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| Australian Journal of Communication |
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| Volume 16, 1989 |
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Turner Graeme. |
Dilemmas of a cultural critic: Australian cultural studies today. |
1-12 |
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| | This short paper offers an account of present trends in media and cultural analysis in Australia, and proposes some issues which may need to be accommodated within future critical practice | |
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critical theory
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Grossberg Lawrence. |
The context of audiences and the politics of difference. |
13-36 |
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| | This article questions why the assumption of an active media audience has become the starting point for so much of contemporary research | |
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culture
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Murdock Graham. |
Cultural studies at the crossroads. |
37-49 |
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| | This paper argues that if cultural studies is to maintain its intellectual vitality and its relevance to contemporary conditions and political debates, it needs to broaden its core concerns and establish new points of connection with work at the cutting edge of the social sciences | |
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Nightingale Virginia. |
What's 'ethnographic' about ethnographic audience research? |
50-63 |
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| | Cultural studies audience research is conventionally referred to as 'ethnographic' (see Fiske, 1987) | |
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Noble Grant. |
Some comments on video in India. |
64-73 |
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| | In this short paper the growth and development of both television and video in India are described | |
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television
Asia Minor
film
technologies
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Davies Chris Lawe. |
Looking for signs of style in contemporary popular Aboriginal music. |
74-86 |
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| | This piece started as an examination of contemporary Aboriginal music | |
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Cunningham Stuart. |
Television and violence: From critique to policy. |
87-100 |
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| | An extensive academic literature based on 'media effects' research paradigms exists on possible relationships between television and representational and societal violence | |
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Tulloch John. |
Australian television and the representation of AIDS. |
101-124 |
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| | The government-backed media AIDS campaign in Australia concentrated mainly on promo or advertisement-style forms, the 'Grim Reaper' advertisement in particular drawing criticism for its lack of informative content and its 'scare' tactics | |
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Mercer Colin. |
Neverending stories: The problem of reading in cultural studies. |
125-138 |
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| | The central argument developed here is that cultural studies has, in the main, inherited a practice of reading which is at variance with its critical, historical, and materialist ambitions | |
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Putnis Peter. |
Constructing multiculturalism: Political and popular discourse. |
155-165 |
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| | Multiculturalism has been a 'key word' of cultural and political debate in the 1980s | |
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Muhlhausler Peter. |
The linguistic perspective on communication. |
139-144 |
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| | This paper addresses the following issues: 1 The shared disciplinary status and shared metaphors of the fields of linguistic and communication studies | |
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Chambers Deborah. |
Integrating gender issues within communication studies courses. |
166-185 |
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| | An important and controversial development in the integration of gender issues in Communication programs has been the study of the social construction of masculinities and the contribution of men, as well as women, to publications on the explorations of sexuality and power | |
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Breen Myles. |
Issues in a study of Australian culture today. |
186-194 |
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| | This paper considers the question: If broad societal trends which originate in Europe and North America reach Australia after a time delay, should we not use the delay to advantage and examine carefully the criticism of these trends? Sources are quoted for the thesis associated with Ministers Button and Dawkins that Australian work life punishes striving for excellence and rewards mediocrity along with the counter argument that the Australian character may be the greatest national resource | |
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Yeates Helen. |
A reading of Brisbane restaurants. |
195-213 |
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| | This discourse analysis of Brisbane's restaurant culture draws on cultural studies and incorporates a reading of newspapers, personal memories, and living texts (Brisbane restaurants such as Roseville, Rumpoles and Le Scoops) | |
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Lewis Glen. |
Cultural and communication studies: Bridges and walls. |
214-221 |
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| | This short article is a personal reading of some of the presentations at the 1989 Australian Communication Association (ACA) conference | |
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