I think Ms Kilbourne's presentation was extremely well done. All of the points she made are also very active in Australia, the damage of which is highly visible in individual lives.
I laughed on seeing this! Re Intercultural Communication. It's "almost" right for the first picture but not quite! That's the thing with thinking we're fey with a culture if we've only just touched the surface. Based on the first image and the reference to an Australian rude gesture that's "not quite accurate", my hunch is the others aren't either. A thing from the interwebs not to be trusted.
This site has proved essential to me in my previous job. It is a gold-mine of articles, some scholarly, and viewpoints, media examples and so on across a range of societal needs and interests. I recommend students bookmark this site for future research and information opportunities.
This is another excellent piece on the identity/ethnicity topic. It is a rebuttal to the argument proposed by Gordon Weiss posted recently to the EITH Diigo. That one was entitled "So, Did Andrew Bolt have a point?". This rebuttal has been written by eminent Australian Journalist, Ellen Fanning.
I know it's only an online forum, but there's lots of differing points of views from "everyday Australians". Some raise good points, although many of the ways of thinking are "I'm not racist but..." or a misunderstanding of what racism actually means.
Does globalisation lead to a breaking down of national boundaries?
How does global media foster/erode cultural identity?
Who is being included/excluded from global media representations?
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