Also in association with Swinburne University,
the University of Wollongong, Australian National University,
Charles Darwin University, Edith Cowan University, ACID and AFTRS
The latest news and updates from the centre and all its projects.
A paper by Professor Stuart Cunningham, President of the Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, highlighting the issues to be discussed during HASS in the Capital, is now available from the CHASS website. At the meeting on 3 September, speakers and member breakout groups will respond to the paper’s topics and raise new issues they see as relevant to the role and future of CHASS. The outcomes of the event will establish the foundations to guide CHASS into its next phase of development.
The internet is everywhere: at work, at home, and on the move. And if the federal government has its way, it will soon be in every school.
But despite its ubiquity, we know very little about how the net is used, where and by whom. The World Internet Project is attempting to answer these questions and the Australian arm of the project has just released its initial findings with some surprising results.
Innovation: management, policy and practice is the international journal for innovation research, commercialization, policy analysis and best practice. The forthcoming issue on 'Innovation policy in the creative Industries' is being guest edited by CCI's Jason Potts based at the School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has just announced that four new members will be joining its Communications Consumer Consultative Forum (CCF) including CCI's Julian Thomas. Julian is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology and heads the International Creative Content Cultures and Australian Advantage program at CCI.
In June Professor Brian Fitzgerald was invited to present at the inaugural ARC Graeme Clark Outcomes Forum at Parliament House in Canberra.
He outlined the outcomes the Creative Commons Project within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation has had in the creative, public and education sectors.
CCI and the The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project of Queensland University of Technology are pleased to present a free seminar with leading international and national experts. What is "Open Education" and what does it mean for the future of learning? What role can Australia play? Featuring guest speaker Melissa Hagemann (pictured right) from the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network.
A new report, Between a hard rock and a soft space: design, creative practice and innovation, argues that Australian innovation can be enhanced by bringing design into the mainstream of policy and industry thinking. It calls for the formation of a National Council for Design and Creative Practice, as a body where industry, research and government can work together to contribute to innovation policy.
According to a leading US academic dubbed the "21st Century’s Marshall McLuhan", Western education systems are radically out of touch with the needs of students and the future they face.
One of America's foremost authorities on the digital media era, Professor Henry Jenkins, will visit Australia next week to speak at the Creating Value conference hosted by the ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation.
Rock group Nine Inch Nails caused a sensation in the music world recently - and it wasn’t for their front man’s antics. Every day, artists and consumers are finding new ways to engage with each other in a virtual world: traditional copyright rules are out; new business models are in. NIN’s online release of their current album under a Creative Commons (CC) licence which lets others share, burn and even remix their songs is just the latest example of artists allowing their fans to access and use creative product outside the powerful grip major corporations have traditionally held over distribution.
A new book, edited by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor Fuping Gao, Mr Damien O’Brien and Mr Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, focuses geographically on the Asia-Pacific, and particularly on China and Australia, but addresses universal themes about the law of copyright and its adaptation to the Internet in the 21st century said the Hon Justice Douglas at the launch in Brisbane yesterday.
Aneta Podkalicka has been appointed as researcher on the Youthworx project, replacing Dr Ellie Rennie. She completed a PhD in media and communication at Creative Industries, QUT, in 2007. Dr Poklakicka will be based at the Swinburne University node of CCI in Melbourne.
Researchers at CCI were recently awarded an ARC Linkage grant to begin a major new research project into youth wellbeing and participatory media. Led by Professor Stuart Cunningham, the researchers working on the project will include Dr RJ King, Associate professor JC Drennan, Dr K McWilliam, Dr JM Burns and Mr C Kuddell. The title of the project is "Promoting youth wellbeing through participatory digital media: A multidisciplinary assessment of the mental health outcomes of cyber‑participation".
World renowned brain scientist Baroness Greenfield will present a public lecture on Creating Creative Brains as part of the Creating Value conference presented by CCI, to be held at 9 am, Wednesday 24 June. The creative process encompasses factors that must be common to diverse activities, ranging from painting, music and literature, through to scientific insights. At the same time this all encompassing phenomenon must be distinguished from ‘ordinary’ thinking! Download the brochure for more information.
The program for CCI's upcoming international conference is now available including full details of all the panel sessions. The conference features six panel sessions running contiguously over most of the three days, along with keynote presentations from an impressive line up of international guests. Full details on the Creating Value conference page. Register today - Creating value is great value!
CCI researchers Amy Barker and Elliott Bledsoe have been funded by Story of the Future - an initiative supported by the Australia Council for the Arts in partnership with the Australian Film Television and Radio School - for their project "Remix My Lit".
We have established the following project goals with the AFTRS with regard to further development and application of YAWL4Film:
During 2008, we will develop and evaluate flexible workflow support, and investigate the relation between BPM and knowledge management, as well as further refining domain-specific methods for the screen business.
Specific topics include applying BPM and knowledge management-related methods and tools to support creative decision-making in the screen business and the use of exception-handling techniques to deal with supporting deviations from plans as they occur in the film-making process.
We will also pursue workflow design and adaptation for screen business production within mobile and disconnected environments.
In December 2007, we gave a presentation on applying BPM to the screen business to a delegation from Central China Normal University, and discussed possible collaboration on the project.
In November 2007, Stefan Seidel from the European Centre for Information Systems (ERCIS) of the University of Muenster, Germany, visited our research group. ERCIS became become an Affiliated Partner of the Centre of Excellence in early 2008, and a collaboration agreement has been signed by CCI and the University of Muenster.
In May 2007, we ran a two-day course on Business Process Management for the AFTRS in Sydney and in April we conducted a two-day workshop/interview with Digital Pictures, the largest member of the OmniLab Media Group. A progress report was submitted in May leading to a request for ongoing collaboration with Digital Pictures.