John Hartley
Curtin University, Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), Faculty Member
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China has a reputation as an economy based on utility: the large-scale manufacture of low-priced goods. But useful values like functionality, fitness for purpose and efficiency are only part of the story. More important are what Veblen... more
China has a reputation as an economy based on utility: the large-scale manufacture of low-priced goods. But useful values like functionality, fitness for purpose and efficiency are only part of the story. More important are what Veblen called ‘honorific’ values, arguably the driving force of development, change and value in any economy. To understand the Chinese economy therefore, it is not sufficient to point to its utilitarian aspect. Honorific status-competition is a more fundamental driver than utilitarian cost-competition. We argue that ‘social network markets’ are the expression of these honorific values, relationships and connections that structure and coordinate individual choices. This paper explores how such markets are developing in China in the area of fashion and fashion media. These, we argue, are an expression of ‘risk culture’ for high-end entrepreneurial consumers and producers alike, providing a stimulus to dynamic innovation in the arena of personal taste and comportment, as part of an international cultural system based on constant change. We examine the launch of Vogue China in 2005, and China’s reception as a fashion player among the international editions of Vogue, as an expression of a ‘decisive moment’ in the integration of China into an international social network market based on honorific values.
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... John Hartley The general field of Creative Industries studies is now well-established in higher education in many countries, especially in ... Principles of Creative Clusters: perspective from the private sector Randy Yu A creative... more
... John Hartley The general field of Creative Industries studies is now well-established in higher education in many countries, especially in ... Principles of Creative Clusters: perspective from the private sector Randy Yu A creative cluster should be able to gather creative forces of the ...
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Hartley, John (2004) 'Kiss Me Kat' Shakespeare, big brother, and the taming of the self. In Murray, Susan & Ouellette, Laurie (Eds.) Reality TV : remaking television culture. New York University Press, United States of... more
Hartley, John (2004) 'Kiss Me Kat' Shakespeare, big brother, and the taming of the self. In Murray, Susan & Ouellette, Laurie (Eds.) Reality TV : remaking television culture. New York University Press, United States of America, pp. 303-322. ... Official URL: http://www.nyupress.org/ ...
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The history of radio from the early pre-broadcasting period shows how transmitted music and talk have been caught up in the evolution of contemporary citizenship. The article discusses Bertolt Brecht’s experiments in public radio in the... more
The history of radio from the early pre-broadcasting period shows how transmitted music and talk have been caught up in the evolution of contemporary citizenship. The article discusses Bertolt Brecht’s experiments in public radio in the 1920s, and argues that commercial radio can also be seen to have contributed to the self-identification of ‘imagined communities’. Internationally, despite the ascendance of other broadcast and communications media, radio continues to be used in a variety of community-building developmental situations, providing remote, marginal and disenfranchised communities with low-cost, low-tech public space. Radio remains one of the pillars of civil society, combining entertainment and democracy, sound and citizenship. This article is a modified version of the welcome address that launched the ‘Radiocracy’ conference.
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... In: Media Industries : History, Theory & Method. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA & Oxford, pp. 231-244. [img], cover image; Media Industries (Image: JPEG 56Kb) Cover Image. Administrators only | Request a copy from author:... more
... In: Media Industries : History, Theory & Method. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden MA & Oxford, pp. 231-244. [img], cover image; Media Industries (Image: JPEG 56Kb) Cover Image. Administrators only | Request a copy from author: Abstract. ...
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... Originally designed by Adrian Frutiger for Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, it is suitably international, being used for the corporate identity of the UK National Health Service, Telefónica O2, the Royal Navy, the London School of... more
... Originally designed by Adrian Frutiger for Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, it is suitably international, being used for the corporate identity of the UK National Health Service, Telefónica O2, the Royal Navy, the London School of Economics , the Canadian Broadcasting ...
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ABSTRACT. A group of Australian researchers from a range of disciplines involved in studying children's sexual development developed a framework for researching healthy sexual development that was acceptable... more
ABSTRACT. A group of Australian researchers from a range of disciplines involved in studying children's sexual development developed a framework for researching healthy sexual development that was acceptable to all disciplines involved. The 15 domains identified were: freedom ...
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Research Interests: Multimedia and Innovation
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Page 1. This is the author version published as: This is the accepted version of this article. To be published as : This is the author's version published as: Catalogue from Homo Faber 2007 QUT Digital Repository: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/ ...
Research Interests: Productivity and Internet
... but the so-called 'story circle' (Hartley & McWilliam, forthcoming!), a series of Hartley ICA 2007 3 Page 5. ... The Californian model – as I understand it – is based loosely on independent film practice, in a tradition... more
... but the so-called 'story circle' (Hartley & McWilliam, forthcoming!), a series of Hartley ICA 2007 3 Page 5. ... The Californian model – as I understand it – is based loosely on independent film practice, in a tradition going back to Lenny Lipton in the 1970s, where individuals ...
