AnnuAl REPORT 2011-2012 - Sbs

SbS cQ is an extension of SbS programming, through
which stories are told relating to the many challenges,
advantages and surprising elements of diversity. it creates
a new platform for discussion of the media’s role in these
debates and in reflecting Australian diversity.
cQ debates bring together people who rarely come
face-to-face – media practitioners, community
representatives, advocates, politicians, researchers and
commentators – to explore current trends in media and
their impacts on Australia’s multicultural society.
Hosted by World News Australia’s Anton enus, cQ
broadcasts on SbS tWO and streams on the cQ website
sbs.com.au/cq.
the first SbS cQ forum, in December 2011, Media and
Diversity Debate explored who influences the debate on
asylum seekers and cultural diversity. the forum asked:
Does the media drive public opinion, or does public
opinion drive the media? Against a backdrop of heated
national debates about refugees and asylum seekers and
the Government’s multiculturalism policy, participants
drawn from politics, the media and academia discussed
whether the media is friend or foe in the nation’s
discussions about diversity.
Participants included former immigration Minister the
Hon. Amanda vanstone, former Network 10 and 9 news
directors, Daily telegraph journalist joe Hildebrand,
Liberal candidate for cabramatta Dai Le, bahati Masudi
from SbS’s Go back to Where You came From and Pino
Migliorino from multicultural peak body the Federation
of ethnic communities council of Australia (FeccA),
as well as commentators and researchers including
julie Posetti, ien Ang, tanveer Ahmed, Ghassan Hage
and Andrew Markus.
the second cQ, in june 2012, the New Digital Divide
focussed on the ways new communication technologies
have transformed Australia’s media landscape. in a
world of increasingly personalised media use, this SbS
cQ debate questioned whether new technologies are
connecting us to one another, or driving us further
apart. Where there were once five free-to-air television
stations, now viewers can tune in to hundreds of channels
in a range of languages. the rise of the internet and
social media have also given access to an explosion of
information sources from all over the world, available at
any time of the day and at the click of a button. SbS cQ:
the New Digital Divide explored the impacts of these
technologies on our connections to one another, our
society and our democracy.
the New Digital Divide participants included Radio
National broadcaster Waleed Aly, US-based media
academic and author of Media Life Mark Deuze, the
Herald Sun’s Social Media editor isabelle Oderberg, Axel
bruns and terry Flew of the QUt creative industries
Faculty, ipsos Research Director Laura Demasi, founder
of the Australian Arabic council joseph Wakim, Australian
counter terrorism ambassador bill Patterson, Professor
Wanning Sun, of the UtS china Research centre and
Pino Migliorino, chair of FeccA, and ethnic media expert
and Misha Ketchell, editor of the conversation.
the SbS cQ: cultural intelligence forum will continue in
2012–13.
outreach
One Day in Cabramatta
to help bring the television series Once Upon a time in
cabramatta to life, SbS partnered with local arts and
cultural organisation information + cultural exchange (ice)
in a creative project designed to generate and facilitate
discussion around the issues raised by the series, in
cabramatta and the surrounding area.
inspired by the documentary, the local community was
asked to share their own experiences of cabramatta
through the ‘One Day in cabramatta’ mobile story
exchange which took the form of a mobile tea cart.
the cart journeyed the streets of cabramatta over
four weeks when the series went to air to facilitate
conversations and accumulate stories.
community ambassadors interacted with people, and at
various events, the Lunar and tet Festivals, community
pre-screenings, live screenings of the series, at visits to
local community groups and cabramatta High School.
the results culminated in a commemorative book that
featured around 500 story cards in a legacy for the
community, created by the community. this collective
voice captured the spirit of cabramatta and will serve as
a time capsule for future generations to read and share
stories from the past, and better understand the journey
that has shaped their community.
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