of recent developments, it outlines the key media industries and explains how communications technologies are impacting on them. It provides a thorough overview of the main approaches taken in studying the media, and includes new chapters on social media, gaming, apps, the environment, media regulation, ethics and privacy. For more information visit www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=305&book=9781743311639

UN Creative Economy Report 2013

CCI researcher Ramon Lobato contributed to the 2013 UN Creative Economy Report. The Report confirms the creative economy as one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy and a highly transformative one in terms of income generation, job creation and export earnings. For more information visit www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/creativity/creative-economy-report-2013-special-edition/

Articles

The relationship between high capacity broadband and TV-like media continues to rapidly evolve, for example, with the recent announcement by Foxtel proposing to offer a triple-play service bundle (telephone, internet and TV) in 2014. CCI researchers Robert Morsillo and Trevor Barr in their recent International Journal of Digital Television article, 'Innovation or disruption? The National Broadband Network comes to Australian TV’, utilise innovation theories to analyse and map out aspects of that emerging relationship.

New grants

Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian Online Public Sphere (ARC Future Fellowship)

Axel Bruns has won a four-year, $870,000 ARC Future Fellowship which will commence in 2014. The emergence of new media fo