Mentors just announced for the CCI Winter School 2012 include Axel Bruns, John Banks, Jason Potts + Ellie Rennie! They join Stuart Cunningham, Jean Burgess, Michael Keane and Julian Thomas.

Read their bios at http://www.cciwinterschool.org/the-team/

Stay tuned for more mentor and keynote announcements in the coming weeks.

http://www.cciwinterschool.org/the-team/

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) with support from AFTRS and the AFI Research Foundation are calling all Australian screen content producers to participate in a national study.

Participants get the chance to win $2,000. Hurry! Survey ends 31 December 2011.

To participate in the survey visit the website here. http://www.ys.net.au/producersurvey2011/

For survey results from the 2009 Survey, take a look at csb.aftrs.edu.au/survey

If you have any questions or require any further information about the project, please contact:

Dr. Mark Ryan
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology
Creative Industries Faculty

E: m3.ryan@qut.edu.au

Welcome to our final CCI newsletter for 2011. As you’ll see from all that’s happened over the past couple of months since I last wrote, the run-in to the end of the year has been frenetic – and wholly rewarding. And it’s shaping up as another fantastic year for ‘research for a creative Australia’ in 2012. I look forward to bringing you quarterly updates next year on all things CCI.

CCI’s 2012 Winter School offers selected doctoral students and early career researchers a week-long program of interdisciplinary study, collaboration and social interaction in the broad area of creative industries and innovation research, drawing on the Centre’s expertise in media, cultural and communication studies, economics, education, policy and law, in relation to the creative economy.

Faculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University

The School of Communication and Arts at ECU’s Mount Lawley campus invites applications for two Australian Research Council PhD scholarships for $27,651 per year for three years, commencing in February 2012. The research centres on Landgate WA’s FireWatch, an online service providing information about bushfires using satellite imagery, which is currently used by professional fire fighters and land managers. Working within an ECU research team and with Landgate WA, the PhD candidates will aim to empower remote and regional communities to use FireWatch in managing bushfire risk. Both candidates will require excellent communication skills, including high level academic writing.

Australian Research Council funding for Discovery and Linkage research projects was announced recently and CCI researchers were awarded $1,167,000.

Joi Ito, September 26th, 2011
Creative Commons

Creative Commons is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof. Brian Fitzgerald as a new Director of the corporation and member of the Board.

CCI's cohort of research higher degree students have set up an online space to share their blogs covering their latest findings, issues, controversies and general musings on all things creative industries.

It’s been an exciting first few months of the year!

TERRY FLEW Centre Chief Investigator Terry Flew has been appointed as chair of a comprehensive review for the Federal Government into the classification of television, film, music, online content, video games and advertising. The Review of the National Classification Standards is the first review of its kind since 1991. Terry’s appointment was announced just before Easter by Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland, and the Minister for Home Affairs, Brendan O'Connor.

The Asian Creative Transformations project in CCI now has a website and a Facebook profile. Check them out at:

http://www.creativetransformations.asia/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asian-Creative-Transformations/22215768113...

Guest-edited by two emerging scholars, and featuring work from several continents, a special issue of the Cultural Science Journal is (Vol 3.2) now published, presenting important experimental explorations in a nascent, fast-changing and potentially vast field of study.

The issue showcases work by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) as well as established figures, and includes work from The Netherlands, Australia, Taiwan, Bulgaria and the USA. It was co-edited by doctoral students Thomas Petzold and Henry Siling Li – while both were in the throes of final write-up and submission of their own PhD theses.

CCI researchers, Dr Jean Burgess and Associate Professor Axel Bruns, have been all over the news in the last few days with coverage of the social media and disasters research being undertaken at the Centre.

In its second stage, CCI has reshaped an ambitious research agenda and organised around four overlapping themes: • Conceptual Modelling • Digital Innovations • Policy and Macro-Trends • Skills and Creative Capital.

The annual report gives a terrific overview of the many exciting and innovative projects underway and a full list of publications, conference papers, and other output from centre staff.

The CCi Annual Report for 2010 is now available to download as a PDF. Alternatively, if you would like to receive a print copy, please email infocci@qut.edu.au to request a copy.

Download as a PDF

How should policy support the creative industries? Few question the importance of traditional supply-side measures: low corporate tax rates, an intellectual property regime that strikes a balance between competition and innovation, and an education system that produces talent with the right mix of technical, cognitive and soft skills. It is common to see public investment in infrastructure, such as next generation broadband. But should policy go beyond this? Can the state play an active role in supporting the creative industries? This is a subject I am tackling in a new paper I am writing with my fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) economists Alan Freeman and Jason Potts.

In the wake of the landmark iiNet appeal decision, the Internet Industry Association today announced it would immediately start work on an industry code of practice for internet intermediaries, including ISPs, search, hosting and social media providers.

We have finalised the dates for our next CCI Symposium, to be held in Brisbane at QUT on 27-29 July 2011.

Further details on the program will be announced soon. For now, please can we ask that you save the dates!

It's been another year of creativity and innovation at CCI writes Centre Director Stuart Cunningham

Australia’s Arts and Entertainment Sector underpins cultural and social innovation, improves the quality of community life, is essential to maintaining our cities as world class attractors of talent and investment, and helps create ‘Brand Australia’ in the global marketplace of ideas (QUT Creative Industries Faculty 2010). The sector makes a significant contribution to the Australian economy. So what is the size and nature of this contribution?

The creative China plan six years on | Michael Keane | Australian Policy Online

While many in China are embracing the notion of creativity, planning and managing it is another issue writes Michael Keane for APO

http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/creative-china-plan-six-years