Dr Susan Luckman

I am an interdisciplinary cultural ethnographer of creative industries and new media, with a particular focus in current work on: small-scale creative industries; time, space and creative lifestyles; shifting patterns of media consumption; rural and remote living and technological ‘making do’. Current projects include: the future of professional media production in a user-generated media environment; mobile drama story-telling; and rural making dos around telecommunications infrastructure and digital devices.

Spatial Cultural Studies

This project, in its early stages, builds upon the innovative use of mental maps, then coded into GIS (Geographic Information Systems), as part of the semi-structured interview process employed as part of the ‘Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries’ ( LP0667445). It will test the use of two kinds of mobile devices—mobile palm-held and larger portable interactive digital tablets—for both their usability and productive impact upon the conduct of location-based research interviews and surveys.

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