ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

A Commemorative Report on Activities

Table of Contents

Table of Contents ...... 1

Introduction...... 2

Workshops...... 3

Workshops...... 4

Seminars and Lectures ...... 10

Symposia and Conferences ...... 11

Masterclasses...... 12

Professional Development ...... 14

Other Activities ...... 15

Achievements of CRN Participants ...... 15

Books ...... 15

Special Issues ...... 16

Conference Panels...... 17

Funded Grants ...... 17

Future Fellowships...... 17

Discovery Grants ...... 17

Linkage Grants ...... 19

Other ARC Grants ...... 20

Other Grants ...... 20

Participants...... 20 2 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 Introduction

Back in 2004, when funding for Research Networks was announced, this was the way in which we described our vision for what we hoped the Network would become. Some of these dreams were left by the wayside, some grew to fruition, and others far exceeded what we ever dared to hope for.

This booklet contains a comprehensive list of the formal events, activities, and outcomes of the Network in the years 2005 to 2009 and beyond. It is certainly an impressive document, and a testament to the dedication and enthusiasm of many people over the years. But what a list of workshops, seminars, and publications cannot capture are the informal networks, the developing collaborations, and the intellectual journeys that have been enabled by this unique funding mechanism, and these things are the true legacies of the CRN. We hope that the collaborations that started within the Network will continue, and that the projects that were seeded in numerous workshops, symposia, and roundtables (or, if the truth be known, over a couple of beers in the odd restaurant) will grow into exciting and innovative explorations of culture.

We want to thank you all for the effort, the passion, and the generosity that has made this Network such a success. And may the good work continue!

From the 2004 Research Network Funding Application Research in cultural studies, media studies, and communications studies has been the pre-eminent growth area in the humanities in Australia over the last decade. Furthermore, Australian researchers have led international developments in cultural studies, creative industries, new media and new technologies, and cultural policy studies. We also have long-standing strengths in cultural studies of Asia, cultural geography, and cultural history. However, many Australian researchers tend to work alone or within the remit of their individual institutions. Especially at the level of Early Career Researchers (ECRs), research concentrations in one city tend to have little to do with research concentrations in another, meeting only through annual professional associations rather than pursuing project-based collaboration. Many of the participants in this proposal, however, already have a strong record of local, intra-disciplinary, or interdisciplinary collaboration within media and cultural studies. The CRN will build from these beginnings to generate interdisciplinary collaboration on a national scale: bringing research groups from one city, for example, into sustained and productive interaction with researchers around the country. The CRN will provide a base for building on existing strengths, overcoming these structural limitations and enabling the emergence of new kinds of collaborative research.

In particular, collaborations between the critical traditions of cultural studies and more empirical methods and approaches are still relatively rare, although gradually increasing. By focusing on connections with cultural geography, cultural history, and cultural anthropology—and by including participants who have already begun to investigate the links between these disciplines and cultural studies—the network will directly address this situation and accelerate this trend.

At a practical level, the resources gathered by particular modes of cultural research for specific projects—publishable personal interviews, databases, or media recordings for instance—tend not to be shared or even available to other Network Convenor Graeme Turner, and Project Officer John researchers. Where possible, the Gunders, at the 2006 Annual Meeting CRN will seek ways to disseminate ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 3 information about the existence of such data as well as the means of archiving them in web-enabled databases for more widespread academic use.

The network will be founded on existing interdisciplinary associations, using them to extend the benefits of collaboration, in particular to the younger researchers and postgraduates who have been poorly served in the past. The current barrier to this kind of enterprise, institution-specific research cultures, can be overcome by a national network directed towards collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional relationships. The intellectual pre-conditions for this already exist; the network will provide a way to put it into practice.

In summary, the CRN will:

• Exploit the intellectual and interdisciplinary opportunities provided by the conceptual centrality of culture as the shared focus for interdisciplinary humanities research; • Connect younger researchers and postgraduates to the best and most innovative work in their field, no matter where it is based; • Distribute the benefits of senior expertise nationally to help researchers take advantage of the opportunities provided by existing funding organisations and the available linkages with public sector institutions and private industry; • Build on the strong international reputation cultural studies, cultural policy studies and creative industries research in Australia enjoys by developing a more collaborative and multi- disciplinary research culture for the humanities nationally and internationally. • Facilitate project-based collaboration within thematic nodes, with a view to developing integrated programs of cutting-edge interdisciplinary cultural research. • Disseminate information about the existence of cultural research resources as well as the means of archiving them in web-enabled databases. • Establish a specific support program for postgraduates and ECRs. • Address national needs for a more integrated approach to complex social, cultural and technological change.

Discussions at the Network planning meeting, University of Queensland, January 2004 4 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 Workshops Cultural History and Geography Research Roundtable Workshop, University of Technology, Sydney, June 2005. Organised by the Cultural Histories and Geographies, and Cultural Identities and Communities Nodes. Attended by 17 CRN members, this was a highly successful event. It discussed the need to develop clear and robust methodologies for cultural research; for the CRN to engage with non-Western theoretical perspectives, and the possibility of an Asia-Pacific focus within the Network as a whole. The forum also enabled the sub-node convenors to discuss potential plans for the remainder of the year and beyond, and for participants to report back on group and individual projects with the aim of devising some clear priorities within the sub-nodal groupings. Creative Articulations Roundtable, Queensland University of Technology, October 2005. Organised by the Creative Articulations Project, Cultural Geographies and Cultural Technologies nodes. This one-day round table brought together a diverse range of researchers to discuss the theoretical and practical possibilities for the development of interdisciplinary methods for accounting for creative places. Rather than using the traditional conference model, this workshop ran as a focussed round table: invited participants were asked to prepare answers to four or five key questions; their responses to these questions were the material of the event. Participants were also given reading packs before the event in order to trigger focussed discussion. Program for Television History Group Planning Meeting, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, May 2006. Organised by the PATH Project, Media History Sub-node, Cultural Histories Node. This project is to establish a national Australian Television History group and to link it into existing media history groups with a view to forming a national Media History network. Recognising that there are already groups involved in film history, radio history, and press history, this project will primarily concentrate on linking scholars working in television history, but will also address these other more well-established media history groups with a view to setting up such a network for media history as a whole. This program led to an ARC Discovery Grant in 2008: Australian Television and Popular Memory: New Approaches to the Cultural History of the Media in the Project of Nation-building. Games Research Workshop with Professor Toby Miller. Queensland University of Technology, May 2006. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node. This event was designed as a research development workshop featuring Prof Toby Miller (University of California, Riverside). The event brought together a small group of games academics and industry representatives to discuss potential games research projects and teams. Prof Miller led the discussion, and discussed potential international research partners and research projects. This was a rare opportunity for Australian-based researchers and RHDs to be plugged into key circuits of US-based academic planning. Making Histories: Radio as a Cultural Technology, The Chifley at the Metropole, Melbourne, May 2006. Organised by the Media Histories Node. There has been a significant growth in interest in the field of radio studies. This research project aimed at examining radio through the lens of cultural history rather than merely through the conventional approach of media studies. Eighteen researchers came together for the two-day workshop to connect CRN participants with a particular interest in Radio Studies with members of the Australian Radio- Audio Researchers Association. Multilingual Literacy Workshop, University of Technology, Sydney, June 2006. Organised by the Multilingual Literacies Project, Cultural Literacies Node. This forum brought together cultural researchers and those involved in teaching culture through language, to debate the role of language in literacy as an attribute of international competency. Presenters addressed the role of language in their research, their teaching and more generally in their engagement with everyday life as Australian academics who support an ethos of internationalisation. ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 5

