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New Research

36 Million language pairs: generative multilingualism in digitally-enabled societies

05 March 2010This essay is based on a study that explores the relationships among multilingualism, technological change and the generation of novelty.

Young people's writing: attitudes, behaviour and the role of technology

04 March 2010This report outlines the findings from 3001 pupils aged 8-16 from England and Scotland surveyed on their attitudes to writing. It explores gender, age and socio-economic differences.

The keiretsu-cooperative: a model for post-Gutenberg publishing

04 March 2010The paper outlines a suggestion for a profitable, post-Gutenberg publishing model, one that puts bloggers at its centre. It avoids the chief risk of implementing pay-for-content plans, which is reducing site traffic, thereby reducing publishers' attractiveness to advertisers.

Relevance of health libraries in the digital age

15 February 2010This article discusses the future of health libraries and how they need to meet the needs of the parent organisation and its staff to maintain relevance in the digital age.

On the same page, right?

27 January 2010This essay discusses the competing voices in Australian story-telling.

Cultural globalisation and challenges to traditional communication theories

27 January 2010This article reviews existing traditional media theories, and analyses the challenges that the current developments of globalisation present to them.
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Arts, music & design

Culture in small and rural communities

05 March 2010The Creative City Network of Canada commissioned a series of reports on developing and revitalizing rural communities through arts and creativity.

More than bums on seats: Australian participation in the arts

03 March 2010This research identifies the key factors which will impact Australians’ future participation in the arts. It also identifies barriers and incentives which impact our participation.

Cultural policy & law

Cyber crime 2.0 versus the Twittering classes

Cyber crime 2.0 versus the Twittering classes

06 March 2010This paper contends that the hype surrounding the steep rise of social media networking website use has tended to mask the reality of a corresponding growth in online fraud and crime.

Child protection and freedom of speech online

01 March 2010Advocates of online child protection and freedom of expression share a deep-seated belief in the importance of protecting basic human rights. Yet these beliefs are often clouded by perceived (and real) opposition in the actual practice of law, policy, and regulation. This has restricted the policy options available for dealing with threats to both child safety and free speech online, and has often resulted in these interests being portrayed as diametrically opposed.

Commentary

The future of journalism needs journalists

13 November 2009The ABC's Mark Scott likes describing the media future as a 'town square' but is very quiet on how investigative journalism fits in, writes Marni Cordell in New Matilda

Conceptual confusion and journalistic process

09 November 2009Margaret Simons' account of some of the highlights and lowlights of the first day of Media 140 are outlined in The Content Makers.

Creativity on the campus

01 October 2009Universities have become the laboratories for creative writing, according to Stephen Muecke in The Australian
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Audio

Unsettled

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12 October 2009Digital Campus is a biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. This episode debate the "Google issue".

Who owns the news?

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05 October 2009It's a question no one has really been able to answer, though many try. A new fight for the answer is breaking out all over the place because readers are getting what they want on the internet, and copying stuff is really easy. Listen to the program here>

Cultural institutions

20 years of Screenrights. 20 years of Australian TV

18 February 2010Jock Given, a Screenrights founding director and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University's Institute for Social Research, looks at the last 20 years in Australian television.

Towards sustainability indicators for museums in Australia

27 January 2010This report looks at environmental, societal, cultural and economic sustainability issues of collecting organisations.

Video

Charter for innovation, creativity and access to knowledge

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27 November 2009Citizens, artists and consumers are no longer powerless and isolated in the face of the content-providing industries: now individuals across many different spheres collaborate, participate and decide.

Social media - death or salvation of professional journalism?

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26 November 2009At this Media140 Sydney forum, Fran Kelly (ABC RN) hosts a panel of eminent journalists and newsmakers on the impact of social media and the internet on professional journalism.

Creative industries

Digital marketing outlook

16 February 2010This annual survey polled in excess of a thousand executives from major global brands, traditional and Digital agencies, vendor and service providers that operate in the Digital space, as well as freelance and independent Digital practitioners. The research has confirmed that many believe the future of Digital Marketing is exceptionally bright.

interACT resource kit

  • Claudia Chidiac, Eleanor Winkler
  • interACT
27 January 2010The interACT Resource Kit has been designed to assist those who want to work in integrated performance settings.

Websites

BookServer

09 November 2009  The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet.

ABC Arts

01 November 2009The ABC's new arts gateway includes reviews, blogs, video, news, program guides, feedback and more.

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

12 October 2009This is a free online service that enables full-text searching of newspaper articles. The service includes newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies.

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Books

TV drama in China

  • Edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, and Ruoydon Bai
  • University of Washington Press
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution, and consumption of TV drama, an international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The collection explores industry dynamics, how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights.
Outrageous! Moral panics in Australia

Outrageous! Moral panics in Australia

  • Edited by Scott Poynting and George Morgan
  • ACYS Publishing
In this detailed examination of case studies, a distinguished group of experts demystifies the social processes of moral panic in Australia.

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...

Policy Guides

Arts for all: opening doors to people with a disability

This guide provides practical and long-term ways for artists and arts organisations to enhance their access, market their events to the disabled community and build new audiences.

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