... be taken for granted. Meanwhile, the teaching of journalism in universities has some difficult issues to face, and not only because of new technologies in a rapidly internationalising industry. Technical integration goes hand in ...
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... The phenomenal success of YouTube shows that the Internet is now fully mature as an ... as an elaborated textual system created for the new media ecology, digital storytelling challenges the traditional ... Entertainment Lab at the... more
... The phenomenal success of YouTube shows that the Internet is now fully mature as an ... as an elaborated textual system created for the new media ecology, digital storytelling challenges the traditional ... Entertainment Lab at the University of Tsukuba in Japan is typical in its use of ...
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... Personal Author: Rennie, Ellie; Hartley, John. Source: In: Anastasiou, Pauline (Editor); Trist, Karen (Editor). Image, Text and Sound 2004: The Yet Unseen: Rendering Stories. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004: [1-6]. Document Type:... more
... Personal Author: Rennie, Ellie; Hartley, John. Source: In: Anastasiou, Pauline (Editor); Trist, Karen (Editor). Image, Text and Sound 2004: The Yet Unseen: Rendering Stories. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004: [1-6]. Document Type: Conference Paper. ISBN: 0864593546. ...
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I invented YouTube. Well, not YouTube exactly, but something close something called YIRN; and not by myself exactly, but with a team. In 2003-5 I led a research project designed to link geographically dispersed young people, to allow them... more
I invented YouTube. Well, not YouTube exactly, but something close something called YIRN; and not by myself exactly, but with a team. In 2003-5 I led a research project designed to link geographically dispersed young people, to allow them to post their own photos, videos ...
... ion values as well as marketing gumption are at stake when sporting icons swap shorts for gowns, and fashion icons swap gowns for swimsuits. ... As if all that wasn't enough, Kellerman is also credited with the invention and... more
... ion values as well as marketing gumption are at stake when sporting icons swap shorts for gowns, and fashion icons swap gowns for swimsuits. ... As if all that wasn't enough, Kellerman is also credited with the invention and popularization of the one-piece swimsuit for women ...
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... but the so-called 'story circle' (Hartley & McWilliam, forthcoming!), a series of Hartley ICA 2007 3 Page 5. ... The Californian model – as I understand it – is based loosely on independent film practice, in a tradition... more
... but the so-called 'story circle' (Hartley & McWilliam, forthcoming!), a series of Hartley ICA 2007 3 Page 5. ... The Californian model – as I understand it – is based loosely on independent film practice, in a tradition going back to Lenny Lipton in the 1970s, where individuals ...
... adultery and marital scandal as has duly unfolded for not one but three princes of Wales since then (Edwards VII and VIII, Charles). Further, the people who really ... record.' It reports on the popularity of a YouTube video of... more
... adultery and marital scandal as has duly unfolded for not one but three princes of Wales since then (Edwards VII and VIII, Charles). Further, the people who really ... record.' It reports on the popularity of a YouTube video of 'a model [Amber Lee ...
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... A new model for participative e-government is the blog. Electronic forums for ... combined mass audiences with personal proximity to their elected representatives (housemates), using broadcast and on-line engagement (Coleman 2003).... more
... A new model for participative e-government is the blog. Electronic forums for ... combined mass audiences with personal proximity to their elected representatives (housemates), using broadcast and on-line engagement (Coleman 2003). ... 2002. Bowling Together: Online Public ...
... They may find that what looks like weakness from the perspective of power is the basis of relationships built on toleration. And they may learn to tolerate really strange people like Benny Hill. ... Bf Toby Miller. Anti-Americanism... more
... They may find that what looks like weakness from the perspective of power is the basis of relationships built on toleration. And they may learn to tolerate really strange people like Benny Hill. ... Bf Toby Miller. Anti-Americanism and Popular Culture. ...
Research Interests: Media Studies and Culture
A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing—journal publishing in particular—is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public... more
A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing—journal publishing in particular—is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In that model publishing is communication, as the dissemination of information. But a club model views publishing differently: namely as group formation, where members form groups in order to confer externalities on each other, subject to congestion. A journal is a self-constituted group, endeavoring to create new knowledge. In this sense 'a journal is a club'. The knowledge club model of a journal seeks to balance the positive externalities due to a shared resource (readers, citations, referees) against negative externalities due to crowding (decreased prospect of publishing in that journal). A new economic model of a journal as a 'knowledge club' is elaborated. We suggest some consequences for the management of journals and financial models that might be developed to support them. JEL: B52, D71, Z13