals, flickr, moblogging, etc)
might now be as much a part of everyday life for 'ordinary' people (and vice
versa) as cultural consumption is - in fact, the separation of production
from consumption, everyday life from media, is increasingly problematic.

One of my case studies is Digital Storytelling (i.e. The community media
practice known by that name as seen in the work of the center for DST at
http://www.storycenter.org and BBC¹s capture wales program
http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalstorytelling), so I¹ve spent a fair bit of time
being trained up as a trainer and conducting digital storytelling workshops
as part of a few different projects here at QUT.

Before that, I was a classical musician for 10 years, and for everything
else I should probably just refer you to my blog:
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess, where I do a lot of my writing...
 
Jean


P.S.  I¹ve followed previous posters in putting
[WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE] in the subject header ­ if it were possible
to set the list up so this happened automatically, we would have a  way of
visually flagging emails to this list, and we could use mail filters to
avoid our Œmain¹ inboxes being swamped.  If this isn¹t possible, you can
apply the filter to any mail to or from
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Jean Burgess
PhD Candidate
Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC)

Z1-515, Creative Industries Precinct
Queensland University of Technology
Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, QLD 4059

Phone: +617 3864 3818
Mobile: 0401 733 755
QUT CRICOS 00213J

Reviews editor, International Journal of Cultural Studies
Postgraduate representative, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia