In the 1950s America and Britain influenced Australia’s popular culture in a number of ways. Although Australia’s national identity is evident in every part of popular culture, America and Britain both had a significant impact on the development of Australian culture since World War Two. Throughout out the decade they changed the way people thought about Australian fashion, music and entertainment. Fashion was based around celebrity images and American cinema and television became a big hit.…
One of the most significant changes to have taken place in Australian society since the end of WWII, has been its drift towards American, rather than British culture. As the American way of life was projected further into Australia via popular culture, it would rapidly alter the ways we spent our money, entertained ourselves, dressed and socialised.…
new medium to the public. While nowadays the introduction of new media is a process in which…
Since the post war period, American pop culture has had a great impact on Australia which continues till today. Not only in food and fashion but there are a lot of examples around us that illustrate how Australia was americanised after the post war…
If we look at the early history of Australian television, virtually all program material until 1963 was of foreign origin, of which eighty three percent was American and the rest British (Cited in an article by Cunningham Stuart ,"History, Contexts, Politics, Policy".) Philip Bell discusses in his article that even in the first two decades of television American programs and formats dominated commercial channels' ( Cited in an article by Bell Phillip, Television'). So Americanization of Australian television is not just a recent development. This problem has been there right from the beginning with American shows like Leave it to Beaver and I love Lucy dominating the TV screens of Australian households.…
The lifestyle trends of Australia were also, to a great extent, impacted by the trends of America. During the 1950s the lifestyle of a typical American was very different to that of a person during the forties. The lifestyle was more laidback, mainly due to the end of the war; people believed that they were entering a new age, where anything was possible. Australia followed Americas lead, and many…
Analytically describing digital technology, he says it has enabled a third and broader category of media. Apart form one-way public (broadcast) media like movies and two-way private (communication) media such as the telephone, civilization now has two-way media operating from private- to public- scale. The author insightfully describes digital as bridging broadcast media and communication media, enabling public to private information movement and vice-versa. Shirley then describes the new media as involving significant economic change. Because no one owns the Internet infrastructure, the Internet is just a set of agreements that bound data movement. With its contents easily accessible to all and the costs low, the Internet has enabled much social and creative behavior, says the…
Australia, a country of British colonisation, is, in the modern day, considered a multicultural land which has been heavily influenced by immigrants. Following the two decades post-World War II, Australia’s economy and British orientated culture varied greatly due to many waves of migrations, especially that of Italians, who ventured for a better life and new opportunities, which worked in favour for Australia. Lifestyle skills, values and knowledge, especially regarding agriculture, that the citizens of mainly southern, Italy possessed, were of importance and worth to the Australian Government after World War II in the 1900s as it would assist with expansion and improvement plans whilst remaining within policies and beliefs. It is seen through…
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world and is an island continent that is between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The first inhabitants were migrants from Asia. In the 1820s, there were soldiers, officers and emancipated convicts that turned the land they received from the government into farms which brought more migrants from Britain. During the 1960s, there was much Asian influence when it comes to Australian music. When it came to the music of Bali, Java and Japan, the melody and rhythm was used in Australian music. Australians also explored the formal implications of theatrical performance styles and absorbed aspect of those countries’ literary,…
Australia and the people who live here have developed over time an identity of an egalitarian or fair nation. This perception by other countries and by Australian residents as a land of opportunity and a country who supports the culture of a "Fair Go" for everyone dominates. This egalitarian depiction of Australia has come about because of more than 200 hundred years of immigration since European settlement. Today one in every five Australians were born overseas and immigrated to Australia creating the cultural representation of an accepting, tolerant country where all people have an opportunity to get along and to achieve.…
Decentralisation is a feature prevalent in new media, whereby mass media is now fragmented, and has smaller, niche options for consumers, as compared to traditional media which often has few choices (O’Shaughnessy and Stadler 2008:117). For example, while consumers were once limited to local or national media, such as local newspapers, radio broadcasts and so forth, digital systems are globalised, giving access to media from all over the world. This offers consumers greater access to a much wider variety of content, including international, independent, and amateur. A prime example of this effect is the ability to read worldwide news. Instead of being limited to The Age and The Herald Sun, citizens can go online and access The Washington Post, BBC online, or whatever media they prefer. This is also an example of another feature of new media; globalisation. Terry Flew identifies this as “borderless communication”, which pertains to a “new stage in human social development” (2008:56), which also enhances democracy and participation. This…
Also, the distribution of online news is more flexible. This type of news can be read anytime and anywhere. For example, when searching for the word “Melbourne” on sites such as Google, an abundance of information about Melbourne is generated - either recent or historic, as well as from other locations. More importantly, the Internet can change our lifestyle. One of Australia’s mainstream newspapers, “The Age”, develops its own online material, as does the BBC. This suggests a reason for its growing popularity and acceptability.…
Watching TV while having morning coffee, listening radio on the way to work, checking Facebook before work, tweeting in the lunch break, and googling information related to work; that is the way the new modern media has changed our lives. To understand the term modern media more, Debashis Aikat(n.d.), Associate Professor and Media Futurist, has come up with a definition, “Modern media refers to mass communication characteristic of recent times, or the contemporary communication relating to a recently developed or advanced technology(Aikat, n.d.)” So that basically means that modern media is the media which is connected to new technologies. Nowadays that is so easy to access different kinds of modern media; however, this new type of media continuously excludes different groups of people.…
Bibliography: MARTIN LISTER, JON DOVEY, SETH GIDDINGS, IAIN GRANT, KIERAN KELLY, 2003. New Media : A Critical Introduction. London ; Routledge…
The widespread availability of the internet has produced a serge in communication in today’s society. The introduction of television to Australia in the 1950’s could be said to have had a proportionately similar effect. In today’s world the internet enables people to research, communicate and entertain across the globe at the touch of a computer key. However, the internet is sometimes seen, as a technology that contributes to the breakdown of the structure of community. In this essay I will discuss whether, the internet, in introducing a technology that enables the transfer of a seemingly unlimited quantity of uncensored information world-wide instantaneously, has had a catastrophic, and in many ways a fatal influence, in the breakdown of the conventional image of a ‘community’ within society while at the same time contributing an exponentially growing knowledge base to many.…