Biography
Luke's research and teaching light fires and build bridges between digital communication and political life making new relations and power structures visible and knowable. His work draws from Communication and Science and Technology Studies to engage the social study of diverse technological subjects (e.g. WikiLeaks, 3D printing, Augmented Reality) with diverse national and international partners. Luke is interested in PhD candidates that define new media in the widest terms and consider how these media come to shape our world.
Read more on Luke's profileResearch interests
Luke is excited to supervise projects that include but are not limited to considering how physical and digital environments engage each other in sociotechnical systems like Augmented and Mixed Reality Media or 3D printed futures, as well as considering the implications of decentralising creativity and control through digtial means - including via the democratisation of generative AI/creativity. These interests reflect how visibility is managed in the digital to produce new forms of power, rhetoric, and governmentality for our everyday life; reflect on regulatory issues surrounding the above; and offer critical appraisals of disruptive digital media technologies and their politics.
Units taught
Current: ALC702, ALC703, ALR718. Past: ACC100
Media appearances
Luke's research and commentary have been called on in a range of media, including The New York Times, the ABC (TV), Wired, Nine, Australian Financial Review, News Corp, as well as in syndication via The Conversation.
Research groups
Co-convener, Critical Digitial Interfaces and Infrastrucutres.
Co-Lead Immersive Realities Theme, Deakin Motion Lab.
Member, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
Publications
Yijia Gu, Luke Heemsbergen
(2023), Vol. 17, pp. 3822-3843, International journal of communication, Los Angeles, Calif., C1-1
Luke Heemsbergen, Gregory Bowtell, Jordan Vincent
(2022), pp. 187-204, Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision, London, Eng., B1
Distributing Journalism : Digital Disclosure, Secrecy, and Crypto-Cultures
Luke Heemsbergen, Alexia Maddox
(2022), pp. 1-29, Privacy : Algorithms and Society, London, Eng., B1
Luke Heemsbergen, Emiliano Treré, Gabriel Pereira
(2022), Vol. 183, pp. 3-15, Media International Australia, London, Eng., C1
F Yang, L Heemsbergen, P Marshall
(2022), Vol. 184, pp. 63-78, Media International Australia, London, England, C1
Making Climate Change Tangible in Augmented Reality Media: Hello My Black Balloon
Luke Heemsbergen, Greg Bowtell, Jordan Vincent
(2022), pp. 1-7, Environmental Communication: a journal of nature and culture, London, Eng., C1
Radical transparency and digital democracy: Wikileaks and beyond
Luke Heemsbergen
(2021), Bingley, Eng., A1
F Yang, L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce
(2021), Vol. 178, pp. 182-197, Media International Australia, C1
Conceptualising Augmented Reality: From virtual divides to mediated dynamics
L Heemsbergen, G Bowtell, J Vincent
(2021), Vol. 27, pp. 830-846, Convergence, C1
Digging in Crypto-Communities' Future-Making: From Dark to Doge
Alexia Maddox, Luke Heemsbergen
(2021), Vol. 24, pp. 1-9, M/C Journal, Brisbane, Qld., C1
The electrified social and its dark alternatives: policing and politics in the computational age
A Maddox, L Heemsbergen
(2021), Vol. 35, pp. 692-705, Continuum, C1
Transport Emissions: An Augmented Reality with City of Melbourne
Greg Bowtell, Jordan Vincent, Luke Heemsbergen
(2021), Knowledge Week Hub, Meat Market, North Melbourne Town Hall, JO1
T Birtchnell, A Daly, L Heemsbergen
(2020), Vol. 122, Futures, C1
Vpns as boundary objects of the internet: (mis)trust in the translation(s)
L Heemsbergen, A Molnar
(2020), Vol. 9, pp. 1-19, Internet Policy Review, C1
Another dimension of digital: 3D printing and intellectual property in Asia
Angela Daly, Jiajie Lu, Luke Heemsbergen
(2019), pp. 104-118, Digital transactions in Asia: economic, informational, and social exchanges, New York, N.Y., B1
Blockchained to what (end)? A socio-material provocation to check distributed futures
Luke Heemsbergen, Alexia Maddox, Robbie Fordyce
(2019), pp. 144-158, Blockchain and Web 3.0 : social, economic, and technological challenges, London, Eng., B1
