Biography
Xin’s research concerns the digital creative economy, looking at the democratisation of creativity through vast transformative digital media ecosystems. Her work focuses on the transformation of creative cities and the creative economy under different social, economic and political conditions. She was appointed by UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Expression of Cultural Diversity (2019-2022) and heads the Master of Cultural and Creative Industries (MCCI) at Monash. She has published widely on urban creative clusters and agglomerations, cultural work, creative entrepreneurship, cultural and creative industries policy, media cities, maker culture and cyberculture. Xin has worked with policy initiatives in the UK, China and Indonesia to support small-scale local creative industries development services.
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