Applicants are invited for a number of three-year PhD scholarships with the Creative Workforce research program of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation, hosted at Queensland University of Technology.

More Information Here. or Contact Ruth Bridgstock

Dr. Ruth Bridgstock of CCi’s Creative Workforce Program and Melissa Hyde of the School of Psychology at QUT have been awarded funding under the QUT Faculty of Health Collaborative Grants program to investigate psychological aspects of university graduate education-to-work transitions in the fields of Creative Industries and Psychology.

Dr. Mark Ryan was awarded the Creative Industries Faculty Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation (2009) on the 8 July in recognition of excellence by an early career researcher (ECR) for the impact and utilisation of his research by the media and industry.

Mark is an ECR, completing his PhD one year ago, who has 20 HERDC works published or accepted for publication. In addition to his productivity, Ryan’s research into genre movies like horror, and the future of filmmaking, has received significant public exposure.

Mark Ryan has written a horror chapter for the ‘Intellect Directory of Australian and New Zealand Cinema’, which is currently available for download, FREE for a limited time HERE.

With sessions on implementing gov 2.0, cultural analysis, the creative workforce and engagement with Asia, this CCI annual mid-year symposium will be a fascinating tour through current thinking on the issues facing the creative industries.

The final program is now available to download with full details on the emerging scholar program on Monday 5 July and the symposium proper on Tuesday 6 July.

Also on Monday is a public discussion on how Australian society will be changed by fast broadband - AUSTRALIA’S BROADBAND FUTURE. The panel event at 4 pm will be followed by the launch of three new books on knowledge, creativity and the internet. Full details here: book launch at 6pm.

A great series of events for anyone interested in Australia's future and the ideas and research happening at CCI.

A number of key findings about Australians' internet use have been announced as part of the latest installment of the Digital Futures Report, Australia's contribution to the World Internet Project.

Key findings include:

Australians shop till they drop online
Australians may be the world's most avid online shoppers, bargain hunters and browsers according to the latest Digital Futures Report. Fifty-seven per cent of Australians search the internet for something to buy at least once a week and more than half buy something online every month. Read more here.

Australians prefer not to pay for digital information
Seven in ten Australians are unwilling to pay for news and information obtained from the internet. Most users rate the internet as important or very important as an information source, but there is a strong view that content should continue to be free. Young Australians are even less willing to pay for internet content, with more than three quarters of those aged under 24 saying they are not prepared to pay up. Read more here.

Australians favour internet freedom - with limits
Australians are overwhelmingly in favour of free speech and freedom to criticise their governments on the internet - but equally strongly of a view that children's content should be restricted. Notably, given the current debate on internet censorship, eighty-three per cent of Australians believe that children's internet content should have restrictions and that responsibility for this should be shared. Read more here.

The full report can be viewed at: http://cci.edu.au/publications/digital-futures-2010

CCi Digital Futures 2010: The Internet in Australia presents findings from the second survey of the Australian component of the World Internet Project.

The report provides an overview of the study, presenting a broad picture of the Internet in Australia, with comparisons to our earlier 2007 study, and to the international findings of our partners in the World Internet Project. It deals with the impact of the Internet on Australian social networks, media, and business, and aspects also of current Internet politics and policy.

The Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology is currently seeking people to take up scholarships to undertake postgraduate research in their Communication and Creativity Research Flagship

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation has given an honourable mention to CCI PhD student Thomas Petzold in their 'Cultural Pluralism Revisited: Religious and Linguistic Freedoms' essay competition held in April.

The competition, held from 7 to 11 April, 2010, in Berlin involved roundtable workshops attended by all entrants. The winning essays were from Abraham Rubin (Comparative Literature, City University of New York, USA) and Iryna Ulasiuk (Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy).

M/C - Media and Culture is proud to present issue two in volume thirteen of

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

'ambient' - Edited by Luke Jaaniste

Ambience is all around us. Wherever we are. Conditioned as we are as being-in-the-world, we are always surrounded. A surrounding that affords meaningful pathways and places of action and thought, that is intelligently geared up with us. The fundamental surroundings might be the earth itself, upon which multiple worlds, spaces, zones, nets, webs, districts, precincts and the like occupy our lives, as we occupy them.

27 April 2010, Justin O'Connor participated in a virtual Second Life conference on the Death of Distance, with panelists from IBM and Second Live creators themselves. He argued that face-to-face trust was very important for small creative businesses and that larger companies could take advantage of their size and organizational structures to create that context of trust. He suggested there was a role for public organizations to establish and/ or validate more public forums within which trust could underpin exchange of views and information around which collaboration might take place.

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

QUT Urban Informatics iPhone app DispoMaps version 2 by Jan Seeburger now available

http://bit.ly/cR2YN3

DispoMaps enables you to share your current location on an online map with anyone. The map is constantly updated as you go, using your iPhone’s GPS.

The lastest issue of CCI's weekly coverage of creative industry news, research, events, calls and other items of interest has just been published. Read it online at
http://eepurl.com/sBSt

To subscribe go to http://cci.edu.au/subscribe

The World Internet Project has released its second annual global findings on the impact of online technology - a five-continent collaboration creating an international picture of change produced by the Internet. The World Internet Project Report includes new findings about how the Internet is used and how it affects a variety of beliefs, attitudes, and behavior around the world.

Congratulations to Mark Ryan for winning a Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Creative Industries Career Fund grant to attend the 2010 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Los Angeles CA, March 17-21.

The CCI annual report for 2009 is now available to download as a PDF.

If you would like to receive a hard copy, please email infocci@qut.edu.au to request a copy.

From July to December 2009 Australian Policy Online - which includes the CCI sponsored Creative Economy portal - ranked No. 9 based on market share of visits among all Australian websites in the Hitwise category of Lifestyle - Politics industry. Thank you to all our readers from the Creative industries for this confirmation of APO and Creative Economy's value to Australian social and cultural policy research.

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

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.