Redefining Knowledge Communication: Web 2.0 and the Digital Transition of Chinese Academic Publishing

Overview

Project status: In progress

Applying creative industries theories to publishing practice; based on economic and cultural understanding on Web 2.0, providing practical and instrumental suggestions for academic publishing practice as a creative industry; and offering a contextualized research linking creative economy to developing countries' contexts.

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Grantor

  • Arts Queensland

  • State Library Queensland and Queensland Artworkers Alliance

  • Australia Council Inter Arts

  • Australia Council Music

  • QUT Creative Industries

  • Elektra Festival - Montreal, Canada

  • Australia Council Visual Arts (in progress)

Research team
QUT External collaborators

  • Chris Barker (RMIT)

Organisational unit
Lead unit Creative Industries Faculty
Start date
1st August 2009
End date
1st August 2012
Research area
Digital media, communication and culture
 

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Abstract

Compared to its success in many ICT based creative industries, Web 2.0, as a new paradigm of cultural production, has not played an important role in academic publishing so far in China. Through analysis on the economy, culture, and politics of scholarly communication and digital publishing, my research aims to explore the economic and cultural reasons for that phenomenon and provide practical suggestions for implementing Web 2.0 in digital academic publishing in China in order to better serve its transition to creative economy and knowledge society.

Project description

  • Through interpretive document analysis, exploring the economic and cultural nature of Web 2.0 as a new paradigm of cultural production in creative economy

  • Based on 4 case studies and over 20 interviews, identifying the economic dynamics and socio-cultural determinants within Web 2.0 models in Chinese academic publishing

  • Through creative research, providing innovations on the economic and cultural model of Web 2.0 in digital academic publishing, considering the particular Chinese contexts as a transitional society to creative economy and knowledge society

Partnerships

  • Elektra Festival - Montreal, Canada

Publications and output

  • Comprehensive understanding of the importance of Web 2.0 in Chinese academic publishing, not only technologically, but also economically and culturally

  • Practical suggestions for the building and improvements of the uses of Web 2.0 in Chinese academic publishing

  • Reconsideration on the role of ICT and creative industries in transitional societies