Biography
Luke’s research and teaching light fires and build bridges at the intersection of digital communication and political life. His core research stream engages how radical decentralisations of communication technologies and practices afford shifts in society. This includes considering new formations and functions of publics through radical transparency, the social-political implications of distributed 3D printing, and the study of visibility through media such as Augmented Reality.
Read more on Luke's profileResearch interests
Luke is happy to supervise projects that somehow consider the blurring of physical and digital life (including 3D printing and AR), the implications of decentralising creativity and control through digital means, or how visibility is managed in the digital age to produce new forms of power. He's also interested in regulatory issues surrounding 3D printing in medical practice and critical appraisals of blockchain's emancipatory rhetoric.
Units taught
ACC100 & ALC702
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 articles and comemtnary 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
Member ADI, Member GDPI,
Publications
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
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
Leaking boats and borders: the virtu of surveilling Australia's refugee population
L Heemsbergen, L Heemsbergen, A Daly, A Daly
(2017), Vol. 15, pp. 389-396, Surveillance and society, Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng., C1
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
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
(2015), pp. 75-88, Researching for social change: ethics, methodologies & responsibility, Melbourne, Vic., B1
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
- 2019: $52,500
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report