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Broadband : towards understanding users

Publication date: 
25 September 2007
Type: 
conference paper

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.

Is YouTube truly the future?

Other Authors: 
Henry Jenkins
Publication date: 
25 June 2008
Type: 
article

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.

Internet and e-commerce law

Other Authors: 
Anne Fitzgerald, Timothy Beale, Yee Fen Lim, Gaye Middleton
Publication date: 
14 November 2007
Type: 
book

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.

What about the digital agenda?

Publication date: 
21 April 2008
Type: 
commentary

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 World Internet Project and its Australian component

Publication date: 
1 November 2006
Type: 
journal article

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.

Search engine liability for copyright infringement

Other Authors: 
Damien S. O'Brien and Anne M. Fitzgerald
Publication date: 
1 May 2007
Type: 
chapter

The chapter provides a broad overview to the topic of search engine liability for copyright infringement. In doing so, the chapter examines some of the key copyright law principles and their application to search engines. The chapter also provides an import discussion of some of the most important cases to be decided within the courts of the United States, Australia, China and Europe regarding the liability of search engines for copyright infringement.

Surveying the Digital Future: 2007 conference papers

Publication date: 
10 July 2007
Type: 
conference paper

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.

World internet meeting, July 2007

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.

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