I don't want to be a citizen if it means I have to watch the ABC
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources, 2002, 103, (103), pp. 14-23
- Issue Date:
- 2002-05-01
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This paper argues that much writing about media and citizenship tends to rely on a set of realist or structuralist assumptions about what constitutes a state, a citizen and politics. Because of these assumptions. other forms of social organisation that could reasonably be described as nations, and other forms of social engagement that could be called citizenship are excluded from consideration. One effect of this blindness is that certain tdemities, and the cultural forma/ions associated with them, continue to be overvalued as more real and important than others. Areas of culture that are traditionally white, masculine. middle-class and heterosexual remain central in debates, while the political processes of citizens of, for
example, a Queer nation, continue (0 be either ignored or devalued as being somehow trivial. unimportant or less real. The paper demonstrates that this need nOI be the case - that the language of nation and citizenship can reasonably be expanded to include these other forms of social organisation. and that when such a conceptual move is made. we can find ways of describing contemporary culture that attempt to understand the public-sphere functions of the media without falling back into traditional prejudices against feminised, Queer. working class or non-while forms of culture.
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