Creative digital industries mapping

Congratulations to John Hartley, Distinguished Professor at QUT and Research Director at CCI, for his recent Member of the Order of Australia (AM) award announced last Monday in the Queens Birthday honours list.

Vice-Chancellor Peter Coaldrake has recently approved the award for the title of Distinguished Professor to Professor Stuart Cunningham in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a leading researcher and his contribution to humanities both nationally and internationally.

The announcement also notes the award also recognises his eminence in leading both the successful bid and a subsequent re-bid, for Australia's only ARC Centre of Excellence in the Humanities arena.

The CCI annual report for 2008 is now available to download as a PDF. Or if you would like to receive a print copy please email infocci@qut.edu.au to request a copy.

PLATFORM Journal of Media & Communication is an international peer review journal featuring postgraduate work in the field of Media and

Communication. PLATFORM is an online journal available at

http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/index.html

As part of our efforts to promote the work of promising emerging scholars in the field, we would like to invite you to nominate your postgraduate students as guest author for our inaugural issue, to be published in June 2009.

The activities planned for 2008 involve closing off the formal aspects of the project while the ongoing research is transitioned into the next stage of the CCI’s mapping work:

Stage 1: Complete and publish updated versions of the report and fact sheets, incorporating 2006 Census data.

Stage 2: Complete and publish the Case Studies and an academic paper on creative activities in the health sector.

Stage 3: Continue and complete streams in the New Economics of the Creative Industries, including understanding creative economic structure and its evolution.

The next stage of this project will focus on commissioned research (such as the flagship Creative Business Intelligence Service) based on the data repository and previously-developed methodologies, while the other elements are spun off to separate projects.

2007 was a prolific year for the project, as it wrapped up the initial three-year period of the Linkage project and opened major new paths for the work.