consumers

In the vernacular: a generation of Australian culture and controversy

alawrence — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:30:45 +1000

In the Vernacular brings together important works, written over a twenty-year period by Stuart Cunningham, one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture and policy.

Creative Industries and Innovation Policy

Community media in the prosumer era

alawrence — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:33:42 +1000

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.

Youthworx

Broadband : towards understanding users

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:12:06 +1000

This paper suggests that the forgotten domain of the complex and vigorous debates about the future of higher speed broadband in Australia is the experience and expectations of users and consumers with broadband. Research to date about such user experiences, especially in Australia, has essentially concentrated on Internet services and mainly with narrowband users. Yet Internet is not broadband. We, in Australia, have much to learn from recent European experiences with broadband.

Broadband Public Policy in Australia

Crisis of innovation: looking elsewhere

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:15:09 +1000

Considerable attention has been given in recent months to the complexity of issues surrounding broadband policy for Australia. While there appears to be widespread support that Australia needs to move from what might presently be called `rudimentary' or possibly `adequate' broadband, and largely only for urban dwellers, there are many calls for the urgent availability of `enabling' broadband. The unravelling of these terms depends upon what users expect from broadband, what speeds they require, and how much they are prepared to pay for the service.

Broadband Public Policy in Australia

Media work and media practice

alawrence — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:34:29 +1000

Three noted thinkers on the changing nature of media and its consumers. Anthony Funnell on ABC Radio National's media report interviews MIT's Henry Jenkins, Mark Deuze from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Australia's John Hartley, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation.

The Uses of Multimedia

Citizen consumer

alawrence — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:04:08 +1000

John Hartley introduces the Citizen consumer session at the 'Digital literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy' symposium held in Brisbane 29 - 30 March. This is just a 3 minute introduction. The papers from this session will be added soon.

The Uses of Multimedia