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Creative Economy Report Card 2010The Creative Economy Report Card provides a snapshot of key facts about Australia's creative industries, the creative workforce and businesses -- based on analysis of national statistics and reports. Creative Economy Report Card, 2010.pdf
Blogs
How “neoliberal” are the creative industries?
Ben Eltham 9 April 2010 Today I’m having a look an important recent paper by Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew, entitled “Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate” (it’s a paper published this year in the journal The Information Society 26: 1–11, 2010). ------------------------------ Artists are doing it for themselvesLyn Gardner 31 March 2010
The Guardian
Too often arts grants lead to artistic failure as the raised financial stakes send experimentation out of the window. Can artist-led communities offer an alternative future – and be supported by a new funding model?
The Collapse of Complex Business Models
Clay Shirky 1 April 2010
I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration.
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 New commentary 16 April, 2010 | Technological innovation is an important part of supporting the health and wellbeing of communities writes Ben O'Mara in Eureka Street. 14 April, 2010 | In Overland, Margaret Simons discusses text in the electronic world 15 April, 2010 | Each part of the media sector has an important role to play, writes Michelle Bawden in the National Times New research Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie | Pew Internet and American Life Project 16 April, 2010 | Technology experts and stakeholders believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020. Vivienne Waller | LIBRES Research Electronic Journal 15 April, 2010 | This paper reports on an analysis of transaction logs of end users of the online catalogue of the State Library of Victoria and recommends ways in which public library users can be better assisted to find what they are looking for. ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation 16 April, 2010 | Summary of key facts, based on analysis of national statistics and reports. Terry Flew, Jason Wilson | Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 16 April, 2010 | The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism have coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism. Charles Leadbeater | Counterpoint 15 April, 2010 | This report argues that we are faced with the greatest challenge of our time: the clash of cloud culture and cloud capitalism. Who will own the cloud? How can we keep it open and reap its vast benefits? Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (OECD) 16 April, 2010 | As the Internet has grown to permeate all aspects of the economy and society, so too has the role of Internet intermediaries that give access to, host, transmit and index content originated by third parties or provide Internet-based services to third parties. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 09 April, 2010 | This report found international mobile roaming services (IMRS) prices to be unreasonably high, considering the underlying costs, and identified some of the causes for this price level. Berkman Center for Internet and Society 16 April, 2010 | The scope of this literature review is to map out what is currently understood about the intersections of youth, reputation, and privacy online, focusing on youth attitudes and practices. Helen Partridge | Australian Learning and Teaching Council 12 April, 2010 | This paper argues that library and information science education in Australia continues to be framed and undertaken in disciplinary and educational traditions that lack the necessary strategic alignment with Australia's current and future needs. Australian Universities Quality Agency 12 April, 2010 | This report of the audit of the Australian Institute of Music provides an overview, and then briefly details the Audit Panel's main findings, and its commendations, affirmations and recommendations. Australian Council for Educational Research 12 April, 2010 | This report finds that International students in USA universities have higher levels of engagement with their institution when compared to international students enrolled in Australasian universities. eLearning Papers 09 April, 2010 | This article presents the results of the analysis of innovation in the context of the lifelong learning supported by the use of ICT, as well as a number of learning-related areas that need specific attention in terms of innovation and creativity. Victor Callan, Berwyn Clayton | Australian Flexible Learning Framework 12 April, 2010 | New research has found that the vocational education and training (VET) system is actively adopting e-assessment while maintaining quality assessment practices. Center for Studies in Higher Education 12 April, 2010 | Despite the increase in open access publishing peer-reviewed journals still hold sway in many academic disciplines according to this US study. New video 09 April, 2010 | The way we read is changing more profoundly now than at any time since the invention of movable type. E-books, electronic ink, digital readers; the book is reinventing itself at a dizzying rate. But what does the future hold for readers, for publishers and for writers? 16 April, 2010 | In this Sydney Institute talk Senator Conroy spruiks the National Broadband Network, arguing that it is crucial to the nation's future in an increasingly digital economy. 16 April, 2010 | In his lecture at Sydney Ideas Katzenstein argues that emphasis on the unity and uniformity of different civilizations and hence on sharp differences among civilizations is misguided, and that civilizations are better thought of in pluralist terms. New submissions 25 June, 2010 | OZCHI is Australia's leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction and CHISIG's (www chisig 24 May, 2010 | This conference aims to encourage and foster efforts of researchers and practitioners by sharing cutting-edge research, innovations, models, theories and strategies that address issues and challenges related to cultivating online communities for grassroots democracy, equity and social justice Location: Freiburg, Germany Conference Official Language: English This is a blind peer-reviewed conference 14 May, 2010 | The comment period for this review has been extended to 14 May 2010 The Australian Communications and Media Authority is well advanced in its review of the regulation of mobile phone jammers in Australia 30 April, 2010 | We invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in the conference program The theme for the 2010 Conference is Future Directions New events 16 April, 2010 | A special symposium on China and East Asia, presented by QUT Creative Industries Faculty, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, the Institute for Cultural Industries, Communication University of China (CUC), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Humanities Research Institute, and the Creative Industries China East Asia Research Student Collective as part of the Creative3 International Forum 06 May, 2010 | Cloud computing promises a huge liberation of human creativity and communication; but can this precious space for our collaboration be kept open and free? Charles Leadbeater, leading thinker on creativity and innovation talks about the issues he addresses in his recent pamphlet - Cloud Culture: the global future of cultural relations. 26 July, 2010 | ICOLACE 2010 is a meeting point for educators to share research, experiences and ideas regardinginvolvement by students in sustainable development activities and lifewide learning. 03 October, 2010 | The theme for the 2010 Conference is Future Directions. This theme is intended to provide insight and promote discussion into what tertiary education might be like in the future. New guide 12 April, 2010 | Provides practical information and tools to support the efforts of scholars and other small teams producing independent Open Access journals. |
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