Internationalising Internet Studies: Research Workshop, Queensland University of Technology, September 2006. Organised by the Internet Studies Project, Cultural technologies Node. Held immediately before the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 7.0, this workshop drew on the expertise of the conference attendees. The proceedings of this workshop have formed the basis of a publication: Mark McLelland and Gerard Goggin, editors, Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms, Routledge: 2008. Wireless Cultures and Technologies Workshop, The University of Sydney, December 2006. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node. This research workshop brought together researchers and communication industry people to look at priorities in the cultural analysis of wireless technologies. A special issue of Media International Australia was dedicated to papers presented at this workshop and edited by the organisers, Gerard Goggin and Melissa Gregg Rural Cultural Studies Planning Workshop, Bega, February 2007. Organised by the Rural Cultural Studies Project, Cultural Histories and Geographies Node. The Rural Cultural Research Program held a highly successful three-day planning workshop in Bega during mid-February. A selection of researchers was invited to meet the aims of the CRN to connect cultural researchers across disciplines and at various stages of career development. CRN members and non-members, tenured academics, early career researchers, postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate candidates came together for the first time, presented their rural cultural research interests and projects to each other, and began to form common research Bega District News article about the Rural Cultural Research workshop in Bega, February 2007 interests around certain issues and places. These participants included geographers, historians, social scientists, and those working in gender studies, cultural studies and media studies. This project eventually won a Discovery Grant in 2008: Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life, Dr Catherine Driscoll, Dr Kate Bowles, Prof Kate Darian- Smith, Assoc Prof Chris Gibson, Dr D Nichols, and Assoc Prof Gordon Waitt. Digital Cultural Literacy Roundtable, Queensland University of Technology, March 2007. Organised by the Cultural Literacies Node. The “Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy” research symposium was held over two days on the 29th and 30th March 2007, as a collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and the ARC Cultural Research Network. The symposium attracted over 100 registered attendees and featured 33 speakers, including hosting Sir Ken Robinson, an international expert on education renewal. Of particular interest was the CRN Roundtable, which was sponsored by the CRN and, by and large, populated by CRN members. The Roundtable was intended to outline some of the major issues surrounding the current conception of ‘digital literacy’ in Australia, as a means of mapping out an agenda for future research on the topic. Several publications are associated with the workshop, including: John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam, eds, Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, and John Hartley, The Uses of Digital Literacy, UQP, 2009. 6 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

Guide to Resources for Australian Media History, State Library of New South Wales, April 2007. Organised by the Program for Television History (PATH) Project. One of the fundamental obstacles to researchers working in this field is the dispersed, often elusive, nature of archival holdings, particularly pertaining to the commercial media. A small number of CRN members and other academics, plus representatives of archival and research institutions (from the National Film and Sound Archive and the State Library of NSW), came together for a one-day roundtable in Sydney on 24 April 2007 to discuss resources for Australian media historians. Methods, principles and international comparisons in the historiography of cinema-going, University of Wollongong, May 2007. Organised by the Rural Cultural Studies Project, Cultural Histories and Geographies Node. The practice of going to the movies in Australia has been regionally widespread, economically significant, relatively socially inclusive, and certainly more consistent than the production of Australian films. From the picture palace to the multiplex, the cinema has been one of the key cultural sites where Australians have negotiated with globalisation, modernity, and each other. The creation of a research agenda for Australian cinema studies that focuses on the distribution and exhibition industries and the local audience experience faces a number of challenges in terms of methods, principles and disciplinary scope. This workshop brought together some 25 Australian and US scholars interested in exploring these issues and developing data management strategies to facilitate international comparisons in the cultural history of cinema consumption. This workshop led to work which was to pick up a Discovery Grant in 2008: Mapping the movies: the changing nature of Australia's cinema circuits and their audiences 1956-1984, Prof R Maltby; Dr M Walsh; Dr K Bowles; A/Prof D Verhoeven; Prof JJ Matthews; A/Prof CA Arrowsmith Internet Histories: Research Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, October 2007. Organised by the Internet Studies Project, Cultural Technologies Node Despite the fact that the Internet is entering its fifth decade, the understanding and writing of its histories is very much in its infancy. In this one-day workshop, directly before the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 8.0 conference, aimed to explore the questions, assumptions, investments, frameworks, concepts, methods, biases, opportunities, archives, narratives, tropes, and logics that underlie the Internet’s diverse histories. This workshop, along with its follow-up in 2008 (see below), would ultimately be rewarded with a Discovery Grant in 2009: Internet History in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, Prof Gerard Goggin, Assoc Prof Mark McLelland, Dr H Yu, and Dr K Lee Working Partnerships: Collaborative Research in Rural and Remote Cultures, State Library of Queensland, September 2007. Organised by the Rural Cultural Research Project, Cultural Histories and Geographies Node. The symposium brought together academic and industry/institutional partners involved in collaborative research projects, in order to share experiences regarding the potentialities and problems of developing ‘working partnerships’. A series of presentations and seminars were programmed over two days at the State Library of Queensland. A range of topics and issues were discussed including: ‘Current and Future Projects’; ‘Managing and Maximising Collaborations’; ‘Managing the PhD Student in Cross-Institutional Projects’; a comparison of ARC-funded and other kinds of collaborative projects from the perspective of the industry/institutional partners; and finally ‘New Agendas for Rural Cultural Research’ were considered. Approximately 30 researchers attended the event, coming from Darwin, Adelaide, Wollongong, Melbourne and Brisbane. Doing Rural Cultural Research Workshop, University of New South Wales, Sydney, March 2008. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Research Development Node The ‘Doing Rural Cultural Studies’ workshop, held at UNSW in March, was an extremely successful event that brought together Early Career Researchers and postgraduate students engaged in this growing research field. It provided an opportunity for an invited group of emerging scholars to develop their ideas through peer discussion, and some of the written results of these discussions will appear in a themed issue of Cultural Studies Review in March 2010. In effect, the workshop created a cohort of rural researchers who will collaborate on future projects; the group hopes to meet again before the end of the year. The PG/ECR development node is committed to supporting academics from regional universities, as well as those at urban campuses ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 7

