Scare Ourselves to Death: Reality Television on Ghost in Indonesian Television Tito Imanda (New York University) Television programs with local content require big production cost, while programs from Hollywood or South America are a lot cheaper. Indonesian television decisions to produce more programs with local contents can be seen as if they were care about...Read More

From the Exotic and the Assimilated into the Hybrid: Questioning Representations of Asian Women in Australian Popular Media Monika S. Sw. Doxey (School of Humanities Faculty of ArtsAustralian National University) The paper examines how Asian women are essential sites of contestation in Australian multicultural identity in this era of globalisation. Asian women characters are analysed...Read More

Sumatrans Inventing Indonesia: ‘Java’, Mass Media and Colonial Scholarship in the Late Colonial Period Paul Tickell (School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of New South Wales at ADFA) Globalisation, cosmopolitianism and the intertwining of local, national and much broader transnational identities are frequently seen as the markers of culture in the late twentieth century. ...Read More