Indonesia residency builds writing connections

Ji Li was on a working holiday in Australia when he decided to study Media at RMIT. Now his short film ‘Australian Dream’, produced with support from the Cultural Visions Grant, is showing at St Kilda Film Festival.

Australia’s children’s television sector is at risk of collapse, leaving a widening gap in local content for children and tweens at a cultural moment when governments urgently seek to strengthen youth social cohesion, including through reducing young people’s exposure to social media harms.

Chris Aubery and Clarence Fennessy – both RMIT Bachelor of Design graduates specialising in Animation and Interactive Media – have their graduate projects accepted into national and international animation festivals.

Five years of collaboration with remote First Nations communities has helped locals secure better digital services and greater control over how they connect.

The federal government last week announced plans to install free public Wi‑Fi in a further 53 remote communities, in a move aimed at narrowing the digital divide for First Nations Australians.

RMIT University convened Media & Communication luminaries for a ‘100 Years of Broadcast TV’ symposium to reflect on the impact of the broadcast signal in Australia and speculate about its future in the wake of major industry disruption.

A lively and accessible online collection, Folio spotlights the narrative innovations in Australia’s contemporary comics culture by sharing object-based oral histories from graphic artists immersed in the comics community from the 1980s until now.

Most Australians who have 5G are content with it, yet few actively seek it out or plan to switch in the short term, a study from RMIT University has found.