National Identity in Australia as presented by television broadcast television.
Date Submitted: 04/12/2004 09:20:13
Category: / Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Length: 7 pages (1827 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Length: 7 pages (1827 words)
Using examples from your own observations of television programs discuss Barker's contention that
"National Identity is a form of imaginative identification with that nation state as expressed through symbols and discourses. Thus, nations are not only political formations but also systems of cultural representation so that national identity is continually reproduced through discursive action."
(Barker, 1999, pages 64-65)
We live in an imagined community. Australia. And as citizens of this nation, we are Australians - this …
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…University Press. Pages 574 - 594
Lewis, Justin 1991 "Behind the News" in The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and it's Audience, Routleldge. Pages 123 - 157
Morely, David 1992 "Class, ideology and interpretation" and "Television, technology and consumption" and "Between the Public and the Private" in Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies, Routledge, London. Pages 73 - 119, 199 - 221 and 249 -250
Philo, Greg 1990 Seeing is Believing: The Influence of Television, Routleledge. Pages 181 - 199
Channels of Discourse, Reassembled. 1992 Allen, Robert C. (ed) Routleledge.
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