Professor Stuart Cunningham
Director, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Current ARC Projects
2001-2002 'Investigating, prototyping and trialling interactive online youth counselling tools'
2002 'Creative Industries in Queensland: Cluster Mapping and Value-chain Analysis'
2002 'The new services industry model: Implications for audio-visual media'
2002 'Regional development of audiovisual industries in the digital era: Prospects for the Northern Rivers region of NSW'
2003 'Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO and the Knowledge-based Economy'
2004 'Creative digital industries in Australia: innovation in quantitative and qualitative mapping'
International Linkages
Stuart Cunningham has been active in international policy, industry and research forums around the development of the creative industries agenda through invited keynotes and other participation in Canada, UK, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Africa since 2001.
He is active in developing an International Creative Institute (iCi) (led by John Hartley, with other QUT participants) involving shared research and advanced student projects, international research commissions and consultancies and innovative applications such as international curated research-based exhibitions and installations using the integrated and articulated R&D, exhibitionary and teaching facilities of the new Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane.
Publications
Professor Cunningham's work has been translated into a variety of languages, or has appeared in publications predominantly other than English. These languages include French, Spanish, Catalan, Korean, Mandarin and Portuguese.
Books
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., Australian Television and International Mediascapes (Melbourne, New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 284pp.
Edited Books
Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. (eds), The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2002).
Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S. (eds), New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). 238pp.
Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. (eds), The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences 2nd ed (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997). Xviii+490pp.
Cunningham, S. and Sinclair, J. (eds), Floating lives: The media and Asian diasporas (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000) xvi + 244pp and Boulder CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Turner, G. and Cunningham, S. (eds), The Australian TV Book (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, September 2000).
Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. (eds), The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001).
Research Monographs
Stuart Cunningham, Suellen Tapsall, Lawrence Stedman, Yoni Ryan, Kerry Bagdon, Terry Flew, New Media and Borderless Education: A Review of the Convergence between Global Media Networks and Higher Education Provision (DEETYA Evaluation and Investigations Program (EIP), AGPS, January 1998).
Stuart Cunningham, Yoni Ryan, Lawrence Stedman, Suellen Tapsall, Kerry Bagdon, Terry Flew, Peter Coaldrake, The Business of Borderless Education (DETYA Evaluation and Investigations Program (EIP), AGPS, June 2000).
Book Parts and Chapters
Cunningham, S. and Nguyen, T. 2003 'Actually Existing Hybridity: Vietnamese diasporic music video', in Karim H. Karim (ed), The Media of Diaspora London and New York: Routledge pp. 119-132.
Cunningham, S., 'Cultural Studies from the Viewpoint of Cultural Policy', in Justin Lewis and Toby Miller (eds) Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader, Malden MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 13-22.
Turner, G. and Cunningham, S., 'The media and communications in Australia today', Ch 1 in Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. (eds), The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2002), pp. 3-20.
Cunningham, S. and Flew, T., 'Policy', in Cunningham, S. and Turner, G. (eds), The Media and Communications in Australia 3rd ed (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2002), pp. 48-61.
Goldsmith, B., Thomas, J., O'Regan, T. and Cunningham, S. 2002, 'Asserting Cultural and Social Regulatory Principles in Converging Media Systems', in Marc Raboy (ed), Global Media Policy in the New Millennium (London: University of Luton Press,), pp. 93-109.
Cunningham, S., 'Theorising the Diasporic Audience', eds Mark Balnaves, Tom O'Regan and Jason Sternberg Mobilising the Audience (UQP 2002), pp. 266-282
Cunningham, S. and Flew, T., 'Policy', in Toby Miller ed. Television Studies, BFI Publishing, 2002, pp. 50-53.
Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S. 'Chapter 1: 'Peripheral Vision', in Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S. (eds), New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., 'Chapter 7: Australian Television in World Markets', in Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S. (eds), New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., 'From cultural protection to culture industries: Shifts in the ecological rhetoric of Australian television', in Ericksen, H. (ed) The Media's Australia (Parkville: The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 1996), pp. 3 -16.