Mobile Futures Workshop, Adelaide, June 2008. Organised by the Mobile Screens Working Group, Cultural Technologies Node. This workshop brought together people from the academy, government and industry to discuss some of the key research problems facing us in terms of mobile phone and wireless use and access, especially, in a large sparsely populated country such as Australia, beyond built-up urban centres. A number of issues were considered including the effect of infrastructure (or the lack of it) on access and opportunity; current best practice using mobile and wireless technology in remote, rural and regional areas; and a consideration of how physical proximity to other people and the presence of absence of personal space impacts upon screen cultures. Internet Histories 2 - Australia and Asia Pacific: Research Workshop, State Library of Western Australia, June 2008. Organised by the Internet Studies Project, Cultural Technologies Node Internet Histories II’ received excellent feedback from participants and strong interest from a range of researchers nationally and internationally unable to attend. We felt that the event served its purpose of discussing the state of the art in this important area of cultural research. It was especially useful to have a substantial international perspective provided by the distinguished Korean Internet and mobiles scholar, Professor Shin Dong Kim (Hallym), as well as Japan-based Internet history scholar, Dr Leslie M.Tkach-Kawasaki (Tsukuba). The area of Internet histories is an especially underdeveloped area of Internet and cultural technologies research internationally, and the workshop provided a timely opportunity to share perspectives on how Internet histories are understood internationally, and especially how Australian Internet histories fit into accounts of the Asia-Pacific region generally. The workshop will result in an edited collection on ‘Internet Histories’, development of further research projects and grants, and also we anticipate discussion with libraries, galleries, archives, museums, and other cultural and collecting institutions, to build capacity and address issues about conserving and making available material in this area. The Game of Being Mobile: Mobile Technologies, Gaming Cultures and the Haptic, RMIT, July 2008. Organised by the Mobile Screens Working Group, Cultural technologies Node. This workshop brought together Australian experts (researchers, educators and practitioners) in mobile gaming and mobile media to discuss past, present and future outcomes for the convergent role of mobile technologies and game cultures as part of socio-cultural practices. In particular, the two-day workshop aimed to combine philosophical, new media and ethnographic approaches as a means of critically interpreting the growing correlation between mobile gaming and emerging haptic screen cultures. Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers, University of Wollongong, July 2008. Organised by the Cultural Literacies Node. This workshop investigated the different ways in which originally Japanese genres, aesthetics and styles have been taken up, deployed and transformed by female fans transnationally. The way in which Japanese products, styles and images are received in Fran Martin, Christine Yano, Samantha Hill, and Mark McLelland at different cultures as well as the the Japanese Fandoms workshop (sub)cultural ends to which they are deployed will be investigated, as will the impact of the fandom on the changing nature of consumerism, participatory fan culture and particularly gender in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. About 20 speakers looked at the impact of Japanese popular culture in Australia and the region. The keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Christine Yano from the University of Hawaii who spoke on the global Hello Kitty Fandom. The Ethics of Consuming, University of Melbourne, November 2008. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities and Cultural Histories and Geographies Nodes. This closed workshop brought together eleven Australian contributors (including five CRN members) to the edited collection Consuming Ethics with the intention of speaking to, and developing in 8 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 conversation, individual chapters and the editorial ambit of the collection. The day was exceptionally generative: questions had been circulated beforehand in order to focus discussion; each contributor in turn spoke to their chapters, followed by a dynamic group discussion that offered feedback for further development. This feedback also informed the response (by the editors) to Routledge’s reviewers’ reports on the book proposal. The group also briefly discussed the second ‘Consuming Ethics’ event to be held 2009, collectively working through its theme and potential outcomes. The publication is now in production: Tania Lewis and Emily Potter, editors, Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, forthcoming August 2010. More-than-Human Modes of Inquiry, University of New South Wales, November 2008. Organised by the Naturecultures Group, Cultural Histories and Geographies Node. The workshop drew together Australian academics, at all levels, from a range of disciplines (geography, cultural studies, sociology & philosophy) and developed a sustained interdisciplinary discussion about how it is possible to extend the company and modality of what constitutes a research subject beyond the human; how we can make sense of the affectivity of things; and how it is possible to recognise the ways in which material and non-human things strike back or deflect human intention. These issues are of crucial concern to all researchers working on socio-ecological research. The workshop deployed a mixed method of formal papers, short presentations about participants’ current research, simulated research problems and discussion of set readings. It generated a very lively interdisciplinary community of inquiry and made a useful contribution to developing these ideas in Australia and establishing good research networks. It also was very effective for PGs and ECRs who were able to speak extensively about their work and who were equal participants at all times. Participation in the Broadband Society Workshop and the Online@Asia-Pacific Workshop, RMIT, December 2008. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node These two one-day workshops aimed to stimulate discussion, debate and research into the burgeoning area of online communities and new forms of digital storytelling in an age of Web 2.0 technocultures. The first workshop focused upon Australia as part of the Asia-Pacific region. The second day reframed Australia and the region in the context of international concerns as outlined by the EU funded organisation, COST 298. The workshops provided a space for experts from a variety of related areas — media, new media, communication and Internet studies along with specialists in the region (Australian and the Asia- Pacific) — to discuss issues pertaining to conceptualising the “online” (communities & networks) in the region and internationally. These workshops aimed to provide a space for Australian (and, on the second day, international) researchers — both established and emerging, CRN and non — to connect and debate matters around burgeoning technocultures, media literacy, new forms of expression and community in an informal environment. It was a wonderful opportunity to bring together such a great group of diverse experts to talk about this phenomenon. Online Journalism, Citizenship and Interactivity, University of NSW, December 2008. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node. This workshop involved seven Australian-based and four international academics discussing the future of online journalism. There were fascinating crossovers and differences between the European and the Australian cases—and there was much debate about participation, interactivity, citizen, future of journalism, specific modes of online journalism(s) across the two places. Overall the day was very worthwhile—and confirmed that there is great scope for cross-fertilization between research on these aspects of media and culture across Europe and Australia. Glocalising Sex and Gender, University of Sydney, February 2009. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node. This two-day workshop was hosted by the Cultural Identities and Communities node and the Dept of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. We had good attendance and it was especially well attended by postgraduates and ECRs. The workshop laid the basis for ongoing collaboration amongst member institutions as well as opening up avenues for comparative research on sex and gender in China. It was especially good to see a renewed interest in the study of sexuality and gender through the lens of cross-cultural consumption. Self, Place, and Broadband Connectivity Workshop, University of Wollongong, February 2009. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node and Cultural Geographies sub-Node. The workshop was a great success. International researchers provided a global perspective on the use and development of the internet and broadband or wireless connectivity in rural and remote ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 9 communities around the globe. The ingenious practices of “making do” by those in remote communities in Australia, India and Canada were juxtaposed against the use of wireless or broadband technologies in highly connected countries such as Singapore and Korea. Unboxing the iPhone: The Circuits of Digital Culture, Queensland University of Technology, July 2009. Organised by the GLAMM (Games, Location, Art & Mobile Media) Group, Cultural Technologies Node. Unboxing the iPhone brought together Australian and overseas researchers across a broad range of disciplinary perspectives to rethink–through the lens of the iPhone as a ‘moment’ in contemporary mobile media practices–various ‘circuits of culture’ in an age of Web 2.0 and social networked media. In particular, we considered how the iPhone mediates new forms of everyday creativity, social connectivity and media engagement. The w or kshop considered: • The cultural history of the Apple brand and its shifting constructions of user creativity and agency; • The iPhone as innovation platform, and ongoing tensions between usability and hackability; • The position of the ‘iPhone moment’ within the rise of affective technologies and techno- lifestyle narratives; • The significance of iPhone haptics for agency, embodiment, creativity, affordance and cultural circuitry more broadly; • The circuits of creative and economic labour surrounding the iPhone and the iPod. Outcomes of the workshop include a proposed book anthology entitled Unboxing the iPhone, a special journal issue proposal, development of an e-learning project with the University of Tokyo and ITU, and (potentially) a panel at the Crossroads Conference (2010). Listening Project Workshop: Methodologies, University of Technology, Sydney, July 2009. Organised by The Listening Project, Cultural Literacies Node. The Methodologies to Capture Listening workshop was an extremely successful CRN event in July 2009 that consolidated and extended productive discussions from the 2008 themed workshops on listening. The workshop was an opportunity for participants to consolidate the research agenda articulated in the special issue on ‘Listening: New ways of engaging with media and culture’ by turning attention to the question of methodologies. This question arose in a number of the themed Mark Gibson, Tanja Dreher, Justine Lloyd, and Kate Thill of the workshops and is of particular Listening Project interest to CRN members seeking to develop ARC grant applications on listening for 2010. Material Geographies of Household Sustainability, RMIT, September 2009. Organised by the Cultural Histories and Geographies Node. The symposium brought together interdisciplinary researchers working on household responses to environmental pressures associated with climate change, to exchange new research in this critical field. There was an emphasis on material culture, in the form of the physical spaces of houses/gardens, the infrastructure and services used to maintain them, and the material goods that flow through them. Regional case studies were drawn from Australia, South East Asia, the UK and the US to allow cross-cultural comparison. Plans are underway for the publication of an edited collection of papers from the event. 10 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

