TY - JOUR AB - This paper explores ongoing projects and research focused on themes of media, community, identity, and place in Sydney's westem suburbs. Fairfield is promoted as Australia's most culturally diverse locol-Govemment 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 pravide 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 ill residents. I argue that such an interdisciplinmy approach is necessary to foreground questions of power in any analysis of media and identity construction. AU - Dreher, TI DA - 2002/01/01 EP - 80 JO - Australian Journal of Communication PB - Australia and New Zealand Communication Association PY - 2002/01/01 SP - 67 TI - Intersections: an interdisciplinary approach to media, identity and place VL - 29 Y1 - 2002/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -