This paper looks at how the net neutrality debate relates to the music recording industry and considers how new media audiences consume music as social experience and with generative impulse. As the Internet appears to force the music recording industry to re-evaluate its function and change its approach to distributing music and making money, music...

For most Indigenous people in central and northern Australia the encounter with the western world has been relatively recent. Yet even in the most remote Indigenous communities, global influences pervade everyday life and new forms of media and communications are reshaping youth culture. This paper draws on ethnographic case study data from research with Indigenous...

This research identifies the key factors which will impact Australians’ future participation in the arts. It also identifies barriers and incentives which impact our participation. Summary of results - download summary PDF (5) We found levels of engagement with the arts were high. In the year leading up to the research nine in ten Australians...

The real role of the internet in the meteoric rise of the Arctic Monkeys, Sandi Thom and Lily Allen to international prominence has been the subject of considerable debate in the music and media industries. Whether or not such success stories represent a change in the way popular music artists are raising their profile with...

This evaluation finds that Australia's six symphony orchestras have made a smooth transition to become fully independent companies following their divestment from the ABC. The evaluation concluded that since divestment from the ABC to independent company status the orchestras have made great strides artistically and financially in developing distinctive cultural identities and business models, although...