How are "grey market" imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation? The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account of contemporary media, by...

This is a transcript of an interview conducted with key contributors to the recently published report Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (Social Science Research Council, 2011). Topics discussed include: the challenges of researching pirate networks at ground level; the politics of comparison in...

Debates about user-generated content (UGC) often depend on a contrast with its normative opposite, the professionally produced content that is supported and sustained by commercial media businesses or public organisations. UGC is seen to appear within or in opposition to professional media,...

This book chapter explores the relationships between pirate circulation and promotion in current film marketing practice. An easy mistake to make when engaging with the piracy/promotion question is to side with one camp or the other, the copyright protectionists or the free culture enthusiasts,...

In 2007, Australia's Commonwealth Government took a dramatic new approach to the governance of remote Indigenous communities. The 'Northern Territory Intervention' aimed to combat abuse and violence in remote Indigenous communities, and included far-reaching changes to welfare administration,...

This special focussing on internet policy in Australia provides a snapshot of developments on various topics (access, privacy, censorship) as a means of understanding better the state of play in Australia, and also how this compares to internet policy in other parts of the world, especially...

This report presents findings from the third survey of the Australian component of the World Internet Project. The survey was conducted in 2011.This report provides an overview of the study, presenting a broad picture of the Internet in Australia, with comparisons to our earlier 2007 and 2009...

Introduction: We report our mixed-methods investigation of publishers' licensing practices, which affect the books public libraries can offer for e-lending.Method: We created unique datasets recording pricing, availability and licence terms for sampled titles offered by e-book aggregators to...