John Sinclair - Floating lives : the media and Asian diasporas

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Floating Lives

Floating Lives

The Media and Asian Diasporas

Edited by Stuart Cunningham
and John Sinclair

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Floating Lives : the media and Asian diasporas / edited by Stuart Cunningham and John Sinclair.

p. cm(Critical Media Studies)

Originally published: St. Lucia, Queensland : University of

Queensland Press, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-0-7425-1136-1

1. Ethnic mass mediaAustralia. 2. Mass media and minoritiesAustralia. 3. AsiansServices forAustralia. 4. AsiansAustraliaSocial life and customs. I. Cunningham, Stuart. II. Sinclair, John, 1944- III. Series.

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Contents

John Sinclair and Stuart Cunningham

John Sinclair, Audrey Yue, Gay Hawkins, Kee Pookong, and Josephine Fox

Stuart Cunningham and Tina Nguyen

Manas Ray

Glen Lewis and Chalinee Hirano

Figures and Appendixes

Figures

Appendixes

Contributors

Stuart Cunningham is Professor and Head, School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology. He is an author or editor of several books and monographs on topics such as Australian media, cultural policy, global television and borderless education, the most recent of which are New Patterns in Global Television (with John Sinclair and Elizabeth Jacka, Oxford University Press), Australian Television and International Mediascapes (with Elizabeth Jacka, Cambridge University Press) and The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences (with Graeme Turner, Allen & Unwin). He is a Deputy Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy.

Josephine Fox has extensive fieldwork experience in China, where she has been completing her PhD in History.

Gay Hawkins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has published a book on the invocation of community in arts policy, From Nimbin to Mardi Gras: Constructing Community Arts (Allen & Unwin), as well as numerous papers on television, value and difference, and transformations in public service broadcasting.

Chalinee Hirano is a PhD candidate in Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Kee Pookong is Director of the Centre for AsiaPacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne.

Glen Lewis is Associate Professor in International Communication at the University of Canberra and Professor in the Graduate School of Bangkok University. He is also adjunct Professor in the School of Communication at UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. He is co-author of Critical Communication and Communication Traditions in 20th Century Australia.

Tina Nguyen is a postgraduate student in the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

Manas Ray is a Fellow of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. While a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, during 199698, he researched Indian diasporas in Australia. He has authored several articles and book chapters on Indian media, cultural theory and ethics and is currently researching the making of postcolonial democracy in India.