The Team

• Over the past several years, the CCI has established a tradition of offering high-quality professional development for its doctoral students and early career researchers. It is a cross-disciplinary, internationally focused centre which draws on highly talented researchers and students from across Australia, embracing both theoretical and applied research in media, cultural and communication studies, law, education, economics and business and information technology. Twice annually, the centre holds two dedicated workshops for its postgraduate and early career researchers, with significant mentoring provided by senior CCI staff. This experience will be shared with those who join us for the Winter School.

  The Centre’s senior research staff have expertise in a wide range of areas and many of them will be participating in the Winter School as speakers and mentors. Below is a confirmed list of Special Guests and Mentors.

  Special Guests

  

  Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of its Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy. He is the author or editor of ten books including most recently Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage 2010).

   

   

   

  

  Dr Anne Galloway is Senior Lecturer in the School of Design and Deputy Head of the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. For the past decade, Anne has lectured and written extensively on the ways in which pervasive computing and locative media are reconfiguring relations amongst people, places and objects. Her current research is dedicated to human-computer-animal interaction and methodological innovation in cultural studies and design that can support public debate on the use of networked technologies and digital media in future merino production and consumption. Her research blog can be found at: http://designculturelab.org/

   

  

  Jack Linchuan Qiu is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches on information and communication technologies (ICTs), class, globalization, and social change. His publications include Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009), Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006). Some of his publications have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean. Besides academic projects, he also provides consultancy services for international organizations such as the OECD.

   

  Mentors

  

  Dr John Banks is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT. He is also a researcher with the CCI. He researches and publishes on media co-creativity and innovation (user-led innovation, user-created content, online social networks) in the creative industries, especially videogames and interactive entertainment. He is particularly interested in the relationships among industry professionals and innovative, creative users and consumers. His past decade research on the topic of co-creativity in the videogames industry is culminating in the forthcoming book Co-creating Videogames (Bloomsbury Academic).

   

  

  Associate Professor Axel Bruns is a Chief Investigator in the CCI. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and the editor of Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs (2006; all released by Peter Lang, New York). Bruns is an expert on the impact of user-led content creation, or produsage, and his current work focusses especially on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter, especially in the context of acute events. His research blog is at http://snurb.info/, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info. See http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ for more details on his current social media research.

   

  

  Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT and Deputy Director at the CCI. She has published widely on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, focusing particularly on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media such as digital storytelling. Her current research focuses on methodological innovation in the context of the changing media ecology, and in particular on the development of computational methods for media and communication studies.

   

   

  

  Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Professor, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). He is author or editor of several books and major reports, most recently: The Media and Communications in Australia, 3rd ed. (with Graeme Turner); In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy; and What Price a Creative Economy?

   

   

  

  Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and Associate Professor in the Games Programs, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University. Since 2000, Hjorth has been researching and publishing on gendered customising of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific—these studies are outlined in her book, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (London, Routledge). In 2010 Hjorth released Games & Gaming London: Berg). Currently Hjorth is finishing her ARC APD discovery fellowship with Michael Arnold, Online@AsiaPacific, exploring the role of the local and online with communities in the region.

   

  

  Michael Keane is a Principal Research Fellow at the CCI. He has provided expertise for a number of international consultancies in relation to emerging East Asian creative economies and written numerous book and articles on Chinese and East Asian creative industries. His book Created in China: the Great New Leap Forward was the first account of China’s acceptance of the idea of the creative economy. His current work, China’s New Creative Clusters, is a study of several of China’s most well known creative clusters. He is the leader of the Asian Creative Transformations program in CCI.

   

   

  

  Dr Jason Potts is Principal Research Fellow at the CCI, at QUT, as well as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. His work focuses about applications of economic theory to the study of creative industries, with particular focus on market dynamics and innovation processes. His most recent book is ‘Economic Evolution and Creative Industries’ (Edward Elgar 2011). He has over 80 publications and has won numerous teaching prizes.

   

   

  

   

  Associate Professor Ellie Rennie is the Deputy Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University. Her research focuses on Indigenous broadcasting, broadband in remote Australia, and community media. She has written two books:  Life of SYN: A Story of the Digital Generation (Monash University Press, 2011) and Community Media: A Global Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

   

   

  

  Julian Thomas is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, and is Convenor of the Swinburne University node of the CCI. Julian is an Associate Editor of the website Australian Policy Online, a board member and Treasurer of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation, and a member of the Consumer Consultative Forum of the Australian Media and Communications Authority. His research interests are in new media, information policy and the history of communications technologies.

   

   

  

  Professor Deb Verhoeven is Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University. She is a Cinema Studies researcher and an enthusiastic proponent of the Digital Humanities. Verhoeven’s recent research has addressed the vast amounts of newly available ‘cultural data’ that has enabled unprecedented computational analysis in the field and extended the limits of conventional film studies, encouraging engagement with  research practices such as information management, geo-spatial science, statistics and economics.

   

  Organising Committee

  Jean Burgess, Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

  Michael Keane, Principal Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

  Julian Thomas, Director, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology

  Christina Ballico, PhD Candidate, Edith Cowan University

  Mark Ryan, Senior Lecturer, Film and Television Studies, Queensland University of Technology

  Chris Wilson, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology

  Darryl Woodford, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology

  Colleen Cook, Project Officer, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

  Todd Bennet, Centre Manager, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation