New Research

Open access publishing practices in a complex environment: conditions, barriers, and bases of power

17 May 2012The system of scholarly communication is a complex environment made up of various stakeholders including not only researchers, librarians, and publishers, but also academic administrators.

The anatomy of a data citation: discovery, reuse, and credit

17 May 2012Data citation should be a necessary corollary of data publication and reuse, yet many researchers are reluctant to share their data until reward structures such as data citation, are more widespread.

New engines of growth: five roles for arts, culture, and design

16 May 2012This US report focuses on the role that arts, culture, and design can play in assisting states as they seek to create jobs and boost their economies in the short run and transition to an innovation-based economy in the long run.

Review of the Australia Council: May 2012

Review of the Australia Council: May 2012

16 May 2012The purpose of this review was to ensure that funding opportunities offered by the Australia Council reflect the diversity, innovation and excellence of Australia's contemporary arts and cultural sector.

Who do they think they're talking to? Framings of the audience by social media users

10 May 2012This article examines the understandings and meanings of personal information sharing online focusing on writers' conceptions of their relationships with their audiences.

The Murdoch media empire and the spectacle of scandal

10 May 2012In July 2011, dramatic revelations concerning misdeeds by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, one of the most successful tabloid newspapers in history, erupted, creating a vast media spectacle.

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Creative industries

Planning for mobile broadband within the 1.5 GHz mobile band

21 May 2012The Australian Communications and Media Authority (the ACMA) has been monitoring trends in mobile broadband, potential spectrum availability and the impact on spectrum demand.

Technology

Smart technologies for older people

Smart technologies for older people

23 May 2012Addressing the challenges faced by an ageing population, this report discusses how smart technologies can support older people to remain in their homes.

Commentary

Troves of personal data, forbidden to researchers

24 May 2012When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists writes John Markoff for the New York Times.

Drawing the line

02 May 2012In social media, where does public diplomacy stop and virtual crusading start?

Open access site for UK research

02 May 2012The UK has enlisted Wikipedia's help in a bid to make all taxpayer-funded academic research from Britain freely available online, writes Justin Norrie in The Conversation.

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Topic Guides

NBN: guide for consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

21 March 2012Developed by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and now updated for 2012, this guide is designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

Social innovation

  • Nicola Brackertz
  • Australian Policy Online

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

  • Christopher Ziguras
  • Education New Zealand Trust

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

Open journalism

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23 April 2012It's fashionable and cool but is it also a radical new direction for journalism? And will it become the framework for how we produce and consume our news in the future? We speak to three people doing their bit for open journalism today.

Online pirating hub upgrades file-sharing system

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06 March 2012The Pirate Bay is the biggest site on the Internet to find illegally downloaded movies, music, games and software, and it has just changed its file-sharing system.

Creative workforce

The role of simulations in the authentic learning for national security policy development

24 May 2012This report provides examples of practice that illustrate the use of authentic learning and simulations in post-graduate and on-campus learning environments, especially when applied to national security policy education.

Video

Mike Ananny on public right to hear and press freedom in an age of networked journalism

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24 May 2012Mike Ananny — Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — describes how a public right to hear has historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press’s claims to freedom and, more fundamentally, what we want democracy to be. 

Disruptive technology: are you ready for the postdigital age?

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04 April 2012Approximately 2 billion people – about 30 percent of the world’s population – are using the Internet for communication, information and commerce. But what can we expect next? Discusses Suketu Gandhi and Stephen Redwood for Deloitte.    

Culture & society

Websites

Directory of Open Access Books

13 April 2012A discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. 

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.

Text Queensland

07 October 2011Featuring books, journals, theses and newspapers as well as government sources, this site will be useful for anyone interested in Queensland, from school and university students to researchers, family and local historians.

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Books

Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone

Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone

  • Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson
  • Routledge
The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation.
Cultures and globalization cities, cultural policy and governance

Cultures and globalization cities, cultural policy and governance

  • Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar
  • SAGE
Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance examines how governance and cultural policy play out in a national and international framework, and covers issues that fully comprehend a city's cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning.

Noticeboard

Australian Fabians young writers competition
24 November 2009

The Young Writers Competition is open to 18-28 year old Australians who have progressive and practical solutions to the big issues facing Australia today and can communicate that idea in a 700–1000 word opinion piece.

Volunteers needed to help with book distribution for bushfire victims
05 October 2009

Residents of the bushfire areas have told us they are now ready to received some much wanted reading material, so we need your help and expertise. Why? 182 pallets of books are being stored - this is around half a million books...

Topic Guides

NBN: guide for consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

21 March 2012Developed by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and now updated for 2012, this guide is designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

Topics

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