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The SBS story : the challenge of cultural diversity / Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy.

Title
The SBS story : the challenge of cultural diversity / Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy.
Author
Ang, Ien
Publication
Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Hawkins, Gay.
  • Dabboussy, Lamia.
Description
322 p : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
"The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is Australias multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster. Its radio and television services broadcast in more languages than any other network in the world: it is the voice of multicultural Australia. The SBS Story investigates the impact of SBS as a force in Australian media, culture and society. Using SBS as a case study, the authors investigate how other democratic countries have embraced the fact of cultural difference. Ang, Hawkins and Dabboussy explore how public broadcasters manage the changing nature of migration and multiculturalism, and ask, What is media's role and potential to address issues of difference and give voice to diverse opinions? They examine the way SBS has used the culture of difference as a resource for innovation, and how these innovations have kept it at the forefront of changes in media practice. The book does not shy away from controversy, tackling issues such as the stations encroaching commercialization, insufficient government funding, and the uproar prompted by SBSs reduction in non-English broadcasting."--Provided by publisher.
Alternative Title
Special Broadcasting Service story
Subject
  • Australia. Special Broadcasting Service
  • Radio broadcasting > Australia
  • Television broadcasting > Australia
  • Multiculturalism in mass media > Australia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-315) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Cultural diversity: a national challenge -- Ethnic, cosmopolitan, popular : SBS and multiculturalism -- Multilingual SBS: from cultural maintenance to cross-cultural communication -- What's on? Programming SBS television -- Who are we? Multicultural Australia on screen -- News: at home in the world -- SBS and its audiences: for all Australians? -- Into the future: the continuing challenge of diversity.
ISBN
  • 9780868408392 (hbk.)
  • 0868408395 (hbk.)
OCLC
271561587
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library