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Broadband Public Policy in Australia

alawrence — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:16:21 +1100

This project draws upon comparative policy analysis of the national broadband systems of several countries. It examines particular initiatives that appear to have succeeded and looks at which systems have failed, and why.

Business of Creativity

alawrence — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:57:52 +1100

Developed within the Centre for Screen Business (CSB) of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), this project is a comprehensive survey of screen content producers which aims to understand the conditions under which producers develop and produce screen content. It will examine their backgrounds, attitudes and aspirations.

Project overview

Business Process Management

alawrence — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:36:13 +1100

Business process management (BPM) for the post-production phase in the screen business can benefit from the application of reference models – a widely accepted means to facilitate the design of re-usable information systems and organisations.

Creative Commons and Open Content Licensing

paitken — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:15:24 +1100

This project investigates the implementation of the Creative Commons and other OCL models in Australia. It provides research into the adoption of OCL models in the creative, research, education and public sectors, and generates policy guidance and good-practice protocols for organisations and individuals considering using the CC-OCL.

Creative commons clinic

alawrence — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:33:33 +1100

The internet and associated digital technologies mean that quality information and knowledge can be communicated across the globe, by even the most basic user, cheaply and instantly. Enormous potential exists to access and build information and knowledge networks.

Creative digital industries mapping

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:00:34 +1100

This project aims to map the size, scope and structure of the creative industries in Australia; to test and measure the nature of creative inputs into service sectors such as education, health, government and business services; and to test a ‘new economics of the creative industries’ based on evolutionary economics.

Project overview

Creative Industries Mapping Wiki

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:58 +1100

This project aims to achieve knowledge transfer from the Centre’s research into policy domains and public debate and make contributions directed at addressing innovation policy per se.

Creative Industries and the Development Agenda

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:07:44 +1100

This research area is forging new international networks with a focus on ‘creative engagement’ with old and new media technologies. It seeks to have a direct impact on the development agenda, and to inform the creative industries and innovation agenda.

Creative Resources as Inputs to the Health Sector

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:27:07 +1100

Harnessed alongside managerial and technical skills, creative and cultural resources are becoming essential components of modern production processes. As well as contributing to the competitiveness of Australian industry, these resources are playing an increasingly significant role in innovation and securing the community’s wellbeing.

Creative Workforce 2.0

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:50:51 +1100

Creative Workforce 2.0 builds on the success of its predecessor, the New Learning Lab Program. CW2.0 focuses on investigating and promoting creative worker capacities in an environment characterised by innovation and risk, the increasing impact of knowledge and creativity on the economy, and globalisation and new technologies across all areas of work and experience.

Development of the Creative Industries in China

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:47:42 +1100

The current phase of our China research combines two strands. The first follows the development slogan From Made in China to Created in China. We continue to examine how, and under what conditions, creative industry and creative economy discourses are emerging in various locations in China and East Asia. The key sectors of interest are television, film, digital media (games and interactive content), design (urban, industrial and fashion) and advertising.

Digital Futures

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:28:50 +1100

The World Internet Project (WIP) is a major, international, collaborative project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. Conceived as the study of the Internet that should have been conducted of television in its early days, the WIP believes that the Internet's influence will ultimately be far greater than television.

Digital Liberty

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:35:59 +1100

The intersection and reconciliation of the rights of creators, owners, citizens and consumers to control, access and exploit digital content have become critical to innovation in the digital environment.

Enabling Technology for the Analysis of Electronic Cultural Archives

alawrence — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:51:11 +1100

Much multimedia content is locked up in legacy formats and content management systems making it difficult to search, access, and distribute. Our aim is to enable technology to support the analysis of higher-order cultural features of multimedia content to effectively liberate this content for new and innovative use.

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

paitken — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:39:15 +1100

This project is a development of the third stage of Creative Digital Industries in Australia. It consists of a series of subprojects aimed at developing the theoretical and analytic foundations of an evolutionary economic approach to analysis of the creative industries.

Firm strategy and innovation in the creative industries

paitken — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:34:52 +1100

This project is primarily concerned with the way in which technological change and globalization are impacting on the strategy and competitiveness of the creative industries. It focuses on a specific segment of the creative industries – the post, digital and visual effects sector (PDV). This is a thriving and increasingly technologically sophisticated sector which accounts for a growing share of production expenditure in film, TV and commercials production. The rapid evolution of creative industries such as PDV is creating new, or at least enhanced, international competitive opportunities.

IP Law in Asia

alawrence — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:36:42 +1100

This project examines intellectual property issues related to content creation in Asia.

New Literacy, New Audiences

alawrence — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:07:12 +1100

This major three-year project unites the research team with an expert group of strategists and technologists from some of Australia’s major cultural institutions, to examine how the evolution of digital literacy and content creation can create a new audience of active cultural participants.

The project is led by Angelina Russo, who has substantial experience in the theory and practice of museum communication and new media. Dr Russo was awarded the prestigious 2005 Smithsonian Fellowship by the Queensland Premier.

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Remix My Lit

alawrence — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:19:21 +1000

The term 'remix' may be new but the idea itself is time-honoured. Remix is all about taking existing material and making something new out of it. It's a familiar concept in music but extends to all creative content so why isn't the literati getting amongst it? There's no reason why writers can't mix, match, push and pull content to create remixed works. And that's why remix my lit exists. We don't like buzz words, but if we had to use them we'd probably say we are a web 2.0 online collaborative space for creative people who want to get stuck up to their elbows in remixing!

Standards and Metadata

paitken — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:35:59 +1100

The film industry uses a large amount of information for decision-making and reuse of existing material. However, it lacks techniques and tools to enable the effective organisation, discovery and reuse of such information. In November 2006 we interviewed AFTRS staff to gain insights into current work practices and requirements, and to assess the scope for innovation. Based on these interviews, we developed a number of use cases for the pre-production, production and post-production stages. These will be used to evaluate the methodology and software system.

The Uses of Multimedia

alawrence — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:35:00 +1100

Innovation in digital content and creative industries relies on active and creative consumers. New multimedia technologies require new capabilities (‘literacy’). Cultural acceptance and social uptake are more decisive determinants of market success than technology as such; but public policy and academic research both focus overly on the production end of the value chain.

Youthworx

paitken — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:12:47 +1100

Youthworx assists homeless or ‘at-risk’ young people to become media trainees and producers in collaboration with SYN FM – a youth-run media organisation and community radio station. The project evolved out of a partnership between the Salvation Army, SYN-FM and CCI.