This blog is primarily part of an assignment for one of my classes (Writing for the Web) at Griffith University, Australia. For this assignment we try to find 25 links in the web to a particular topic that is related to our post-grad studies, and we write about those links.
…so what is it about?
As I am studying Cultural Studies back in Germany, one of the reasons why I chose Australia for further studies was so I could learn about the Australian national identity. All national identities are constructions (or inventions, as Richard White would say), but I think Australia is a particularly interesting example: The development of the national identity happened very rapid, like in fast motion, in a rather isolated area, and the media (mainly TV and movies, but also newspapers, radio…) played a very important role in that creation. In this blog, I will try to find 25 links about how the Australian national identity was constructed in and through the media, how it was built up in the beginning as well as how it is continuously recreated in the media now.
