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19 August 2009 Mark David Ryan is currently editing 'Australasian Horror' a special issue of the Intellect journal Studies in Australasian Cinema.
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Government calls for expressions of interest for Digital Regions funding The federal government is calling for proposals to deliver innovative digital services for regional, rural and remote Australia as part of the Digital Regions Initiative. Applications due by 14 September
Mobile TV 'very slow' to take off Maggie Shiels l BBC News Mobile TV has so far failed to deliver on its promise of ubiquity, but analysts expect worldwide user numbers to increase to 54 million in 2009.
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New commentary 19 August, 2009 | On The Content Makers, Margaret Simons introduces the board of the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism New research Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 21 August, 2009 | This paper is intended to stimulate public debate about the anti‑siphoning scheme and inform the federal government's considerations of the effectiveness and appropriateness of the scheme in the current environment. Wikimedia Foundation 21 August, 2009 | This paper presents 170 recommendations for how Australian galleries, libraries, museums and archives (GLAM) can better integrate and work with Wikipedia. Museums and Galleries NSW 18 August, 2009 | This study aims to draw a picture of the type of people who visit NSW galleries and this year’s results shatter some of the myths associated with gallery goers. Web 2.0 Summit 22 August, 2009 | At the first web 2.0 conference in 2004, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle argued that "the network as platform” means building applications that literally get better the more people use them. Five years on they survey the changes and make some predictions for the future. Australian Communications Consumer Action Network 21 August, 2009 | This report highlights flaws in obtaining consent in the Australian communications industry. Abi Paramaguru, Sophia Christou | SCRIPTed 21 August, 2009 | In 2007 the federal government commenced a review into the feasibility of extending the legal deposit scheme to include audiovisual and electronic material. This paper examines the history and significance of legal deposit as well as the relationship between legal deposit and cultural and technological change. Michael Wesley | Lowy Institute for International Policy 21 August, 2009 | This policy brief analyses the multi-faceted international student debate, canvassing the dynamics of the international student industry and the social, economic and criminal issues faced by international students during their time in Australia. Inge Kral | Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research 21 August, 2009 | This paper explores several factors that can contribute to the lower rates of literacy among remote Indigenous youth, many of which have little to do with the quality of teaching or resources, school attendance or lower expectations of competence. Government 2.0 Taskforce 19 August, 2009 | This issues paper is intended as a guide to those interested in making a submission to the Government 2.0 taskforce currently underway. New York University Library 20 August, 2009 | The demand for educationally-targeted video archives and services is high according to this US report. In interviews with 57 faculty and librarians from 20 institutions and across 18 academic departments and schools, the Video and Higher Education Project found data to support the following: Tracy Logan, Emily Keaney | Arts Council England 21 August, 2009 | The aim of this study was to assess understanding of, engagement with and aspirations for art in the digital space amongst the general public. MTM London | Arts Council England 21 August, 2009 | This report provides a detailed overview of the online presences of the 869 arts organisations that receive regular funding from Arts Council England. Kay E. Sherwood | Wallace Foundation 21 August, 2009 | This report on a gathering of representatives from more than 50 Wallace-funded arts organizations in six US cities concludes that participation-building efforts and the resulting lessons are more vital than ever to the long-term health of arts organisations and the entire arts sector. Pew Internet & American Life Project 24 August, 2009 | Teenagers have previously lagged behind adults in their ownership of cell phones, but several years of survey data show that those ages 12-17 are closing the gap in cell phone ownership.
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24 August, 2009 | Does the private sector have a social responsibility to donate to the arts? Michael Lynch certainly thinks so. 24 August, 2009 | Former Prime Minister John Howard has had a long and often complicated relationship with the Australian media. Here, addressing the newly opened Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, he talks about how the reporting of politics changed over the course of his three decades in public life, and gives his opinion of some of the big stories of his career. New jobs Queensland University of Technology - Faculty of Business 20 August, 2009 | The Faculty of Business is QUT's largest faculty, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programs to over8,500 students. It is one of Australia's largest and most successful Business faculties and has committed a significant investment in the development of world class, business research capabilities. New submissions 30 December, 2009 | I invite contributions that explore everyday media culture and the issues of women as ‘consumers’, women as ‘representations’ and women as ‘creators’, to offer an understanding of changing lives and frustrated desires, contradictions and dispersed sites of female individualization that are refracted into various degrees and forms Deadline 30 December 2009 23 October, 2009 | In recent years it has become increasingly evident that those who wish to advance the cause of the arts, culture and creativity as a recognized element of social policy and as a significant contributor to the new imagination economy have to find new arguments and evidentiary materials in their support, and new ways to present them. 09 September, 2009 | The Dunlop Asia Fellowships provide opportunities for young Australians who are committed to making a lasting contribution to Australia-Asia relations New events 18 September, 2009 | In the midst of successive waves of ‘bad news’ about our global economy and ecology, Action Learning and Action Research practitioners are turning their visions, objectives and methodologies to the newly emerging context. 20 October, 2009 | Last year we focused on where the Web met the world. This year, the Web is the world. And we've got a lot of work to do. Entire industries are in the process of painful rebirth—finance and energy, to be sure, but also information technology, media and communications, healthcare, retail—nearly every major sector, in every major region of the world. And while these changes have been ongoing for more than a decade, the global financial crisis has accelerated and clarified this shift. It's the end of one era, and the beginning of another. |
