Seminars, lectures and conference presentations organised by CCI in audio and video format. Slide presentations are also available to view on the CCI's Slideshare group
Thanks to everyone who attended the Creative Suburban Geographies workshop on 12 November. Here are some presentations and audio from the event.
The digital content industries in many countries have seen significant growth over the past decade. This knowledge-intensive sector relies on highly skilled human capital but is often challenged by skills and labour shortages, in turn exacerbated by a lack of high quality industry-ready graduates. This presentation first foregrounds some of the key challenges associated with education-to-work transitions encountered by emerging creative graduates in the digital content industries.
Conversations at QUT's Creative Industries
Conversations at QUT's Creative Industries
Mark Ryan recently completed his PhD investigating: A Dark New World: Anatomy of Australian Horror Films.
Mark presented a session at Focus on Research - a forum to encourage undergraduate students to pursue their passions through the field of academic research.
Mark Ryan: m3.ryan@qut.edu.au
Thanks to everyone who attended our CCI Symposium. Here are some presentations from the event.
Distinguished Professor John Hartley and CCI Director, Professor Stuart Cunningham brief symposium attendees on the recent achievements and future directions for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.
It's Friday the 13th today, the second in as many months, and Hollywood is "cashing in" with the launce of a remake of the classic slasher film, Friday the 13th. What is it that draws people to the horror genre? Interview with Dr Mark Ryan, research associate at the Queensland University of Technology and specialist in the horror film genre.
Slides of a paper presented at Media after the Mass, European Media Management Association Annual Conference, Paris, France 13 - 14 February 2009.
Radio National's Bookshow interviews CCI researchers and writers associated with CCI's Remix My Lit project.
Powerpoint presentation of the Creative Workforce 2.0 Program of Research in Singapore, 16-18 September 2008.
A review of evolutionary theory and the Universal Darwinian model. Introduction to the replicator dynamic model and to the generic (micro meso macro) model. Discussion of the use of evolutionary modeling in social science. Applications of evolutionary modeling to creative industries.
Introduction to the theory of institutions as habits, routines. Introduction to the game theory definition of institutions. Evolutionary economic definition of institutions. Role of institutions in economic growth and development. Discussion of connection to creative industries research.
This second lecture looks at standard economic growth models, including endogenous growth theory. Potts explains evolutionary growth models (Hayekian, Schumpeterian and Dopfer-Pottsian) and discusses their connection to creative industries. The role of government in economic growth and development is discussed.
Lecture 2. Part 1.
From 25th - 27th June 2008, the CCI held its International Conference - Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons. We are pleased to provide you with video footage from two of the keynote addresses made over the course of the conference, from Baroness Susan Greenfield and Professor Henry Jenkins, as well as replies from CCI researchers.
Three noted thinkers on the changing nature of media and its consumers. Anthony Funnell on ABC Radio National's media report 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.
Jason Potts on complexity economics, presented at the ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. This first lecture, in a series of four, looks at complexity as a phase state (chaos order), complexity and incompleteness, complexity and entropy.
John Hartley introduces the Citizen consumer session at the 'Digital literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy' symposium held in Brisbane 29 - 30 March. This is just a 3 minute introduction. The papers from this session will be added soon.
In March 2007 we participated in the Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy research symposium. The symposium was a collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and the ARC Cultural Research Network. It featured 33 speakers, including Sir Ken Robinson.
