EIDOS Event: During the natural disasters and human-made crises of 2011 and 2012, from the Queensland floods to Hurricane Sandy, social media have emerged as key means of disseminating up-to-date news and information, sharing eyewitness reports, images, and videos, and organizing crisis response and recovery activities.
A podcast of Michael Curtin's CCI seminar on 19 March, Regulating Global Media, is now available to download.
Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global world is acted out most articulately in the world's urban hubs - through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles of governance.
For many years, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has led the world in developing rigorous innovation frameworks for policy, programs and evaluation of arts and cultural activity.
Remember a time before the internet?
Some of you might...
But in Papunya, a remote Aboriginal community in the central Australian desert, people are just getting connected.
The small town has a chequered past, it was the birthplace for the iconic Western Desert Art Movement in the 1970's, but more recently had a chronic petrol sniffing problem.
A computer room with internet access has sprung up to teach kids whose education had lapsed during the sniffing epidemic.
But as Alex Mann reports it's music, not Facebook, that's drawing them in.
Podcasts are now available from the Content Crisis and Convergence roundtable in the following order:
Stuart Cunningham - The Convergence Review, the Classification Review and the National Cultural Policy
Kim Dalton - Convergence and Content Creation
Deb Verhoeven - The Screen Content Producer Survey
Andy Lloyd James - Outside the Box: Scenario Planning the Future of Television
Gary Hayes - Transmedia and the Review
Jean Burgess introduces the CCI on day one of the CCI Symposium. Day one is focussed on Research Higher Degree student workshops.
Live streaming available at http://livestre.am/Tb0m
SPAA Conference, Melbourne
Keynote slides by Associate Professor Axel Bruns at CeDEM 2011, Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government.
This presentation, with audio, by Dr Jean Burgess and Associate Professor Axel Brunsfor the 'Social media in times of crisis' symposium on Monday, 4 April, is now available to download.