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Online Retail in Australia 2007-2011

sewing — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:50:32 +1000

This submission was made to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the economic structure and performance of the Australian retail industry. It presents and analyses World Internet Project data from surveys undertaken in 2007, 2009 and 2011 to help the Commission understand the state of play in online retail in Australia.

World Internet Project (Australia)

The ALRC review of the national classification system

mcummins — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:34:28 +1000

On 24 March 2011, Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, asked the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) to inquire and report on the framework for the classification of media content in Australia.

Firm strategy and innovation in the creative industries

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

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

Untangling the net: the scope of content caught by mandatory internet filtering

alawrence — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:50:19 +1100

The following report considers a number of key challenges the Australian Federal Government faces in designing the regulatory framework and the reach of its planned mandatory internet filter. Previous reports on the mandatory filtering scheme have concentrated on the filtering technologies, their efficacy, their cost and their likely impact on the broadband environment. This report focuses on the scope and the nature of content that is likely to be caught by the proposed filter and on identifying associated public policy implications.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Who will pay for online news?

alawrence — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:30:34 +1000

With the revenue downturn for Fairfax Media being announced on Monday, I got the call from Ashley Hall at the ABC’s PM program to give my opinion. At 2.45pm I may not have been sure that I had an opinion, but the nature of the relationship between news journalists and academics is that it would be good for all concerned if you could get an opinion, and give that to us to put on air. With Crikey publisher Eric Beecher and former ACCC head Allan Fels also offering their opinions, I was in good company on the PM program.

YouTube: online video and participatory culture

alawrence — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:38:22 +1000

YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy.

The Uses of Multimedia

Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World

alawrence — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:01:30 +1000

Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape.

* Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary
* Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like

Creative commons clinic

Creative Labour: Emancipation or Honey-Trap?

coconnor — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:47:15 +1000

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?

Creative digital industries mapping

Social innovation, user-created content and the future of the ABC and SBS as public service media

alawrence — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:32:54 +1100

Submission to the ABC and SBS Review, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

The Uses of Multimedia