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., 'Globalisation and Australian television: Local and foreign audiences', in Ericksen, H. (ed) The Media's Australia (Parkville: The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 1996), pp. 88-101.
Cunningham, S., 'Australian Production Companies', in Newcomb, H. (ed), Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television Vol 1 AF (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997), pp. 121-6.
Cunningham, S., 'Neighbours' in Newcomb, H. (ed), Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television Vol 2 G-P (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997), pp. 1148-51.
Cunningham, S., 'International Television Program Markets' in Newcomb, H. (ed), Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television Vol 2 G-P (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997), pp. 831-2.
Cunningham, S. and Flew, T., 'Media Policy', in Woodward, D., Parkin, A., and Summers. J. (eds) (1997), Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia 6th Edition (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire), pp. 468-485.
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., 'Neighbourly Relations' Cross-Cultural Reception Analysis and Australian Soaps in Britain', in Sreberny-Mohammadi, A., Winseck, D., McKenna, J. and Boyd-Barrett, O. (eds), Media in Global Context: A Reader (London: Arnold/Hodder Headline, 1997), Ch. 25, pp. 299 - 310.
Cunningham, S., 'Floating lives: multicultural broadcasting and diasporic video in Australia' in Kevin Robins (ed.) (1997), Programming for People: From Cultural Rights to Cultural Responsibilities. Report Presented by RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana in association with the European Broadcasting Union, pp. 118-126.
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E. and Sinclair, J., 'Regional Dynamics', in Thussu, D. (ed), Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (London: Hodder Headline/Arnold, 1998).
Cunningham, S., 'Cultural Studies from the Viewpoint of Cultural Policy', in Ann Gray and Jim McGuigan (eds), Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader 2nd ed. (London: Edward Arnold, 1998), pp. 306-318 (Ch 28).
Cunningham, S. and Nguyen, T., 'Floating Lives: The media of the Vietnamese Diaspora', in B. Bennett (ed), Australia in between Cultures (Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1999), pp. 3 -22.
Cunningham, S. and Flew, T., 'Dewesternizing Australia Media Systems and Cultural Coordinates', in Curran, J. and Park, Mjun-Jin (eds), Dewesternizing Media Studies (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 237-248.
Cunningham, S., Hawkins, G., Yue, A., Nguyen, T. and Sinclair, J., 'Multicultural broadcasting and diasporic video as public sphericules', in Denise Meredyth and Jeffrey Minson (eds), Citizenship and Cultural Policy (London: Sage, forthcoming).
Cunningham, S., 'Theorising the diasporic audience', in Balnaves, M, O'Regan, T. and Sternberg, J. (eds), Mobilising the Audience (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001).
Sinclair, J. and Cunningham, S., 'Diasporas and the Media', in Cunningham, S. And Sinclair, J. (eds), Floating lives: The media and Asian diasporas (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000) pp. 1-34.
Cunningham, S and Nguyen, T., 'Popular Media of the Vietnamese Diaspora', in Cunningham, S. and Sinclair, J. (eds), Floating lives: The media and Asian diasporas (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000) pp. 91-135.
Cunningham, S., 'History, Context, Politics, Policy', in Turner, G. and Cunningham, S. (eds), The Australian TV Book (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2000), pp. 13-32.
O'Regan, T. and Cunningham, S., 'Marginalised Audiences', in Turner, G. and Cunningham, S. (eds), The Australian TV Book (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2000), pp. 201-212.
Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S. 'Peripheral Vision', in Frank J. Lechner and John Boli (eds), The Globalisation Reader (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp. 301-06.
Flew, T. and Cunningham, S., 'Thank you very much and good night: media', in C. Shiel (ed), Australia: Global Perspectives (Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 2001).
Goldsmith, B., Thomas, J., O'Regan, T. and Cunningham, S. 2001, 'Asserting Cultural and Social Regulatory Principles in Converging Media Systems', in Marc Raboy (ed), Global Media Policy in the New Millennium (London: University of Luton Press, 2001).
Refereed Articles
Cunningham, S., and Glover, S., 2003, The New Brisbane', Artlink Vol. 23, No. 2 June, pp. 16-23.
