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.

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.

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.

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.

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: '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

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.

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.

Brisbane based producer/director Cathy Henkel has been awarded the 2009 SPAA Independent Documentary Producer of the Year.

Creating Innovators is a research project which builds and tests theory about the development and deployment of ‘innovative career capabilities’ in professionals working in the key sectors of science & technology, and the creative industries. The theory will then be used to inform curriculum development in university and professional education programs.

Justin O'Connor has been asked to give a keynote speech on the hitory and future of creative industries at WIPO-MALAYSIA NATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO)
Kuala Lumpur, November 11 to 13, 2009.

Also, Justin will be giving an invited paper at the Creativity World Forum 2009, 1st Dec. in Baden wuttemburg, Germany. He will be talking about creative clusters in China.

Greg Hearn, Michael Keane, Gu Xin and Justin O'Connor have just completed the three city launch of the ARC linkage project 'Designing creative clusters'. In Beijing our partners from China communications university hosted a launch on 26th October, at which our Australian Industry partner Dan Hill from Arup, was present, coming from the world graphic design forum in the city. On 30th we had an open seminar at the famous M50 art cluster in Shanghai, attended by our partner from CELAP in shanghai, as well as academics and policy makers across the city.

CCI's Director of Research, John Hartley, currently in London, has been invited by David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, to the launch of a new research agenda which aims to provide robust evidence and policy insight into the economic value of Intellectual Property (IP).

Five CCI researchers were successful in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants announced last week.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess (along with Thomas Nicolai and Laars. Kirchoff) were awarded a three year Discovery grant for their project "New media and public communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks". Total funding for the project is $401,000. More information on the project is available at Axel's blog

A linkage grant was awarded to Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn, Jaz Choi (+ Prof Eli Blevis, Prof Younghui Kim, Dr Tad Hirsch) for the project "Eat, cook, grow: Ubiquitous technology for sustainable food culture in the city". The total funding for this project is $320,553.

CCI congratulates all involved and we look forward to bringing you news of their work over the next few years.

Mark David Ryan is guest editing the horror movies section of the Intellect Directory of Australian and New Zealand Cinema edited by Ben Goldsmith and Geoff Lealand.

Jason Potts, Centre Fellow at CCI, and Kate Morrison, of Vulture Street Innovation, have achieved direct influence on the evolution of innovation policy in the UK.

Research Higher Degree Project Opportunities
September 2009 Scholarship Round

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If you are considering applying for a scholarship in the current September round to
pursue postgraduate research studies you may wish to consider connecting with
projects we have in development here at the Centre (CCI) and pursue your studies
with us at QUT.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald of QUT Law School along with Kylie Pappalardo and the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House has been awarded a 2009 Engagement Innovation Grant for their project ‘Intellectual Property and Technology Law’.

The project will establish an Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic to provide advice and pro-bono referral services for Queenslanders who cannot otherwise afford a lawyer for
consultation on intellectual property issues in digitally networked environments.