CCi Arc Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

Outlining their radical new roadmap for cultural R&D, the authors’ proposals challenge two entrenched prejudices, which block arts and cultural organisations from playing their full role in society and economy.

Will Australians pay for content online – new survey data

29/01/2010

Media commentator Margaret Simon's reports on the latest findings from CCI's Digital Futures project, the Australian branch of the World Internet Project.

Eight hundred Australian internet users responded to the question “A daily newspaper costs around $1.50. How much would you be prepared to pay to read an online newspaper?”...

Read the full story at The Content Makers

The Media and Communications in Australia, 3rd edition - Edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner

19/01/2010

Edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner

A fully revised edition of the leading Australian introductory text on media studies, incorporating extensive analysis of the impact of communications.

M/C Journal 'ambient' Issue

11/01/2010

M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'ambient' issue of

M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues.

Online patent service launches in Australia

16/12/2009

Following on from the Peer-to-Patent projects run recently out of the New York Law School (NYLS) and the Japanese Patent Office comes Peer-to-Patent Australia (www.peertopatent.org.au). Peer-to-Patent Australia lead by Professor Brian Fitzgerald is a joint initiative of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and IP Australia that is designed to improve the patent examination process and the quality of issued patents.

Media International Australia December issue out now

15/12/2009

Media International Australia December issue: 'The Globalisation of Advertising in Asia' has just been published. The issue includes feature articles by CCI's Director Stuart Cunningham, and Terry Flew on the history of SBS, and researcher Mark Ryan on horror films and cultural policy, as well as a special section looking at advertising in Asia.

Access to this issue is subscription only - details available at Media International Australia

The new creativity is solving problems together

Authors:

Stuart Cunningham

Publication date:

30 November 2009

Australian Financial Review

Creativity is today’s ultimate black box a Rorschach blot onto which there are projected innumerable meanings. When academic Richard Green reviewed the literature recently, he found so much variation that he concluded the field was ‘so attenuated, extenuated, or misunderstood that operationalising of the key concepts is missing or impossible’. He tried to order the field, and constructed a profile of 42 models of creativity which, when combined with assorted variations and typologies, totted up 303 variables!

New site for game developers and researchers

26/11/2009

CCI's Creative Workforce Program has launched the Games Industry Skills Project website. The site provides an opportunity for interested researchers and other stakeholders to participate in a dialogue about the current and future state of Australia's Digital Games Industry.