YouTube: home port for lip-syncers, karaoke singers, trainspotters, birdwatchers, skateboarders, hip-hoppers, small-time wrestling federations, educators, third-wave feminists, churches, proud parents, poetry slammers, gamers, human rights activists, hobbyists. It gets 10 hours of new content every minute. Where did all that come from ask Henry Jenkins and John Hartley.
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.
The last ten years have seen the internet and e-commerce emerge as central features of our commercial, social and cultural life. Developments such as Web 2.0, the semantic web, e-government strategies, user generated content, virtual worlds and online social networks have reshaped the way we communicate, interact and transact.
Ewing, S., ‘The Australian component of the World Internet Project: Preliminary findings’, World Internet Project workshop, Museum of Melbourne, 10 July 2007.
Ewing, S. and Thomas, J., ‘Downloading, uploading: uses and users of digital content in Australia’, Communications Policy & Research Forum, [September] 2007.
Ewing, S., ‘World Internet Project: A presentation of the Australian results of this multi-year, multi-country survey about Internet uptake and use’, presented to the Telstra Consumer Consultative Committee.
The chapter provides a broad overview to the topic of search engine liability for copyright infringement.
The World Internet Project (WIP) is a collaborative survey-based project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. Founded by the UCLA Center for the Digital Future in the United States in 1999 (now based at the USC Annenberg Center), the WIP now has more than 20 partners in countries and regions all over the world, including Singapore, Italy, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Philippines, Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Hungary, Canada, Chile and Argentina.
In July 2007 the Institute for Social Research and CCI jointly hosted the annual World Internet Project 2007 partners' meeting at the Melbourne Museum over three days (July 10-12). The 22 members in attendance represented 12 countries; in addition to the members, speakers and CCI and ISR staff, they were joined by representatives of Multimedia Victoria and the Department of Communications and Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA).
The meeting was a great success, and attracted significant coverage in The Age newspaper, which published some of our interim findings from the survey.
Published in 'Broadband...joining the bits', a special edition of Telecommunications Journal of Australia, Vol.56, No. 3-4, summer 2006