Chinese media and cultural studies: State of the field symposium, University of Sydney, September 2009. Organised by the Cultural Identities and communities Node This symposium invited researchers with a confirmed and demonstrated interest in the field to present their ‘state of Chinese media and cultural studies’, with a special focus on their own areas of achievement, interest and projected development. Creative Collaborations Workshop, Deakin University, September 2009. Organised by the Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Development Node. A workshop for Postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers working in the broad area of creative research with Paul Carter and Estelle Barrett, which offered an opportunity for participants to explore a range of themes related to the roles of creativity, creative practice and collaboration as they occur both inside and outside the academy. Obsolescence Research Workshop, University of Wollongong, September 2009. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node and Media Histories Nodes. Some international scholarship has taken obsolescence as a focus, but this workshop aimed to provide a focus for those whose concerns go beyond the world of the “early adopters”. Speakers presented on how technologies age, how old technologies survive, and in the shadings and gradations between the latest thing and yesterday’s gadget, between retro-chic and junk. In transition: media distribution, exhibition and consumption in regional and rural Australia, Screen Australia, Sydney, September 2009. Organised by the Media Histories and Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Development Nodes. The workshop was well attended by postgraduates and early career researchers and also brought together a very interesting mix of senior Australian and international scholars and media industry stakeholders from cinema, television, radio and newspapers. These participants provided important insights into the nature of current media transitions considering both content delivery and media practice as well as the cultural and community impact of these changes. Discussions regarding future research directions, opportunities and possible collaborations on the final day were very productive. Television and Memory Workshop, Melbourne, November 2009. Organised by the Cultural Histories and Geographies, and Media Histories Nodes. This one-day workshop served as an excellent forum for the discussion of histories of Australian television, and an opportunity to consider the way that television, as a popular media form, contributes to broader process of cultural memory formation and contestation. The day succeeded in bringing together a range of researchers from diverse fields including history, media studies, journalism studies and cultural studies, to discuss their common interests in the area of television and memory. A refereed publication will arise from the proceedings. Internet Regulation and Filtering in Australia, University of Wollongong, December 2009. Organised by the Internet Studies Project, Cultural Technologies Node. A two-day workshop bringing together academics and other stakeholders whose work might be impacted by the new Government-sponsored Internet filtering system. Seminars and Lectures New Economies of Culture in East Asia, Zhang Xiaoming, Queensland University of Technology, March 2006 The Clash of Civilisations: Cultural Citizenship and the Crisis of Belonging, Professor Toby Miller, University of Western Sydney, April 2006 Screen Industries in the Global Era: Accumulation, Creation, and Socio-Cultural Variation, Professor Michael Curtin, University of Sydney and Queensland university of Technology, June and July 2006. Reaping the whirlwind: Identity Politics, Minorities and the State, Professor John Eade; Convincing claims? Democracy, representation, and security threats in contemporary Britain, Dr Ben O'Loughlin, University Western Sydney, March 2007. Seminar with Prof James E. Katz on Mobile Communication Studies, Queensland University of Technology, June 2008. ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 11

Perpetual contact? Family life in an age of mobile communication, public lecture with Professor James E. Katz, University of New South Wales, June 2008 Sound Reproduction After Noise: MP3 and the Limits of Perception, Dr Jonathan Sterne, University of Queensland, August 2008. Format Theory, public lecture with Dr Jonathan Sterne, University of Melbourne, August 2008 The Historical Emergence of Perceptual Coding, public lecture with Dr Jonathan Sterne, University of Queensland, August 2008 Remembering Eve Sedgwick: The beginnings, present and future of Melissa Hardy presenting at the Remembering Eve Sedgwick queer theory, Melissa Hardie, Anna Seminar Gibbs, Elizabeth Stephens, and Elizabeth McMahon, University of Sydney, August 2009.

Symposia and Conferences Articulating Creativities Symposium and Showcase, October 2005. Organised by the Creative Articulations Project, Cultural Technologies and Cultural Geographies Nodes. Everyday Multiculturalism, September 2006. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node, in association with the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University. Keynote speakers were Ien Ang, Ghassan Hage, and Greg Noble. The proceedings have been published: Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham, editors, Everyday Multiculturalism, Palgrave: 2009. Landscapes of Meaning, October 2006. Organised by the Communication Across Borders: India – Australia Project, Cultural Identities and Communities Node. Keynote speakers included Ranjan Chakrabarti and Anjali Roy. Cultural Studies in Asia Symposium, November 2006. Organised by CRN centrally. The speakers were Ien Ang, Chua Beng Huat, Meaghan Morris, and Krishna Sen. Queer Asian Sites Conference, February 2007. Organised by the Queer Asian Sites Project, Media Histories sub-node. Keynote speakers included Chandra Shekhar Balachandran, Rosanna Flamer- Caldera, and David Halperin. Superdiversity, Diaspora and the In the Pipeline convenor, Zoe Sofoulis, with keynote speaker, Elizabeth Shove Media Symposium, February 2007. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node. Keynote speakers included John Eade, Adel Iskandar, and Ben O’Loughlin. Rural Cultural Studies Research Symposium, February 2007. Organised by the Rural Cultural Studies Project, Cultural histories and Geographies Node. 12 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

