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Book Launch: Creative Industries in China

10 May 2013 - 12:03pm

LIVE BLOG: Creative Industries in China The QUT Creative Industries Research Seminars – Creative Industries in China will be LIVE blogged from this platform on Friday the 10th of May from AEST 12-2pm. QUT Creative Industries Research Seminars present: The Tier 4 in Asian Creative Transformations book launch: Michael Keane, “Creative Industries in China: Art, ...

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A First Look at Twitter Ratios: Rise of the Lurkers?

19 April 2013 - 10:00am

For this blog, I have used data sets which include the first million and recent million IDs discussed in recent posts, in addition to new data from our CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky covering ID’s between 1000000000-1,000,999,999 (1 million Ids) […]

A Month of Vines: An early look at Vine through Twitter

12 April 2013 - 10:00am

With my CCI colleague Jean Burgess, we have recently been tracking the development and use of Vine through our existing Twitter tools. More on accessing and tracking Vine will be forthcoming in future posts, but below we will discuss the […]

The First Million IDs on Twitter

8 April 2013 - 10:00am

Following on from Friday’s post, in which we looked at a number of recent accounts on Twitter, this post considers the first million Twitter IDs. When did they join? As you can see from the above graph, which shows Account […]

Who’s Joining Twitter? A look at 1 million recent IDs

5 April 2013 - 10:00am

Currently, at QUT Social Media HQ, we’re in the process of developing the new version of our Twitter capture software, led by CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky. During development, we’ve extracted a few interesting datasets, and this blog post is […]

Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis

4 April 2013 - 5:59pm

I’ve just returned home from the Social Media in Times of Crisis conference at the State Library of Queensland, which we organised together with our ARC Linkage partners at the Eidos Institute, and I’m pleased to report that it was […]

Social Media in the Media III: Uses

4 April 2013 - 9:30am

In previous posts I outlined the details of a preliminary study we conducted on how social media are used as political tools and how this activity is portrayed in traditional media outlets. I provide an overview of the study and […]

Social Media in the Media II: User Groups

3 April 2013 - 9:30am

In a previous post I introduced work we have been doing here at the CCI to contribute to an understanding of the way in which social media are portrayed as political tools in traditional media outlets. In this post I […]

Creative Industries in China: Art, Design, Media

3 April 2013 - 6:07am

Creative Industries in China is drawn from my research over the past decade on how Chinese policy makers, artists, designers and media practitioners are attempting to change a widespread perception that China is an uncreative nation. The ‘world factory’ portrayal is an uncomfortable reminder for many of economic dominance which is yet to be translated ...

Rebranding the dragon: learning from East Asia

3 April 2013 - 6:06am

China’s growing economic, political, and military capacity is the most geopolitically significant development of the 21st century, one which is already being branded the ‘Asian century.’ Certainly the recent economic decline of the US and Europe plays directly into the hands of China’s nationalists, who yearn for a return to past glory and who seek ...

Back to Neutral: Koreans on the Digital Cinema Frontier in China

3 April 2013 - 6:06am

How are East Asian film practitioners contributing to the professionalization of Chinese cinema? It is no secret that South Korean, Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Japanese film makers have advantages when it comes to producing ‘quality content.’ In recent times film makers in the People’s Republic of China have sought to catch up by drawing technological ...

The Life and Death of Pi’s Creators

3 April 2013 - 6:05am

Over the past 30 years, the most successful films at the international box office have been laden with visual effects, so it’s no surprise that the number of VFX production facilities has grown dramatically. Asia is emerging as one of the global leaders with new facilities launching in such places as Mumbai, Beijing, and Kuala ...

The Creative City Index

3 April 2013 - 6:05am

What makes a great city? This is the question that the construction of world city or global city indexes has sought to answer. The CCI Creative City Index (CCI-CCI) is a new approach to the measurement and ranking of creative global cities. It is constructed over eight principal dimensions, each with multiple distinct elements. Some ...

Social Media in the Media I: Comparing Social and Traditional Media

2 April 2013 - 9:30am

One of the research projects some of us here at the CCI are currently involved in, in cooperation with researchers from California State University, Uppsala University, and the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, aims to apply a cross-media and cross-national […]