Intersections : a transdisciplinary approach to media, identity, and place

Tanja Dreher

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    Abstract

    This paper explores ongoing projects and research focused on themes of media, community, identity, and place in Sydney's western suburbs. Fairfield is promoted as Australia's most culturally diverse local Government area. Many community organisations and the local Council are involved in cultural productions that aim to both challenge the misrepresentations of mainstream media and to provide positive self-representations. My research examines media representations as a cultural resource for identity construction and for negotiations of community and place. My approach draws on media studies, cultural studies, geography, and sociology to conceptualise Fairfield as the site of a symbolic struggle to define the area and its residents. I argue that such an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to foreground questions of power in any analysis of media and identity construction.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages14
    JournalAustralian journal of communication
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

    Keywords

    • mass media
    • multiculturalism
    • sociology, urban
    • Fairfield, N.S.W.
    • media studies
    • cultural studies

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