Program objectives
This program investigates how the business practices and cultural dynamics of media industries are adapting to profound transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and regulation of media content in local and global contexts. We examine the operations of power and the potential for innovation, focusing especially on the implications they pose for media makers, the media they make, and their social consequences across the film, television, games, music, news, and social media industries.
Program Leader: Prof Amanda Lotz
Chief Investigators Involved
- Prof Patrik Wikstrom Director
- Assoc Prof John Banks Associate Professor, School of Communication
- Dist Prof Stuart Cunningham Distinguished Professor, Media and Communication
- Dr Ben Egliston Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media Research Centre
- Prof Terry Flew Professor of Communication and Creative Industries
- Dr Sofya Glazunova Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media Research Centre
- Dr Jenny Hou Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
- Dr Brendan Keogh Fellow, Digital Media Research Centre
- Prof Amanda Lotz Program Leader - Transforming Media Industries
- Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez Lecturer, School of Communication
- Dr Benjamin Nicoll Lecturer, School of Communication
- Dr Kylie Pappalardo Lecturer, Faculty of Law
- Assoc Prof Mark Ryan Associate Professor, School of Creative Practice
- Assoc Prof Kevin Sanson Discipline Leader, School of Communication
- Dr Tess Van Hemert Lecturer, School of Communication
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- Internet-distributed television: Cultural, industrial and policy dynamics
- Film Victoria videogame sector research report
- Independent Screen Production on the Gold Coast
- Australian television and popular memory: New approaches to the cultural history of the media in the project of nation-building