Australia currently lacks a mechanism to gather evidence on the formation of public attitudes to the introduction of new technologies, particularly the formation of attitudes to nuclear energy technology.

This is a limiting factor in achieving informed debate in the development of a national energy policy.

These are key findings in a research project recently completed by the National Academies Forum. Its report, Understanding the Formation of Attitudes to Nuclear Power in Australia, will be released today at a CEDA function in Perth (details below).

The Creative Economy Report Card provides a snapshot of key facts about Australia's creative industries, the creative workforce and businesses -- based on analysis of national statistics and reports.

Abstract

It has now been over a decade since the concept of creative industries was first put into the public domain through the Creative Industries Mapping Documents developed by the Blair Labour government in Britain. The concept has developed traction globally, but it has also been understood and developed in different ways in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America, as well as through international bodies such as UNCTAD and UNESCO.

Julian Thomas
The Australian
February 22, 2010 12:00AM

CONFUSION and disarray surround Stephen Conroy's decision to rebate licence fees for commercial television broadcasters.

The decision raises the most basic question that can be asked about government dispensation of any kind: what was this money for?

There are young Australians who are already making a name (and money) for themselves in the latest market for creative content – and it didn’t exist a moment ago. YouTube is a huge repository of amateur content, but it is also rapidly evolving into a site that has legally contracted Hollywood movies and TV shows but is working out ways to share revenues from advertising with gifted and committed amateurs whose creativity attracts a big following.

Can government play a role in assisting Australian creative talent to catch some of dynamism of emerging markets for culture?

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.

Australian Financial Review

Creativity is today’s ultimate black box a Rorschach blot onto which there are projected innumerable meanings. When academic Richard Green reviewed the literature recently, he found so much variation that he concluded the field was ‘so attenuated, extenuated, or misunderstood that operationalising of the key concepts is missing or impossible’. He tried to order the field, and constructed a profile of 42 models of creativity which, when combined with assorted variations and typologies, totted up 303 variables!

Faculty Seminar Series

Professor Justin O’Connor, Research Capacity Building Professor Tuesday 28th April 12pm-1pm The Hall (Z2-226) CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove

Creative labour: emancipation or honey-trap?

How is media convergence impacting on established, ‘broadcast-era’ community media? In this paper Ellie Rennie takes SYN (a community radio licensee in Melbourne) as a case study and employs media ethnography and policy analysis to identify contemporary challenges facing community media.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
Ellie Rennie and Julian Thomas (2008), 'Inside the House of SYN: digital literacy and youth media', Media International Australia, 128.

MEDIA
Ellie Rennie ABC Radio National, Media report (Nov 5 2008). Interview with Antony Funnell.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2008/2409990.htm#transcript

Ellie Rennie Creative Economy article, ‘Quality/control: a new system for ethical media’, Aug 5 2008. http://www.creative.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=224226

CONFERENCE PAPERS

JOURNAL ARTICLES
Podkalicka, A and J. Staley (2009), “YouthWorx Media: Creative media engagement for ‘at risk’ young people”, 3C Media: Journal of Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector
Media and Communication Issue 5
http://www.cbonline.org.au/3cmedia/3c_issue5/Podkalicka.pdf

Podkalicka, A (2009). “Young listening: An ethnography of YouthWorx Media's radio project”, Continuum 23(4): 561-572

Rennie, E. (2009). ‘A story of the digital generation’ Griffith Review, 24

CONFERENCE PAPERS