ically and ethnographically document the broad social consequences of new digital technologies in the Pacific region.

Games of Being Social: A study of mobile gaming cultures (ARC Discovery)                  

CCI researcher Larissa Hjorth, with colleague Ingrid Richardson, will undertake this first Australian study to examine the social uses of mobile gaming. Through ethnographic methods, this study will explore how mobile game consumption is reflecting, and being shaped by, complex social and technological practices integral to contemporary life.

Willing Collaborators: Negotiating Change in East Asian Media Production (ARC Discovery)

CCI researchers Michael Keane and Terry Flew, with colleagues Brian Yecies (University of Wollongong), Anthony Fung (School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Michael Curtin (Film & Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara), will examine how media producers and investors from China, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are moving into flexible and innovative forms of collaboration. Focusing on cinema, television, online video and mobile content in East Asia, the study enhances academic, industry and policy understandings of the dynamics of regional media production.

 

New appointments

CCI graduate Sonja Vivienne has been appointed as a post-doctoral researcher working on 'Networked Identity Work and Intimate Citizenship' in the Centre for Communications and Social Change (CfCSC) at the University of Queensland.

CCI graduate Elaine Zhao will take up the position of Lecturer in Public Relations and Public Communications in the School of the Arts and Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW, beginning in january 2014

CCI associate researcher, Dr Ian McShane, Senior