Adjunct Professor
Michael Keane

Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Background Dr Michael Keane's research interests include- Internet and digital transformation in China
- cultural policy in China
- creative industries and innovation in China
- audio-visual industry policy and development in China, South Korea, and Taiwan
- television formats in Asia.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Keywords
Chinese and Asian creative industries policy, Chinese media and new media, Chinese television, Regional creative clusters
Discipline
Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Film, Television and Digital Media
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Griffith University)
Professional memberships and associations
Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
Selected publications
- Keane M, (2013) Creative industries in China: Art, design and media, Polity Press.
- Keane M, (2011) China's new creative clusters: Governance, human capital and investment, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
- Keane M, Sun W, (2013) Chinese Media, Routledge.
- Hartley J, Potts J, Cunningham S, Flew T, Keane M, Banks J, (2013) Key concepts in creative industries, Sage Publications.
- Keane M, (2011) How Creativity is Changing China, Bloomsbury Academic.
- Keane M, Zhao E, (2012) Renegades on the frontier of innovation: The Shanzhai grassroots communities of Shenzhen in China's creative economy, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 53 (2), pp. 216-230.
- Moran A, Keane M, (2010) Cultural Adaptation, Routledge.
- Keane M, (2007) Created in China: The Great New Leap Forward, Routledge.
- Keane M, Fung A, Moran A, (2007) New Television, Globalisation, and The East Asian Cultural Imagination, Hong Kong University Press.
- Keane M, (2001) Broadcasting Policy, Creative Compliance, and the Myth of Civil Society in China, Media, Culture and Society, pp. 783-798.
QUT ePrints
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Research projects
- Title
- Willing collaborators: Negotiating Change in East Asian Media Production
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP140101643
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- China; media industries; screen co-productions
- Title
- Governance, Human Capital and Regional Investment in China's New Creative Clusters
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0878691
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Creative Industries; Clusters; Knowledge Economy; China; Cultural Geography; Political Economy
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Fashion in Shanghai: The Designers of a New Economy of Style (2014)
- Seriously playful: the Uses of Networked Spoof Videos in China (2012)
- A Study of Beijing's Competitive Advantage as an Emergent Media Capital (2012)
- Development Issues for the Creative Economy in Malaysia (2012)
- Re-Made in Asia: Transformation Across Asian Markets and Popular Culture (2012)
- Scenes, Quarters and Clusters: New Experiments in the Formation and Governance of Creative Places in China (2012)
- Competition and Innovation: Independent Production in the Chinese TV Industry (2011)
- Mobilizing the brand experience: The adoption and use of mobile media in building consumer relationships in China (2011)
- Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul (2010)
- A Study of Entrepreneurship: Taiwanese Digital Content Companies in China (2009)