Inventing SBS : televising the foreign

Gay Hawkins, Ien Ang

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    Abstract

    The history of Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Television is understood by shifting attention from notions of origins and derivation to notions of invention and translation. The idea of multicultural television is invented, and investigated to understand the complexities and the complicated decisions taken in the early days of SBS TV, which had more to do with exploring and extending the possibilities of the television medium than with the social policy of multiculturalism.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages14
    JournalAustralian Cultural History
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • Special Broadcasting Service (Australia)
    • history
    • media
    • multiculturalism
    • social policy
    • television

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