From Multimedia to Digital Content and Applications

Remaking Policy for the Digital Content Industries

Bibliographic Data

ID5904045
AuthorsTom O''Regan, Tom O’regan (0000-0001-9086-9380), Tom O'Regan, Michele D Ryan (0000-0002-1544-1007), Mark David Ryan
Year2004
Volume112
Issue1
Pages28-49
Publication date2004-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x0411200105
OpenAlexW74192684
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited3

This article analyses the two policy moments of digital content industries policy development of the Keating (1992-96) and Howard (2001-04) governments. In bringing these two moments into dialogue, our aim is to illuminate and evaluate the broader policy frameworks, and the political and policy contexts, which gave rise to and subsequently shaped these different digital content strategies. The Keating government connected culture and services to harness multimedia as a vehicle for cultural expression and as a new economically viable growth industry suited to a convergent information age. The Howard government's innovation agenda has reconstructed industry development priorities for the digital content industries, influencing their conception as inputs and enablers for both the ICT and broader industries in an information economy framework. The article concludes with an evaluation of the assumptions and priorities, shortcomings and advantages of these two quite different approaches to developing digital content industries

Business · Content (measure theory) · Digital content · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Information and Communications Technology · Multimedia · Political science · Politics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Mathematics