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45
Citations
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World Ranking
3792
National Ranking
275

Overview

Stuart Cunningham is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research mainly spans the Social Sciences, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics, and Infectious Diseases.

Their scholarly contributions frequently address topics related to Cultural Industries and Urban Development, Digital Games and Media, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Cinema and Media Studies, as well as China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance, Chinese history and philosophy, and Asian Culture and Media Studies.

Recent papers authored by Stuart Cunningham include:

  • New forms of internationalisation? The impact of Netflix in Australia (2020) published in Media International Australia
  • 'Demand' for culture and 'allied' industries: policy insights from multi-site creative economy research (2020) published in International Journal of Cultural Policy

They have also been involved in works in collaboration with other researchers, including a paper titled Producing local content in international waters: the case of Netflix's Tidelands (2021) published in Continuum, among other studies related to cultural policy and digital platforms.

Frequent collaborators in their research network include David Craig, Jian Lin, Alexa Scarlata, and Marion McCutcheon.

Stuart Cunningham's publications are often found in academic venues such as:

  • Media International Australia
  • Continuum
  • International Journal of Cultural Policy
  • New York University Press eBooks
  • Lara D. Veeken

Among their book publications, they have authored titles such as Social Media Entertainment (2020), published by New York University Press eBooks, which has accumulated notable citations, and Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China (2021), published by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Social network markets: a new definition of the creative industries

    Jason Potts;Jason Potts;Stuart Cunningham;John Hartley;Paul Ormerod

  • From Cultural to Creative Industries: Theory, Industry and Policy Implications

    Stuart D. Cunningham

  • Four models of the creative industries

    Jason D. Potts;Stuart D. Cunningham

  • New Patterns in Global Television : Peripheral Vision

    John Sinclair;Elizabeth Jacka;Stuart Cunningham

  • Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate

    Terry Flew;Stuart Cunningham

  • Beyond the Creative Industries: Mapping the Creative Economy in the United Kingdom

    Peter L. Higgs;Stuart D. Cunningham;Hasan Bakhshi

  • Floating lives : the media and Asian diasporas

    Stuart Cunningham;John G. Sinclair

  • Framing Culture: Criticism and Policy in Australia

    Stuart Cunningham

  • Creative industries mapping: Where have we come from and where are we going?

    Peter L. Higgs;Stuart D. Cunningham

  • Consumer co-creation and situated creativity

    Jason D. Potts;John Hartley;John A. Banks;Jean E. Burgess

  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    John Hartley;Jason D. Potts;Stuart D. Cunningham;Terry Flew

  • The Business of borderless education

    Peter Coaldrake;Stuart D. Cunningham;Lawrence R. Stedman;Yoni Ryan

  • Popular media as public ‘sphericules’ for diasporic communities

    Stuart Cunningham

  • Being ‘really real’ on YouTube: authenticity, community and brand culture in social media entertainment:

    Stuart Cunningham;David Craig

  • Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World

    Stuart Cunningham;Jon Silver

  • Social Media Entertainment: The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley

    Stuart Cunningham;David Craig

  • Trojan horse or Rorschach blot? Creative industries discourse around the world

    Stuart D. Cunningham

  • YouTube, multichannel networks and the accelerated evolution of the new screen ecology

    Stuart Cunningham;David Craig;Jon Silver

  • The creative industries after cultural policy : a genealogy and some possible preferred futures

    Stuart D. Cunningham

  • New Patterns in Global Television

    Stuart Cunningham

  • Beyond the creative industries: mapping the creative economy in the United Kingdom - NESTA presentation

    Peter Higgs;Stuart Cunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Potts
Jason Potts RMIT University
Jean Burgess
Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology
Victor J. Callan
Victor J. Callan University of Queensland
Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns Queensland University of Technology
Toby Miller
Toby Miller University of California, Riverside
David Rowe
David Rowe Western Sydney University

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