In the Pipeline: New Directions in Cultural Research on Water, July 2007. Organised by the Naturecultures project, Cultural Histories and Geographies Node. The keynote speaker was Elizabeth Shove. Conference on Television and the National, November 2008. Organised by members of PATH, Media Histories Node. Keynote speakers included Brett Mills, Ien Ang, and Gay Hawkins. State of the Industry: The future for cultural research in the university, November 2009. Organised by the Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Development Node The Listening Project Symposium, December 2009. Organised by the Listening Project, Cultural Literacies Node. Masterclasses Masterclasses were a key intention in the Research Network funding application, and it is one of the areas that has proven a major success. The eleven masterclasses listed here (with still two to go!) have brought senior members of the academy and international visitors in contact with over 300 postgraduate students and early career researchers. Masterclass with Professor Michael Herzfeld, August, 2005, University of Western Sydney. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node. This was a master class on cultural research methodology, presented from within the framework of cultural anthropology, aimed primarily at postgraduate students and capped at 25 enrolments. The presenter was Professor Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. The CRN provided substantial subsidies for postgraduates from outside Sydney to assist their attendance. Travelling Masterclass with Professor Toby Miller, ‘Popular Media and Cultural Citizenship.’ Melbourne and Perth, May, 2006. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Research Development Node This was a fantastic opportunity to learn from one of cultural studies’ leading scholars. Each intensive class was limited to 12 participants whose work related to the general theme, ‘Popular Media and Cultural Citizenship’. The masterclasses followed a ‘workshop’ format, in which participants presented, discussed and interrogated their writing and ideas in collaboration with Professor Miller and others students and early career researchers working in the field. Travelling Masterclass with Professor Georgina Born, ‘Methodologies for Studying Cultural Production.’ Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney, July and August, 2006. Addressing broad issue of methodologies in cultural research, this masterclass covered a variety of areas including cultural studies, media anthropology and sociology, sociology and anthropology of music and art, cultural and media policy studies, media and communication studies, and television studies. It focused on the use of ethnography in the study of cultural/media production and cultural/media organisations, but was also of interest all those using ethnography in their work. Masterclass with Dr Adel Iskandar, ‘Media, Culture and Diaspora: The Arab Case.’ University of Western Sydney, August, 2006. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node This interactive masterclass included postgraduates and early career researchers working across a variety of areas including cultural studies, media and journalism studies, communication, anthropology and sociology, with a focus on issues around diaspora, media and identity. Attendees presented aspects of their own work, as well as contributing to discussions. Masterclass with Professor Tony Bennett, ‘Culture and Governance: Institutions, Practices, Policies,’ University of South Australia , November, 2006. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Research Development Node This two-day masterclass engaged participants in a programme of research relating to the theme of ‘Culture and Governance: Institutions, Practices, Policies’. It included a discussion of the work of Professor Tony Bennett, followed by presentations from post-graduates in later stages of their candidature and early career researchers. The second day closed with an hour-long round-table discussion on key themes. ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 13

Masterclass with Prof John Urry, ‘Complexities and Mobilities.’ University of Western Sydney and Flinders University, April and May, 2007. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node This Masterclass examined recent developments in two areas where Professor John Urry has been seeking to develop some new ideas for 'rethinking' the nature of social life. First, it considered the possible strengths of the complexity sciences for examining the nature of 'social-and-material’ systems conceived of as complex, adaptive and co-evolving. Second, it considered one particular set of such systems, that is ‘mobility systems’. The discussion drew from and developed Prof Urry’s writings on specific systems, on social networks, and on the more general attempt to ‘mobilise’ the social sciences. Around 40 postgraduates and early career researchers were chosen in a competitive process to attend these classes. A masterclass with Prof Vera Mackie and Dr Fran Martin, “Asian Media, Culture, and Society,” Curtin University of Technology, September 2007. Organised by the Cultural Literacies Node This very successful two-day masterclass for postgrads and ECRs on framing research on Asian media attracted 50 participants. Masterclass with Dr Susannah Radstone, ‘Memory Nation Culture.’ University of Melbourne, November 2007. Organised by the Cultural Histories and Geographies Node How do film, literature and other media ‘remember’ national pasts? Over the last fifteen years or so, theories of cultural memory and trauma have had a profound impact across the humanities, encouraging researchers at all levels to approach novels, films and television as ‘memory media’. The same period has witnessed the production of a wide range of films, novels and other art forms whose concerns are with recent - and not so recent - national pasts, including W G Sebald’s Austerlitz and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River, and the films Amistad and Rabbit Proof Fence. Such texts have become the primary sources for many studies of cultural, literary and film memory. But how do theories of trauma and cultural memory help us to engage with national literatures and cinemas and what are the most useful methods for the analysis of memory media? Masterclass with Prof David Morley, ‘Mediations: Demographies, Geographies and Technologies.’ University of Melbourne, February, 2008. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node Professor Morley’s masterclass - ‘Mediations: Demographies, Geographies and Technologies’ - at the Centre for Cultural Research (UWS - 13 & 14 February) was well attended and received glowing feedback from the students. He also gave a Public Lecture at the University Of Melbourne - ‘New Times, New Spaces, And New Technologies: Questions Of Globalisation, Regionalisation And Periodisation’ (February 18). Masterclass with Prof Charlotte Brunsdon, ‘Television in Transition: Crime and Cookery.’ University of Queensland, February, 2008. Organised by the Cultural Identities and Communities Node The Brisbane leg of the Morley/Brunsdon tour involved Charlotte coming north to lead a two-day masterclass and present a public lecture. The masterclass involved 16 postgraduates and early career researchers, who each presented some aspect of their own work relating to the theme of “Television in Transition: Crime and Cookery” to which Charlotte responded and then lead the group in discussion. Comments about the masterclass from participants were uniformly positive, and everyone was grateful to Charlotte for her dedication and generosity. Charlotte’s was a short but productive visit that revitalised a lot Charlotte Brunsdon and the Brisbane masterclass attendees of discussion around some important, but frequently dismissed, 14 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 genres of television and cinema, and which introduced many junior scholars to an important body of work. Masterclass with Prof James Katz, ‘Mobiles: Demographies, Geographies and Technologies.’ University of New South Wales, June, 2008. Organised by the Cultural Technologies Node The Cultural Technologies node funded the first Australian visit by Professor James Katz, a leading mobiles scholar, from the Centre for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University. Professor Katz’s visit included a very well received one-day Masterclass, held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Wed 4 June. Professor Katz also gave a public lecture at UNSW on Thurs 5 June, followed by a seminar at Queensland University of Technology on Friday 5 June. The visit made an important contribution in the development of mobiles and cultural research in Australia, especially useful for offering many PhD students and early-career researchers the opportunity to discuss their work with an important figure in the field. Masterclass with Prof Charles Husband, ‘Media and Listening.’ University of Technology, Sydney, November, 2008. Organised by the Listening Project The workshop included a presentation and thematic discussion of Charles Husband’s recent work on media, multiculturalism, listening and understanding, as well as opportunities for participants to discuss and gain feedback on their own research projects. Masterclass with Professor Koichi Iwabuchi, Brisbane, Perth, and Melbourne, April and May, 2010. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Research Development Node This project is to facilitate a series of Masterclasses and “open door” sessions with visiting scholar, Professor Koichi Iwabuchi, who will be in Australia on sabbatical leave from Waseda University, Japan, in 2009-2010. Professional Development The development and support of postgraduate students and early career researchers was one of the stated aims of the CRN. In five years, over 100 members of this cohort have been subsidised to attend masterclasses, workshops, and conferences, and a total of 160 people attended CRN-organised professional development workshops. Prefix Professional Development Day, University of Technology, Sydney, November 2005. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Development Node Research Career Workshop with Professor Vera Mackie, June 2006, University of South Australia. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Research Development Node Sustaining Cultural Research: Cultural Research Beyond the Academy University of South Australia, December 2007. Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Research Development Node ANZCA Mentoring Forum, Queensland University of Technology, July 2009. Organised by Cultural Technologies Node Outreach Project. This project involves running a series of “open door” sessions that brings established and experienced CRN researchers into direct contact with postgraduates and emerging ECRs. Each session involves six applicants from a university registering for a 45 min one-on-one session with the CRN member. To date there have been 11 visits, with more to come. University of South Australia – Graeme Turner Newcastle University – David Marshall Griffith University Gold Coast – Graeme Turner Deakin University – Alan McKee Edith Cowan University – Tom O’Regan Southern Cross University – Chris Gibson Charles Darwin University (2 Visits) - Stephanie Donald Monash University – Elspeth Probyn University of Tasmania – Catharine Lumby ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 15

