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In my role as Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at University of Alberta I get to work with a lot of amazing people and inventive ideas.
A report of a brief but important talk I gave at MSIX2017 in November on how to fix the Australian film industry’s gender disparity. Continue…
A short introduction, written with Toby Burrows, on the new iteration of the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) platform. This new iteration enables visitors to take advantage of the platform’s graph searching capabilities. Network graphs, those familiar spiderweb images of interconnection, are a powerful way of uncovering the meaning and significance of the knowledge embedded in cultural collections. This article describes how some of these features work in HuNI. Continue…
This article written with Bronwyn Coate looks at how films from different countries perform in the Australian market. The cinema is repeatedly held to be dead or dying. Evidence to support these claims is practically non-existent. Each year more and more films are made and released around the world. Our data however, does infer that outside the mainstream ecology of US dominated film exhibition and distribution, the increased number of films has had a “cannibalising” effect, in which intensified competition
The City of Melbourne is introducing a small number of pedestrian light signals with female figures (rather than the default male). This is my very short 10 cents worth in support of the gesture. Broadcast on BBC World Service March 7, 2017 Continue…
Filmgoers may soon have an app that lets them decide how much they want to pay to see a film. A short radio interview about the introduction of dynamic (or demand) cinema ticket pricing in Australia. Recorded with Jason Di Rosso and broadcast on Radio National on Friday 10 February 2017. Continue…
Imagine if you could pay less to see films that are less popular. Dynamic (or demand based) ticket pricing already happens in China and its about to start in Australia. An article written with Bronwyn Coate for The Conversation and published on 7 February 2017. Continue…
