CCi in the Media

The Media Report on the ABC's Radio National Investigates new research on Australians and their use of the internet. The first comes from the latest Sensis e-Business Report and the second from the Australian Arm of the World Internet Project and it honed in on the use and availability of broadband.

If you are reading this, the popularity of YouTube won't be news, but there is more than one way to measure popularity writes Matthew Ricketson in his blog on The Age website. Ricketson discusses new research into Youtube being conducted by CCI's Jean Burgess and Joshua Green for the Uses of Multimedia project.

INTERNET use is now deeply embedded in Australian culture, with most people seeing it as a prime source of information, an increasingly appealing source of entertainment and the place to turn for breaking news. This is the picture emerging from a major new study of Australians' internet use conducted by the ARC Centre for Creative Innovation at Swinburne University that will be published this month writes Matthew Ricketson in The Age.

Three noted thinkers on the changing nature of media and its consumers. ABC Radio National's Media Report program interviews MIT's Henry Jenkins, Mark Deuze from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Australia´s John Hartley, Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript.

ABC television chief Kim Dalton has called on the federal Government to extend Australia's TV content standards to web-based video, a move that would greatly increase government regulation of the internet.

Andrew Field reviews Internet and e-commerce law in the February 2008 issue of the Law Institute Journal.

On the ABC's Radio National Media Report program Anthony Funnell interviews three academics who've been closely studying areas of the Chinese media.

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Tensions generated by the rapid development of intellectual property law and the various interests that define its further role in the economic and legal development processes of Southeast Asian countries was the focus of the latest presentation in UOW's Professorial Lecture Series.

Professor Antons told a lunchtime audience that Southeast Asian developing countries have long had a reputation for copyright piracy and the unauthorised use of trade marks and other forms of intellectual property.

CHASS today (Monday) welcomed the announcement of a new Advisory Council for the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr has appointed six researchers to provide strategic and policy advice to CEO Professor Margaret Sheil.

Toss Gascoigne, Executive Director of CHASS (the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) said that the appointments will strengthen the ARC.

"The ARC lost some of its independence and a little of its international credibility when the Board was abolished in 2005," he said.

22 January 2008

Professor Stuart Cunningham, CHASS president welcomed the announcement of a review of Australia's national innovation system.

Professor Stuart Cunningham, President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, said that CHASS sees this as an important step to enable Australia to move beyond an old 1960's smokestack view of innovation.

"Modern innovation depends on bringing people together to work on a problem, making the best use of the available talent," he said.