technology

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

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 Internet: An Introduction to New Media

alawrence — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:16:07 +1000

Life without the internet, a very new technology, seems almost unimaginable for most people in western nations. Today the internet is intrinsic to media and communications, entertainment, politics, defence, business, banking, education and administrative systems as well as to social interaction. The Internet disentangles this extraordinarily complex information and communication technology from its place in our daily lives, allowing it to be examined anew.

CCI News

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

From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Diverse Learners and Pedagogical Practice

jtan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:12:20 +1000

In this paper, we provide specific examples of the educational promises and problems that arise as multiliteracies pedagogical initiatives encounter conventional institutional beliefs and practices in mainstream schooling. This paper documents and characterizes the ways in which two specific digital learning initiatives were played out in two distinctive traditional schooling contexts, as experienced by two different student groups: one comprising an elite mainstream and the other an excluded minority.

Creative Workforce 2.0

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

From vaporousness to visibility: What might evidence of creative capacity building actually look like?

jtan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:04:56 +1100

The paper seeks to warrant the authors’ claim that creative capacity building can, at least in substantive part, be made visible through empirical processes of inquiry. To do so, the authors present methodologies and findings from two research projects they have conducted into creative capacity building, the first of which tracks student networking capacity and the second of which identifies cognitive playfulness as a creative learning disposition.

Creative Workforce 2.0

What about the digital agenda?

alawrence — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:09:33 +1000

2020's focus on traditional arts funding came at the expense of our creative growth sectors, writes Creative Australia delegate Stuart Cunningham
The Australia 2020 Summit brought people from the heights and the streets together to meet and exchange ideas. It was an exciting concept that produced many valuable ideas.

CCI News

The allocation of complexity

alawrence — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:16:33 +1000

ABSTRACT: Much thought and effort has gone into the design of new conceptual frameworks and theoretical tools for the analysis of evolving, self-transforming economic systems. Nevertheless, why not follow Marshall?

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries - forthcoming publications

paitken — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:32:32 +1100

Foster, J. and Potts, J., (forthcoming) ‘On the use of simulation and econometrics to empirically analyze the rule-structure of an evolving economic system’. Schumpeter Society Conference Volume. (eds) J Gaffard and U Cantner, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Articles

Potts, J. and Cunningham, S., ‘Four models of the Creative Industries’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, forthcoming vol 14, no 3 (2008).

Evolutionary Economics of Creative Industries