CCI News

Creative Economy and Australian Policy Online win Hitwise Top 10 Award

alawrence — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:04:57 +1100

From July to December 2009 Australian Policy Online - which includes the CCI sponsored Creative Economy portal - ranked No. 9 based on market share of visits among all Australian websites in the Hitwise category of Lifestyle - Politics industry. Thank you to all our readers from the Creative industries for this confirmation of APO and Creative Economy's value to Australian social and cultural policy research.

CCI News

CCI reports urges Australia to lead in funding arts R&D

ccook — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:21:08 +1100

The Australian arts should be funded to carry out research and to innovate in exactly the same ways as the technological sciences.

This will enable them to deliver even greater value to the public, innovate more, collaborate more widely and engage more deeply with business, a new investigation released by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) finds.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Mark Ryan awarded CAL grant

ccook — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:33:37 +1100

Congratulations to Mark Ryan for winning a Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Creative Industries Career Fund grant to attend the 2010 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Los Angeles CA, March 17-21.

Youthworx

The hole in their bucket

alawrence — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:31:50 +1100

Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their customers’ illegal downloads. But the copyright wars are more than just a matter for the courts, write Julian Thomas and Ramon Lobato in Inside Story

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

National cultural policy - CCI Submission

ccook — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:21:10 +1100

Youthworx

Not Rocket Science: a roadmap for cultural R&D

ccook — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:05:45 +1100

Outlining their radical new roadmap for cultural R&D, the authors’ proposals challenge two entrenched prejudices, which block arts and cultural organisations from playing their full role in society and economy.

Youthworx

Will Australians pay for content online – new survey data

alawrence — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:48:28 +1100

Media commentator Margaret Simon's reports on the latest findings from CCI's Digital Futures project, the Australian branch of the World Internet Project.

Eight hundred Australian internet users responded to the question “A daily newspaper costs around $1.50. How much would you be prepared to pay to read an online newspaper?”...

Read the full story at The Content Makers

Digital Futures

The Media and Communications in Australia, 3rd edition - Edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner

ccook — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:37 +1100

Edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner

A fully revised edition of the leading Australian introductory text on media studies, incorporating extensive analysis of the impact of communications.

CCI News

M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue

ccook — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:58:19 +1100

M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'ambient' issue of

M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues.

CCI News

Online patent service launches in Australia

alawrence — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:56:39 +1100

Following on from the Peer-to-Patent projects run recently out of the New York Law School (NYLS) and the Japanese Patent Office comes Peer-to-Patent Australia (www.peertopatent.org.au). Peer-to-Patent Australia lead by Professor Brian Fitzgerald is a joint initiative of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and IP Australia that is designed to improve the patent examination process and the quality of issued patents.

Creative Commons and Open Content Licensing