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Golden age of genre films leads Australian industry revival
The Australian film industry is in the middle of a renaissance, with locally produced popular genre movies riding a wave of success, from action, comedy and sci-fi films to crime, thrillers, and our unique horror productions, says a QUT researcher.
Associate Professor Mark Ryan, a lecturer in film, screen and animation, and a chief investigator with QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre, argues the study of film genre has been long overlooked in Australian film studies and deserves more attention.
He adds that despite some exceptions, critics in the past have largely relegated local genre films to B-movie status and celebrated Australian movies that contributed to a sense of national identity and history; films like Sunday Too Far Away, Breaker Morant, and Gallipoli.
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Citizen science project explores search engine secrets
Do search engines influence you more than you think? Now is your chance to help QUT researchers find out.
In 2020, Google processed more than 3.5 billion searches a day – and Forbes Magazine reports that most people see search engines as the most trusted source of information. But not all searches produce the same results.
Search engines adjust their recommendations to suit our interests. The big question is how such personalisation can influence our decisions on anything from where to holiday to whether we get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The new QUT-led Australian Search Experience project aims to find out. It invites Australian Internet users to join the project as citizen scientists, and download a simple browser plugin to their computer. To install the plugin, simply go to https://www.admscentre.org.au/searchexperience/ and follow the instructions.
Perth may be the capital, but Fremantle is the centre of the Western Australian creative industries universe according to a study by researchers from QUT.
Adult media literacy in Australia: attitudes, experiences and needs
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This report provides the first comprehensive analysis into how Australians understand and use different forms of traditional and digital media.
The report involves a collaboration between researchers at the
Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, the
Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, and the
News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra.
In November and December 2020, the research team surveyed a sample of 3,510 adult Australians to understand the different types of media they use, the value they place on different media activities, their confidence in their own media abilities and their access to media literacy support.