Cunningham, S., Hearn, G. and Jones, J. 2003, 'Smart State is also Creative State: Opportunities for Queensland in the Creative industries', Queensland Review 10, No. 1 May, pp. 29-36.
Cunningham, Stuart (2002) Culture, services, knowledge or "Is content King, or are we just drama Queens?" Communications Research Forum, 2-3 October 2002, see http://www.dcita.gov.au/crf/papers02/cunningham.pdf
Cunningham, S. (2002), 'From Cultural to Creative Industries: Theory, Industry, and Policy Implications' Media Information Australia Incorporating Culture & Policy, No 102, February, pp.54-65.
Cunningham, S. (2002), 'From Cultural to Creative Industries: Theory, Industry, and Policy Implications' Culturelink Special issue 2001 Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 19-32.
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., 'The Role of Television in Australia's "Paradigm Shift" to Asia', Media, Culture and Society Vol 18, No. 4 (October 1996), pp. 619-637.
Cunningham, S. and Finn, M., 'Media Theory and the Internet', Media International Australia No. 81 (May 1996), pp 84-92.
Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S., 'Mercados regionales de televisión en la era de los satélites: Una visión periférica de la comunicación global', Telos (FUNDESCO, Madrid) No. 47, September-November 1996, pp. 37-43.
Sinclair, J., Jacka, E. and Cunningham, S., 'Peripheral Vision: world regional television markets in the satellite age', INTERCOM-Revista Brasileira de Comunicacĺo, Sao Paulo, 19, No. 2, July-December, 1996, pp. 13-22.
Cunningham, S. 'Community Broadcasting and Civil Society', Metro No 110 (1997), pp. 21-25.
Cunningham, S. 'Influences on the idea of media "influence"', Metro No 111 (1997), pp. 31-34.
Cunningham, S., 'Multicultural broadcasting and diasporic video in Australia', Southern Review 31, No.1 (1998), pp. 88-95.
Cunningham, S. and Jacka, E., 'The Continued relevance of the 'national' as a site for Progressive Policy Making', Javnost The Public Vol. 5, No.4 (1998), pp. 80-84.
Cunningham, S. and Nguyen, T., 'Popular media of the Vietnamese Diaspora', Javnost The Public (Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture) Vol. VI, No. 1, 1999, pp. 71-91.
Cunningham, S. and Nguyen, T., 'The Popular media of the Vietnamese Diaspora', Media International Australia No 91, (May 1999), pp. 125-147.
Sinclair, J. and Cunningham, S., 'Go With the Flow: Diasporas and the Media', TV and New Media Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 2000), pp. 11-31.
Cunningham, S., 'Documentary: Globalisation of the Real', Metro Nos 121/122 (2000), pp. 40-44.
Cunningham, S. and Romano, A., 'W(h)ither media influence'', Media International Australia No 95, (May 2000).
Cunningham, S., Hawkins, G., Yue, A., Nguyen, T. and Sinclair, J., 'Multicultural broadcasting and diasporic video as public sphericules', in Denise Meredyth and Jeffrey Minson (eds), American Behavioural Scientist Vol 43, No. 9 (June/July 2000), pp. 1533-1547.
Cunningham, S., 'Popular Media as public 'sphericules' for diasporic communities', International Journal of Cultural Studies , Vol. 4, No. 2 (2001).
Expert Commentary
Cunningham, S., 'Social and Creative disciplines in the ascent', The Australian HES 10 July 2002.
Cunningham, S., 'After the fireworks, ABC opts for safety', AFR Opinion, 30 May 2002, p. 63.
Research Reports
QUT CIRAC (Creative Industries Research and Applications Center) and Cutler&Company 2003, Research and Innovation Systems in the production of Digital Content, Report for the National Office for the Information Economy. Online Version
Cunningham, S., Rennie, E., Glover, S., Henkel, C., Keane, M., Tacchi, J., Hearn, G., Doneman, M., Smart State All Over: Opportunities for Broadcasting and Content Creation Enterprises in regional Queensland, Report to Department of Premier and Cabinet, Queensland Government, CIRAC October 2002. 56pp.
Current Research Interests
cultural, media and communication studies and policy
creative industries