University of Southern Queensland – Kate Darian-Smith To come – Macquarie University Organised by the Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Development Node Other Activities The ARC Cultural Research Network Awards. Offered from 2006 to 2008, this award covered flights and accommodation for postgraduate students and early career researchers without institutional support to attend the CSAA Annual Conference. Over the three years 24 awards were offered. Administered by the Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Development Node Media Histories Subsidies. Competitive bursaries were offered for postgraduate students and early career researchers to attend the Australian Media Traditions Conferences in 2007 and 2009, and the Radio Conference: A Third Transnational Forum, at the University of Lincoln, UK in 2007. Administered by the Media Histories Node Australian Media History Database, an online gateway of information of interest to researchers of media history, as well as a database of over 100 projects. Administered by the Media Histories Node Achievements of CRN Participants Since its inception in 2005 the CRN has run numerous workshops, symposia, round-tables, and other forms of research collaboration. While many of the outcomes are hard to quantify and must be measured in terms of contributions to knowledge and understanding, there are some key indicators of the success of the Network. Here are lists of publications and research grants awarded to CRN participants since 2005. Some of the grants—but very few of the publications—may have been achieved without the CRN, but we maintain that the intellectual space and resources of the Network have made these outcomes possible.

Books Andrew Gorman-Murray and Ruth Lane, eds, Material geographies of household sustainability, in preparation. Rowan Wilken and Gerard Goggin, editors, Place and Mobiles, in preparation. Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, and Ingrid Richardson, editors, Unboxing the iPhone, under consideration. Mark McLelland and Gerard Goggin, editors, Internet Histories, forthcoming. Gibson, C, Darian-Smith, K and Connell, J (eds) (2010) Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia, Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming. Melissa Gregg and Catherine Driscoll, Broadcast Yourself: Presence, Intimacy and Community Online, Routledge, forthcoming. Tania Lewis and Emily Potter, editors, Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, forthcoming August 2010. Noble, Greg, ed. Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots, Multiculturalism and National Belonging, Sydney: Institute of Criminology Press, forthcoming 2009. John Hartley, The Uses of Digital Literacy, UQP, 2009. John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam, eds, Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World, Wiley- Blackwell, 2009. Dean Chan and Larissa Hjorth, eds. Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific, Routledge, 2009. Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham, editors, Everyday Multiculturalism, Palgrave: 2009. Mark McLelland and Gerard Goggin, editors, Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms, Routledge: 2008. 16 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 Special Issues Chris Chesher, Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, and Jason Wilson, "Distractedly engaged: Mobile gaming in the age of Web 2.0," Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, forthcoming (2011) Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson, special issue of Mobilities, forthcoming (2010) Emily Potter, Clifton Evers, and Andrew Gorman-Murray, “Rural Cultural Studies: Research, Practice, Ethics,” Cultural Studies Review, forthcoming (March 2010) Olivia Khoo, et al. “Mourning and Trauma,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, forthcoming (2010) Rowan Wilken, "Games, Locative and Mobile Media," Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media, forthcoming 2009. Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth, "Waiting to Participate: Emerging Modes of Digital Storytelling, Engagement and Online Communities," special issue of Communication, Policy & Culture 42. 2 (2009). Chris Healy and Tony Bennett, "Assembling Culture," Special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy 2. 1-2 (2009). Jason Wilson and Jason Jacobs, "Obsolete," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 12.3 (2009) Gay Hawkins and Emily Potter, “Naturecultures,” Australian Humanities Review 46 (2009) Michelle Arrow, Bridget Griffen-Foley, and Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Australian Media Reception Histories," Special issue of Media international Australia, 131 (May 2009) Mark McLelland (guest editor), "Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers," Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 20 (April 2009) Justine Lloyd and Kate Crawford, “The Technologies of Listening,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, forthcoming (2009). Penny O’Donnell, Tanja Dreher & Justine Lloyd, “Listening: New ways of engaging with media and culture,” Continuum 23.4 (2009). Vera Mackie, Ikuko Nakane, and Emi Otsuji. "The Space Between: Languages, Translations and Cultures." Special Issue of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 6.1 (2009). Clare Lloyd, Scott Rickard, and Gerard Goggin, “Placing Mobile Communication,” Australian Journal of Communication, forthcoming (36.1, 2009) Claudia Baldwin, "Justice and Governance in Water," Social Alternatives, 27.3 (2008). Audrey Yue, Olivia Khoo and Belinda Smaill "Transnational Asian Australian Cinema" Part 1 and Part 2. Special issues of Studies in Australasian Cinema 2:2-3 (2008). Heather Goodall, “Landscapes of Meaning. South Asia-Australia Connections: Environment and People,” Transforming Cultures eJournal, 3.1 (2008) Kelly McWilliam, John Hartley, and Mark Gibson, “Digital Literacies,” Media International Australia, 128 (2008) David Carter , Kate Darian-Smith and Andrew Gorman-Murray, “Special Section: Rural Cultural Studies,” Australian Humanities Review 45 (2008) Shane Homan and Chris Gibson, “Popular Music: Networks, Industries, and Spaces,” Media International Australia, 123 (May 2007) John Hartley, “The Uses of Richard Hoggart,” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 10.1 (March 2007) Gerard Goggin and Melissa Gregg, “Wireless Cultures and Technologies,” Media International Australia, 125, (November 2007) Chris Gibson, “Cultural Geography and Cultural Studies,” Special issue of Geographical Research (44.4): 2006 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 17 Conference Panels Re:live conference. Melbourne November 2009. Mobile gaming panel with Larissa Hjorth, Chris Chesher, Sam Hinton, and Ingrid Richardson. ANZCA2009 panel "Sound Affect Space," John Tebbutt, Ingrid Richardson, Jo Tacchi, and Kate Crawford. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies / Cultural Typhoon Conference, 3-5 July 2009, Tokyo, Japan. Panel “Asian Australian Cinema—Genres and Transnational Asian Flows” Audrey Yue, Olivia Khoo and Belinda Smaill. Department of Gender Studies, the University of Sydney, October 2008: "Naturecultures," Zoe Sofoulis, Gay Hawkins, and Emily Potter. School of Writing and Cultural Studies, UTS, September 2008: "Naturecultures," Zoe Sofoulis, Stephen Muecke and Emily Potter. The Uses of Richard Hoggart: An International Conference on Richard Hoggart, 3 – 5 April 2005, University of Sheffield, UK: "Cultural Literacies," Graeme Turner, John Hartley, Melissa Gregg, Gerry Bloustien, and Mark Gibson. Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons, 25 - 27 June 2008, QUT: "Culture Lab," Emily Potter and Stephen Muecke. Assembling Cultures Workshop, 10 - 11 December 2007, Melbourne: Invited panel "Nature Cultures," Gay Hawkins and Kay Anderson. Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, 6 December 2007, Adelaide: Plenary Panel: "Naturecultures—negotiating matters of concern," Gay Hawkins, Zoe Sofoulis, Stephen Muecke, and Emily Potter. Australian Historical Association 2007 Regional Conference: Engaging Histories, 23 - 26 September 2007, Armidale: "Rural Cultural Studies," Kate Darian-Smith, Catherine Driscoll, Gordon Waitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and Kate Bowles. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Shanghai Conference, 16 - 17 June 2007, Shanghai: "Nature Cultures Panel," Gay Hawkins, Stephen Muecke, and Emily Potter; "Communicating Intimacy, Friendship & Youth: Perspectives and Practices from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Australia," Catherine Driscoll, Gordon Waitt, Clif Evers, and Elspeth Probyn. The Stuff of Politics: Technoscience, democracy, and public life, 7 - 10 December 2006, University of Oxford ACS Crossroads Conference, 20 - 23 July 2006, Bilgi University, İstanbul: "Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism in Australia," Greg Noble, Ien Ang, Ghassan Hage. International Geographical Union Conference, 3 - 7 July 2006, Brisbane Institute of Australian Geographers annual conference, July 2005, Armidale

