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Research & Evidence Base

Swinburne Institute for Social Research

John Hartley

Director, Research

04 April 2013 | What makes a great city? This is the question that the construction of world city or global city indexes has sought to answer.

29 February 2012 | The CCI Creative City Index (CCI-CCI) is a new approach to the measurement and ranking of creative global cities.
25 October 2010 | The creative industries concept was born in the UK, nurtured in Australia (among other countries), but is now being implemented most vigorously in China. The UK and Australia seem to be pulling back from the concept:  Critical response to CI policy in the UK; and post-GFC cutbacks limit scope for government action.
16 December 2009 | The internet is not a medium: it is a whole new media environment which requires us to rethink how we regulate content, protect vulnerable groups
Distinguished Professor John Hartley and CCI Director, Professor Stuart Cunningham brief symposium attendees on the recent achievements and future directions for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.
04 February 2009 | This report was initiated in order to support both the practical and emerging creative engagement of the arts sector with climate change.
09 October 2008 | Researchers from CCI identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a 'demand-led' model of education in digital literacy. We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a ?demand-led? model of education in digital literacy. We go on to analyse three case studies ? digital storytelling, the Flickr photosharing site and the MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) Fury ?
26 June 2008 | YouTube's significance is partly to do with its pre-history, write HENRY JENKINS and JOHN HARTLEY
30 March 2007 | In a knowledge society, what's needed is an open innovation network, argues JOHN HARTLEY
26 October 2006 | Television is heading into a post-broadcast phase of interactive innovation and do-it-yourself production, brought on by the coming-of-age of the Internet, which combines individual creative content and global scale in a way that was hardly thinkable in the broadcast era writes John Hartley.

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