Biography
Luke's research and teaching lights fires and builds bridges between digital communication practices and everyday private, professional, and civic life. His core research engages shifts to socio-political visibility afforded by digital communication technologies. This includes substantive focus on distributed transparency mechanisms and evolving interfaces of the digital-material world including 3D printing and Augmented Reality.
Read more on Luke's profileResearch interests
Luke is happy to supervise projects that inlude but are not limited to considering the blurring of physical and digital life through Augmented and Mixed Reality Media, 3D printing applications, and the implications of decentralising creativity and control through these digital means; how visibility is managed in the digital to produce new forms of power, rhetoric, and governmentality; regulatory issues surrounding the above, including 3D printing in medical practice, and critical appraisals of disruptive digital media, technology, and their politics.
Units taught
Current: ALC702, ALC703, ALR718. Past: ACC100
Expertise
- Apps
- Communication
- Consumer protection
- Democracy
- Information technology
- International relations
- Internet/world wide web
- Manufacturing
- Media
- Mediation
- Policy
- Politics
- Privacy
- Surveillance
- Technology
- Technology and justice
- Terrorism
- Virtual worlds/social networking
Media appearances
Luke's research and commentary have appeared in a range of media, including The New York Times, The Age, and The Australian, as well as in syndication from The Conversation.
Research groups
Co-convener, Global Digital Publics Network,
Co-Lead Immersive Realities Theme, Deakin Motion Lab,
Member Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Publications
F Yang, Luke Heemsbergen, Robbie Fordyce
(2021), Vol. 178, pp. 182-197, Media International Australia, London, Eng., C1
Conceptualising augmented reality: from virtual divides to mediated dynamics
L Heemsbergen, G Bowtell, J Vincent
(2021), pp. 1-17, Convergence, London, Eng., C1
T Birtchnell, A Daly, L Heemsbergen
(2020), Vol. 122, pp. 1-10, Futures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
VPNs as boundary objects of the internet: (mis)trust in the translation(s)
Luke Heemsbergen, Adam Molnar
(2020), Vol. 9, pp. 1-19, Internet Policy Review, Berlin, Germany, 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. 212-212, Blockchain and Web 3.0 : social, economic, and technological challenges, London, Eng., B1
L Heemsbergen
(2019), Vol. 21, pp. 693-711, New media & society, London, Eng., 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
Leaking boats and borders: the virtu of surveilling Australia's refugee population
L Heemsbergen, A Daly
(2017), Vol. 15, pp. 389-396, Surveillance and society, Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng., C1-1
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
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
Dr Greg Bowtell, Dr Jordan Vincent, Dr Luke Heemsbergen
- 2020: $52,500
- 2019: $52,500
City of Melbourne - Visual representation of a tonne of CO2.
Dr Greg Bowtell, Dr Jordan Vincent, A/Prof Ben Horan, Dr Luke Heemsbergen
- 2020: $6,363
Supervisions
Neil Henderson
Thesis entitled: Concerning: a Technique for Critique in a Digitally Mediated Civilisation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication & Creative Arts