‘International Media and Communication’ at UOW
Is the Globalisation of News Truly Global?
Every twenty-four hours, 230 stories and videos are produced by the New York Times, 240 are published by the Wall Street Journal, and a stunning number of 500 are circulated by the Washington Post (Meyer 2016).
Incredible, isn’t it?
Now spend five minutes watching this viral TED Talk, How the news distorts our worldview, then take a closer look at this extracted frame from it.
The Global Image of Korea is Repainted Anew by the Hallyu Wave
In 2015, $2.82 out of $7.03 billion of total Korean exports were cultural and entertainment contents including television dramas and music, as calculated in a study done by The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) and the Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange (KOFICE) (Hicap 2016). Continue reading “Washed Fresh By The Wave”
Australian English – a Linguistic Challenge for International Students in Australia
The experience of studying abroad is – to international students – supposedly and saliently an active process of self-formation in which the student oscillates between two adaptive strategies known as multiplicity (consciously switching between different selves corresponding to different settings) and hybridity (synthesizing multiple cultural identities into one newly formed self) (Marginson 2012, p.). However, in reality, the experience is hardly fluid, as a great many international students are immediately faced with the dreadful language barriers on their arrival in Australia. Continue reading “Mastering The (Uni)versal Language”
The Specs 