L Heemsbergen
(2019), Vol. 21, pp. 693-711, New Media and Society, C1
L Heemsbergen, A Daly, J Lu, T Birtchnell
(2019), Vol. 24, pp. 254-270, Science, technology and society, London, Eng., C1
Positioning innovation and governance for 3D printing in clinical care: an Australian case
Luke Heemsbergen, Robbie Fordyce
(2019), Vol. 3, pp. 161-169, Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine, London, Eng., C1
Secret Killers "After WikiLeaks": Mapping, evolutions, and taxonomy of radical leaking
Luke Heemsbergen
(2018), pp. 1-3, AoIR 2018 : Transnational Materialities : Selected Papers in Internet Research 2018. 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Montreal, Canada, E1
Social practices of 3D printing: decentralising control, and reconfiguring regulation
L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, B Nansen, T Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell
(2016), Vol. 4, pp. 110-125, Australian journal of telecommunications and the digital economy, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Things, tags, topics: thingiverse's object-centred network
R Fordyce, L Heemsbergen, T Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell, M Luo, B Nansen
(2016), Vol. 2, pp. 63-78, Communication research and practice, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Luke Heemsbergen
(2016), Vol. 10, pp. 138-151, International journal of communication, Los Angeles, Calif., C1
3D Printing rights & responsibilities: Consumer perceptions & realities
L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, M Arnold, T Apperley, T Birtchnell, B Nansen
(2016), Melbourne, Vic., A6
3D printing: civic practices and regulatory challenges
Luke Heemsbergen, Robbie Fordyce, Tom Apperley, Mike Arnold, Thomas Birtchnell, Bjorn Nansen
(2016), Melbourne, Vic., A6
Luke Heemsbergen
(2015), pp. 75-88, Researching for social change: ethics, methodologies & responsibility, Melbourne, Vic., B1
Designing hues of transparency and democracy after WikiLeaks: vigilance to vigilantes and back again
L Heemsbergen
(2015), Vol. 17, pp. 1340-1357, New media & society, London, Eng., C1
Robbie Fordyce, Luke Heemsbergen, Paul Mignone, Bjorn Nansen
(2015), Vol. 7, pp. 192-205, Digital culture & education, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Luke Heemsbergen, Simon Lindgren
(2014), Vol. 68, pp. 569-591, Australian journal of international affairs, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Radical transparency in journalism: digital evolutions from historical precedents
Luke Heemsbergen
(2013), Vol. 6, pp. 45-65, Global media journal - Canadian edition, Ottawa, Ont., C1
Whistleblowing and digital technologies: an interview with Suelette Dreyfus
Luke Heemsbergen
(2013), Vol. 5, pp. 67-71, Platform: journal of media and communication, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
OnTrac at Peter Mac - Educational Modules
Prof Vicki White, Prof Trish Livingston, Dr Luke Heemsbergen, Dr Greg Bowtell, Dr Jordan Vincent
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
- 2021: $12,650
- 2020: $52,500
- 2019: $52,500
City of Melbourne - Visual representation of a tonne of CO2.
Dr Greg Bowtell, Dr Jordan Vincent, Prof Ben Horan, Dr Luke Heemsbergen
City of Melbourne Grant - Research
- 2020: $6,363
Assessment of OCP material accessibility and suitability for clinicians.
Prof Vicki White, Prof Trish Livingston, Dr Luke Heemsbergen, A/Prof Anna Ugalde, Dr Jordan Vincent, Dr Greg Bowtell
Department of Health
- 2022: $138,500
- 2021: $148,500
Development of an interactive, digital WHS communication training tool for supervisors and apprentices.
Prof Stefan Greuter, Mr Simeon Taylor, Dr Luke Heemsbergen
Insurance and Care NSW (ICARE)
- 2022: $104,000
Supervisions
Fan Yang
Thesis entitled: News Manufactories on WeChat: The Word Business, Censorship, and Pseudo-Journalism
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Danielle McCarthy
Thesis entitled: Folding Into AI: An Ethical Relationship with Technology Through the Arts
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Neil Henderson
Thesis entitled: Concerning: a Technique for Critique in a Digitally Mediated Civilisation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts