New Research

The truth about privacy

31 January 2012As technology makes our world more transparent, handeling both customer data is both a riskand an opportunity for businesses.

Students as learning designers: using social media to scaffold the experience

31 January 2012The ‘students as learning designers’ approach challenges transmission models of pedagogy and requires teachers to relinquish some control to their students so that they might have the space to experiment and discover how to learn.

The State of Marketing 2011: Unica’s Annual Survey of Marketers

30 January 2012The opportunity to understand what marketers are thinking and doing during a period of unprecedented change and increasing expectations has made Unica’s Annual Survey of Marketers a must read.

Mapping Australian higher education

30 January 2012Australia’s higher education system is entering one of its most significant years in recent history.

Broadcasting Services Amendment (Regional Commercial Radio) Bill 2011

25 January 2012This proposes of this Bill is to digest and amend the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (the BSA) with the aim of easing the regulatory burden on regional commercial radio broadcasters.

2011 independent review of the intelligence community

25 January 2012This is the first comprehensive review of the Australian intelligence community since the 2004 inquiry conducted by Mr Philip Flood AO.

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Creative industries

CCI Report highlights role of social media in floods coverage and response

10 January 2012Social media sites Twitter and Facebook played a crucial role in disseminating information during the 2011 Queensland floods.

Public art and the challenge of evaluation

09 January 2012Measuring the 'impact' of a work of public art is a task which more often than not provokes grumbling from public art administrators.

Technology

Commentary

Law must navigate the seas of social media

31 January 2012We must move past the culture of blame, argues Chris Harrison for The Punch.

A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s play

31 January 2012The women’s tournament is not equal in work to the men’s, writes Mark Gottlieb for The Punch.

Piracy and prosecution: Ringing in Kim Dotcom

25 January 2012Journalists have found their demon figure in the form of an anti-copyright maestro writes Binoy Kampmark for APO.

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Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

Social innovation

05 December 2011Social innovation has recently been gaining attention as a way to address social and economic problems that are overlooked or not effectively addressed by existing systems.

Good practice in transnational education: A guide for New Zealand providers

25 August 2007Providing an introduction to good practice in ‘offshore' education, this 2007 guide draws on the international codes of practice, case studies of large-scale successful overseas programs and reports of quality assurance bodies.

Audio

Communication, access and equality

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08 December 2011This program looks at number of projects aiming to improve access to communication - be it the use of telephones in East Timor or Internet access in the remote interior of Australia.

Waves of influence: Television drama as an instrument of soft power in Asia

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21 November 2011Sociologist Professor Chua Beng Huat explains how serial TV dramas have become a soft power currency traded among China, Korea, Japan and other countries in Asia.

Creative workforce

Boost for Australian content and innovation

01 January 2012Australian content should receive a boost in an increasingly convergent media world, if the findings of the Federal Government’s interim report – released today – are carried into policy.

Video

Social entrepreneurship - the revolution matures

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09 December 2011The discourse around social entrepreneurship continues at a pace: more international conferences, research interest, journals and university courses are some of the identifiers.

Essaying opinions

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02 November 2011  At this Melbourne Writers Festival event, three renowned essay writers debate the health of the essay form in Australia.

Culture & society

Beyond switchover: the future technical evolution of digital terrestrial television in Australia

24 January 2012This paper starts a discussion about some of the issues for the future technical migration of free-to-air DTTB. While the discussion paper and consultation is intended to be broad-ranging, certain matters are outside their scope.

Websites

Datafication

21 November 2011Datafication is part of The Works continued commitment to understanding how the Australian social media landscape works. They do this to have a real understanding of what’s happening online, to be able to access fact based insights that are based on unique Australian data, and essentially to be able to better inform marketers around the use of the channel.

Design and Art Australia Online

16 November 2011Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO) is a collaborative e-Research tool built upon the foundations of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online.

iTaNGO

14 November 2011iTaNGO is a project designed to help give Victorian community sector organisations the knowledge and resources to get the most out of their information communication technology (ICT) setup.

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Targeting support for high needs students in primary schools
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Six provocations for big data

Books

Digital futures for cultural and media studies

Digital futures for cultural and media studies

  • John Hartley
  • Wiley-Blackwell
As they play with their digital devices and online games, children may unknowingly be making up the kind of democracy we will have tomorrow.
The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy

The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy

  • Terry Flew
  • SAGE Publications
The rise of creative industries allows new thinking in communication, media and cultural studies, media and cultural policy, the arts and also information sectors.Sparking fresh debates and creating a better understanding of culture, in relation to new media and technology.

Noticeboard

Review of the Australia Council for the Arts
20 December 2011

Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts ahead of the development of the nation's first National Cultural Policy in almost 20 years.

Survey: Last chance to have your say on information technology and mental illness
15 December 2011

We live in a 'wired society'. But how much are people affected by mental illness included in this? Does social media increase isolation or help people overcome it?

National community-led disaster organisation: Call to Action
08 December 2011

 

A number of community focussed citizens from across Australia are planning a two day meeting in Melbourne in March/April 2012 to discuss the establishment of a Community-led National Disaster organisation.

Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

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