Technological Innovation and Social Change

QUT | Creative Industries | reading room Queensland Uni of Tech's resources on creative industries. I'm currently checking out some sites on this topic and a first scan suggests worth a look are:

From just down the road from my office: http://www.mipc.mmu.ac.uk/foci/docu.htm
Case Studies for the Creative Industries - Regularly updated gazetter of local case studies of Creative Industries support services, strategies and polices across the UK, carried out by research at Manchester Institute for Popular Culture within the ICISS Project (focus on support policies)


"Join the Creative Clusters Network and get a free 40-slide presentation: What Are the Creative Industries? Why Do They Matter? How Can They Be Supported?" at http://www.creativeclusters.co.uk/
can't immediately see the papers from their conferences here.


case studies of use of teaching resources for lecturers in creative industries: http://www.artifact.ac.uk/cases.php


mapping Uk creative industries:
quite detailed:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/global/publications/archive_2001/ci_mapping_doc_2001.htm

COST269 Web Site:
This is COST Action 269, User Aspects of ICT

Its main objectives were to study and analyse ICT
usage, and a lot of material has now been depositied here.

CNN.com - Will GPS tech lead to 'geoslavery'? - Mar. 11, 2003
This is a newspaper version of the argument - the full analysis can be found at http://www.colorado.edu/geography/mennis/GIS_Introduction/Readings/dobsonandfisher.2003.pdf
and
http://www.njcc.com/~techsoc/dobson.html

I have been unable to locate an answering article on "geoliberation" that I was told of.

"An unlikely threat to privacy, RFID technology will help producers, marketers, and retailers take major steps toward better understanding—and therefore better serving—the entire mix of consumer interests...." or so it is argued at: http://www.cei.org/pdf/4080.pdf by Jum Harper

I received an email today promoting an electronic book on "The Economics of Patents and
Copyright".saying: "We have decided to diffuse this primer for free via the
world-wide-web. Our motives are explained in the foreword of the book.
Do not hesitate to disseminate and recommend this e-textbook to your
students, or to post it (or an announcement or a link to
http://www.cerna.ensmp.fr/PrimerForFree.htm) on any web site that you
think is appropriate!
Best regards,
Francois Leveque and Yann Meniere (sorry about the accents disappearing)
Cerna (center of industrial economics), Ecole des mines de Paris
60 bd Saint Michel, 75272 Paris cedex 6
Tel. : 33 (1) 40 51 92 98
Fax : 33 (1) 44 07 10 46