cultural institutions

Not rocket science: a roadmap for arts and cultural research and development

Publication date: 
1 March 2010

This paper proposes that publicly funded arts and cultural organisations should aspire to, and be funded to, engage in Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application.

The Media and Communications in Australia, 3rd edition

Authors: 
Stuart Cunningham, and Graeme Turner
Publication date: 
15 November 2009

A fully revised edition of the leading Australian introductory text on media studies, incorporating extensive analysis of the impact of communications.

Creative Labour: Emancipation or Honey-Trap?

Publication date: 
28 April 2009

Faculty Seminar Series

Professor Justin O’Connor, Research Capacity Building Professor Tuesday 28th April 12pm-1pm The Hall (Z2-226) CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove

Creative labour: emancipation or honey-trap?

The ABC - and SBS - of social innovation

Authors: 
Terry Flew
Publication date: 
25 January 2009

Public service broadcasting was one of the great 20th century social innovations in media. The aim of public service broadcasters (PSBs) was to seek to harness the new mass media towards social purposes. These included nation-building, mass education, strengthening the information base of democracies, and broadly-based cultural improvement, particularly in areas such as documentaries, news and current affairs, and children’s programming.

International study on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation

Authors: 
Brian Fitzgerald, Jessica Coates, June M. Besek, William LeFurgy, Adrienne Muir, Benedict Atkinson, Emma Carroll and Wilma Mossink
Publication date: 
1 July 2008

The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project, together with the U.S. Library of Congress National Digital Information, Infrastructure and Preservation Program, the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee and the SURFfoundation in The Netherlands, released their International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation at the WIPO International Workshop on Digital Preservation and Copyright in Geneva, Switzerland on 15 July 2008.

Creating value: between commerce and commons conference papers

Publication date: 
26 June 2008

The following papers, from the Creating Value Conference (hosted by CCI, 25 - 27 June 2008, Brisbane), have been peer reviewed as per HERDC Category E1 specifications.

Look who's talking

Publication date: 
1 June 2007

Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and online video to encourage users to participate in their programs.

Digital cultural communication: audience and remediation

Publication date: 
12 May 2007

This book chapter was published in Theorizing digital cultural heritage: a critical discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, MIT press, 2007.

Cultural institutions, co-creativity and communities of interest

Publication date: 
11 April 2007

Despite the proliferation of web-based news and information services, there remains a lack of online destinations from which to obtain reliable and authoritative cultural knowledge. In many countries, such knowledge is provided by cultural institutions such as museums and libraries. Recent discussion suggests that social media – including blogs, wikis and digital stories – may provide a creative solution to the ongoing interaction between cultural institutions and communities of interest.

How will social media affect museum communication?

Authors: 
Angelina Russo, Jerry Watkins, Lynda Kelly and Sebastian Chan
Publication date: 
1 February 2007

Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across broad online social networks.