culture

China's New Creative Clusters: Governance, Human Capital and Investment

ccook — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:25 +1100

Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" – industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts – in order to promote the development of the creative industries. This book examines these new creative clusters, outlining their nature and purpose, and assessing their effectiveness.

Home internet for remote Indigenous communities

mcummins — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:44:12 +1000

This report documents the circumstances and experiences of 3 remote Indigenous communities in central Australia and outlines the reasons for the low level of internet take-up, and considers the future prospects for ‘home internet’ in these communities.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Who’s a Global Citizen? Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and the Australian Media Reaction

alawrence — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:24:35 +1000

The global release of 250,000 United States Embassy diplomatic cables to selected media sites worldwide through the WikiLeaks web site was arguably the major global media event of 2010. As well as the implications of the content of the cables for international politics and diplomacy, the actions of WikiLeaks and its controversial editor-in-chief, the Australian Julian Assange, bring together a range of arguments about how the media, news and journalism are being transformed in the 21st century.

A data picture of Australia’s Arts and Entertainment Sector 2010

ccook — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:23:11 +1100

Australia’s Arts and Entertainment Sector underpins cultural and social innovation, improves the quality of community life, is essential to maintaining our cities as world class attractors of talent and investment, and helps create ‘Brand Australia’ in the global marketplace of ideas (QUT Creative Industries Faculty 2010). The sector makes a significant contribution to the Australian economy. So what is the size and nature of this contribution?

Business of Creativity

Why the bloody hell live there? – First estimates of a Cultural Consumption Price Index by Australian region

alawrence — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:41:33 +1100

We propose a method to construct a price index of cultural consumption in geographic space. The index – the CCPI – is calculated from a standardised cultural consumption basket purchased by a representative consumer over 30 locations in Australia, using 2010 price data. We use a full cost method (direct plus indirect cost) to estimate the index value of the cultural consumption basket.

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

Not rocket science: a roadmap for arts and cultural research and development

alawrence — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:29 +1100

This paper proposes that publicly funded arts and cultural organisations should aspire to, and be funded to, engage in Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Supporting culture when everyone’s on YouTube

ccook — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:34:40 +1100

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?

Creative digital industries mapping

The Cultural Economy Moment?

alawrence — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:34:51 +1100

This paper explores the rise of cultural economy as a key organising concept over the 2000s. While it has intellectual precursors in political economy, sociology and postmodernism, it has been work undertaken in the fields of cultural economic geography, creative industries, the culture of service industries and cultural policy where it has come to the forefront, particularly around whether we are now in a ‘creative economy’.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

The Media and Communications in Australia, 3rd edition

alawrence — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:32:56 +1100

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

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Beyond Globalisation: Rethinking the Scalar and the Relational in Global Media Studies

alawrence — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:59:19 +1000

This paper traces how the concept of globalisation has been understood in media and communications, and the ongoing tension as to whether we can claim to be in an era of ‘global media’. A problem with this discussion is that it continues to revolve around a scalar understanding of globalisation, where the global has superseded the national and the local, leading to a series of empirically unsustainable, and often misleading, claims.