Funded Grants

Future Fellowships ARC Future Fellowship 2009, Assoc Professor Chris Gibson, Crisis and change: cultural-economic research on the adaptability and sustainability of Australian households ARC Future Fellowship 2009, Professor Vera Mackie, From Human Rights to Human Security: Changing Paradigms for Dealing with Inequality in the Asia-Pacific Region

Discovery Grants ARC Discovery 2009, Internet History in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, Prof Gerard Goggin, Assoc Prof Mark McLelland, Dr H Yu, and Dr K Lee ARC Discovery 2009, China's Rural Migrant Workers: Social Transition and Cultural Practice, Prof Wanning Sun 18 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

ARC Discovery 2009, The role of lifestyle television in transforming culture, citizenship and selfhood: Australia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and India, Dr Fran Martin, Dr Tania Lewis, Assoc Prof R Harindranath, Prof Wanning Sun, and Prof John Sinclair ARC Discovery 2009, Popular music and cultural memory: Localised popular music histories and their significance for national music industries, Prof A Bennett; Dr Shane Homan; Dr S Baker; Dr P Doyle; Prof S Janssen; Prof S Cohen; Prof M Regev; Dr TJ Dowd ARC Discovery 2009, New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks, Dr A Bruns; Dr Jean Burgess; Mr T Nicolai; Mr L Kirchhoff ARC Discovery 2009, Worldwide: the history of the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Assoc Prof Jason Jacobs ARC Discovery 2008, Defamation and Privacy: Law, Media and Public Speech, Assoc Prof Andrew Kenyon ARC Discovery 2008, Policy Notes: Local Popular Music in Global Creative Economies, Dr Shane Homan, Dr M Cloonan, and A/Prof R Shuker ARC Discovery 2008, Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation, Assoc Prof Gordon Waitt; Assoc Prof Chris Gibson; Dr NJ Gill; Prof LM Head ARC Discovery 2008, Men on the home front: spatialities of domesticity and masculinity, Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray ARC Discovery 2008, The Just-in-Time Self: Young Men, Skill and Narratives of Aspiration in the New Economy, Dr G Morgan and Dr Greg Noble ARC Discovery 2008, Taste and Place: the transglobal production and consumption of food and drink, Prof Elspeth Probyn ARC Discovery 2008, Online@asia/pacific: A comparative study of online networks in the Asia-Pacific, Ms L Hjorth and Dr MV Arnold ARC Discovery 2008, Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life, Dr Catherine Driscoll, Dr Kate Bowles, Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Assoc Prof Chris Gibson, Dr D Nichols, and Assoc Prof Gordon Waitt ARC Discovery 2008, The History of Asian Australian Cinema: Diaspora, Policy and Ethics, Dr Audrey Yue, Dr Olivia Khoo and Dr Belinda Smaill ARC Discovery 2008, From Print to the Internet: The Media in Australia since 1803, Dr BL Griffen- Foley ARC Discovery 2008, From the Tap to the Bottle: an international study of the social and material life of bottled Water, A/Prof G Hawkins; Dr KD Race; Dr EC Potter ARC Discovery 2008, Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media and Youth Culture in Australia, Dr GM Goggin; Ms KJ Crawford ARC Discovery 2008, Posters of the Cultural Revolution: Contemporary Chinese perspectives on an era of propaganda, Prof SJ Donald; Prof H Evans ARC Discovery 2008, Intercolonial networks of the Indian Ocean, Dr D Ghosh; Prof H Goodall; Prof S Muecke; Em/Prof MN Pearson ARC Discovery 2008, Global/Local Intersections: History, Identity and Community in a Tokyo Subculture, Dr MJ McLelland ARC Discovery 2008, Social Memory and Historical Justice: How Democratic Societies Remember and Forget the Victimisation of Minorities in the Past, Prof K Neumann; Dr Chris Healy; Dr MM Tumarkin; Dr L Apel; Prof Dr S Schüler-Springorum; Prof Dr H Welzer ARC Discovery 2008, Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia's Suburban and Peri Urban Communities, A/Prof T Flew; Prof PW Graham; Dr MN Gibson; Dr C Collis ARC Discovery 2008, Australian television and popular memory: new approaches to the cultural history of the media in the project of nation-building, Prof J Hartley; Prof G Turner; A/Prof A McKee; Dr SE Turnbull; Dr CL Healy; Dr JB Green ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 19

ARC Discovery 2008, Governance, human capital and regional investment in China's new creative clusters, Dr MA Keane; Prof X Zhang ARC Discovery 2008, Mapping the movies: the changing nature of Australia's cinema circuits and their audiences 1956-1984, Prof R Maltby; Dr M Walsh; Dr K Bowles; A/Prof D Verhoeven; Prof JJ Matthews; A/Prof CA Arrowsmith ARC Discovery 2007, Australian literary publishing and its economies, 1965-1995, Prof IR Indyk; Mr JF Arnold; Dr MR Davis; Prof DJ Carter; Ms L Poland ARC Discovery 2007, America Publishes Australia: Australian Books and American Publishers, 1890- 2005, Prof DJ Carter ARC Discovery 2007, New Electronic Archives for Australian Literature, Prof RW Dixon; Prof GL Whitlock; Dr L Dale; Dr K Bode ARC Discovery 2007, Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of Domesticity, Dr MC Gregg ARC Discovery 2007, Redesigning Australian film and television production for Multichannel Environments, 1995-2009, Prof TA O'Regan; Dr BM Goldsmith ARC Discovery 2007, The Emergence, Development and Transformation of Media Ratings Conventions and Methodologies in Australia, 1930-2008, Prof M Balnaves; Prof TA O'Regan ARC Discovery 2006, The Cultivation of Middle-Class Taste: Reading, Tourism and Education Choices in Urban China, Stephi Donald ARC Discovery 2006, The Media and ASEAN Transitions: Defamation Law, Journalism and Public Debate in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, Andrew Kenyon ARC Discovery 2006, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970, Kate Darian-Smith, Prof P Goad, Dr H Lewi, A/Prof J Willis, and Dr D Nichols ARC Discovery 2006, Colonial Publishing and Literary Democracy in Australia: an analysis of the influences on Australian literature of British and Australian publishing, Richard Nile ARC Discovery 2006, The Well-Rounded Person: The Role of Sport in Shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development, Elspeth Probyn and Catharine Lumby

