Connecting diversity: Paradoxes of multicultural Australia (original) (raw)

Living Diversity: Australia's Multicultural Future

2002

The survey took place after major national and global upheavals caused by the refugee crisis, September 11 and the 'war against terrorism', but before the Bali bombings of October 2002. While such events may or may not affect the attitudes, views and behaviours of particular groups–one thinks, for example, of those of Muslim backgrounds–we are confident that this Report provides us with a unique and revealing picture of some longer-term trends in multicultural Australia.

Honours Thesis Excerpt Summary : Representations of Multiculturalism on SBS Australia

N/A, 2008

A distinct change in the way SBS presented its locally made drama series had a dramatic shift in 2000, when the audience was first introduced to the crazy world of Pizza2. Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dobboussy (2008) describe the series as "pushing the boundaries of good taste and good reason," which also tackled "sensitive issue and ethnic stereotypes through comedy" (169). Ang et al (2008) go on to say that Pizza represents "popular programming", a term which "seems to worry many SBS traditionalists" (130). Pizza paved the way for many other series such as The Circuit, Remote Area Nurse (R.A.N), Nerds FC and the two series which are at the centre of this thesis, Kick and East West 101.

Transnational news and multicultural Australia project: cultural diversity and news in Australia

2017

The impact of media and public discourse, including on new media platforms, is one of the priority themes of the Victorian Social Cohesion and Community Resilience Ministerial Taskforce. The proposed project aligned with the Taskforce’s research priority on “community polarisation and marginalisation”, wherein the project examined the media’s role(both traditional news media and non-traditional/new media such as social mediaplatforms/apps) in disseminating news and information about transnational events and multicultural issues in Victoria. For example, following the November 2015 Paris attacks, the media's coverage of the news event and the Australian community's reaction to the event –irrespective of its positive or negative nature – caused unease among Australian migrants, particularly those following the Muslim faith, as they felt they were put under the spotlight by the media. The primary aim of this project was to investigate the nature, and consumption, of news, infor...

Making Multicultural Australia: A Multimedia Documentary (CD-ROM)

2000

Documentary is facing dramatic changes as the new media open up issues of complexity and diversity not available to traditional single media forms. Documentary has been one of the key avenues through which discourses of the social have been created and institutionalised - how then will these discourses be affected by developing ideas about documentary possibilities in new media? In the waves of debate over the future of new media technologies, it is important to grasp the ideological and political implications and opportunities that they contain (Cherny and Weise 1996; Jankowski and Hanssen 1996; Sardar and Ravetz 1996; Jones 1997; Murray 1997). This paper addresses a specific part of this debate - the role of new media in education, and the issues it can raise in relation to learning about multicultural societies. In particular how will discourses of social diversity be challenged by the multiplicity of readings generated in the new media environment?

Global Media Journal - Australian Edition - 6:1 2012

2012

The increasing complexity of the multilingual environment, in large part resulting from globalising media trends, is creating new challenges for multilingual media. This article explores forms of citizenship, issues of ‘community’ and transnational media use through the case study of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia’s multilingual and multicultural national public broadcaster. SBS was developed as an element of Australian multicultural policy in a response to political pressures of a diverse society. It now needs to engage with contemporary forms of identity and increasingly sophisticated media use trends to maintain its relevance.

Dealing with diversity: Australian television, homogeneity and indigeneity

Media International Australia, 2019

This article focuses on how the Australian television industry deals with diversity: the extent to which the cultural diversity of Australian society has been reflected in the representations on our screens and in the provision of opportunity within the industry itself. While this has historically been approached by assessing the evidence of inclusiveness in the representations on screen, it is important to be reminded of the role played by the structure of Australia’s media: especially in television, we have a highly concentrated commercial system which still addresses the traditional conception of a mass media audience in ways that almost inevitably tend towards the reproduction of an image of cultural homogeneity. Research into one of the most important interventions into both the established patterns of representation and the make-up of the local production industry – the National Indigenous Television Network (NITV) – is discussed as a means of highlighting the difficulties fac...