Linkage Grants ARC Linkage 2009, Indigenous Placemaking in Central Melbourne: Representations, practices and creative research, Dr Janet K McGaw, Dr Emily C Potter, Dr Anoma D Pieris, Prof Graham W Brawn ARC Linkage 2009, Young People, Technology, and Wellbeing Research Facility, Dr Amanda J Third, Dr Ingrid Richardson, Dr Jane M Burns, Dr Lucas L Walsh, Ms Philippa J Collin ARC Linkage 2009, Soft Infrastructure, New Media and Creative Clusters: Developing Capacity in China and Australia, Michael Keane ARC Linkage 2008, Large screens and the transnational public sphere, Prof. Nikos Papastergiadis, Prof. Ross Gibson, A/Prof Scott McQuire, Prof. Sean Cubitt, Dr Audrey Yue ARC Linkage 2008, Information and Cultural Exchange: a study of best practices in community building, participation and cultural citizenship through creative practices, Dr I Vanni Accarigi; Dr TI Dreher; Dr D Ghosh; Dr C Ho; Dr AW Mitchell ARC Linkage 2008, Cultural Asset Mapping for Planning and Development in Regional Australia, Prof RJ Gibson; A/Prof CR Gibson; Prof J Walmsley ARC Linkage 2006, Mobile Me: Young People, Sociality and the Mobile Phone, Stephi Donald, John Gammack, and Theresa Anderson ARC Linkage 2007, Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies, Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Dr J Evans, and Dr P Edmonds ARC Linkage 2007, Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin's Creative Industries, Susan Luckman and Chris Gibson ARC Linkage 2007, The Art of Engagement: Exploring a contemporary arts-business collaboration, Ien Ang and Kay Anderson, 20 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

ARC Linkage 2007, Assessing the impact of new communication technologies in developing countries and Disadvantaged communities, Dr JA Tacchi; Dr AJ Skuse ARC Linkage 2007, The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, Prof P Spearritt; Dr GA Ginn; Prof DJ Carter; Dr SG Ulm; Dr NS Bordes; Dr CA McAlpine; Dr JP Powell; Mr MC Quinnell; Mr P Gesner; Dr BA Crozier; Dr JM McKay; Ms PE Barnard ARC Linkage 2006, Childhood, Tradition and Change: a National Study of the Historical and Contemporary Significance and Practices of Australian Children’s Playlore, Prof Kate Darian-Smith, Prof W Logan, Prof G Seal

Other ARC Grants Federation Fellowship 2005, Prof John Hartley Federation Fellowship 2006, Prof Graeme Turner ARC LIEF 2007, The Australian Legal Scholarship Library – enhancing research infrastructure for Australian Law, Prof GW Greenleaf; Prof AS Mowbray; Prof T Carlin; Dr F Wheeler; Mrs H Culshaw; A/Prof AT Kenyon; Prof MA Adams ARC LIEF 2007, AustLit Phase Two: Research Infrastructure for Humanities and Education Researchers, Prof DJ Carter; Prof RW Dixon; and others ARC LIEF 2006, AustLit - humanities research infrastructure development through knowledge-based dataset building, augmentation of key research elements and ICT developments, David Carter and others

Other Grants Economic and Social Research Council and Department for International Development, ESRC/DFID Joint Scheme Phase 2 - Participation in Development: Valuing Voice and Listening, Jo Tacchi (QUT), Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths) and Tanja Dreher (UTS), under consideration. Macquarie University New Staff Grant 2010, The News Game: A Possible Framework for Evaluating Mediated Listening, Dr Justine Lloyd UTS ECR Grant 2009, Listening Across Difference, Dr Tanja Dreher Participants In its five years, many researchers came to the CRN and a few left. Here is the comprehensive list of CRN members. Dr Kath Albury, University of New South Wales Professor Kay Anderson, University of Western Sydney Professor Ien Ang, FAHA, University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Gerry Bloustien, University of South Australia Associate Professor Frances Bonner, The University of Queensland Dr Kate Bowles, University of Wollongong Professor Tara Brabazon, University of Brighton, UK Dr Michael Broderick, Murdoch University Dr Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology Professor David Carter, The University of Queensland Dr Christy Collis, Queensland University of Technology Associate Professor Kate Crawford, University of New South Wales Professor Stuart Cunningham, FAHA, Queensland University of Technology Professor Kate Darian-Smith, University of Melbourne Professor Robert Dixon, FAHA, University of Sydney ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009 21

Professor Stephanie Donald, University of Sydney Dr Tanja Dreher, University of Technology Sydney Dr Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney Dr Michelle Duffy, Monash University Dr Clifton Evers, University of New South Wales Professor Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology Professor John Frow, FAHA, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney Associate Professor Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong Dr Mark Gibson, Monash University Prof Gerard Goggin, The University of New South Wales Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Wollongong Dr Melissa Gregg, University of Sydney Associate Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Macquarie University Associate Professor Paula Hamilton, University of Technology, Sydney Associate Professor R Harindranath, University of Melbourne Professor John Hartley, FAHA, Queensland University of Technology Professor Gay Hawkins, University of New South Wales Associate Professor Christopher Healy, University of Melbourne Dr Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University Dr Shane Homan, Monash University Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Jacka, FAHA, University of Technology, Sydney Associate Professor Jason Jacobs, University of Queensland Dr Meredith Jones, University of Technology, Sydney Associate Professor Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology Professor Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne Dr Olivia Khoo, Department of Media, Culture & Creative Arts, Curtin University Dr Tania Lewis, La Trobe University Dr Justine Lloyd, University of Technology, Sydney Dr Susan Luckman, University of South Australia Professor Catharine Lumby, University of New South Wales Professor Vera Mackie, University of Melbourne Professor David Marshall, University of Wollongong Dr Fran Martin, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Mark McLelland, The University of Wollongong Professor Alan McKee, Queensland University of Technology Dr Kelly McWilliam, University of Southern Queensland Professor Stephen Muecke, FAHA, University of New South Wales Professor Richard Nile, Murdoch University Associate Professor Greg Noble, University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Baden Offord, Southern Cross University 22 ARC Cultural Research Network 2005 – 2009

Professor Tom O'Regan, FAHA, The University of Queensland Dr Emily Potter, Deakin University Professor Elspeth Probyn, FAHA, University of South Australia Dr Kane Race, The University of Sydney Dr Ingrid Richardson, Murdoch University Dr Julia de Roeper, University of South Australia Professor Krishna Sen, FAHA, University of Western Australia Professor John Sinclair, FAHA, University of Melbourne Dr Zoe Sofoulis, University of Western Sydney Professor Wanning Sun, University of Technology, Sydney Dr John Tebbutt, La Trobe University Dr Catherine Thill, University of Notre Dame Associate Professor Sue Turnbull, La Trobe University Associate Professor Jo Ann Tacchi, Queensland University of Technology Professor Graeme Turner, FAHA, The University of Queensland Associate Professor Gordon Waitt, University of Wollongong Dr Rowan Wilken, University of Melbourne Dr Jason Wilson, University of Wollongong Dr Amanda Wise, Macquarie University Dr Audrey Yue, University of Melbourne